balladeer

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by balladeer 6y ago
My firstname.com domain gets renewed by a lawyer every year. Last 12 years. Through a local web host/domain registrar whose customers are mostly the people who where their customers two decade ago (because they were probably one of the
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by balladeer 6y ago
Could you please specify what is the dataspec support difference between MacPass and KeePassXC? As for formats they both support KDBX4. But yes, MacPass dev and releases are very slow. It's just that it has been such a functional and s
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by balladeer 6y ago
A friend, who worked at a famous mobile/Fb gaming company, once told me his company would, sometimes, assign an engineer for an individual user or just few users. High spending users.
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by balladeer 6y ago
I have used it for a while and it's not very stable or rather say "finished" yet (neither Mac nor iOS). But it's open source, so I'd favour it over, Bear, given a chance, which it resembles the most. So I just keep
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by balladeer 6y ago
From the article: > Comcast's version of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) will be turned on by default for Firefox users on Comcast's broadband network > Comcast is the first ISP to join Firefox's Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) p
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by balladeer 6y ago
> bitcoin having a stable value for a few years, any value It will still be "that" lottery. In its current form every major crypto has been "promoted" as "be the first one to get onto my crypto bandwagon and this
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by balladeer 6y ago
It only disables search engine suggestions that's half the problem solved. Now, let's say I have a bookmark for "abcd.com" and I have visited "abcd.com" a million times. So the moment I am done typing "ab&
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by balladeer 6y ago
> Black Cat, White Cat I was introduced to this region's cinema with Kusturica's Underground.
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by balladeer 6y ago
I had deleted my Facebook a/c 5 years ago. I recently needed to look for apartment for rent and that is, unfortunately, done best on Facebook where I live unless you want to involve brokers who charge insane brokerage and show places y
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by balladeer 6y ago
Can I ask why did you people bring those design changes - this one and the last instalment as well? Was there some real need, some market research behind it, or just an itch to do something? To be honest both these iterations feel like tryi
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by balladeer 6y ago
I don't know about the other one but 1Blocker is now a subscription.
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by balladeer 6y ago
Wait, don't they allow custom domains? I think this lock-in, even if it is for reinvented email, ought to be a big "no".
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by balladeer 6y ago
Compared to a MacBook Air how thin and lightweight this laptop is?
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by balladeer 6y ago
At this point I think I should just switch to Firefox. It's just that Firefox still (unfairly) lags behind in performance because it's a Mac.
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by balladeer 6y ago
Indeed. This is going to be one of the maany missed opportunities by Matrix in a series of missed opportunities. Just call it Matrix Web/Mobile/Desktop.
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by balladeer 6y ago
Were you able to get some info on how to procure tools and wood etc?
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by balladeer 6y ago
Are we there yet https://xkcd.com/927/ ?
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by balladeer 6y ago
Imho I don't see it as attacking the English language, but rather an irregularity in it.
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by balladeer 6y ago
I am yet to finish through the thread (I may not) but whatever I've seen are all comments on unintuitive and phonetically absurd spellings of many words in English language.
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by balladeer 6y ago
I have a feeling SMS/texting lingo will succeed at what others, including Benjamin Franklin, Shaw, Webster, failed at :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_language
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by balladeer 6y ago
But we didn't learn. We kept at most of it - phoenix, cough, dough etc. He even suggested sensible transformations such as ache → ake, soup → soop, tongue → tung, machine → masheen etc. All of these make phonetical sense unlike the exi
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by balladeer 6y ago
Not really. There ares some who do workshops/etc (I know some in Bangalore - Masterclass, Kaydo) but they don't really have much info online. Try talking to them. By the way if you are from there, there's IWST you might want
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by balladeer 6y ago
I may be wrong about it (because I haven't tried it enough) - Flutter feels kinda "reacty" (I think it is) and "javascriptish" to me. I was made/forced to work on react/javascript/angularjs for few mo
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by balladeer 6y ago
I've tried narwhal and few other apps, but none comes close to reddit (mobile) site when it was usable and light. I specially dislike narwhal's fixed gesture options. The app forces you to get used to something you don't want
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by balladeer 6y ago
Do the clients encrypt data before sending to the servers (clients are open source though but it's react so I wouldn't have understood anyway) - are they e2ee?
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by balladeer 6y ago
Back in 2015 I had installed and used Elementary OS - supposed to be a functional Linux distro (inspired by OSX UI 'd say). It wasn't stable at that time. Maybe it's better now.
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by balladeer 6y ago
What metrics decides the best minds and who designed those metrics? They may not be the best minds. In fact if they were maybe they would not be doing it in the first place.
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by balladeer 6y ago
If UX is the concern then Matrix/Riot may not fare very well.
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by balladeer 6y ago
For that price one can buy maybe five Android phones (with comparable or better hardware). Then install Lineage. Or maybe more than five.
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by balladeer 6y ago
It's years of fantastic painless experience and even now it's relatively good. Before using these laptops I never knew what it meant to just slam the lid, then hours or sometimes days later open it and start from where you began,

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