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by basscomm 7y ago
> I certainly don't. Do you have a specific OS in mind? Windows from 1.0 - ME, for example, would let you customize the color, font, and size of just about any thing you wanted. Starting with Luna In XP and forward, you got a few ch
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by basscomm 7y ago
> Btw, Firefox is too slow. Ahh, the good ol' "Firefox is too slow for me to consider it" statement. Is there any evidence that Firefox is slower then Chrome other than old lingering memories of Firefox being slow ten year
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by basscomm 7y ago
My guess is that Google et al are all hell-bent on not telling you that your search returned zero results. They seem to go to great lengths to make sure that your results page has something on it by any means necessary, including: searchi
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by basscomm 7y ago
I don't generally bother. I like to challenge my immune system once in a while to keep it in fighting condition.
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by basscomm 7y ago
>> Thread + Ripper was a clever play on words: anything that had plenty of threads, the hardware was designed to ‘rip’ through the workload. > Tangent, but is this really a play on words? And if so, what is the other meaning here?
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by basscomm 7y ago
Sure there is, but most people don't bother for a few reasons: -Slapping some ad network's code into your site is comparatively easy, and monetizing almost every other way is hard (i.e. "I just want to create awesome content
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by basscomm 7y ago
Let me put this another way: If, during the course of doing my job, someone asks me if I like doing my job and I say, "yes", it would technically be correct to say that I was paid for saying that I like my job (since I'm bein
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by basscomm 7y ago
>>so they’re paying you to tweet that you like your job, which is tweeting about liking your job...lol yes!! you are paid to say that you like your job. it’s your job! >This is very likely false, and she is actively ignoring people
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by basscomm 7y ago
> I can see why people say twitter sucks, but really it only sucks if you're following a whole bunch of different "genres" in the same feed. the prolific tweeters like to talk about twitter in sections - "politics twi
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You Shouldn't Trust Me(wyrm.org)
2 points by basscomm 7y ago|0 comments
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by basscomm 7y ago
> Honestly, what's wrong with being well rounded in your entertainment? Absolutely nothing. However, people are weird, and everybody is wired differently. Sometimes cutting out the thing completely is the only way someone can contro
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by basscomm 7y ago
Apt isn't available for OpenBSD, but the rest of the apps you listed are: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/packages/amd64/
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by basscomm 7y ago
> for some stupid reason Chrome deletes your old history. I have no idea why it does it, but it's certainly not to save space. The pessimist in me would say that's to make you go back to Google and search for it again in the ho
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by basscomm 7y ago
> In fact, nearly 25% of web page loads in Firefox take place in a Private Browsing window. If Mozilla knows that, then Private Browsing Mode isn't as private as it could be.
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by basscomm 7y ago
> (“there’s an election soon” ads, “we’re building a new piece of civil infrastructure” ads, etc.) I actually kind of like that; I don’t have cable, so it’s not like I would see them anywhere else. I don't have cable, either, but I
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by basscomm 7y ago
> How many news subscriptions will people pay for after they sign on for the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal? There's a limit to the monthly bleed people will tolerate. How many news subscriptions did pe
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by basscomm 8y ago
His username, Ser Amantio Di Nicolao, shows up on both of those lists.
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by basscomm 8y ago
People searching 'facebook.com' on google seems like a user education problem to me. In fact, if I was Google (and I was less scrupulous), that's the kind of behavior I would encourage: train users to type destinations into G
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by basscomm 8y ago
You sure can, but you can't turn off seeing what people you follow liked (unless you use something like Tweetdeck or an app that doesn't support this 'feature'). I find that worse than retweets because a lot of people ap
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by basscomm 9y ago
Right before deleting my account, I also downloaded my data. The most illuminating thing I discovered that there were several advertisers that 'had my contact info' that I had never dealt with in any way (as far as I know), includ
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by basscomm 9y ago
> The resulting frequencies will be auctioned off to the wireless carriers for 5G data. The spectrum auction has come and gone: https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/fcc-initiatives/incentive-auct...
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by basscomm 9y ago
The only sane default is to have no nameservers configured.
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by basscomm 10y ago
I'm using Lynx, which understood that request just fine.
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by basscomm 10y ago
Up = Maximize, Down = Minimize
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The Blind Pug and the Lightning Strike(zmodem.org)
1 points by basscomm 10y ago|0 comments
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by basscomm 11y ago
I use Lynx frequently. You can, for example, press > to go to the next link in the 'same column', which cuts down the keystrokes to go to the next story to two keystrokes.