OliveMate

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by OliveMate 3y ago
If you enjoy reading about strange things that were used to attack political leaders, there's always the Ed Miliband bacon sandwich photograph - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Miliband_bacon_sandwich_pho...
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by OliveMate 3y ago
It's pretty abhorrent to practically digitally unclothe someone (unless they fully consent to it), and more times than not the content produced by this will be shared online to countless other people. The thing is, you cannot guarantee
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Surprisingly we still have a few things that could be sold off for a fraction of the price. Think about the long term savings in not having to put effort into continuing costly services and letting someone else do it instead!
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I've always found the Gameboy Camera to be an interesting and novel bit of kit. During the pandemic I picked up a GBC and camera in the hopes of diving into the world of low-fi photography... But I kept putting off modding a better bat
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by OliveMate 3y ago
>But one thing he was clear about from the beginning: It was all right to end this game of living in the digital shadows. > “I mean, my name is already out there,” he said, acknowledging the fact that, after the doxxing, he had at sep
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by OliveMate 3y ago
For the curious, here's a direct comparison of the different fonts they commissioned for this. Bierstadt won and is now known as Aptos - https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1387421368581455874/ Persona
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Theres definitely stockpiles of nuclear weapons out there, but they're a fraction of what they were 40 years ago, and really up until the last few years relations between the West and Russia have been less tense - Not to say there hasn
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I heard about this constantly growing up, and it was only until I was 17 that I decided to look it up online thinking 'oh it's only a film i'm proper hard me' – and it pretty much ruined me. It's harrowing, to say t
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by OliveMate 3y ago
>And the only thing I remember about the film is the scene where a woman is looking on in horror, and there's a closeup of her urinating in her polyester trousers. The entire film is harrowing, but that scene of the nuke hitting She
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by OliveMate 3y ago
> He remarked that high-density UIs confuse and overwhelm most people, while technical people have developed the skill of sifting through lots of on-screen information and controls. Meanwhile every day I see people struggle to work with
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Ask HN: Getting a Job as a School IT Tech from Nothing? (UK)
4 points by OliveMate 3y ago|2 comments
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I knew before checking it out that 'just' would be on the list, I've always used it liberally and only recently focused on cutting it from my writing. It [just] feels natural and I'm not sure why. When saying it out lou
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Every now and then I go through a period where to recover from work I grab something quick to eat and spend the rest of my night lying about in bed – Like you know it's bad if you can't even stomach sitting up at your desk. One da
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by OliveMate 3y ago
My old man recently got a bunch of boxes from my childhood out of his, including multiple tubs of mixed Lego and a box of incomplete instructions. This will prove to be a valuable resource in the coming months, thank you very much! I keep s
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I tried it out for a while, I'm sure that it's a great program and it's various free sync options & encryption system may immediately put it ahead, but as a basic user I found it much more complicated to the point where I
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Give me a shout when you get around to writing something. Even if what you post goes over my head I'll be happy to check it out!
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Thanks for this! It'll make finding everything posted in that thread much easier, and the random blog button has already sent me down a few rabbit holes (even if I don't understand half of them!).
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I often find myself coming back to this piece from Sean Tejaratchi which was partly stolen by Banksy – https://web.archive.org/web/20120314093434/http://www.readin... Minor anecdote: During the pandemic
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by OliveMate 3y ago
This'll probably sound silly but like everything else on the site I do it manually. I take notes of major changes I make to the site and write them down on that page. I couldn't wrap my head around Jekyll* or any other service you
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I feel a tad awkward because 1) I only started this last week 2) I'm not super tech-y or owt like everyone else here, I'm just a bloke who knows his limits. It's very lightweight & basic and inspired by the likes of bearb
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by OliveMate 3y ago
I'd say that half of the issue is that even if the term is accurate, people hear the word autopilot and expect it to be a lot more than what it actually is.
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by OliveMate 3y ago
Bit odd to see this a week after they returned the "sort by Oldest" back to YouTube (months after removing it for no given reason) - https://mashable.com/article/youtube-sort-by-oldest Over the last few years