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by blindm 6y ago
I journal with Standard Notes[0]. I use it as a sort of 'exobrain' to dump random ideas, todo-lists and other tidbits. I used to use Evernote but ditched it because of privacy issues. Evernote is not encrypted and readily viewable
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System Font Stack(css-tricks.com)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
You can't beat the craveability[0] of current Mc Donald's french fries. From Wordpanda: adjective . craveability (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, a
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by blindm 6y ago
> Software used to design and manage synthetic DNA projects may also be susceptible to man in-the-browser attacks First time I heard that phrase 'man in the browser'. What does it even mean? Browsers now run in their own sandbo
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by blindm 6y ago
Interesting that the list of image upload sites is a who's-who of sites. Always looking for alternatives to Imgur which is laden with ADs and doesn't work with an AD-blocker turned on (it explicitly asks you to turn it off)
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by blindm 6y ago
> I think having a backup solution is the better choice here Any particular provider you would recommend? I've looked into backblaze but it seems a bit pricey. Also: I am aware that cloud based backup solutions have very little fail
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by blindm 6y ago
> does not necessarily mean you're actually writing out 20GB to the disk. You mean like preallocation? I think Virtualbox now does that. In the past it didn't though, it just kept writing a bunch of zeroes to the drive until it
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by blindm 6y ago
I've looked into RAID. It seems a bit complicated to use. Is it trivial to create a RAID array in Linux with zero fuss and the whole thing 'just working' with very little knowledge of the filesystem itself other than it keeps
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by blindm 6y ago
> What do you do that wears them out so fast? I forgot to mention I do a lot of heavy writes to it. It is common to see me creating a huge 20GB virtual machine disk image, using it for a few hours, then deleting it, before creating a new
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by blindm 6y ago
> Every year seems like a very short lifespan Yes but I forgot to mention I do a lot of heavy writes to it. It is common to see me creating a huge 20GB virtual machine disk image, using it for a few hours, then deleting it, before creati
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by blindm 6y ago
Also: Modern storage is plenty fast, but also not reliable for long term use. That is why I buy a new SSD every year and clone my current (worn out) SSD to the new one. I have several old SSDs that started to get unhealthy, well, according
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How to Load Fonts in a Way That Fights FOUT and Makes Lighthouse Happy(css-tricks.com)
48 points by blindm 6y ago|25 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
I think it's great. So many sites sit behind Cloudflare now and Cloudflare now uses hCaptcha, which is a big win. And the hCaptchas themselves are easy to complete. No more wondering if you actually clicked on 'all' the traff
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How to Set Up and Use a Browser Sandbox on Windows(helpdeskgeek.com)
2 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
With (popular) messaging apps now subject to draconian measures to introduce a backdoor, I am now skeptical of these messenger apps, since all an intel agency has to do is push a backdoored binary down the wire to a device, and the user is
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RaiDrive – Play, edit and copy files with favorite desktop applications(raidrive.com)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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Tusky – Mastodon Client for Android(tusky.app)
3 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
Le Roux is a case for the most interesting man in the world, a bit like your man McAfee. They have stories to tell the grand-kids that's for sure.
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Sengi – A FLOSS multi-account Mastodon and Pleroma desktop client(nicolasconstant.github.io)
52 points by blindm 6y ago|11 comments
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The Endless Knot YouTube Series(alliterative.net)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
We're numb because people prioritize love over fear. It doesn't mean people don't believe in covid, but rather co-exist with it, just as people co-exist with all the other madness that happens in the world.
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K with Diagonal Stroke(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
I see a few people asking how you blend in among the crowd. My strategy is to use a common device like an iPhone 5 using the Safari browser, and for the connection I use a 4G connection that I seem to be sharing with loads of other subscrib
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by blindm 6y ago
I don't get his analogy of 'sleight of hand'. If anything, sleight of hand is fooling yourself into thinking you are rich, when in all probability you are not, whatever 'rich' may mean to you, because it's no
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WindowsHacks – Doing More with Windows(windowshacks.net)
3 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
> If you don’t back up your stuff all bets are off Yes I always plan ahead incase the OS becomes corrupted. I just assume that an OS will fail at some stage, and I have prepared so many times setting up a new OS from scratch I could near
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Drumbit – Online Drum Machine(drumbit.app)
165 points by blindm 6y ago|37 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
Relevant: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
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Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing(keyt.com)
233 points by blindm 6y ago|250 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
All OSes are chatty in some way or another. It's a small price to pay for having your system 'just work' without going down the Arch Linux road and having ultra control over every component of the OS. Even Ubuntu constantly p

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