darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
People are not less deserving of stable software or good UX by virtue of being highly specialized and highly trained. These users, as much as anybody, have every right to be upset when their software experience is degraded, so I reject
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Except it's actually still a crime to do that" So is smoking dope in California. Nobody is getting arrested for threatening ISIS.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The offending line: > "Calls for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy)….”" Regardless of whether or not the "Dangerous
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Because it's trash UX to ask users to find and modify their userchrome.css when they should be able to simply install the extension and have it work.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Not wanting my workflow broken and replaced with inferior software is "elitist"? I don't think so. I hope your attitude isn't prevalent inside of Mozilla. You can say that breaking existing extensions isn't ne
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by darkpuma 7y ago
When I was a kid, some of my friends would whine whenever their parents took away their gameboy. But I didn't have a gameboy, so I never had the opportunity to whine about it being taken.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Seems like this could be bad news for Roku, since I believe the big draw for them was having both platforms.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I think you're really exaggerating the severity of what is fundamentally just a minor matter of personal taste. (I say this as somebody who's written a GUI wrapper around rsync to, among other things, implement my own progress bar
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by darkpuma 7y ago
pandoc+emacs. I also use the read-aloud package, which all together makes the best ereader+TTS experience. (However I run the TTS over the lan on a mac, because FOSS text-to-speech is awful.)
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Definitely; tldr returns 0 on success, 1 on failure. tldr_or_man() { tldr $1 || man $1 }
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Unfortunately any built-in adblocker is totally unacceptable to me (unless Mozilla has hired gorhill!)
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In my experience the coverage is shockingly good. And if you find a case where there is no tldr, you're back where you're started having lost not more than five seconds. The failure case is graceful, so it was easy to put tldr
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't like the --no-h change they made to the --progress format (mentioned in another comment) because it broke my parsing once, but otherwise I don't really see a problem with it and I expect most people have never tried to par
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by darkpuma 7y ago
fyi, combining something like `--out-format="file: %f %l"` with `--progress` results in reasonably parse-able progress updates. Keep in mind however that the format of --progress has changed in the past. Depending on your ve
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I'm a big fan of this. Probably 90% of the time the tldr summary has my use-case covered.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Adding pv to a tar|ssh pipeline is simpler than just passing -P to rsync? I must disagree.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's a hard problem to solve. An audio alert that the microphone has turned on would obviously be rejected by consumers, unless maybe some fancy processing were used to remove that alert sound from the recording. But even so, an a
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by darkpuma 7y ago
To say that firefighters aren't at least in part motivated by helping people isn't very charitable.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I wonder if that was really the first call across that line, or just the 'official first.' I know if I was one of those technicians trying to make sure everything was ready to be demoed by the biggest celebrity in American tel
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You may not like my reasoning, but how is my reasoning wrong? Somebody needs to pick up the slack now that Redhat has no interest in funding X. All you're doing is protesting that you don't appreciate this situation, but that&#
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The point, that I pray you aren't missing by being deliberately obtuse, is that for as bad as things may be today it's possible for things to become worse. And giving American corporations free reign to run social experiments in
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Anger the general public at your own peril. The elite always believe themselves invulnerable, until they find it proven otherwise.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Go ahead and automate away every job you see, but don't say I didn't warn you when anti-tech pogroms take your head. The public perception of this industry has been taking a nose dive for a few years now and stuff like this, att
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Who's going to put up the money? Not Redhat, they don't want to pay for it anymore. Will the nvidia users? Will they be willing to pay for their card twice? Will Nvidia pay for the continued development of X, when they alrea
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Macros are just another form of abstraction, like functions. And like functions, they can be poorly named or poorly designed. Somehow the possibility of suboptimal use is frequently paraded around as an argument against macros, but seldom
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In for the penny, in for the pound? Nobody is a saint so you may as well double down on sin? Interesting philosophy. I'd rather people be morally inconsistent and do less harm than do more harm in the pursuit of moral consistency.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Africa is poor thanks to statism. Not due to some "evil american corporates" That can be rectified. It could very easily be poor thanks to both.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It really doesn't matter to me if Nvidia drops out of the linux desktop market or not. I've never owned their hardware and never will, so it makes not an iota of difference to me. I'm just observing that Redhat is the trend
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Meanwhile X is still on death watch and Nvidia will be brought into the fold or be forced to stop pretending they support the linux desktop.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
AKAIK kdbus re-implemented that half of it, albeit in the kernel not as a daemon. I've not been given the impression that there is anything preventing additional implementations. The strongest technical argument against dbus I've

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