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by austinjp 3y ago
As I suggested elsewhere [0] if you bump each letter in nginx you get... ohjoy! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39376657
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by austinjp 3y ago
Indeed. It truly pisses me off that consumer devices and OSes have taken such an aggressive backward approach.
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Interesting, apparently there are implementations (unofficial, beta) for Android, iOS and Windows. https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator
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Yeah, it's great, but doesn't always work e.g. some corporate/academic networks.
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by austinjp 3y ago
I really wish this was the One True Way, but unfortunately I couldn't get this working. Installed fine but then, nothing.
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by austinjp 3y ago
Unfortunately this doesn't always work on corporate/academic networks.
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I'm truly sick of how difficult it is to copy files between devices in different ecosystems. It makes me grind my teeth that emailing/WhatsApping attachments has become a default for people literally standing next to each other. N
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by austinjp 3y ago
Bump each letter in nginx and we get.... ohjoy!
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by austinjp 3y ago
Update from 2021: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676... Edit to add sci-hub link to full paper: https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.scico.2021.102609 This appears
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Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? [2018](thenewstack.io)
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The project initiator has written about this several times, for example: https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/i-quit-my-job-to-focus-o...
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by austinjp 3y ago
Website, not web app. Static website if it has no backend. Strictly speaking, 'static' used to mean no JavaScript either, so perhaps 'jamstack' is the appropriate neologism.
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Maybe now, but it hasn't always been so. Attitudes change. If you're lucky enough to chat with someone in their 90s about dying, you may hear stories of how doctors used to "help people on their way". In other words, cas
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by austinjp 3y ago
There's a ton of research into this idea, have a search on PubMed. Unfortunately it suffers from at least two problems. First, generalisable effects from specific interventions often fail to replicate, so for example subjects tend to g
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.uk.com and various others are/were subdomain sellers.
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Sure, but you can think you hate it, and practically speaking what's the difference?
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This company/app pops up on HN with some regularity, and attracts a fair amount of criticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27350975 https:/&#
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by austinjp 3y ago
The vast majority of the world does not have an iPhone as their smartphone. It's not even close. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/apple-hits-all-time-...
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by austinjp 3y ago
Has anyone had any luck breathing life into old tablets with PostmarketOS or anything similar? I'm talking about Android tablets that are now so slow as to be literally unusable. Some comments here mention hardware degradation, so can
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by austinjp 3y ago
No worries. And yes, but that's not what I'm taking about :) I was interested in the favicon, which is the icon shown in the (desktop) browser tab. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
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by austinjp 3y ago
It's an open-source [0] metasearch engine using [1] the following: Scopia Yahoo Bing Mojeek Yandex Brave Also images from Bing and Pixabay, and news from OneNewspage, Bing and Brave, and academic science from base-search.net [0] https
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by austinjp 3y ago
https://archive.is/9pz3M
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Indeed, although client-side opting in/out of any site's ranking would mitigate this.
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Well like I said, I don't disagree that there are other more significant things we can do. > He certainly wins at buzzwords bingo ;) She :D
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by austinjp 3y ago
While I agree that the most impactful things might be nothing to do with software, that's not always true. A friend of mine works on AI-based solutions for decarbonising industry, for example. Perhaps that's a bit contrived, but i
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by austinjp 3y ago
It's interesting (to me) in this specific example because it generates a favicon using SVG + emoji. I wasn't aware that could be done. Favicons can't be simple enoji/text, they have to be an image.
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by austinjp 3y ago
I've not really considered this before, but I might actually be interested in a 'white-listed' web. This is obviously possible entirely client-side with a plug-in that white-lists domains and allows you to edit the list. I&#x
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by austinjp 3y ago
Yes, and I've not seen this before, the HTML uses an SVG with an emoji in it as the favicon: <link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 view
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by austinjp 3y ago
Oh, now that's a nice twist, if I follow you. A universe with a creator, but no afterlife. Or another possibility: a universe without a creator, but with an afterlife. Huh. Don't think I've considered those options before. I&
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by austinjp 3y ago
Genuine question: since these are core utils, and probably used billions of times every day, is anyone actually going to switch to this version? I see that the intention is for this to be a drop-in replacement, but some options and beha

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