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by boogies 6y ago
Exactly. IMO a much better analogy would be a vegetarian being presented with a purely carnivorous meal, meat with blood to drink, not being allowed a glass of water, and saying “all I see is meat”. I may be mildly biased as a flexitarian,
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by boogies 6y ago
The author seems to agree: > There is an old finding in political science that Americans are “symbolically conservative” but “operationally liberal.” Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. In California,
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by boogies 6y ago
IIUC that also happened in the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schoo...
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by boogies 6y ago
Looks very similar to Minetest ( https://www.minetest.net/ ) (Edit: but this is nonfree and hasn’t yet been ported to GNU/Linux, while Minetest has and also works on 3 BSDs). Although Minetest does not include built in t
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by boogies 6y ago
> If you have to resort to using a gun, then that leads to huge costs and lots of dead people. Is that more true for you using a gun than it is for police using a gun?
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by boogies 6y ago
> Who … uses insert regularly? Me for Shift+Inserting my X Primary selection (eg. HN block quotes. Virtually every single time I ever try to use any non-free OS I end up highlighting something, (Control|Alt|Command)+Tabbing, Shift+Insert
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by boogies 6y ago
That’s often called “source available”. It does not meet the Open Source Definition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition ) or the guidelines that was based on ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by boogies 6y ago
Too be fair it looks like those pages are slightly above the average (mean and median) of the six sites on https://forgeperf.org/ . Speaking of which it would be nice if ddevault would add each sites homepage there, just as
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by boogies 6y ago
So true. Microsoft Encarta was never going to out-compete Wikipedia. And Windows Shell is never going to rip out bloat as ruthlessly as dwm, or lay it on as thickly as Compiz, or be as customizable as anything other than GNOME 3+.
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by boogies 6y ago
> But most of the the time it's just *bleep*.¹ In other words, Sturgeon’s revelation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law ) ¹(as my browser displays it bc https://greasyfork.org/en&#x2
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by boogies 6y ago
> EDIT: LOL, the WSB sort are here downvoting everything that doesn't parrot their embarrassing [expletive]. YEAH, TAKE DOWN THE BIG WIGS! Chillax, you’re breaking at least one of the site guidelines https://news.ycombin
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by boogies 6y ago
Isn’t the point of democracy that oligarchies lose control to the hoi polloi?
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by boogies 6y ago
Student here, I loathe it and the schools that it et al. convince ChromeOS is an acceptable substitute for real OSes. It seems more crashy than pre-1.0 Inkscape and slow as nitrogen-cooled molasses to boot.
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by boogies 6y ago
Read, my first favorite comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17613281 and I find it pretty accurate. Sometimes great comments turn grey just after posting only to bounce back up later, thanks to people taking ti
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by boogies 6y ago
Me too, and it provides a slider for the percentage to click that I kept below 100 when I used it (now I use Palemoon, which doesn’t support WebExtensions, and I use /etc/hosts).
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by boogies 6y ago
Doesn’t Google grant itself first-party status by redirecting you through an advertisement domain? µBlock definitely is the king of ad blocking extensions — only the fork AdNauseam ( https://adnauseam.io/ ) can compete, and t
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by boogies 6y ago
> companies [don’t] stop spying just becouse you paid them I think Windows (10 especially) is Exhibit A here (its “users” are definitely the product, but MS is happy to take their free money — or not, you can download it for $0 from thei
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by boogies 6y ago
> Imagine paying $1-3 per month for FB or Twitter. We'd no longer be the product You’re not the product in the Fediverse, where Pleroma says you can run a small server for ~$4/month ( https://pleroma.social/blog&
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by boogies 6y ago
+1 for linking such beautiful annals
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by boogies 6y ago
Same (except I often use shift+f in Pentadactyl or three fingers on trackpads, and middle click emulation when pressing both buttons is an option on two-button rats).
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by boogies 6y ago
> I do need polished hardware that I can walk into a store and try out Doesn’t this apply to my first two suggestions? The Dell XPS Developer Edition is the same hardware as the Windows version, just with Ubuntu preinstalled. And Dell ha
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by boogies 6y ago
Or that Rust isn’t iron oxide. I’ve edited that line to be clearer, and I’ll link definitions for all the other words ~~if someone will show me a pastebin that will hold the 583732 byte file I’ve just created for shell (xargs & dict) p
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by boogies 6y ago
What about GNU? It seems like most Windows-ₗusing devs use WSL2’s Linux VM. What advantages does that have over keeping the MS OS’s forced updates, BSODs, etc. in a VM, while keeping a free OS stably settled on bare metal? I can imagine dri
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by boogies 6y ago
Yep, WSL2 is standard enough to draw some in. Its DirectX support is a[n early baby] step in the direction of making it idiosyncratic enough to keep them locked in (we should probably expect more in the future. Right now it otherwise seems
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by boogies 6y ago
Interesting, though it seems like it might take more time to create enough examples for useful results than to just learn regex (eg. complete https://regexone.com/ ). > The quality of the solution depends on a number of f
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by boogies 6y ago
([PDF], if blocked paste your url into sci-hub.st or .se, or whatever URLs are listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub — which got them from https://nitter.dark.fail/sci_hub before https:&#x2F
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by boogies 6y ago
> it feels like this could be an easy problem to solve in the future Welcome to the future. Github has received “a DMCA” from the RIAA’s film counterpart requesting they take down another repo for tool that does not contain proprietary c
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by boogies 6y ago
> a structured setting for me to use them is provided by vimtutor. I wish people would take a couple hundred milliseconds to research things like this before posting about them — most [GNU’s Not] Unix commands take less time to run than
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by boogies 6y ago
> People are free to use whatever platforms they want 8.1 million people wanted to use Parler. Obviously to me they can get a GNU-powered phone and Parler could get ported and they’d be free to use it. >999‰ of them probably have
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by boogies 6y ago
The youtube-dl demands were from the RIAA (Recording Industry Artist’s Association). This is from the MPA (Motion Picture Association), the only one of the three major supporters of SOPA and PIPA that GitHub’s parent company (Microsoft) is

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