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by branon 6y ago
Ghostery is the one which reports your browsing history to advertisers (by default/opt-out), and also shows advertisements of its own. Not recommended over uBO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
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by branon 6y ago
I saw "Old New Thing" and immediately wondered if this was Chen. Seen his blogs on HN before, didn't know there was a book!!
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by branon 6y ago
Shipping information for Pine64 products is generally available at https://www.pine64.org/shipping/ Shipping schedules for Pinebook Pro and Pinephone do fluctuate since they are produced and shipped in batches.
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by branon 6y ago
Posted on Medium... Brave (or at least the idea of it) seems to satisfy the author's requirements around ads. Then again, so does an ad blocker.
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by branon 6y ago
not if there's any sense left in the world
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by branon 6y ago
Plug for Void, the community recently added support[0] for the Pinebook Pro, so it's been my daily driver for a few months now. [0] https://github.com/void-linux/void-mklive/issues/105
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by branon 7y ago
Is it just me, or does this source seem very unreliable?
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by branon 7y ago
I use FastHub[0] (also the fork called FastHub-Libre[1]) and don't intend to switch away anytime soon. Is Microsoft's new app for GitHub free software, or even open-source software? If not, this is laughably ironic. [0] https:&#x
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by branon 7y ago
> Connect Shieldfy with your presonal or organization github account. presonal -> personal https://shieldfy.io/how-it-works/ The page title is also not properly capitalized. Good luck!
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by branon 7y ago
This is pretty insane. Ostensibly this is even rarer than other Sony oddities such as as the Net Yaroze[0] or the Japanese PSX[1]. I wonder if it truly is the last Nintendo/Sony "PlayStation" in existence. [0] https:/&#
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by branon 7y ago
UT2004 has a Linux port, I believe developed by Icculus[0] but it's pretty long in the tooth. Requires libc5, an old version of SDL, and OSS for sound. Regardless, it'll still run on modern systems if you acquire old libc binaries
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by branon 7y ago
NetBSD 9.0 supporting aarch64 is nice, I believe there's support inbound for the Pinebook Pro[0] as well. [0] https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8659
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by branon 7y ago
The linked article teases the claim[0] that 100 million people perished due to the Plague of Justinian, while Wikipedia[1] places the highest estimate[2] at 50 million. [0] "Estimates believe 100 million people died during this time wh
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by branon 7y ago
That's the gift that keeps on giving, the whole year!
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by branon 7y ago
I've got nginx running and acting as a reverse proxy[0]. I've found it's an easy way to manage TLS certificates, and using a memorable subdomain is a bonus for my users as well. The Jellyfin server is configured so no user ti
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by branon 7y ago
I speak mainly in regards to their closed-source, proprietary nature. I used Plex briefly some years ago, but became dissatisfied with nag screens, paywalls, and the inability to conduct user authentication on my own terms. Usage of a Plex
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by branon 7y ago
I've been using Jellyfin for about six months and have been overjoyed with it. Amazing alternative to the nasty proprietary apps like Plex and Emby. Previously, I was pointing Kodi at an SFTP server which worked fine, similar to the gu
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by branon 7y ago
Interesting article, shame it happens to be on a site where undismissable hovering banners on the top and bottom of the screen gobble up 30% of real estate.
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by branon 7y ago
what is a VC? > Canceling sneaky charges is one of the most predictable but consequential developments of the 2020s. this is pretty cool.
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by branon 7y ago
The distribution of the proprietary Steam client you can install on GNU/Linux systems ships a 32-bit Ubuntu runtime, I believe based on 12.04.
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by branon 7y ago
I like it. Imgur used to be fine but is now terrible. Specifically the nasty things they do to mobile browsers. I now host my own images, but I will share this link with my friends who can't/won't selfhost images.
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by branon 7y ago
I have not tried recently. The new support articles I've uncovered seem to suggest that the situation has vastly improved. I'm still salty though, and I've put too much work into my Python script to really be concerned about
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by branon 7y ago
That's link [3] in my comment. That appears to be the new CUPS capabilities that Google has added to ChromeOS. Excited to try it out.
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by branon 7y ago
There was a discussion about this yesterday, I've got a pretty long rant posted on the other thread[0] that participants here might want to read [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598815 Edit: apparently pointi
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by branon 7y ago
I'm confused on what the replacement is. Historically, ChromeOS hasn't been able to print at all unless using Google Cloud Print in some form. To my knowledge there are two existing forms: * a Google Cloud Print-ready printer, or
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by branon 7y ago
Thank you
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by branon 7y ago
I'm really looking forward to getting one of these when the non-Brave Heart editions ship later next year. Planning to run Leste[0] on mine. [0] https://maemo-leste.github.io/
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by branon 7y ago
I resisted this change (in Firefox) because I thought it was horribly unintuitive. Oh, how backwards I had gotten it. Alt+Left arrow makes _loads_ more sense than "Backspace, but conditionally, only when not engaged in a text entry fie
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by branon 7y ago
I remember this. It was terrible. There was a (bug|user error) I experienced during this time which prevented me from changing the default search engine. It was _terrible_.
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by branon 7y ago
I realize this is probably not the point of the preceding two comments, but does nobody here use an ad blocker? uBlock Origin is great, or NewPipe for YouTube specifically.

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