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by SCdF 13y ago
Wait really!? I hadn't installed a linux distro that wasn't a *buntu since Gentoo ~8 years ago when I started a new job a couple of months ago. They gave me a Lenovo laptop, and when it came to picking a distro I thought I'd
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by SCdF 13y ago
So, what's a good list of webapps that work well from the homescreen? I know about things like Facebook and forecast.io, but I'd love to know about more. The less apps (that rely on a network connection to be useful) that I have t
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by SCdF 13y ago
My apologies, I guess I needed to be more specific here: I meant desktop linux users. People who use Ubuntu, Arch, Debian etc. Clearly it's not going to matter for servers either, or raspberry pi, or routers, or... lots of things.
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by SCdF 13y ago
I really want Mir to die. Unless I'm misunderstanding the situation Wayland vs. Mir is going to be a massive headache for linux, and afaict Mir exists for no technical reason; it exists because Canonical don't want to play in anyo
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by SCdF 13y ago
No. They want to have control, and they think they are large enough to get away with it. They're probably right.
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by SCdF 13y ago
Are any YouTube videos more than 30fps?
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by SCdF 13y ago
If something you didn't ask for defaults to being installed along-side what you did ask for, regardless of that thing is, it's crapware (imo). Smashing 'next' in an installer should do the right thing: it should install
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by SCdF 13y ago
Heh, so the music I listen to tends to be pulsing non-vocal quiet electronic music (currently listening to: Done by Robot Science) because it's not music I'm going to sing or sitting-dance along too, and it's entirely ignorab
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by SCdF 13y ago
That's what my closed cans headphones are for :P
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by SCdF 13y ago
You know, I've never worked in nor seen an office that wasn't "bullpit" style with people grouped onto many desks. Maybe this is just NZ. Is having your entire development team each having their own private office someth
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by SCdF 13y ago
Anecdotal definitely. Cell phone markets change lots depending on country, and no one has lived everywhere. As someone upthread said, they are used a lot by kids in the UK, for example. FWIW, in my social circle and outer circles phone owne
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by SCdF 13y ago
Me too, and was initially disappointed. Now I think about it, it's super cool that GitHub are putting so much effort into being a useful platform for file formats traditionally not associated (much) with software development. There is
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by SCdF 13y ago
> It begins by saying why Gabe has come to care about Linux (it is a solution to MS lock in). That's not why he cares, he cares because the MS App store is a threat to Steam lock in, and he wants his tasty 30%. > Then you say tha
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by SCdF 13y ago
While it's super cool that maybe I'll be able to run linux at home and still play games some time in the future, it's kind of sad that the only reason he cares is because he's worried about a MS app store potentially bei
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by SCdF 13y ago
So in terms of client-side startup it can become a pain, because if you're starting and stopping a jvm all the time you tend to feel it. You encounter these problems if: - People write unix-style tools on the JVM (imagine if ls was a J
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by SCdF 13y ago
When I said issues I meant the bugs which Oracle isn't fixing, not the issue that Oracle isn't fixing the issues. But I feel like you already knew that.
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by SCdF 13y ago
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these issues all around the sandbox functionality of applets? So specifically, to exploit these, you write a dodgy applet, then convince users to run these applets locally (by hijacking webs
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by SCdF 13y ago
Has anyone used all of the HTML5 tags in anger? I've tried a couple of times to build something fully "semantic". I struggle to create something that looks good semantically (ie just reading the HTML) and is also laid out on
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by SCdF 13y ago
Yeah, that gets the text but unfortunately no pictures of the font :-(
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by SCdF 13y ago
So the server has been crushed under the boot of hacker news. Does anyone have a cached copy?
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by SCdF 13y ago
You need to be more specific, because in my experience that's not even remotely true. There wasn't a single "weird" step involved in using it, and I use it on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android (3rd party client). You creat
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by SCdF 13y ago
Oh for sure. My original point, way back up tree, still stands though. If you care about security, surely you should care about security. If the data is just on your computer and you're not worried about people getting access to the
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by SCdF 13y ago
You can only validate their file format, you can't validate, say, the quality of their implementation. For all you know they are intentionally generating files that are really easy to crack, or are using a custom rng implementation giv
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by SCdF 13y ago
So I've never used the browser integration, which might be why I've had a more stable time of it, but I use it over dropbox on windows, Mac and Linux and have had exactly 0 stability issues, with either the 1.0 or 2.0 clients. The
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by SCdF 13y ago
In for a penny, in for a pound. If you care about security enough to use a password safe you might as well also use an open source solution that has even a remote chance of having its code looked at by more people than the ones trying to se
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by SCdF 13y ago
Does KeePass and derivatives count as remotely similar? They work well for me
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by SCdF 13y ago
Still with the ! eh. Surprising.
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by SCdF 13y ago
Except noobs (such as myself) who rushed to create one when the SO beta opened didn't know this, and are now stuck with quite a few sites attached to a soon to be 404'ing service :-(
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by SCdF 13y ago
Awesome, so I have about 30^, which is less than I thought, but more than I'd hoped. I guess I have half a year to migrate them all :-/ ^Though actually far more like slightly over a dozen once you get rid of all the stack exchang
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by SCdF 13y ago
Crap. So I have used MyOpenID for years, ever since SO forced me to use it. In every situation where openId was an option I've used it in deference to connecting a google/fb account or creating a new user/pass. I have used it

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