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When I hold down the middle mouse button to scroll, change my mind, and then release the middle mouse button to move the cursor elsewhere, that results in an unwanted paste. That has happened enough times, especially in code editors, for th
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by commoner 5y ago
Fastmail offers disposable email addresses (Masked Email addresses) on its fastmail.com domain: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406536368911-Ma... Fastmail does have undisclosed limits, however:
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by commoner 5y ago
Cloudflare does have an email routing service: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/ However, disposable email addresses on a domain that you personally own can still be profiled by the domain name. Se
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You're completely right that excess added sugar (including added fructose) is well-known to be unhealthy, and that switching to non-meat foods wouldn't address this issue. But, low-meat diets aren't necessarily higher in adde
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The correct answer to the interviewer's question is to point out that the lowest cost-per-calorie foods tend to be non-meat foods such as grains and legumes. Switching from meats to healthy non-meat foods can save money in many cases.
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You can audit the PKGBUILD scripts yourself. A good AUR helper, such as paru ( https://github.com/morganamilo/paru ), will by default automatically present the PKGBUILD for the user to evaluate before proceeding with the
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by commoner 5y ago
Middle-click paste is a non-starter for anyone who uses a pointing stick (TrackPoint), since the middle mouse button is held down to scroll with the stick. Pointing stick users will usually try to disable the selection clipboard to avoid ha
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by commoner 5y ago
Touchpad gestures for Linux apps are being worked on: - Latest update (December 2021): https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_update_december... - HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29555822
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In November 2019, System76 announced that it would start designing and developing laptops in-house starting January 2020. The development process was estimated to take 2-3 years. The first generation of System76’s in-house desktop line (The
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> System76 with Pop_OS! has an opportunity to tackle topics head on like "we can make fractional scaling work somewhat decently across all apps" (IIUC currently requires shipping a forked XWayland, unfortunately) I'm excit
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Alleged Apple App Store scammer AmpMe lowers prices and blames ‘consultants’(theverge.com)
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While embedding Gecko in desktop applications is not as straightforward as embedding Chromium, Mozilla's GeckoView project makes it easier to do this on Android: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ GeckoView is t
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by commoner 5y ago
Just in case you didn't see the uodate to my original comment, I corrected it because it was wrong. The FSF has a much better analysis of the EUPL here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#EUPL-1.2
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Have you tried the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on? It works just like the profile switcher on Chrome. - Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc... - Connector (required for
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Edit: Most of my original comment is wrong, because I failed to note that the EUPL's compatibility clause allows the software to be relicensed under a weaker copyleft license (Eclipse Public License v1). The FSF explains: https:/
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AGPLv3 refers to "all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network", not "people who are interacting with someone else's running copy". If someone adapted AGPLv3 into a new license that requires all
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Section 13 of AGPLv3 lays this out: > Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your
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While I appreciate that you've released a new source-available license to the public, the OpenFare License as described in the README is not free or open source. FOSS software can be sold, but if the software license requires the user
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> He seems to reject the premise on the grounds that it's sometimes inconvenient His argument is that if you consider dual licensing to be immoral because it enables the development of proprietary software, then to be logically cons
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Richard Stallman of the FSF has a rebuttal to that opinion: > When I first heard of the practice of selling exceptions, I asked myself whether the practice is ethical. If someone buys an exception to embed a program in a larger proprieta
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> and are openly hostile to people who sell software for money That's not true. The FSF endorses selling software for money, as long as the source code for the software is made available under a free license: > Many people believ
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The license collective described in the article is just another way of selling commercial licenses in addition to offering a FOSS license to keep the software free and open source. I'm not sure why a company would ban software from lic
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How would this idea be against the spirit of open source? > As an Open Source developer, you build a new cool library or a tool and license it under AGPL. This preserves all the Free Software freedoms for all the non-commercial users out
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That's right. High-end Pixel phones (especially Pixel 1-3) have tended to depreciate quickly and become good secondhand buys after the first year. This is more valuable for LineageOS, which sometimes supports devices long after the man
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It's unfortunate for the users who want to use CalyxOS to achieve a degree of separation from Google. If you purchase Google hardware, you're still financially supporting the company to some extent. Also, while the Pixel 6 (non-Pr
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> We will also be starting to look at potentially support other devices this month - we’ve always wanted to support more and more devices, stay tuned for updates! The possibility of expanded device support is encouraging. Pixel devices h
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Here is Facebook's Law Enforcement Online Request System: https://www.facebook.com/records I can confirm first-hand that Facebook will reveal your private messages to the police when an "emergency" is declare
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Product Hunt is useful if you treat it as a software directory. It lists free and open source software (especially self-hosted B2B services) that can be hard to find elsewhere. Here's a list of the most recently submitted open source p
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"RMS" is Richard Matthew Stallman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
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NortonLifeLock (the name of what used to be Symantec's consumer security divison) acquired Avira in December 2020.[1] NortonLifeLock merged with Avast PLC in August 2021, with the combined company retaining the NortonLifeLock name.[2]

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