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by RunSet 3y ago
Suggest running the notepad++ installer in wine. Maybe not everything works but everything I've needed has. The notepad++ plugin ecosystem is a resource that no other software is likely to offer.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Featherpad also does so, by enabling the option "Start with files of last window". Also: * instead of giving an error message when it lacks permission to read a file (like mousepad) it instead prompts for credentials and attempts
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by RunSet 3y ago
> Andrew Chen explains it well in his book “The Cold Start Problem”. "Chapter 1: 'Venture Capital', or Kindling"
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by RunSet 3y ago
> It's sort of strange to me how many Americans seem to share the same sentiment when my experience has often been the total opposite. > China has some of the best factories, supply chains, and collaboration in the world. And whi
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by RunSet 3y ago
I take your abrupt change of subject to mean that that you now observe Microsoft's hand in this.
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by RunSet 3y ago
I find it interesting how legislation is used to effect privileged classes of transportation and transportation owners. Stealing is a crime almost everywhere, but in the old west, horse theft was a hanging crime. Similarly, motor vehicle th
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by RunSet 3y ago
"The burden of proof falls squarely on advertising to justify its intrusions into users’ attentional spaces—not on users to justify exercising their freedom of attention." https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015
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by RunSet 3y ago
Correct. I wrote about Github, not git.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> Sounds like you are the problem, I don't see what is Microsoft's hand in this. Perhaps in your haste to conclude that I am the problem you overlooked my mentioning github, which Microsoft owns. It is a website where, among ot
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by RunSet 3y ago
I have had my bugfixes rejected for superficial reasons and then immediately re-enacted by the project owner so many times I no longer even bother contributing to public github repositories. Now I just fix my own copy and wish others luck d
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by RunSet 3y ago
I wish there was some way to entirely disable the macOS music player when it is not in use. I am referring in particular to the visual element outlined in the red rectangle in the image below. https://i.imgur.com/6uOjflM.jpg
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by RunSet 3y ago
https://i.imgur.com/RfFM4cr.jpg
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by RunSet 3y ago
> However, for real desktop tools that utilize the operating system's bells and whistles, which truly make an app a desktop app—like Sublime—I'd never use an alternative in the browser. I such cases I would also never favor an
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by RunSet 3y ago
> a touchscreen is never going to be a keyboard, but that doesn't mean things couldn't be better ... they growled, struggling to pierce the sow's earlobe.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Still: • relies on a centralized authentication server • bans third party clients • requires a phone number to create an account despite no longer supporting SMS • marketing "Perfect Forward Secrecy" AKA "Forward Secrecy&quot
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by RunSet 3y ago
Not to say I subscribe to the notion of intellectual property, but I would expect military secrets to be treated differently than trade secrets for purposes of IP. Perhaps that is an American cultural tradition that China is unlikely to res
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by RunSet 3y ago
Supposing the alternative is a world run by the Federal Reserve, I suggest you audit each one carefully and make your choice.
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by RunSet 3y ago
This is going into my file of counter-arguments for when others adopt the posture of: "Without draconian legal fictions to the tune of intellectual property, all artists would cease creating entirely out of sheer greed."
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I wish there was legislation in place that sets legal standard sizes; Those extracting profit from deceptive packaging would do better to extract a moral lesson from the provenance of the baker's dozen. https://en.wikip
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by RunSet 3y ago
In bygone days, I would say: "In the future, all games will be Quake." But it was easier for my audience to hear a joke than the truth.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Dimensional analysis is a method of evaluation invented by physicists to help mathematicians discern apples and oranges from pure numbers.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Agreed. https://old.reddit.com/r/LokiList/comments/s0a0w6/why_i_made... Also: > we took pairs of bad matches (actual 30% match) and told them they were exceptionally good for each other (displaying a
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I am part of numerous programming discords and I just see no issue with them being on discord Has Discord ever asked you to provide and confirm your phone number to continue using it?
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by RunSet 3y ago
Buying it for libre dollars and free cents.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> So accustomed to exploitative corporate gaslighting, we're forgetting the basics of civilization, like, what are ownership rights? ... > Stallman was right: if you erode the norm that you control your own software, you lose the
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by RunSet 3y ago
This looks like it might do. https://routinehub.co/shortcut/7284/
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by RunSet 3y ago
Plenty of practically mint human bodies just sitting around waiting to be repurposed. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9816703
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by RunSet 3y ago
Friendly suggestion to peruse Jetbrain's third-party data-sharing agreement while considering what information of a user, even in theory, it might forbid them to share with anyone they wish for any reason they please. https:/&#x2
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by RunSet 3y ago
Google's approach with Chrome was to pay shareware developers to bundle it in the installer and expect users wouldn't opt-out.
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by RunSet 3y ago
https://retroshare.cc/

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