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by basscomm 4y ago
Throwing them in the trash is wasteful. Books are largely recyclable
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by basscomm 4y ago
Just because you're buying an unencumbered MP3 or flac file doesn't mean you're free to do whatever you want with it. You're still licensed for just you and you can't make copies to send to all your friends (how enf
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by basscomm 4y ago
> If content creator want people to buy their content, then they should sell it. They are selling it. Just because they're not selling in precisely the way you want them to, that does not mean that you're entitled to the conten
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by basscomm 4y ago
Depending on how pedantic you want to get, my most-used self-hosted application is SSH followed closely by nginx and gophernicus. To give an answer more in line with what the post author appears to want, I've been playing around with P
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by basscomm 5y ago
A lot of this is addressed in Amusing Ourselves to Death (which I can highly recommend), but to address some specific points > it's reporting on facts, checking sources Right, but which facts? Local restaurant inspections is probabl
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The old internet isn't coming back(wyrm.org)
1 points by basscomm 5y ago|2 comments
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by basscomm 5y ago
This is good advice if you're technically savvy enough to be able to set up and maintain a website. If you're in the tech bubble long enough, though, it's easy to forget that most people aren't and don't want to be.
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by basscomm 5y ago
To me this is coming at the issue from the wrong angle. Sure, mathematics classes in elementary through high school have the veneer of teaching mathematics, but they also teach logical thinking and problem solving. Identifying a problem (in
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by basscomm 5y ago
A lot of people have 'real jobs' that provide them with the means to eat, have shelter, etc. Those same people may have hobbies that they do on their own time for any number of reasons other than making money to live, and may, in
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by basscomm 5y ago
> There is one plan which they've never considered and probably never will: something like Twitch, where you can pay for the "content creators" you like. Twitter rolled out Super Follows[1] and Twitter Blue[2] a few months
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by basscomm 5y ago
There are other ways to make money producing content besides advertisements
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by basscomm 6y ago
You never had to enter a real email address (or anything that looked like an email address) on any anonymous FTP server I've ever used. You could usually leave it blank, but if a server really wanted me to enter something and I didn&
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by basscomm 6y ago
> We already hide 99.9999% of things that provide the user with information. Thank god, because the real maxim should be don't overload the user with information > We try to show only the things that show the most useful informat
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by basscomm 6y ago
Floppy disks are still in use for a lot of legacy systems that can't be easily upgraded or replaced for a variety of reasons (mostly it's some combination of they still work for their intended purpose and/or the manufacturer
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by basscomm 6y ago
I suspect that the argument of "You should violate your personal principles because I want you to (just this once for me, and then you can go back to not violating them)" coming from an anonymous account on an internet message boa
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by basscomm 6y ago
In my experience, this is super common. Lots of average computer users send video clips, uncompressed 48 megapixel photos from their cell phones, PowerPoint presentations with embedded videos and 48 megapixel images, pdfs, and on and on. At
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by basscomm 6y ago
>How do you have everything going for you and still lose? Complacency
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by basscomm 6y ago
XML with some HTML sprinkled in
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by basscomm 6y ago
> But people don't use xml as a markup language; I do. I use it to build a simple website (well, 'simple' being relative, I guess), and for that it works fairly well.
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by basscomm 6y ago
Chrome 80 supports this: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096
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by basscomm 6y ago
When you first open nano, it tells you at the bottom of the screen that you can press "Ctrl+G" for help. The second paragraph of the help text explains the '^' notation, and the help further explains that you could have
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by basscomm 6y ago
> And so heavily truncated, spoiling the point in many (but not all) cases of having an RSS feed entirely. I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, as a reader it's convenient to have the full text and images of the articles&#
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by basscomm 6y ago
> If TV was able to cater ads to individual viewers then ad breaks would be a lot shorter. Personalized ads is one of the 'features' of ATSC 3.0 whenever that finally rolls out: https://www.techhive.com/article&
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by basscomm 6y ago
> a mode of transportation that doesn't leave you sweaty or needing time to recover. Around here (in the Ohio River Valley), the temperature in the summertime routinely gets to at least 90° and the humidity never really drops below
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by basscomm 6y ago
Young programmers do not have the option of learning COBOL. The university I went to still offers COBOL classes.
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by basscomm 6y ago
> https://startupname.website The best one I got was automaticgorilla.com. I don't know much about automation or gorillas, but I'm pretty sure that the intersection is an unfilled niche.
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by basscomm 7y ago
> The weird thing about this is that the only company I've seen doing problematic user-agent handling in recent years is Google themselves. I frequently consume web articles with a combination of newsboat + Lynx, and it's astou
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by basscomm 7y ago
>The reason I've kept it is because I use Facebook Messenger to talk to some people, and because a lot of events use Facebook. The events thing I can see because Facebook has become the de facto way to organize events and has become
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by basscomm 7y ago
>I’ve talked to a lot of folks in the past few weeks who aren’t laughing at all over what might be an overreaction. It's a no-win situation for a lot of people with a certain mindset. If we take extreme measures and the infection is
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by basscomm 7y ago
> Maybe a nitpick but i doubt dhcp is going to hive you a local dns server Nearly every consumer-grade router on the market hands out IP configurations where said router is configured as a DNS server (the router then usually is configure

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