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by boogies 5y ago
> The transaction appeared to complete instantly. I recently made a donation from a new bank account that took ~20-30 hours to finish processing. Meanwhile Monero trasactions have the 10-15 blocks needed for irreversibility mined in ~20-
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by boogies 5y ago
> Another thing I feel would be a flaw is the inability to increase and decrease the money supply - something central banks often do with fiat money to stimulate the economy. Preventing that type of manipulation might actually be the mot
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by boogies 5y ago
> Three-finger-drag a window to the top of the screen and it's instantly maximized. Sounds like a lot of work compared to any good tiling window manager. Windows should be automatically maximized on opening, unless there are others
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by boogies 5y ago
Chromebooks don't have Fn keys.
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by boogies 5y ago
In vim gU makes the selection/motion uppercase, gu makes it lowercase and ~ toggles each of its characters' cases.
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by boogies 5y ago
> Few open source projects start nowadays with a mailing list based development process. I can't even cite one. Most of the projects on https://sr.ht/ (basically all that aren't only mirrored there from somewhe
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by boogies 5y ago
Same, maybe it's µblock Origin that fixes it? I'm using mostly stock LibreWolf with its preinstalled µBO on a MSW 10 library computer (though btw AdNauseum is a better µBO fork).
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by boogies 5y ago
Unlike current USD, but like USD before Nixon abolished the gold standard, right?
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by boogies 5y ago
Lynx¹ and NetSurf both display history in a tree, good to see browsers with "modern" engines catching up! (I think Firefox's Tree Style Tab extension was the closest alternative available before this) ¹requires configuration
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by boogies 5y ago
> CSV is a complicated format Surprisingly and unnecessarily so: > ["DSV"] is to Unix what CSV (comma-separated value) format is under Microsoft Windows and elsewhere outside the Unix world. CSV (fields separated by commas,
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by boogies 5y ago
> A perl script can't pledge() or unveil() It doesn't seem to support all of OpenBSD's privilege separation, but there are OpenBSD::Unveil(3p), OpenBSD::Pledge(3p), and https://github.com/rfarr/Unix-Pl
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by boogies 6y ago
Why not cover your camera? Some MacBooks are so delicate that Apple itself warns stickers can break them IIRC¹, but to me that’s just one more great reason never to buy a MacBook. For other cameras, if someone can look into my windows, th
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by boogies 6y ago
I think you mean lua jit shell? $ lua5.3 Lua 5.3.3 Copyright (C) 1994-2016 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > 2*3 6 $ rlwrap luajit LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Mike Pall. http://luajit.org/ JIT: ON SSE
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by boogies 6y ago
I think it’s right: https://uploads.peterme.net/nimsafe.html
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by boogies 6y ago
> Alas, microphones are not as easy to deactivate. That’s why eg. all Purism products with them have hardware kill switches (to physically disconnect them).
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by boogies 6y ago
(Offtopic) You can simplify [2]–[5] to just ¹. ¹ https://repology.org/project/pagure/versions
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by boogies 6y ago
> Preview is probably the most underrated app of all time I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen macOS users saying they can’t leave it in part because of Preview. But IDK if any have listed any features not present in both GNOME’s Evinc
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by boogies 6y ago
> Tearing? Fundamental Xorg problem. Fixed in Wayland. TFA: > Screen tearing with the intel driver. Come on. This was solved on xorg and now with Wayland it's back.
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by boogies 6y ago
Come to the Free side! We have Free card games! OpenBSD has canfield (solitaire), cribbage, [go]fish, mille [bornes], and even monop[oly] and bcd (format input as punch cards) out of the box (and way more! this is just a fraction of intro(6
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by boogies 6y ago
> the rules are so oddly specific that upon reading them I find myself smiling trying to think of the situation that caused a specific law to be made I don’t think this is unique to taxes at all, I don’t have a Twitter account or really
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by boogies 6y ago
Does this work for most people? I’d assume it was just my slightly out of date version of the weird browser Palemoon that makes it throw “SyntaxError: missing declaration after 'import' keyword” and stay blank white ( https:/
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by boogies 6y ago
even more betterer https://teddit.net/r/ISO8601/comments/mikuj1/i_bought_iso_86...
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by boogies 6y ago
Not mutually exclusive, “corpos” are a major force behind the anti-rms drama.
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by boogies 6y ago
> issue involving it and a ruby gem used by Rails I hadn’t heard of this, I assume you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26566925 ?
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by boogies 6y ago
If you `set-option mouse on`, tmux will let you use copy-mode just by clicking and dragging (intelligently within panes, negating the need to resize-pane -Z). But TBH I often do almost the same thing (but Xorg does its part of the copy-past
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by boogies 6y ago
That almost works verbatim in GNU units (TNT must be made lowercase, and natural_gas’ underscore must be removed, not including “Advanced Farting” which IIUC would require editing a definition file): http://ix.io/2UMx So fo
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by boogies 6y ago
> Apple puts rather extreme security effort into preventing iOS jailbreaks. Yes, IMO their business model is more accurately described as “gilded cages/jails” than just general “gilded/good-appearing stuff”. They deeply care ab
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by boogies 6y ago
TFA seems to: > Maybe she thought physical paper would be safer from digital surveillance than an email. So she printed the documents at her office [my emphasis] and then mailed them
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by boogies 6y ago
> The DEDA toolkit allows anyone to anonymize documents by removing the tracking dots at the software level Sounds like the tracking tech is implemented in the proprietary drivers. If only the free software movement had filled its origin
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by boogies 6y ago
(and second, third, and almost exact fourth) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26606165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26605093

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