different_base

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by different_base 2y ago
Why on earth Cloudflare scripts are running on a webpage made by a little girl? We fucked up bad. Real bad. As software engineers, we have produced nothing but garbage in the last two decades.
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by different_base 2y ago
I appreciate Ladybird's initiative. But if they work with Servo, Ladybird can build the browser and Servo can focus on the engine. Also we can avoid C++ nightmare. Everybody wins.
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by different_base 2y ago
One of the crimes of modern imperative programming languages is not having ADTs (except maybe Rust) built-in. It is such a basic mental model of how humans think and solve problems. But instead we got inheritance and enums which are practic
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by different_base 2y ago
What is the fuss about bcachefs? What does it do better compared to Btrfs or Zfs?
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by different_base 2y ago
I run dnscrypt-proxy on my OpenWrt Router. It's like Syncthing. Install and forget, like how softwares should work in general.
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by different_base 2y ago
Using OnlyOffice promotes Microsoft Document format even further. Microsoft will again change their spec and OnlyOffice won't know how to render it correctly. For long term, it's better to choose LibreOffice which uses open standa
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by different_base 3y ago
I deleted my Reddit account long back after they blocked VPNs. I used old.reddit.com usually from DDG or Google search results. Now this is fucked up. I am not able to access Reddit through either VPN or Tor. They are dead to me now. I just
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by different_base 3y ago
It's not Linux's fault for not merging ZFS. Blame Oracle.
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by different_base 3y ago
I'm very skeptical of installing apps to access Email or VPN. If the company turned evil tomorrow, apps can turn into malware. Always use standard protocols using free software to transfer data over Internet. Use Thunderbird or Wiregua
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by different_base 3y ago
> flatpak is like a cross-distro snap that actually works You are right. Besides proprietary app store, Snap lacks even basic sandboxing in non-Debian based distros. I can't believe that Canonical engineers thought this was a good i