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by danieldk 7y ago
> 2. Switching to Emacs/Spacemacs (Emacs works best on Linux) Just to echo this: Magit (Emacs git client) alone has given me a large boost in productivity.
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by danieldk 7y ago
> I'm curious to this as well. I recently got a desktop computer to supplement my MacBook, and am now using Ubuntu as my more-or-less primary OS. I have used macOS as my primary OS from 2007 to ~2017 (before that BSD and Linux). I a
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by danieldk 7y ago
Just wanted to mention that the site does not show anything at all with 1st-party JavaScript or 3rd-party JavaScript (stripe) disabled. It would be nice if there was some plain-old HTML ;).
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by danieldk 7y ago
Indeed. We have some Python modules written in Rust. It needs Rust nightly, because pyo3 requires Rust nightly. The Rust crate relies on libtensorflow. Unit tests for the Python module use Python and pytest. And we use our own build of li
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by danieldk 7y ago
...which is caused by making batteries irreplaceable to start with. If a phone's battery is user-repleacable, the user could buy it from Apple or any other reliable manufacturer. Now they have to go to either Apple or some third-party
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by danieldk 7y ago
They can then break out from the browser, but only get to docker with that exploit, and it's unlikely they have a docker exploit too at hand, is it? If you are running Firefox on X11 (which most Linux users probably still do), you do
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by danieldk 7y ago
Unlike cars and travel it's hard to make the argument that humans depend on access to meat so making it 700% more expensive via tax would effectively shift consumption patterns with few if any downsides. The problem is that no politi
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by danieldk 7y ago
Sorry, but this is really cheap criticism that detracts from the main point. Of course, their private jets (if they have them) should be banned, sure. But this is an invisible blip on the radar compared to the climate impact of the meat ind
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by danieldk 7y ago
I use uMatrix on Linux and am continuously surprised how many blog-like websites could be plain HTML/CSS, since they just have text and images, but don't show any content at all with Javascript disabled. More and more often I&#x27
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by danieldk 7y ago
I'm centrally located in Berlin, and have an unmetered 400/12mpbs cable connection for 40Eur/m. We lived near Tübingen and internet was pretty terrible. The options were 50MBit downstream (not guaranteed) VDSL or cable inte
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by danieldk 7y ago
And in the default configuration I often hit the Siri button when wanting to press Touch ID or (sometimes) backspace. The TouchBar is nice on paper, actually adds to some applications, but the current implementation is a world of hurt.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Solving a puzzle would be much more fun than identifying street lights But that wouldn't give Google free data annotations.
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by danieldk 7y ago
This, again if it is correct, is disgusting and might easily be a huge GDPR issue despite how many cookie warnings anyone adds. Indeed, remember that warnings here a not enough to comply with the GDPR. IANAL, but GDPR requires opt-in rat
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by danieldk 7y ago
Indeed, this is surprising for many reasons: - B2B is a large part of their income, telemetry has probably damaged their reputation as a business vendor. - They have mostly failed at social media (except LinkedIn and Skype, which they have
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by danieldk 7y ago
the army aims to replace all MS Office installations by the end of the year. Seeing is believing. This has often been used as a strategy to get license discounts from Microsoft.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Since their training, workflow, and existing data/applications centers around Windows and Office and they are a comparatively big customer, it is probably easier/cheaper for them to strong arm Microsoft into compliance than moving
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by danieldk 7y ago
Like Haskell, they are not pressured into doing things just because Java does so I do not mean this as a criticism of Haskell, but Haskell has a lot of GHC-specific language extensions: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc
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by danieldk 7y ago
Legislation doesn't stop criminals. But these are incorporated entities. If proper privacy laws are/were put in place and enforced, they would have to honor DNT. This is as much a failing of these companies to respect privacy as
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by danieldk 7y ago
however the drawback to using GTK+ is that it will look out of place on other platforms other than Linux, because of the GNOME _look and feel_ it brings. It is not worse than electron in that respect ;). But some small Rust Gtk+ utility t
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by danieldk 7y ago
The problem is everything. I sometimes have discussions with people about unnecessary flights. People always point out, that there is no need to change their flying habits as long as industry is producing even more CO2. The thing is that if
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by danieldk 7y ago
Where are you? Apparently there is a surge in AC sales in The Netherlands as well. Sure, we have had a few hot days now and about a month ago, but nothing that can't be handled with a good ventilator. The remaining 355 days of the year
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by danieldk 7y ago
So we do not need to store any amount under ground, we only need enough people to make irrigating deserts profitable. In an ideal free market, perhaps, yes. In the real world, people will just move/flee from dry areas. As the global
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by danieldk 7y ago
The problem with supporting Linux, for commercial desktop software, is that it's extremely heterogeneous. Some user might be on Ubuntu, another on Redhat, another on Mandrake; all with very different details. If you are targeting bus
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by danieldk 7y ago
Anyway, with the amount of testing and verification we do on our product, desktop Linux is impractical. And yet, there are many open source projects have the scale of a file synchronization tool or larger, that manage to work fine (and ru
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by danieldk 7y ago
Resilio Sync for file sync, with a local NAS and a Hetzner VPN as read-only encrypted peers. SmugMug for sharing photos with family.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Too late. I have left Dropbox because of their stance on Linux filesystems, price bump with unnecessary features, and the continuous badgering to upgrade to Dropbox business. It's great change though for those who are still on Dropbox.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Oh, that's nice! I had capslock mapped to control, but I wanted to have escape on tap as well. But I never bothered to figure it out on Wayland. Turns out you can enable caps2esc , which is mentioned in the blog post, on NixOS with a
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by danieldk 7y ago
If you mentally decide "the Raspberry Pi is a $100 computer all-in" you will be much happier. You won't buy one to sit in a drawer (as many on HN have complained about), and you won't try to use a USB charger from your
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by danieldk 7y ago
This makes it theoretically possible to run everything via cloud, if you didn't already see that coming. Yes. But my question is why would I want this? I won't own the software anymore. The web has shown over and over again to
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by danieldk 7y ago
The the browser sandbox is just another sandbox, as we have seen with targeted attacks on Firefox two weeks back. Why is everybody so insistent on running untrusted code?

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