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boogies
6y ago
oof, Powershell users have a very different definition of “one line” then I do. In bash I'd run while true; do xdotool key Pause; sleep 240; done
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boogies
6y ago
Sending them as PDFs should solve that.
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boogies
6y ago
Samsung’s assistant
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boogies
6y ago
> not much protest has been done > surveillance is close to the bottom of the priority list... These are directly related. Surveillance causes chilling effects.
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6y ago
…or Apple Watch-like pulse tracking, etc., and then who knows if/when Neuralink becomes practically, widely deployable and useful. I think we’re just a bit beyond the technical capabilities of the Thought Police right now in terms of s
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boogies
6y ago
At least git is Free, transparent, auditable software, designed to track the work itself, not surreptitiously log each device you glance at a document on and MS only knows what else.
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boogies
6y ago
> hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section How long does simple key logging last before they add eye tracking?
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boogies
6y ago
dollar store earbuds
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boogies
6y ago
Sounds like China to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide#Compulsory_ste...
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boogies
6y ago
That was what I thought too, thanks to abdullahkhalids for linking to the askubuntu thread that shows — with the right boot flag — you actually can https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25172520
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6y ago
RepoBrowser too. Edit: but the forum has recent posts (some from today): http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/
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6y ago
I use a similar distro, Puppy, because it has the ability to copy its squashed file system (SFS) files to RAM and then continue running with the persistent storage medium detached. It has certain peculiarities like defaulting to logging in
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6y ago
I’ve taught a 3 year old his first letters with “bambam” and “gamine”. I don’t know that’s it’s as healthy as off-screen play though.
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6y ago
Addressed by the FAQ¹: > Isn't it safer just to use an adblocker? Why engage with ad-networks at all? > While AdNauseam is far safer than using no blocker at all, it is indeed marginally safer for one to simply use a strong adblo
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6y ago
Yah, it’s technically functional, but there’s an actively maintained alternative that can support such advanced features as spawning mobs (like, say, the mascot in Minecraft’s logo).
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boogies
6y ago
+1 for the best WebExtension ad blocker there is, a fork of №2 µblock Origin
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6y ago
But not updated in ~7 years since v0.1.1 https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Pi_Edition
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boogies
6y ago
Wasn’t Minecraft Pi Edition discontinued years ago? Minetest on the other hand might be a great intro to programming with its Lua script mods, and also has always been designed for modest hardware.
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6y ago
> produces less waste But do nuclear reactors really produce any waste, or only “spent” fuel that’s recyclable?
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6y ago
But GNU works better out of the box. TFA recommends Pop OS which is preinstalled on System76 devices, and comes with simple window tiling, which many devs swear by as a productivity booster.
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6y ago
Paywalled.
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6y ago
> Edit: After a short while you’ll realize that Mutt is completely pointless because most modern emails are made with HTML templates which means you’ll just see a bunch of code. Maybe there’s a plugin solution? lynx?
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6y ago
> In Atlanta, Georgia it is illegal to tie your giraffe to a streetlamp. It is not illegal, though, to import a cushion made from a freshly shot giraffe’s head with the eyelashes still attached. https://nitter.net/crimead
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Minetest¹ is one game that I think in theory could be a great creative platform for kids, it’s kind of Minecraft + Roblox — a Minecraft clone except everything besides the most basic engine functionality — even mobs — is implemented as a mo
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6y ago
> It would be a massive undertaking to shift their backlog of videos onto another service, and they'd lose all their existing subscribers and have to build it up elsewhere. Fortunately that’s not entirely true, IIUC — LBRY and BitCh
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6y ago
Most games are already full of ads for Robux microtransactions.
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LBRY and bitchute can automatically mirror a YouTube channel for free. I think Peertube might be able to as well.
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> https://github.com/numcommand/num Nice, is it just me/my browser or is http://www.numcommand.com/ down? I was hoping to see if it’s packaged for my distro.
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6y ago
The FSF didn’t choose the price, Purism did, because they’ve paid professionals to develop their software, without which the Pinephone might not have existed — all previous editions of it shipped with phosh (except Braveheart, which came wi
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6y ago
> I mean, you can't get a warning that the `[]` syntax isn't available in your old codebase's flavor of PHP (5.2) in VS Code. I think. You can get warnings when syntax isn’t available in your script’s flavor of shell in [n
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