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by allarm 5y ago
That does work. Before the pandemics I worked many years with the majority of my team being overseas, in multiple companies. There's nothing wrong with the hybrid approach and never was. For many companies it's always been the def
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by allarm 5y ago
For portraits drawing check the Sktchy app, it was done specifically for that.
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by allarm 5y ago
> the entire world watched in horror at the events of January 6th Umm, no. I’d rather say it was a mildly interesting event for the entire world outside of the US. For instance, I don’t remember myself experiencing horror really.
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by allarm 5y ago
This, and also org-mode for organizing everything and org-roam and deft for personal interlinked knowledge base written in plain text. If anything ever happens to emacs or the packages it would be incredibly easy to convert all the notes in
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by allarm 5y ago
The biggest contributor to latency in any VoIP solution is the underlying network latency. Even though Mumble uses modern low-latency codecs such as Opus, it is difficult to compete with Zoom/Webex/others because Zoom and Webex ar
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by allarm 5y ago
You should probably adjust your book because not having e2ee and not having e2ee by default are two different things.
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by allarm 5y ago
Telegram is recognized by i.e. Singapore government. They have multiple official channels in Telegram, including ministry of manpower, public housing authority and ministry of foreign affairs. The official government site has their Telegram
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by allarm 5y ago
> Why not keep the notes in a VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt drive/partition? Because in this case you have to backup the whole encrypted disk, instead of syncing a couple of encrypted files. Also, setting up gpg in Emacs is very easy tas
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by allarm 5y ago
> They're also based in Russia? No, they’re based in Australia. They’ve been blocked in Russia recently though.
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by allarm 5y ago
The domain was registered in Dec 2020.
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by allarm 5y ago
Last time I checked it was also very, very slow. It was around 6 months ago, maybe it’s improved since then.
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by allarm 5y ago
Probably Notion should not have put them into this situation in the first place? Maybe they should have been more clear on the issue they’re having so nobody has to make a guess? Shortly explain the details of the issue they’re having and g
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by allarm 5y ago
It doesn't even exclude RFC1918 and multicast addressses. Not really efficient.
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by allarm 5y ago
> Adopting some poorly-maintained FOSS solution Well, don’t adopt a poorly-maintained solution, adopt a well-maintained one. Simple.
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by allarm 5y ago
Not arguing with that, but why they still allow 3rd party clients then?
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by allarm 5y ago
Another useful technique that I picked up during my meditation practices was concentration on your next thought. Sounds completely weird, but I remember trying that after I’d read about it and it worked - I got a complete silence in my head
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by allarm 5y ago
It’s not a correct analogy though. In case of Emacs the house has a bathroom for you, a sauna for your whole family, separate bathrooms for your cat and your dog and at least one bathroom for an extraterrestrial entity that breathes helium.
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by allarm 5y ago
The custom backgrounds are only good for hiding the actual background of your room. I normally use the blur filter for that, it works more naturally.
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by allarm 5y ago
As far as I remember you can use Spotify in browser, so it’s not true. I don’t really understand the rant about Spotify. In my experience it’s one of the “good” modern apps. One of the amazing features that it has is the remote playback con
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by allarm 5y ago
>> Today I was reminded of some past insensitive tweets, and I am deeply sorry to anyone I offended. I have since deleted those tweets as they do not reflect my views or who I am today. > So yes >> "Sorry you're off
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by allarm 5y ago
Actually even in Vim you can use arrow keys for navigation in addition to hjkl, so I agree with you.
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by allarm 5y ago
hjkl is not about the 80s, it’s about efficiency. You don’t need to move your hand anywhere from the home position.
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by allarm 5y ago
Not trusting your employer should be the default strategy.
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by allarm 5y ago
The beauty of Vim is that it uses almost a natural-language approach to editing. It's not the opposite of user friendly, it is, in fact, much closer to the user's consciousness, than many other editing paradigms. I.e. when I am ed
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by allarm 5y ago
> Also, disable turbo boost. Is there a way to disable it without installing some 3rd party software?
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by allarm 5y ago
Org Mode was the reason why I switched to Emacs and my only regret is I did not do it sooner. Personal diary, organizer, knowledge base with literate programming blocks, many, many other things - everything is in one tool, crosslinked, in p
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by allarm 5y ago
Pretty much everyone in Russia uses at least two keyboard layouts - Russian and English. Having the English layout as a default is quite common as well.
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by allarm 5y ago
Silent Hill series (especially SH2) also have an amazing soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuxJNphw0Mg
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by allarm 5y ago
You are missing the point. I am saying that macos ships with zsh nowadays, having bash 4 installed for legacy compatibility.
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by allarm 5y ago
Lockdown worked amazingly in Singapore as well.

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