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by devenblake 6y ago
Is this any different from Microsoft's pestering of users to install Edge rather than any custom browser? I understand that Apple doesn't normally use noticeably scummy advertising tricks, and the author does acknowledge nothing a
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by devenblake 6y ago
One reason is probably practicality. Why store more than 500 replies to a given comment when nobody's realistically going to read every single reply anyway?
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by devenblake 6y ago
Another thing for which DuckDuckGo is useless: finding media. It or whatever crawler it uses totally falls for those keyword-flooded sites that have a couple ads and then paragraphs of "wandavision watch free mr robot now free download
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by devenblake 6y ago
> In the weeks when Parler was offline, many moved to Telegram, Gab, MeWe, and other fringe platforms. Telegram? A fringe platform? I was using Telegram in middle school to discuss marijuana with a friend because we were worried Facebook
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Baudrillard (1989)(web.archive.org)
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by devenblake 6y ago
Great, now I need to choose a car that I can root. It's hard enough to find an affordable, rootable phone.
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by devenblake 6y ago
Not sure. People on-line are switching but I haven't been able to convince many off-line - Chrome is necessary for a lot of poorly coded sites.
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by devenblake 6y ago
crazy person yelling at cloud incoming. all opinions and i do recognize much of this is completely unrealistic for most users Personally I learned HTML through General Assembly (though I remember it being free) and didn't really use it
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by devenblake 6y ago
Disclaimer: *I'm not your target audience*; I don't plan to use your product even if you made it public domain. I never want to agree to an EULA before starting to develop something outside of a professional setting. That's a
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by devenblake 6y ago
You could always just rig up a couple Bash aliases and change where your menu works. Say for example appimg() { chmod +x $1; mv $1 ~/apps/ } and then bind a key sequence to `$(ls ~/apps/ | dmenu)`.
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by devenblake 6y ago
Concerning: https://twitter.com/eniton/status/1349289122234470403 "A quick decompile shows there are AppNext, Mopub, FB ads, Google ads inside the app."
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by devenblake 6y ago
I like Thunar's method, giving a big yellow warning on the top of the window but not inhibiting the user outside of that.
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by devenblake 6y ago
In my head I pronounce fsck "fuck" because that's normally what I say when I realize I have to use it. Around people? fs check or filesystem check.
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Beer Hall Putsch(en.wikipedia.org)
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by devenblake 6y ago
In the README in the GNU units source code (2.21): 203: Ideas the future (may or may not happen): 204: 205: * Bundle up the units conversion stuff into a library. At the end of units.c, too: 6280: /* NOTES: 6281:
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by devenblake 6y ago
On first glance - I don't know why one would use BalenaEtcher for bootable USB writing. `dd` on POSIX and Rufus on Windows work better in my experience. After reading - this article doesn't really fill a niche. When I first dual b
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88x31 (1999)(web.archive.org)
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by devenblake 6y ago
If Apple wanted free apps on their platform they'd make their SDK available for Linux, where thousands of developers would die for a chance to give free stuff to such a big market like Apple's even if Apple gives them nothing in r
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by devenblake 6y ago
I'd bet that this graph is actually reflecting the gap between the worth of the wealthy and the poor widening in America faster, due to the rarity of stimulus checks for people and the many accommodations for businesses. It's just
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by devenblake 6y ago
God, who cares. Just another old man shouting at Cloud.
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by devenblake 6y ago
How did you hack Firefox that way? Been trying to figure that out for a while, no luck.
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by devenblake 6y ago
The default dmenu is very, very powerful though back when I first wanted to I could never figure out how to use the damn thing. Then I saw one of Luke Smith's videos using it [0] and all of a sudden it all clicked for me. Plus you can
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by devenblake 6y ago
Are there any advantages?
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by devenblake 6y ago
SVN in 2020? Why not git?
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by devenblake 6y ago
Woah. I open it up at 08:44 and the picture is from less than fifty miles away from me. Small world. (I live in Maine.)
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by devenblake 6y ago
"poison" is a particularly apt description for all of the above
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by devenblake 6y ago
You can also use the key on many keyboards labeled "End".
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by devenblake 6y ago
This is basically an advertisement for a clothing brand but boy am I a sucker for vaporesque accessories.
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by devenblake 6y ago
1) ~~Why is this an archive.org URL rather than a direct URL to the website, https://www.jw [[ EDIT: Don't click that. Turns out jwz redirects requests from HN to something funny but nsfw. Thanks posix_me_less. ]] z.org&#x2
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by devenblake 6y ago
Search: install windows 10 Did you mean: install gentoo

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