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   by aorth 10y ago

   Paying—or at least filing—your taxes is the law in the USA. Generally speaking, breaking laws results in you losing some freedoms. I'm sure there are other crimes for which you would lose the right to travel out of the country. Anyways
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   by aorth 10y ago

   The takeaway for me: US law enforcement can compel you to provide a fingerprint to unlock your phone, but cannot compel you to provide a password. In particular, a recent precedent-setting court case in Minnesota has decided that fingerpri
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   by aorth 10y ago

   mpv beats VLC at that game. :)
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   by aorth 10y ago

   Actually that machine looks great—but where do I buy one? I searched for the product number of that NUC on Amazon and only find different (older) versions? There's something to be said for Apple's naming scheme versus "NUC Ki
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   by aorth 10y ago

   I spent a bit of time trying to understand ffmpeg last year (seems like you need to re-learn the codecs and best practices every few years!) and wrote some notes down on a blog post. Hope it helps someone other than me! https://m
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   by aorth 10y ago

   The WebGL demo "After the Flood" linked in their release summary post is really beautiful. I don't play games but this technology is very impressive. Try it for yourself if you're on an updated Firefox (51+): https:&#x2
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   by aorth 10y ago

   The WebGL demo "After the Flood" linked in the post is really beautiful. I don't play games but this technology is very impressive. Try it for yourself if you're on an updated Firefox (51+): https://playcanv.a
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   by aorth 10y ago

   First of all Apple's Mail.app is a native macOS application. Nylas is based on Electron, the Chromium/NodeJS platform originally designed by GitHub when they were building the Atom text editor. http://electron.atom.io&#
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   by aorth 10y ago

   Perhaps: it is written in Swift and supports the touch bar on the new MacBook Pros.
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I believe that self hosting is more inline with open source software principles. Even if it weren't, self hosting gives you control over your content—remember, nothing is really "free." Self hosting takes a bit more time and
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Yes, something like the Dolphin emulator's monthly progress reports would be really cool! https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2016/12/01/dolphin-progress-rep...
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I wonder if their sysadmins will be able to read your mail or just promise not to. :/
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    by aorth 10y ago

    My goal is to deliver the same quality pandas user experience on 10x as much data. pandas works well on 1GB of data, but less well on 10GB. This has to change for pandas to remain a relevant tool in the future. Awesome! Great to see such
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I use Darktable to do basic edits to RAW files from my Nikon D3100 and it's incredibly satisfying to understand and adjust exposure, lens correction, perspective, and a few other things. Darktable has module presets for many cameras, w
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I'm sad to hear this. I loved reading Richard Yao's blog posts about ZFS on Linux. https://clusterhq.com/2014/09/11/state-zfs-on-linux/
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    by aorth 10y ago

    The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andrić. It's about a beautiful bridge over the river of a town near the Bosnia–Serbia border, and tell the story of the people and politics of the region over several hundred years starting in 1300s or s
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Moxie just committed circumvention support earlier today. Here's the commit: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/5417...
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    by aorth 10y ago

    It's not clear to me why Signal was blocked, though. Other governments have blocked messaging and chat applications before, but not for the reasons you'd think. For example, UAE blocks access to voice and video chat applications t
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Great news, thanks. The automatic upgrade from 2.17.1 to 3.0.0 went smoothly on my small instance tracking four personal sites.
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Important note from the comments in that issue: Kenneth says that Maya is only tested on Python 2.7 so far. Python 3 support is coming later. https://github.com/kennethreitz/maya/issues/10#issuecomment-...
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I'm an American living outside the US and literally the only TV station I watch is Al Jazeera English. It agrees with my tastes more, yes, but they also have documentaries about all kinds of things throughout the day.
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Still alpha. Only for Linux. The only official details are on this message on the tor-dev mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-December...
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I will put The Vital Question on my "to read" list. On a similar topic, I've just picked up Sapiens, which was also on Gates' 2016 Summer reading list. A few people in my circles had been talking about it so I decided to
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Wow, that's not good news for Uber. What's ironic is that where I live (Jordan) Uber is twice the price of normal taxis. It's more convenient obviously, especially if you don't speak Arabic well enough to explain where y
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I understand the tradeoff between them giving me free software and me giving them my contact information—the way they've done it is just so up front and in your face! I'm pretty sure there is a web dev or user experience best prac
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I wanted to try it, but the downloads page presents a popup asking for your name and email address, and you cannot dismiss it. https://www.influxdata.com/downloads/
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    by aorth 10y ago

    I had asked the same question on the blog post, and the author responded there saying the patches were not integrated into vanilla nginx yet, only "upstreamed" to the nginx-devel mailing list in December, 2015. https://
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Great savings. It would be great to know which upstream version of nginx these "full" HPACK patches were merged to. Does anyone know?
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    by aorth 10y ago

    Cuba does very well on the human development index. Among the top ten in the Americas and top fifty in the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
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    by aorth 10y ago

    You're right, we probably should be using Little Snitch — just know that it's not a golden ticket! There has been some research about bypassing Little Snitch, for example this one from 2016: https://speakerdeck.com&#x2F