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by avhon1 9y ago
> The hardware was not designed in conjunction with the software You're definitely right on that. The hardware took long enough to design, but the software wasn't even done when they started shipping. > the resistive tablet
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by avhon1 9y ago
The software for the initial public release of the OLPC was very rushed. The organization received so many small orders that they took people off of software development in order to process orders. These laptops were shipped (often months
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by avhon1 9y ago
In my own experience, many devices either: * do not offer granular enough control of the brightness on the low end (the backlight is either kind of dim, or nearly/completely off, with no in-between setting), or they * do not have enoug
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by avhon1 9y ago
This thread from a few days ago: "Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741116
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by avhon1 9y ago
Sounds like a great application for an e-ink display. No burn-in, low power, and can always emit as much light as the keys on the keyboard do (by front-illuminating the bar when the keyboard backlight is on).
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by avhon1 9y ago
In Firefox, if you click the hamburger menu and select "Customize...", one of the things you can drag into either the menu or the button bar is an RSS feed indicator/subscribe button.
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by avhon1 9y ago
That comparison article is great! Is there anything that also compares JSON Feed too? https://jsonfeed.org/ As far as Twitter goes, I use TwitRSS to generate RSS feeds from of a couple of users. https://twitrss.m
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by avhon1 9y ago
Doesn't dpkg require root permissions to run?
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by avhon1 9y ago
> allow any user script to be able to override system commands Other users could only override system commands if they can write files to your ~/.local/bin As /u/CJefferson pointed out, if a user has permission to wri
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by avhon1 9y ago
Because every frame would be identical, so the sha256 hash of every frame would also be identical. The first frame would give you some entropy, but you would terribly weaken it by re-using identical "random" data over and over aga
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by avhon1 9y ago
The article says that this vulnerability was patched in March 2018, so at least there's that.
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by avhon1 9y ago
IPFS is decentralized, but not anonymous. Retroshare, Freenet, and I2P are all decentralized and anonymous, but they're all somewhat difficult to use, and often very slow. http://retroshare.net/ https://free
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by avhon1 9y ago
Blender's path tracing engine, Cycles, supports realtime use in the editing viewport. Unless your machine is quite powerful, however, it doesn't render anywhere close to 30fps. Instead, it iteratively updates the viewport. It is f
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by avhon1 9y ago
Fitting an 8.5"x11" or A4-sized display into your pocket would be pretty handy.
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by avhon1 9y ago
That's the "federated" part of the article's name.
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by avhon1 9y ago
It takes a lot more time, expertise, and money to run a website (even a simple wordpress site) than to upload videos to youtube.
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by avhon1 9y ago
Have you looked at large, centered trackballs? A trackball the size of a billards ball under your palm is easy to control with your whole arm.
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by avhon1 9y ago
> Do you mean it's not necessarily a URL? Javascript or no, the href attribute of an <a> tag does not have to be a URL in order for it to be clickable. (Whether or not it will do anything useful is another matter.) > Or do
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by avhon1 9y ago
With the Double-Ratchet Algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm
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by avhon1 9y ago
This is not the only way to sync encrypted messages between devices with different keys. Matrix and XMPP+MAM+OMEMO both allow for message synchronization between devices, while having different keys on each device.
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by avhon1 9y ago
Signal still requires access to read (and modify!) your contacts.
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by avhon1 9y ago
According to the link that /u/mintplant provided, Signal asks for a lot more permissions than that: • find accounts on the device • read your own contact card • modify your own contact card • read calendar events plus confid
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by avhon1 9y ago
My friends used to use Signal, but we were put off by needing real phone numbers, as well as some persistent errors in the app (communication-breaking ones). Personally, I'm rather unhappy that Signal isn't federated, and they don
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by avhon1 9y ago
I agree with /u/na85. If you're worried about law enforcement or corporations sniffing keys out of your devices RAM, you have other things to worry about besides "what app should I use for communication"? If you&#x2
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by avhon1 9y ago
XMPP + MAM (XEP-0313) + OMEMO (XEP-0384) provides end-to-end encryption and device synchronization.
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by avhon1 9y ago
> JavaScript doesn't necessary have to slow down the page. If I have to wait for it to download, it sure will slow down the page. > [...] fully load in less then 200 ms On how fast of a connection? It's one thing for you web
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by avhon1 9y ago
I love edbrowse! I keep a copy handy; it's the only web browser I know of that is distributed as a single statically-linked executable. Great for getting through wifi login portals before installing packages. http://edbrowse
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by avhon1 9y ago
> need the extra screens Nowadays, you can plug several high-resolution displays in to a laptop (HDMI, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt over USB3...), and the integrated graphics will handle it just fine. Just unplug one cable to go to a meeting
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by avhon1 9y ago
You're right -- it was actually OpenArena, not Quake 3.
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by avhon1 9y ago
> What's stopping you from using the software you've listed on a more modern laptop? Nothing, of course. I just really liked the form factor of the X40, and using it was a satisfying experience. > with a newer laptop everyth

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