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by anarcat 7y ago
The Kingrow does this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kingrow-k1-the-healthy-ph... It's still crowdfunding, but it seems they started mass production already and it will be for real.
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by anarcat 7y ago
I do. For everything: Twitter, Mastodon, Jabber, and of course IRC, everything goes over IRC. And while I am sorry to see people reinventing the wheel with all those crazy web-based protocols, I can't help but think it's kind of n
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by anarcat 7y ago
that actually happened to me trying to find a human to talk with at Yahoo. it was kind of hilarious to "hum-hum" my way through his instructions on how to install TeamViewer on Windows. obviously it failed at some point as I wasn&
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by anarcat 8y ago
this is awesome. i really like the text reflow and clickable links support! good job! i see latency is still on the roadmap, when i test it in my roadmap, it didn't behave so badly but there was still room for improvement when compared
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by anarcat 8y ago
yes it would, but then it's not semi-private and if there's a tracker, why do you need magnet links in the first place?
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by anarcat 8y ago
my experience with magnet links is that they are unpredictably slow: sometimes it works almost instantaneously, sometimes it takes literally forever to fetch the peers and the transfer never completes. busiest torrents will of course propag
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by anarcat 8y ago
I'm curious to hear what solution they are proposing for this, especially since there are at least two existing proposals in that field, in the form of OStree and casync: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree htt
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Thoughts on bootstrapping GHC(joachim-breitner.de)
1 points by anarcat 8y ago|0 comments
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by anarcat 8y ago
it's not "just a bit more verbose", subprocess is much longer and complex module than sh! i constantly need to go back to the manual (is it check_output or call? or maybe i need to create a pipe for that one? never remember).
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by anarcat 8y ago
Hi Nick! Yes, I am the same person as ... er... myself if that makes any sense at all. :) I'll followup by email, thanks for reaching out!
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by anarcat 8y ago
I toyed with that idea a few times, but this now strikes me as a problem for two reasons: 1. it's a security liability. some content i load in a web browser is private and I don't want to archive or duplicate it anywhere 2. it m
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by anarcat 8y ago
I have dietary restrictions against Electron apps which is why I didn't mention Webrecorder player. Besides, last time I suggested anything touching node.js to LWN readers, the answer was a clear "nope" so I tend to thread ca
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by anarcat 8y ago
so the article does go in details about how just "wget-ing" a website isn't sufficient. this is what WARC files are built for, and that's why i insisted on that principle. but while it's true that some sites require
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by anarcat 8y ago
author here. AMA. since I wrote this, i started experimenting with grab-site: https://github.com/ludios/grab-site it's a wrapper around (and a fork of) wpull but the main advantage over it is it can do on-the-fly
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by anarcat 8y ago
For those actually curious of the details of all those changes, Wikipedia has a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_redefinition_of_SI_ba...
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by anarcat 8y ago
Nowhere does this say what Zot6 actually is or why this matter. Lots of buzzwords... what actually is "hyper-drive"? Star Wars stuff? Dat protocol? I know about ActivityPub already, but what the heck is actually going on here?
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by anarcat 8y ago
Tidelift was previously discussed here in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17957744
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by anarcat 8y ago
I find the first item in the README a bit misleading: Security: plash containers run completely unprivileged. What this actually means is that plash containers run as the current user, so not as root. But they provide no isolation
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by anarcat 8y ago
My favorite improvements are: * On-by-default support for the latest draft of the TLS 1.3 specification * Convenient access to more search engines: You can now add search engines to the address bar “Search with” tool from the page action me
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Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS(blogs.gnome.org)
163 points by anarcat 8y ago|133 comments
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by anarcat 9y ago
https://archive.is/KvFHx
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by anarcat 9y ago
There was the same comment when the Kobo came out (no audio) and that always struck me as odd as well. Why can't you use your phone or radio or whatever you normally use for your music instead? I certainly don't expect my books to
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by anarcat 9y ago
interesting to see GitHub catching up to features in GitLab... https://gitlab.com/help/user/project/description_templates.m... ;)
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by anarcat 9y ago
poor site is suffering HN! wrath. mirror: http://archive.is/y5BI1
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by anarcat 9y ago
great project! i was looking for something like this recently and it's nice to see some efforts in this direction. to all the haters: we know there are websites for this. the whole point here is to have something you can run locally, w
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by anarcat 10y ago
> they publish their modified Qt sources, so you can even rebuild the UI framework without much effort Really? AFAIK, only parts of the distro are liberated, here: https://github.com/kobolabs/Kobo-Reader Most notabl
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by anarcat 10y ago
that's a great chart, but a few corrections about OpenID: Provider must stay online at all times: the OpenID provider needs to be online when you login to the consumer site, after that, you have a session with that site and the provide
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by anarcat 10y ago
for those wondering, Debian is mostly not vulnerable, except for the oldstable/LTS release: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7117
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by anarcat 10y ago
I am also pleasently surprised by this initiative. I consider myself an advanced git user so I am not sure I would use it myself, because my brain is hardwired to git's wicked commandline interface now. There is little that surprises m
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by anarcat 10y ago
One of the major challenges in managing satellites into space is the long term commitment: getting it up there is a one time cost, it can be high, for sure, but it can be managed, and is getting cheaper. The real challenge is having base st

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