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by boogies 5y ago
You can't know how many times your browser's let malware through, there's practically no supply chain security, no reproducible builds, no way to know what code has been executed. I don't need anyone's approval to r
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by boogies 5y ago
> It makes the earbuds smaller. How can we verify that’s anything more than an urban legend? The same sort of rationalizations were made for the removal of the headphone jack, and they were proven false (the iPhone 7 had such a big empty
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by boogies 5y ago
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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by boogies 5y ago
Both of my computers (laptop and pinephone) get their native applications through secure, vetted channels that have practically never let malware through (their distro’s package repos).
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by boogies 5y ago
It seems weirldly like the Minecraft devs tried Minetest and kinda randomly picked a couple of features to copy. The article describes how the new worldgen’s verticality and caves are reminiscent of Minetest, but inventory clutter is also v
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by boogies 5y ago
“Viral” is a term with a fairly pejorative emotional connotation and is not a very accurate way of describing copyleft. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_license#Criticism_of_t...
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by boogies 5y ago
Aye, growing up in a church that teaches teetotalism I heard people say that ① wine was less alcoholic back then becaue you had to ferment by leaving things out to gather yeast from the air and not from industrially produced active dry yeas
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by boogies 5y ago
Don’t most other Christians (Trinitarians) believe Jesus is the God of the Old Testament, just also the (only) God, period? (Also HN seems to have a fairly high tolerance for pedantry, so I hope nobody gets angry if I interject for a moment
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by boogies 5y ago
Fair enough, I’ve edited my comment (I haven’t used Brave besides ~2 hours of trial months ago — I won’t use any Chromium browser more than that when I can help it — but that’s no excuse to leave misinformation up). Still, those promotions
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by boogies 5y ago
I just installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... to automatically fix them, and I manually s/twitter.com/nitter.*/ on non-FF browsers.
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by boogies 5y ago
> Business model wise, Brave is same thing as Google just at a smaller scale > if Brave "wins" […] Still ads everywhere, just Brave gets to pick them No, Google’s business model is gathering humanity’s largest hoard of data
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by boogies 5y ago
> blame the law (DMCA), not those forced to abide by the law (Github) What about those abusing [a misrepresentation of] the law (the RIAA) and the members who pay their dues (Microsoft)?
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by boogies 5y ago
That sounds dangerous. Rewrite it in Rust to make it memory safe, blazing fast, configurable, and minimal with only 1092 dependencies. https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs
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by boogies 5y ago
You can get your account removed by emailing the Contact address at the bottom of this page.
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by boogies 5y ago
> Yet you emigrated (at some point) to the Netherlands, unless born there > which is even more crowded than the UK at least for now (0.37% growth vs. 0.48).
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by boogies 5y ago
How powerful and effective could that be without launching the lighter vehicle backwards with dangerous force?
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by boogies 5y ago
If you leave macOS you can get much better frontends for WebKit, from the simple, rather Safari-like GNOME Web (AKA Epiphany) to the powerful Pentadactyl-like luakit.
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by boogies 5y ago
Because you can already `shuf -n 1 /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx` (or mnames for male ones) or `vis-menu /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx >> momlikednames.list`, and `cat {mom,dad}likednames.list | sort |
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by boogies 5y ago
I’m on GNU with X11, and my Caps Lock key is already mapped to Escape when tapped and Super when held, so I don’t have space for another Control unless I make holding Tab, Enter, \ or something be it.
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by boogies 5y ago
Luakit, Pentadactyl, and I think nyxt (the only one I haven’t tried) all offer everything you describe, except that their IRC channels are pretty sleepy, some of luakit’s configuration requires you to edit ~/.config/luakit/rc
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by boogies 5y ago
Discord. https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs#getting-help
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by boogies 5y ago
Probably best to learn Emacs first, because as a lazy vi user trying to learn Emacs I've really struggled. I've given up on the Emacs tutorial multiple times, it hurts my fingers and I really only want to use Emacs with evil-mode,
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by boogies 5y ago
> qb, where keyboard gets first class in the application No need to contribute to the Chromium monopoly, luakit (what this comment’s sent from) and some other browsers (off the top of my head: nyxt and, to varying extents, Palemoon, lynx
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by boogies 5y ago
There was/is Unix talk(1).
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by boogies 5y ago
> You could actually search your history and carry it with you over the eons. It was lightweight, fairly unobtrusive and ad-free. All of that is still true of the chat protocol that came before and still exists, IRC.
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by boogies 5y ago
At least as of 2 years ago, you could go to chrome://extensions, click a "Dev Mode' toggle in the top right, and sideload a downloaded crx (I know from installing https://adnauseam.io/ every time I had t
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by boogies 5y ago
Perhaps the fumes made her too drunk to leave? Is that possible?
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by boogies 5y ago
I like 3× speed with subs and librubberband (automagically speeding faster through silence and slowing down on fast speech, automatically activated by mpv's librubberband-helper plugin). After reading the lies and cover-ups the NIAAA,
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by boogies 5y ago
> Robert Lustig videos on Youtube are a great way to start learning about this. Or off YT: https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/feioCyaQEZ1ogHK1oNJM4K > Thus, the people taking fiber out of and putting sugar into every
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by boogies 5y ago
> Remember, you made this comment on server that was provided to you for free without the need of ad support. HN has ads, just sneaky ones that blend in with user-submitted links on the front page ($YCStartup is Hiring, Launch HNs. But o

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