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by boogies 6y ago
Are you implying that one company can't fund more than one project?
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by boogies 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
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by boogies 6y ago
> these provide a helpful service to people To the people that run marketing and political campaigns, and utility companies. Over 95% of all mail is not personal correspondence. ~50% is advertisements. The UPS price probably reflects the
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by boogies 6y ago
YouTube is made by a browser maker, ie. it has a motive to make non-Chrome browsers look worse. Eg. when chromium-based Edge came out, YT served it an old version of itself for no apparent reason.
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by boogies 6y ago
There are automatic battery-operated (probably infrared?) dispensers posted in public places in my area. The whole thing is smaller than a tissue box, so the logistics are probably a lot simpler than they would be with dispensers the height
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by boogies 6y ago
I'm not trying to say that the communication platform is the most important factor, but I don't see how it hurts to pose a question about it.
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by boogies 6y ago
This isn't the first time VPNs with those claims have turned out to have them, they've been used as court evidence IIRC. Edit: https://proprivacy.com/privacy-news/no-logs-ipvanish-hands-l...
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by boogies 6y ago
Interesting to hear they “got access to the Twitter credentials when [they] found a way into Twitter’s internal Slack messaging channel and saw them posted there”. I wonder if using a free-as-in-freedom alternative like Zulip (on the front
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by boogies 6y ago
> Have you tried searching for recipes? DuckDuckGo's Yummly-powered instant answers work fine (one click, no scrolling to ingredients, although there seem to be affiliate links to them involved).
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by boogies 6y ago
YouTube once stopped working for me while I was logged in, for a month or two (it might have been because I was using AdNauseum, but I think it was just a problem with whitelisting YouTube's cookies and javascript, the problem went awa
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by boogies 6y ago
The companies seem to be claiming that their products work fine in other places and blaming their customers for the places where they fail. > The consulting company defended its performance at the time, saying it was continuing to improv
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by boogies 6y ago
As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23865244 mentioned, the link should be able to point to anything, including a specific commit in version control.
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by boogies 6y ago
It was the same for me the first time I tried, but the "View on GitHub" link at the bottom still worked (and now the main page works too).
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by boogies 6y ago
That seems to work for all GTK+ spinboxes. I wish math input was built into GTK+ and worked for them all too.
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by boogies 6y ago
> controversy about the faster water Thanks for helping me make my point ;) : change in highly competitive sports is often viewed as a bad thing
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by boogies 6y ago
That would be great if people could admit that the kernel isn't the operating system.
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by boogies 6y ago
At this point "music on machines" is a whole tiny world on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDwMh0pu1iSXeKx7qmqjIQA/pla...
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by boogies 6y ago
By basic I meant the sort of things I as not a fan of soccer would have heard of, like the basic rule that player's generally shouldn't touch the ball with their hands. And I (who don't really follow sports in general) would
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by boogies 6y ago
TBH I think I almost never look at the line numbers in vi, but the alternative isn't always holding/mashing j. I occasionally use a count (5j to move 5 lines down, especially good for moving ~4 lines at a time), sometimes use C-u&
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by boogies 6y ago
I map held Caps to Super (so I can switch windows and use other higher-than-application-level shortcuts without leaving the home row in dwm), but yes, definitely don't limit yourself to one use for your keyboard's most convenient
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by boogies 6y ago
> They need to evolve in some capacity to remain interesting. The meta or something has to evolve, but not the rules. The basic rules of soccer, etc. don't evolve. And video games are in some respect a form of art, so any judgement
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by boogies 6y ago
> Bad idea Why? The source code forms the authoritative rules of the game, and the Four Freedoms¹ apply to those in all Olympic sports, right? 1: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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by boogies 6y ago
> At what point did we stop taking people's word and commitment as valid? At the point that they where caught violating privacy while claiming to respect it, and standing to make a profit off of violating it. If I trusted people as
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by boogies 6y ago
Some people use trackballs or pads with their thumbs, or trackpoints.
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by boogies 6y ago
I've been loving vis¹, a hybrid between traditional vi and sam², a text editor Rob Pike designed from close to scratch. (Edit) I learned vim a little bit over a year ago, switched to neovim soon after, tried kakuone for a few days and
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by boogies 6y ago
I believe there's a "broad scientific consensus" that the climate isn't staying exactly the same and human's effect on it is existent, but could someone please cite a source claiming there's "broad scienti
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by boogies 6y ago
I don't think any of them do, but more relevant to security none of them has auditable source code. Jitsi Meet (the easiest to use out of the services I've tried, namely Zoom and Google Meet) has experimental E2EE. But if you want
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by boogies 6y ago
There's a difference between a couple of honest mistakes and a history of shadiness (MacOS hidden server to prevent uninstallation), outright lies (E2EE), and attacking the pillars of democracy (censoring Chinese Americans discussing T
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by boogies 6y ago
Yeah, something like BigBlueButton might be better for big business meetings. (it's built for them and education, and claims to support 150+ participants). Participant limits in Jitsi Meet are a bit confusing. There's a lot of var
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by boogies 6y ago
Jitsi Meet's not a viable competitor? It's simpler to set up (accounts and password protection are optional), IMO easier to use (eg. the hand button is on the bottom bar with mute, etc. and not in a menu labeled "Participants

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