Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 7y ago
...or Owncloud [1], or Nextcloud [2], or Syncthing [3], or Seafile [4], all of them free software, none of them needing 'future discounts' like the Duple site promises to 'beta testers' since they are free software. [1]
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
That, and a working DejaNews, before Google bought and sank it. I made a two-frame (as in <frame>) browser for it and revelled in the sheer abundance of information it provided. Enter Google, exit stage left DejaNews. Progress.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> Yes Amazon could discontinue its library. No, I'm not worried about it. The chances of a trillion dollar company exiting one of its primary business lines is definitely lower than the chances of me misplacing my DVDs. One word (OK
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Hear, hear. Advertising can serve a function to society if and only if it is opt-in, honest, non-obtrusive and informative. That these characteristics happen to be the opposite of what the industry produces nowadays can not be a coinciden
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-... Several references to the quote "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" can be found, s
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In some parts of Sweden they do. I live there and tend to cycle through wind and weather. Come springtime I'm joined by a host of cyclists but when autumn calls they quickly disappear into their cars, not to be seen until next spring
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
While I also grinned at this inventive term my gut reaction is one of please not another one of those discussion-stopper epithets, free discussion is threatened enough as it is .
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May I suggest to put a curb on your availability every now and then? I fully understand the urge to help out in times of need but I also know this creates a situation where you're always on call - whether scheduled or not. It also give
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Apple devices are getting harder and harder to repair with every new generation. Replacing a keyboard on one of the 'butterfly switch' models entails replacing the entire upper half of the machine as the keyboard is riveted to the
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> Google was sued for Android's use of a copy of a specific implementation Nope, they were sued (and prevailed [1]) because of them re-implementing Java APIs. The 'copy of a specific implementation' rhetoric concerned a 9-
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
More "The end of Chromium for not being able to run uBlock Origin". Running a browser without a functional ad blocker is like running around without vaccinations - you're bound to catch something nasty. I used to use Chromium
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I do care about high dpi but not in the way most people seem to mean: I want as much text as readable on a screen. One of the many reasons for not using Gnome everything is that it insists on making everything SO BIG with enormous amounts o
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Replicant [1, 2] supports 13 (older) devices. As to whether they are 100% working depends on what you intend to use the device for given that some functions (e.g. GPS) are not supported. If you're genuinely interested in this subject
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The device drivers can be a problem on many devices, even when running AOSP-derived distributions many of these are lifted from a stock distribution and used as blobs. The bit about Android needing Play Store/Youtube/Pay apps is
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Use a different browser, something like Privacy Browser [1] which enables custom Javascript/referer/cookie/etc. settings. For Twitter I tend to block anything and everything which makes it revert to its non-JS page. Enabling
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Some do, some don't. Those who do have not yet found anything nefarious but it certainly is possible for some bad apple to end up in the pile of code which makes up an Android distribution. The difference between the paradigms is that
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
All it takes to keep Google from spying (apart from not using any of its products directly and not having a Google account) is a well-targeted block list on your router and in your ad blocker. They'll probably still be able to glean s
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Hell no, Google is a data vacuum the likes of which has not been seen since Mega Maid [1]. Yet... I still use Android-based devices. They happen to be Google-free, i.e. no Google Services nor any Google apps, no Chrome or Chromium, no Googl
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Samsung has just closed its last phone manufacturing plant in China and has no such production left in the country: The shutdown of Samsung’s last China phone factory comes after it cut production at the plant in the southern city of Huizh
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
A far more interesting book on the subject of the way Sweden-the-country and many Swedes handled in the years before and during the second world war is Aron Flam's Det här är en Svensk Tiger! which is the written-down version of his
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I generally use xidel [1] for that type of task. Feed it xpath , css selectors or its own pattern matching thing. [1] https://github.com/benibela/xidel
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Well, that, plus the fact that it was resource-heavy. This was compounded by the fact that a lot of hardware was sold as being 'Vista-ready' while in reality being incapable of running the overly-fancy graphics-heavy 'glass&#
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Because that is where I live and have data on? Because I think I should not make statements about the rest of the continent when I can not be sure that what I say actually is correct?
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I've worked on cars and tractors for ages (even though I never got one myself, cars are boring, bikes are better) and have never had to replace a transmission. Clutch plates, yes. Crankshaft, yes. Pistons, cylinder heads, valves, c
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
YALP and Aurora get the APK directly from the play store, that is the whole point about these programs. Get the source to Aurora (or YALP) and find out how it downloads the APK from the play store. Now either build something which does what
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Use YALP [1] or Aurora [2] (both are on FDroid) to get the APK's for your banking apps. These apps This is what I do for the Swedish electronic ID app, it has worked for years and hopefully will continue to do so. [1] https:/&#x2
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> In the 70s, the scientific consensus was global warming, not cooling. Consensus is irrelevant here, in the 1800s the consensus was that radiation travelled through the aether. This did not make it true even though it was the consensus.
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The comparison between YEC and evolution falls flat on its face because of the actual physical evidence in support of evolution where creationists have to call upon acts of god to support their hypothesis. It was god who put the dinosaur fo
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I see your question and raise you a counter-question: Define climate denier, please I can actually answer both: A climate alarmist is someone who agrees with the hypothesis that the planet is on the verge of a catastrophic climate change, g
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Glaciers always melt from the bottom (or at least appear to do so) since that is where the water goes. Parts of Greenland's glaciers are actually growing [1]. Here's a strange fact: the last 5 years are only the hottest on record

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