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by acabal 11y ago
I'm really sad Persona got abandoned so quickly. Mozilla made some strange decisions in how it marketed and supported it, too: "Persona" was already the name of their browser themeing engine (or was it the other way around?)
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by acabal 11y ago
It gets very hot during gaming, but for day to day use the temperature is just fine. Battery life is good. I dual boot and use Ubuntu 98% of the time, and on 15.04 it gets 4-5 hours I think.
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by acabal 11y ago
Funny as it may sound, the Razer Blade might fit that bill for you, depending on what you mean by 'ultrabook'. It's a 14" Retina-like notebook, great trackpad with click buttons, extremely powerful internals, all-metal c
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by acabal 11y ago
Maybe; but on a Nexus at least, you can't delete a lot of the basic Google services. For example you can "disable" Google Wallet (or whatever it's called now), but you can't "delete it permanently". It&#
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by acabal 11y ago
Interesting how deeply integrated Google services are becoming in Android. With Android at something like an 80% marketshare, I wonder if and when they'll get hit with an anti trust action a la Microsoft in the early aughts. MS got i
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by acabal 11y ago
Exactly! I have a similar policy at the community I operate. Members have to sign up with a real- sounding pen name. I'm very flexible on that too. All that means is you can't sign up with a pen name like "CRaZzE BlOgGeR
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by acabal 11y ago
Interesting read. Remember that Thoreau actually didn't write Walden in a deep isolated wilderness; rather, he lived in a cabin at the far edge of Concord, MA. There's even an entire section in Walden about receiving visitor
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by acabal 11y ago
To be clear, the images are already in the public domain; that is, they are not restricted by copyright. The British Library has, however, made accessible these public domain images via a web interface. Their status as images belonging t
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by acabal 11y ago
> The US would fall apart very quickly if the federal government insisted on handing out loans and forcing the cancellation of aid and welfare programs in states that needed help the most. I always thought that was the big difference bet
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by acabal 11y ago
> Because ultimately, no matter what technical solutions you can come up with force and law always trump those. That's a very important point that I think many who champion technical solutions conveniently set aside. Remember that
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by acabal 11y ago
This is so true--I learned this long ago back when Scribophile was new. Members would sometimes get in to fights with each other, then email me in anger about how such-and-such person is terrible and how I was terrible for allowing terribl
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by acabal 11y ago
I wrote a short guide called "Creating the perfect GPG keypair" < https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/ > some time ago. I mainly wrote it for myself as a sort of step-by-step reminde
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by acabal 11y ago
My first thought after reading the tl;dr was, "what do I do about it"? The answer is at the end of the article: the working group is accepting comments on the matter at a certain email address. Our privacy online and off is alrea
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by acabal 11y ago
As a single data point, I recently dropped and shattered my trusty Nexus 4 and was in a market for a new phone. I was extremely hesitant about getting a Nexus 6, exactly because I thought it was way too big. I finally bit the bullet, and
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by acabal 12y ago
The site is still totally broken, and not ready for release. But I hope to have it complete in the coming months.
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by acabal 12y ago
No, but since ebooks are just HTML documents the layout the code generates isn't particularly bad. It depends on the renderer of course. Renderers like iBooks even support fancy things like automatic ligatures and so on. CSS is growi
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by acabal 12y ago
I disagree on epub3; Standard Ebooks is using it as a base format. While it certainly is a sometimes-strange mix of XHTML and HTML5, and there are things I'd personally have done differently, as a means of presenting static documents
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by acabal 12y ago
Some in this thread have already mentioned platform lock-in/DRM, which is a huge issue, the elephant in the room really. But the other huge issue I encounter very often is the absolute garbage typography and formatting of even commerc
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by acabal 12y ago
I'm currently working on a project that does just that. The goal is to take texts transcribed at Gutenberg and compile them carefully against strict typography and quality guidelines. Master format is epub and texts are also carefull
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by acabal 12y ago
Basecamp may be cool, but it's hardly a startup--it's been around since like 2004.
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by acabal 12y ago
It sounds like you're conflating "terrorist" with "criminal". A criminal is, by definition, a person who breaks the law. A terrorist has a different definition--back in the day it meant something along the lines o
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by acabal 12y ago
Businesses and culture are very different. Businesses exist solely to make money, and perhaps solve a real-world problem doing it. You can start a new dry-cleaning business even though there's another dry cleaner across the street wh
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by acabal 12y ago
That's all well and good, but copyright doesn't exist to promote the possible financial viability of art owned by megacorporations for centuries, nor does it exist to promote financial subsidies for other art. It exists, accordin
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by acabal 12y ago
As I've said before, insanely long copyright terms are one of the biggest modern cultural tragedies we face. If things stay as they are (or get worse), I expect to see an interesting side effect for today's authors: the vast major
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by acabal 12y ago
Well to be fair, even the Nobel prize is a sort of PR move, though a posthumous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prizes
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by acabal 12y ago
Great read, and following these rules is so important when designing CLIs. It's such a shame that for all its popularity, Git spits in the face of so many of these rules (least surprise, reversibility, failure, silence, predictability,
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by acabal 12y ago
The Razer Blade 14 is a very nice machine, if you can get over the Matrix-esque green backlit keyboard. Sane keyboard layout (but missing the pgup/dn/home/end column). Beautiful screen and 14 inches, which is my ideal scree
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by acabal 12y ago
Great article. The other thing I've always wished for command-line tools is some kind of consistency for flags and arguments. Kind of like a HIG for the command line. I know some distros have something like this, and that it's
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by acabal 12y ago
One of the most tragic ideas to evolve in this century is the idea of "intellectual property"--that you can own an idea for years, sometimes tens or hundreds of years. That term covers things outside of copyright, like patents, b
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by acabal 12y ago
That's a huge and critical difference. Open source down to the hardware is the only way you can be sure that what you're getting is actually Tor and not Tor + secret backdoor. (Though I suppose you still have to trust the hardwa

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