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by O1111OOO 4y ago
A blast from the past. DAK made every item sound exciting. You would carry the most recent catalog around with you until the next one arrived. Sometimes ordering and many, many times on the cusp of ordering because of the infectious sales p
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by O1111OOO 4y ago
> This is just corporate gaslighting at this point ..[sip].. They cant say "we are making record profits" and in the same breath say "we need to fire people to survive" that's not how that works. Pick one. This m
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by O1111OOO 4y ago
> one interesting advantage of the Twitter model is that it allows easy quoting/replying/liking of individual paragraphs / sentences. Agree, it's interactive. It's built to involve you and the audience in a very
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by O1111OOO 4y ago
From OP: "the thirtieth year of being told it’s not possible to use Linux on the desktop, or to only use Linux on the desktop." Except for a percentage of users with special needs (corporate office software, gaming), I honestly do
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by O1111OOO 4y ago
Merry Sky looks great. You've really captured that nice line between detail and 'at-a-glance' that made Dark Sky a pleasure to use. Thanks! On my Desktop, I use accuweather and occasionally https://www.timeanddate.
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by O1111OOO 4y ago
> we have an actively hostile actor with a huge platform here in our country I was going to say that if user is addicted to TikTok (or other hostile application) and also concerned about surveillance/tracking - they could use a de
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by O1111OOO 4y ago
> but this was after only 10 hours of development by someone who is very busy I usually access HN through my RSS Reader. Sometimes I go through a very busy stage in life where I don't have time to read the article or save pertinent
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by O1111OOO 4y ago
> I think a major pro of browsers serving content in a limited markup language ..... is that a variety of applications can realistically work with rendering them. I couldn't help but think of Gemini[0,1] and the number of applicatio
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by O1111OOO 6y ago
> It would be nice to not have 80+ slightly different chrome installs on a desktop for all the apps these days. It's why I liked Microsoft's HTA (HTML Application) approach: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us&#x2F
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by O1111OOO 6y ago
From the website: "Shareware is coming back, baby." I've been on Linux for a while now and have not come across the word shareware in a long time. Odd the it makes me feel nostalgic and (oddly) hopeful (that is: a business mo
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by O1111OOO 6y ago
> For the vast majority of people, the Librem 5 and Pinephone are probably not worth even considering. The GNU userspace and associated “mobile” paradigms within it are very much not ready for daily use. > Linux phones are definitely
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by O1111OOO 6y ago
> So, is there really no standard way to save a web page as a single page any more? I'm feeling pretty confident about the browser extension 'Singlefile'[0]. I had already tested saved files on a number of browsers (the us
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by O1111OOO 6y ago
> What a bizarrely great site. I was organizing a ton of old saved files (including saved webpages) from many years back (some over a decade old). One of the pages I had saved was "X-Ray Solves Secret of Life (Jun, 1939)" : ht
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ASCII Art in 1939(blog.modernmechanix.com)
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
This is a terrific template! Thanks for creating the site and sharing. I had been looking at various online templates and this is by far the easiest. I'm going to work on a modified version of this tomorrow probably using cotton with s
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IncrediMail shutting down on March 20(incredimail.com)
53 points by O1111OOO 7y ago|32 comments
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
From the linked techcrunch article: "new CEO, who joined late 2017, didn’t really care about the free users ... : ‘If Wire works for you, fine, but we don’t really care about what you think about our ownership or funding structure as o
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
I started to write a comment about the poor job Haven is doing defining "old phone". There wasn't anything on their website, git pages, or online slide presentation. Then I realized _they_ aren't using "old phone&
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
> I use SumatraPDF on linux with wine. I just discovered Foliate[0,1], which is a very small reader (252kb, deb) for .epub, .mobi, .azw, and .azw3 files. It's based Epub.js[2]. I was looking for a standalone epub reader (wanted to a
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The Smartphone Revolution Was the Android Revolution (2019)(bloomberg.com)
2 points by O1111OOO 7y ago|0 comments
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
> We are incredibly lucky that wikipedia isn't owned by some tech megacorp, it isn't loaded with spyware JS bogging it down, and it doesn't require an account to use. There was Google's attempt in 2007 wih knol(0) - w
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
I've opted for profiles. With profiles, it's like getting a completely new browser. You start off with the default about:config , preferences and no extensions. The way my main FF browser is set up, I have multiple privacy enhanc
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
> of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. Agree. It's a trending barometer. Given that Deepin is in the news now because of Huawei, we can expect a few
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
fyi... On Amazon's Fire HD 8 (2017, 8" tablet) running bromite: my mobile experience is very good. Fast page load, fluid scrolling. Have not tested it on my desktop yet (FF on KDE Neon Plasma/Ubuntu 18.04... LTS).
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
Big fan of alternative OSes. I would add the word: viable to alternative/open platforms. In lots of use cases this just means a modern, up-to-date, browser. Firefox OS had the potential to become instantly viable but Mozilla (I fee
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
Food for thought... I strongly suspect that this new OS will be coming from Huawei. It makes sense that a Chinese company develops an OS for their own government. We are in the spyware era, afterall. I wouldn't be surprised to hear, ye
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
> A good outcome of this certificate fiasco is that many firefox users learned about the "studies" and "Normandy" brain-damage and promptly disabled them. I'm actually curious about how the common user reacted to
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
Sometime back I was looking for alternative browsers and came across your comment (dated 2015)[0]: > The code itself works very well. Mason, founder of Luakit and most generous contributor, got hit by a bus so new maintainership roles ha
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
> Looks like its currently experience the hug. Same thing happened to me (no results) and that was my initial thought but, in my case, I had forgotten to check uMatrix. Some vital CDNs and subdomains were allowed but uMatrix was blocking
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by O1111OOO 7y ago
Just wanted to comment on the clarity and effectiveness of the home page. Love it! So many user-friendly checkboxes are ticked off. Nice look, great description, plenty of examples, advanced usage section that's very easy to take in, c

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