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by boogies 6y ago
GIMP does theoretically have indirect access to administrative staff from the FSF through GNU, I think?
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by boogies 6y ago
TFA lists improvements to graphics tablet support, HiDPI support, and — in the title itself — switching to a more maintained UI toolkit.
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by boogies 6y ago
> I don’t feel like stoic concepts and theism have to operate independently. I’d imagine that stoicism lines up rather well a deistic view, though I am far from an expert on either. Same. You might be interested in this podcast about sto
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by boogies 6y ago
Not every sort-of-Vim implementation (ofc). I use vis¹, which has the classic cw, but the consistent Y. And I prefer it the vis way. cw is a binding I use often, and more pleasant to type than ce. yy I also use fairly frequently, but Y is
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by boogies 6y ago
I'd guess just because cw is much easier/faster to type (because c and e are pressed with the same finger) on a QWERTY keyboard.
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by boogies 6y ago
> and/or mic How well would tape work on that?
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by boogies 6y ago
> in vim I generally accidentally activate a command I don't understand and get broken out of flow while I figure out wtf just happened This doesn't happen to me very often anymore but when it does I’m grateful for multiple und
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by boogies 6y ago
Same except s/connected to the internet/connected to the internet via tivoised software/. I think a car one connected by https://github.com/commaai/openpilot might be cool.
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by boogies 6y ago
> I've always heard about this possibility but I wonder how one would rewrite code, should the need arise. Wouldn't it be hard to do without effectively making a derivative work? This is an issue GNU has faced, they recommend o
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by boogies 6y ago
ZQ? Works in vis.
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by boogies 6y ago
Palemoon was last updated ~2,280 times more recently than IE6, and UXP is a Free and open platform used by more than one browser.
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by boogies 6y ago
What isn’t “politically sensitive”? If you create a git repo, the first branch’s name is a controversial political issue. “Everything’s political” ~ What’s-his-face the communist in Fiddler on the Roof after introducing “Will you marry me
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by boogies 6y ago
Yes. That’s why voter anonymity is so important, for example.
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by boogies 6y ago
Right, I don’t want to take the accounts’ karma (certainly not more than they’ve gained from the submissions), I just want to lower the prominence of the links funneling traffic to the unethical and deceptive post.
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by boogies 6y ago
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. — https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I wish I
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by boogies 6y ago
> Unpopular opinion: what turned Microsoft into what it is today was not Windows at all. It was Office, and specifically Excel. > It is the best of breed on the category by far. But would it have been if MS hadn’t controlled the play
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by boogies 6y ago
I was a Nintendo fanboy during the Iwata era. IIRC he owned a majority of their stock, so pleasing investors meant pleasing him. And that seemed to involve very cautiously dipping their toes in micro-transactions (eg. Rusty’s Real Deal Base
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by boogies 6y ago
> Until Wayland has all these (and more) and they are as stable and feature-rich as the existing apps on X, I will not willingly switch to Wayland. For me it’s some of those, dwm, sxhkd, keynav, xcape, the Compose key, and simple highli
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by boogies 6y ago
If you think Gitlab’s a Github clone you must not have seen Gitea.
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by boogies 6y ago
> I think git in general should copy the approach of Fossil and include issue management and wikis along with the repo, to keep things consistent and avoid vendor lock-in. It does include git send-mail, and I think Sourcehut’s use of tha
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by boogies 6y ago
To me the most interesting (and new to me) part is §Cease and Desist Notices: > Following our initial coverage, we learned that the pressure against YouTube-DL had already started weeks earlier in Germany. Law firm Rasch, which works wit
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by boogies 6y ago
> It's interesting that the same company can produce both Teams, being pretty bad, and VS Code, being very good. The former it develops by itself, the latter has a codebase others are Free to contribute to (as long as they don’t agr
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by boogies 6y ago
To some extent, I suppose so. On the other hand, if you prize data collection or centralization, you must make some trade offs, including increasing some friction, as well. The less you seek to control your users, the better their experienc
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by boogies 6y ago
The Bible as a source of religious power is a great analogy. John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Johannes Gutenberg, and others in some cases risked and lost their lives and their freedom (Wycliffe was confined in Black Hall and his body was ex
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by boogies 6y ago
Sounds like you’d prefer Python.
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by boogies 6y ago
I wouldn’t call it enormous — Python can be used as an interactive shell (there’s even a toy “operating system” that uses it as the only text shell), and traditional shells can write (simpler) versions of software that’s normally made in Py
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by boogies 6y ago
> feels a lot more like programming When I want to program a script, I can use a scripting programming language like Python with its object oriented nature. When I want to interactively command my computer I can use a shell like bash or
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The Right to Read (1997)(gnu.org)
379 points by boogies 6y ago|100 comments
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by boogies 6y ago
Not everyone considers porn a reward, and not everyone who’s curious about it is guaranteed not to regret it later.
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by boogies 6y ago
But ~anyone can host it. Re: your edits, yes, DMCA reform is also important, and quite arguably more so. But decentralizing from GitHub would still slow takedowns down, and have other benefits.

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