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by RunSet 4y ago
This seems like just the thing to finally get adblocking in Steam's integrated browser.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Virtualdub downloads as a 1.81 MB zip file. This downloads as an 84.9 MB zip file. I sure hope this does something Virtualdub can't / anything better than Virtualdub, my current preferred lossless video / audio editing Swiss
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
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by RunSet 4y ago
> running the community edition of Jetbrains’ IntelliJ IDEA ... > As much as it hurts me to say this, as a fan of JetBrains and its tools, IntelliJ just seems to have become too heavy to run properly on a laptop that’s not at the very
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by RunSet 4y ago
The job titles seem to say more about the people hiring than about the jobs themselves. I have often thought that making software has at least as much in common with cooking or sewing as it does with engineering or architecture, as in &quot
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by RunSet 4y ago
I hoped that by "disrupted higher education" the author meant something at least as radical as what this decades-old essay proposes. https://citejournal.org/volume-2/issue-3-02/seminal-articles... Alas,
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by RunSet 4y ago
It is like a zen koan: What is a "senior developer" in an environment with zero "junior developers"?
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by RunSet 4y ago
When I encounter the term "engineer", I take it to mean someone who, if they screw up, people die. I know a "Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer" is a thing that exists, but it seems to me rather a contradiction in term
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by RunSet 4y ago
> LXDE's latest release was Feb 2021, while LXQt's was a month ago. The creator of LXDE, Hong Jen Yee, has abandoned it I'm aware LXDE's creator has abandoned it but LXQt is laggy compared to LXDE, which does everythi
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by RunSet 4y ago
It galls me that music went from radio's payola to the celestial jukebox of Napster to an algorithm pushing corporate recommendations. Worse, people (well, consumers, at any rate) seem to believe not being allowed to cultivate their ow
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by RunSet 4y ago
I clicked through eager to see LXDE curbstomp all comers but alas it was not included in the results. I use LXDE because it responds when I click its widgets. Every other desktop environment, by comparison, has a noticeable lag when respond
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by RunSet 4y ago
> would you rather see it used or see it dog slow trying to load UI components from disk? Are those the only two options? In any case the memory is technically "used" when dog slow trying to load UI components from disk. It is
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzhqC5zXIA
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by RunSet 4y ago
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." ― Anatole France
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by RunSet 4y ago
> The Signal Protocol somewhat excessively provides forward secrecy for each and every message sent. That is sort of pointless while the messages still exist on the screen. Or if the message's recipient took a screenshot.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> any walled off website that blocks you from accessing it is unacceptable because it's not the web anymore. It is a personal point of pride that LokiList allows posting over Tor. Not many clearnet sites do, especially without regis
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by RunSet 4y ago
Further reading: https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-...
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by RunSet 4y ago
> anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river. Did Apple ever implement the ability to run software without first phoning home and ask
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by RunSet 4y ago
> It's pretty easy to go buy a completely unlocked computer You will pay a premium if you consider "a completely unlocked computer" to be one sans Intel Management Engine or the AMD equivalent.
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by RunSet 4y ago
"My definition of a great story has nothing to do with 'a varied and interesting background.' It is: One that can be read with pleasure by a cultivated reader and reread with increased pleasure." - Gene Wolfe, from a cha
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by RunSet 4y ago
I feel the same way about Hank Ketcham, who I have only recently come to appreciate. It is easy to lump Dennis the Menace in with Family Circus and Marmaduke in the "unfunny single panel comics" set but Ketcham's artwork is s
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by RunSet 4y ago
This but unironically.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Reminds me of how Firefox removed the ability to set a URL for new tabs (the better to display advertising on them) but justified it by saying "Users can trust and install a third-party extension to enable that functionality."
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Sites that work without JavaScript. Perhaps you will like this: https://lokilist.com/about.php If you have feedback, please send it to me via the contact page.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I haven't seen one commenter here concerned with copyright violation While we are enumerating things we haven't seen... In the United States, copyright exists "to promote the progress of the useful arts and sciences&quot
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by RunSet 4y ago
A bit of a tangent but I have observed that whenever a networking record for bandwidth is broken it is typically by a nonprofit such as a university, but whenever a networking record for latency is broken it is more often than not by someon
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by RunSet 4y ago
> how to cache windows updates on my local network without an enterprise windows install https://download.wsusoffline.net/ will download Windows updates and create an installer for them.
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by RunSet 4y ago
People are so quick to assume malice whenever a multinational conglomerate practices deception in pursuit of profit. Whatever happened to engaging in good faith?
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by RunSet 4y ago
That appears to be because Session uses Firebase as a dependency. https://github.com/opendocument-app/OpenDocument.droid/issue... Per F-Droid's definition of "the upstream source code is not entirely f
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by RunSet 4y ago
> the job itself is basically all about justifying its existence not actually achieving any purported objectives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone

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