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by boogies 6y ago
> legitimate criticism isn't racist and no one says it is Free speech means freedom to express “illegitimate” views, “the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral
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by boogies 6y ago
> When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can’t be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism
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by boogies 6y ago
My OpenBSD server came with the ancestor of The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play ™®ʲᵏ¹ preinstalled . Been using GNU ever since I replaced Windows ME and 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet with Slacko Puppy Linux and Xsoldier , and f
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by boogies 6y ago
Isn’t that what Filecoin is?
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by boogies 6y ago
OpenBSD has a help command that’s basically just an alias for man, except without arguments it opens the manpage for help(1)¹. GNU help is a bash builtin for help with bash builtins, but does redirect to more general help. GNU bash, ver
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by boogies 6y ago
> this is not going to be 2h fix In fact it’s already been 20 hours since the tweet was posted. I think the Twitter UI makes that clear enough, although reading the full thread is probably easier on Nitter https://nitter.cc&#x
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by boogies 6y ago
X11 is mostly finished. There’s still active development ongoing for eg. the hardened version of Xorg Xenocara (by OpenBSD, also used by Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre), and the suckless mobile UI sxmo (last commit 18 hours ago https:&#x2F
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by boogies 6y ago
Not a new idea, see eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24599397
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by boogies 6y ago
The XPS line in particular has had Developer Editions with pre-installed Ubuntu, and IIUC significant effort by Dell to provide good Linux drivers, for years.
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by boogies 6y ago
Not for me. Probably `prefers-color-scheme` CSS detecting your OS/browser settings ?
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by boogies 6y ago
Why not use a Windows VM on GNU/Linux to have both OSes around usually, and one even when Windows is BSODing or Blue Screen of Forced Update-ing (yes I know you can procrastinate those for various amounts of time with various hidden se
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by boogies 6y ago
IMO the strongest plausible interpretation of what the comment you’re replying to said would include the Linux Foundation clearly communicating the new practice beforehand.
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by boogies 6y ago
WebExtension support is ‘on their roadmap’ (thanks dang for the discussion and so much else): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972374
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by boogies 6y ago
> Like yesterday I had to upload a file and the interface only supported drag and drop, and I took it personally that I had to use a mouse. keynav to the rescue! (As I’ve said before it’s no replacement for proper vi bindings like Vimium
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by boogies 6y ago
> This article fails to explain -why- one would want to switch to emacs from vim. In other words it does one thing, hopefully well. The philosophy behind the original vi, and IIRC originally vim too — didn’t it previously have an explic
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by boogies 6y ago
> Also none of your kid's friends will know or want to play it Kids I know have enjoyed it. > the game looks and feels like something from Aliexpress https://media1.tenor.com/images/883860f55cb3da5a24413c972d
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by boogies 6y ago
> The forums were great but there's an inevitable time lag between posting and getting a response. FWIW the core devs and many others are present on the #nim channel on Freenode with bridges to Discord, Gitter, and (non-Gitter) Matr
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by boogies 6y ago
My n00buntu derivative has some emojis and other logograms out of the box, eg. lines 326–337 of /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose: <Multi_key> <C> <C> <C> <P>
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by boogies 6y ago
> Should my child learn Minecraft or Roblox? No, they should learn Minetest¹, which is more limitless than Minecraft and more accessibly scriptable than Roblox, with an infinite world in all dimensions and basic modeling² and coding³ too
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by boogies 6y ago
https://github.com/eihli/image-table-ocr seems to automatically find tables within larger images, IDK if it works without borders though.
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by boogies 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 This site best viewed in Lynx or otherwise without JavaScript.
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by boogies 6y ago
Have you heard of Julian Assange’s surfraw? $ alias d='sr duckduckgo -text -ducky' $ d '!man surfraw' [www-browser opens http://manpages.org/surfraw] […] DESCRIPTION Surfraw provides a fas
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by boogies 6y ago
It always annoys me to lazily type the short “ddg.gg” in and wait for it redirect first to duckduckgo.com, then to https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ , but once it’s bookmarked it’s easier to use than SearX.
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by boogies 6y ago
I agree. Fortunately, to move off Bing doesn’t have to be a sudden flip of a binary switch. > DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDu
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by boogies 6y ago
These are great, and I’m glad to be able to use them without direct contact with “Big Tech” and the tracking bloat that entails, but as I understand it DuckDuckGo is more or less a glorified — albeit relatively glorious and pleasant — proxy
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by boogies 6y ago
As others have mentioned, they run ads — based on the search query of the page they appear on. They also (not unlike Brave) participate in affiliate programs. They get referral commissions when they funnel people to Amazon or eBay, whether
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by boogies 6y ago
> I'm actually excited about the idea of a search engine that I pay for. Right now you can pay to host an instance of the internet meta-search engine SearX: https://searx.github.io/searx/
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by boogies 6y ago
And a shorter update thread: https://nitter.dark.fail/i/status/1366522131811627009
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by boogies 6y ago
> You kind of just described Linux, Unix, modern Web dev, iOS dev, Android dev etc. More devs seem to have this opinion of Microsoft technologies though. Their desktop OS is the most dreaded as a platform, and the most dreaded of any OS
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by boogies 6y ago
> I do not want to have the information of "which characters are special only when escaped in base grep" in my brain Tangential but relevant to the Edit thread today were vis was mentioned, “No more {very-,}{no,}magic modes w

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