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by Normille 5y ago
Thanks. In typical Mozilla fashion, the link to download 91 on their Release Notes [0] page just goes back to their frontpage again. [0] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/91.0/releaseno...
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by Normille 5y ago
I think the nub of the article is that the artist had his artwork banned just for referring to the fact his designs were inspired by a mediaeval manuscript ie. 'The Book of Kells' because Trinity College have trademarked 'Th
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You only get to see three pages for free. The original submission title is really misleading: >Try the British Newspaper Archive for FREE >View 3 pages FREE when you register to help you get started
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Oh. It's worse than that. Copyright apparently extends back to the middle ages: https://stiobhart.net/2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/
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It's good when companies actually stand behind their products. To be fair, I've actually found that quite a few Chinese companies do go that extra mile as regards replacing items which break in use, or in sending out replacement p
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>Having both an “Open” command and an “Open, but faster and does less” command >I personally see this particular feature as redundant (given there is already thumbnailing and a means to open files) I'm guessing neithe
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by Normille 5y ago
Not necessarily in the UI. But, as the default font, it was the one that a lot of apps would er... 'default' to. So, if you were writing a text document in such an app and then went to make some text italic you'd realise i
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The trouble with Lucida Grande was that it didn't have an Italic variant. Which was a bit of a glaring oversight for a default font
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by Normille 5y ago
Another long-time Mac user, who is also increasingly frustrated with how dumbed down & bloated OSX is becoming [I'm sticking on Mavericks for the foreseeable future and only 'upgraded' from El Capitán because more and mor
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In before first knee-jerk comment about Uighirs, oppression or stealing technology --which seem to be obligatory on any story about Chinese achievements.
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From 2019. [It's polite convention on HN to add the date when submitting archive articles]
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>The South Pacific is a ticking time bomb and I give us 4-6 years before there is a hot war there. It isn't too late but I feel it is quickly growing inevitable. It seems pretty clear that America is chomping at the bit to s
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"ppl" --fuck's sake. Just spell "people" properly. This isn't Reddit
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by Normille 5y ago
I know two people who have caught Covid in the past couple of weeks and who had had both jabs; one AZ and one Pfizer. My understanding is that the vaccines don't necessarily stop you getting Covid or passing it on. But they do make it
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return n % 2 == 0
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by Normille 5y ago
Firefox has been dead to me since they got rid of text-reflow. There's an issue about it on Bugzilla dating back 9 years, which has been completely ignored https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795552 Quite sim
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Don't link to direct downloads. [It's a PDF]
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They're taking the piss!
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Biased -- "bias" is a noun
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Funny to compare the western press's coverage of this story with how they've reported incidents nearer to home where Islamic extremists have deliberately driven vehicles into people. For example, BBC World Service's news cove
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"Matrix explodes" --so pretty unstable software then?
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>Why did developers and software engineers hate IE so much? Because IE was seriously outdated, lacking support for cutting-edge web APIs and technologies enabling the modern websites and web apps we use today. Nonsense. The almos
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Mmmm... light grey text on a white background. How fashionably illegible!
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by Normille 5y ago
>Do you want to write out like 7 lines on a screen for a character? or just type its 2-4 letter phonetic?... >The current input stuff is basically like T9 crossed with gmail's autocomplete... DISCLAIMER: I know nothing
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by Normille 5y ago
Interesting article. There's also one on how typing Japanese is done on modern computers: https://blog.gatunka.com/2009/09/12/using-a-japanese-ime/ It all sounds horribly complicated, although it ma
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by Normille 5y ago
Sorry. But any site which shits a content-blocking modal dialogue in my face, asking me to sign up for something, before I've even had the chance to so much as glance at what's on the page, gets closed straight away. Stop doing th
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by Normille 5y ago
Please can people stop posting articles from Reuters?... or at least mention the fact Reuters has now adopted a 'registration wall', requiring you to sign up before you're allowed to read the full article?
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My correction stands corrected
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The French are renowned for being over-protective of their language. But I've been surprised at how fragile Americans also seem to be about their version of English. Several times, I've downloaded ebooks off the intarwebs, written
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>They still do Ted-fest on Craggy island... Craggy Island is fictional. Ted-Fest[0] takes place on Inis Mór [1], the largest of the Aran Islands. Which is also where the shipwreck featured in the Father Ted title sequence is to

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