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   by RunSet 4y ago

   A browser extension that uses that method to add a "download" button to Youtube videos alongside the upvote / downvote buttons seems like a useful thing.
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   by RunSet 4y ago

   Here's an oldie but a goody! https://www.veed.io/view/42ce44c6-198a-498a-bd85-9d38c88e3a4...
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   by RunSet 4y ago

   Yeah after they see KDE they'll really think gnome is good.
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   by RunSet 4y ago

   > Thinkpads are still decent The ones from 2011 are.
5. 455.▲
   by RunSet 4y ago

   > Vimeo also provides some DRM‐free digital downloads Awesome. Digital downloads are my favorite kind of download.
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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."
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   by RunSet 4y ago

   > More than 90 per cent of Mozilla's funding comes from web search providers that pay for the right to be the default search engine in Firefox in their regions. According to the organization's latest financial figures, $430m of
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   by RunSet 4y ago

   "uBlock Origin Lite" is bad branding as there is a convention of using "Lite" to suggest reduced hardware requirements. They should have named it something like "uBlock Origin Tame".
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   by RunSet 4y ago

   Unlikely: > Mozilla has renewed its lucrative nine-figure deal with Google to ensure its search engine is the default in Firefox in the US and other parts of the world. ... > Moz will likely pocket $400m to $450m a year between now an
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    The correct incentive to create intellectual property is intellectual currency. Other incentives are perverse and lead to a private entity capping the public well of knowledge to make their brand of bottled water a more compelling purchase.
12. 462.▲
    by RunSet 4y ago

    For many readers that quote is the only part of The Art of Computer Programming they can comprehend. No wonder they bikeshed it to hell and back.
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    > This was the problem that Montulli found himself wrestling with in the middle of 1994. He was solving a very local problem: how do you create a sustained user session without compromising the user’s privacy. That's the neat thing
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    Poisoned apples and organic oranges. The petrodollar system is explicitly underpinned by fossil fuels while bitcoin just wants the cheapest electricity.
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    > is Adobe really that bad? No. Adobe is worse than that. https://news.hitb.org/content/adobe-denies-responsibility-dm...
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-...
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    "Chancellor on Brink of Third Bailout for Banks"?
19. 469.▲
    by RunSet 4y ago

    If only. https://github.com/jtgrassie/xmr-wasm
20. 470.▲
    by RunSet 4y ago

    By way of answer, a cautionary tale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_dollar_(private_curren...
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    Someone created a github account with my name and has been squatting it for years. Github support tells me they won't deactivate or rename the account (I don't want it, I just want it gone) unless I copyright my own name and file
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    When you see decades of Windows version after Windows version, each billing itself as "the fastest Windows ever!" and each having higher minimum system requirements than its predecessor, two conclusions are inescapable: 1. The Red
23. 473.▲
    by RunSet 4y ago

    Task bar on the same side of the screen as my "mouse hand" just feels correct.
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    Be nice if there was a Firefox "No Pocket / No Hello / No Kitchen Sync / Just-a-Web-Browser-Without-Any-Bundled-Crap Edition".
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    Doubt many Gemini sites are using Node.js on the backend, obscure packages or otherwise. Also given that installing npms willy-nilly is your go-to example for security risk, maybe that should have a hasslewall around it instead of username:
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    I would rather carry two devices than allow an employer to use my hardware without compensation. Ideally they would furnish their own data plan, too. This also permits leaving the work device at work where it belongs.
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    Thanks for the correction. I will be sure to credit you in the acknowledgements.
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    I don't know about "mathematically sound" but I would rather retain the convention that any number divided by itself equals 1.
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    > Worst I've seen so far was one arguing that equations should be written with long variable names (like in programming) instead of single letters and Greek letters. That could never work. If anything the words comprising mathematic
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    by RunSet 4y ago

    IPFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/2138/what-is-th...