Jiejeing

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by Jiejeing 5y ago
I am not a matrix fan, but I have to point out that thunderbird has had IRC and XMPP support for ages so it is not out of character to add another open instant messaging service (using IRC or XMPP on thunderbird felt underwhelming, though,
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
FWIW in france you can either use a passport, your national ID card, your social security card, or plenty of other official documents (all with photo, https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1361 ). S
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
I don’t really get the point of fronting and even caching for 99% of people out there. The analogies don’t really do it for me, do you expect to get DDoSed on a daily basis? That has not been my experience in 15 years of home-hosting. If yo
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
I am going to make it last as long as I can get the battery replaced and lineage OS keeps pushing updates, after that I’m not sure. Maybe a fairphone that I would carry much less often.
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
So the rest of the world will finally feel the same pain as europeans with the slower exynos chips…
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
"As a liberal, twitter has gone way too far to the left in silencing voices?" Twitter moderation is blind on harassment, nazis who brag about it are using the platform to dox people without any repercussions, send death threats, e
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
This is very interesting, my own workflow is with shotwell + darktable but shotwell is a bit too limited for my usage.
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
If has been shown that opening an amazon warehouse in a location actually destroys more job than it creates.
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
I’m sorry to break it to you, but the issue is not the cookie banners but the fact that website share your personal information with thousand of entities and brokers. You do not need a cookie banner if you do not track your users beyond wha
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Saying that software engineers are not interchangeable is being delusional. We have some bargaining power because this is a skilled office job where the demands outweighs the supply and our added value to the business is many times what we
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Why is there a big list of notebooks with a huge amazon logo for several pages of scroll before the actual article?
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Yes, drone.io or woodpecker (to stay on the FOSS side) are simpler than most alternatives, I had some hopes in https://agola.io/ but could not finish the tutorials due to random errors, and most other solutions are either a
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
"Discord community" is there no hope left for decent communication anymore? Even awful PHP forums from the 2000s would be a step up from this. The project seems great, I was a bit down after understanding that this was a gitlab-ci
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Not necessarily. In Paris I had a 45 minutes subway commute, or a 35 minutes -somewhat dangerous- bike commute (time for a one-way trip), and while sometimes I could appreciate either the disconnection the subway provided me or the physical
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
> Rust, Go etc etc do not have robust GUIs of their own Rust supports GTK just fine, not sure what the point is here. Is each language supposed to create and maintain its own cross-platform UI framework?
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
If you are a closed org, that is. Running your own gitea or gitlab with registration enabled and having to deal with spam is a real hurdle.
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
I meant, when you open the image at its true resolution on a computer. But I agree that prime lenses are close to always better in quality than variable length ones, even if for some situations you need a telephoto anyway (and having a fixe
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
> a cellphone can beat all but the absolute top end dedicated cameras and even then only for niches Until you zoom in, and then it's all a big smudge. Unless you are talking about $1k+ cellphones only, which is outside of the price
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
After many years of writing and maintaining Python code, I respectfully disagree with your statement. The marginal reading overhead that type annotations bring (which can be alleviated by specific color schemes) dwarfs the ability to have a
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
> Most modern games can detect alternate layouts and remap keys automatically, and for those that can’t it’s not difficult to remap them. I have a wildly different experience, most games never manage to detect my AZERTY keyboard, and som
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
> Your primary email account should be from a provider who has been around a long time and takes security seriously. My recommendations are Gmail or Outlook. Is this a joke? What are you going to do if google suddenly goes ballistic on y
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Nowadays I am quite satisfied with the RESTer firefox addon: https://github.com/frigus02/RESTer . This does look neat but there is no explanation on how to install it locally, and telemetry is enabled by default.
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
> why go through all the trouble of setting this up instead of just using AWS. Because you may want to have control over your hardware, your costs, your network, your software. AWS and most cloud providers are very expensive and mostly l
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
On the last case: I have received requests for consulting on my FOSS library, which I turned down because while I would love to live from it, I am currently employed in an exclusive contract and I don’t want to figure out how to declare thi
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Indeed, as it is an open solution and a working product.
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Indeed, I had a partition with a huge number of small files in the ext3 era, and reiserfs was the only one even remotely able to perform decently. I stumbled upon it last week and was happy and surprised to see that reiserfs was not removed
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
You do understand that there is more to the workforce than engineers at SV startups and big tech, right?
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Programmers are in high demand, even in France. That said, there are some major caveats: - Salaries posted on HN are way over the top compared to anything you can get in France - Most of the recruiting is done through SSIIs/ESNs (capge
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
S10e is great (my current phone), but not manufactured anymore, but the firmware is buggy (needs a hard reboot once a month at least otherwise at some points it will refuse charging), and the battery life is not ideal, to say the least.
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by Jiejeing 5y ago
Quickly skimming the article, it seems like they address the use of sunscreen or related blockers, only to say that the advice "when you put sunscreen you can stay very long in the sun" seems wrong, which I thought was well known

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