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by aorth 3y ago
A few times a year I go looking for projects to support. It's tricky because I don't want to give money to a project that has tens of thousands of dollars in their account—I'd rather give to some smaller projects or indie dev
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by aorth 3y ago
Hah! I did the same thing for a few years in the early 2000s, but I wasn't affiliated with Apple and just did upgrades, fixes, etc. I rode my bike all over town and charged by the hour. I had all my tools and wallet of CDs for all kind
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by aorth 3y ago
Came to say the same. I have a recurring donation set up and I'm always happy to see updates and mentions of the project.
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by aorth 3y ago
Wow, I think you are right. I noticed the text looked a bit weird. There is even the literal text "play button" underneath a video in the article. I thought maybe some Javascript hadn't loaded. This is a rubbish submission fr
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by aorth 3y ago
Related anecdote: last web a web server of mine was under very heavy load. The site was flapping and I could barely even SSH to the host. I did some basic analysis of the httpd logs and found that there were 13,000 unique IPs within the pas
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by aorth 3y ago
Standard Ebooks is a fantastic project. I have been supporting them for years. I love their attention to detail of typography and their approach to building the books in the open, from source code, with open source tools. I wish their proje
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by aorth 3y ago
And not backed by venture capital.
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by aorth 3y ago
I would be interested in using this with an nftables backend. I would need to figure out all the manual nft commands to manipulate the firewall. Hmmmm
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by aorth 3y ago
Ouch. I sponsored the developer on GitHub for a few months precisely because I realized that we need to support independent developers who are in the trenches building un-sexy software like SMS, Gallery, Calendar, etc. I don't blame th
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by aorth 3y ago
Fantastic! How do we get access to this "European" version of Windows 11? Asking for Europeans who don't live in Europe, and for non-Europeans everywhere who want less Bing, Edge, and upselling in their OS.
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by aorth 3y ago
Fantastic! Public money, public code. Even if you don't like or use GNOME desktop, there is also the entire GNOME application and GTK ecosystem and that is used very widely.
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by aorth 3y ago
> Myst I was just coming here to ask about the Myst reference, since I played that 25 (?) years ago and wondered why they mentioned it. So there's a remake?
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by aorth 3y ago
Jordan and Kenya. I'm American, for what it's worth. Frustrating that I can't just pay and use Premium while they sort out their content jurisdiction issues. They know what I'm watching, and from where—can't they fi
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by aorth 3y ago
Sad to see this because Google won't let me pay for Premium—it is not available in most of the countries I've lived in for the last few years. I wish I could pay for the right for my kids to not see ads, but Google won't let
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by aorth 3y ago
> I'd like to first start out by saying I've been aware of new developments but made certain promises to keep my mouth shut until all the parties were ready to announce. (Phoronix is not so constrained.) I don't understa
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by aorth 3y ago
How about Mistral 7B? I saw this article recently: https://wandb.ai/byyoung3/ml-news/reports/Fine-Tuning-Mistra...
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by aorth 3y ago
Original source, as cited in the article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-offices-france-raided-...
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by aorth 3y ago
PocketCasts is open source and is decent. It was bought by Automattic (who also own and develop WordPress), so should be a reasonably safe bet going forward.
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by aorth 3y ago
> To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I'd expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin. Interesting quote from Ben
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by aorth 3y ago
> What worse is , it screws up the firewall rules. Yes! And it has a hard dependency on iptables, which I have removed from all my servers long ago in favor of nftables. Grrrrrr.
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by aorth 3y ago
I use tmux (and before that, screen). Same paradigm as tabs, with a few benefits. Might work for you unless you are really set on actual tabs.
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by aorth 3y ago
This kind of testing and feedback is important for Organic Maps. Good on the author for taking the time to evaluate, investigate, and file an issue on GitHub. It takes so much time, but is invaluable. Still, as someone who has contributed t
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by aorth 3y ago
Cool. Thankless work, surely. Related question: how do you seed a torrent that is tens or hundreds of terabytes ? Do these people have massive arrays of disks connected to their computers?
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by aorth 3y ago
I've been sponsoring the project since the beginning. They have to add support at all layers of the stack, and in Linux that's a lot of (moving) targets! Wayland, libinput, Firefox, Chrome, GNOME, KDE, etc... it's open source
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by aorth 3y ago
Long time Thunderbird user. Love it, donate monthly, open source is important, blah blah blah. Having said that, does anyone else notice how the text editor in the email message body has a bunch of weird issues? For example, edit a previous
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by aorth 3y ago
Good question! I use regex101.com a few times a month and I've thought about offline tools too. I just happened to see this GNOME application called Wildcard recently: https://flathub.org/apps/com.felipekinoshita.W
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by aorth 3y ago
I had a YouTube Premium family plan (US) for awhile because I don't want my family to see ads. The problem is that I need to use a VPN all the time for it to work because I live outside the US. That gets cumbersome... so I cancelled it
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by aorth 3y ago
Looking at my account usage summary, I've been averaging about 550 searches a month on Kagi. I'm grandfathered into the "Early Adopter Professional" plan so I get 1500 searches for $10, though clearly I need to try harde
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by aorth 3y ago
After years of trying Duckduckgo and then always going back to Google, it was this 2022 interview with the Kagi founder https://dkb.blog/p/kagi-interview that I read a few months ago that got me to try Kagi. I was shoc
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by aorth 3y ago
I'm a Mullvad customer and will check this out. I can already see that this is not so convenient for when you're on a device or network where your Mullvad connection is not active. For example, I'm typing this from my work la

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