digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
Dell took the namesake company private some years back because he felt that being public didn't allow the company to make long term plans.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Tech is Apple and Apple is tech... I have long noticed that Apple "related" news make it to front pages that usually do not carry any tech news at all. My understanding for why this happens is that media outlets are old school App
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by digi_owl 8y ago
IMO, intuitiveness is overrated. As one snarky joke goes: only the nipple is intuitive, everything else is learned.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
IRC... But yes, Slack is basically IRC with a built in bouncer. And i case people wonder, a bouncer or BNC, was a personal proxy that would be running on some server somewhere, and that maintained a presence on the IRC networks for you when
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by digi_owl 8y ago
https://www.osnews.com/story/6282
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I honestly prefer text, at least for technical stuff, over a video. The videos often end up spending 10 minutes when all i want is some quick specs or a bullet point list.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Only problem was that Thunderbird insisted on opening the linked page via its internal gecko copy rather than being able to pass it on to a full browser...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Actually i think REGIS is for vector graphics, SIXEL (six pixels pr character) is the pixel graphics. I seem to recall that at least one terminal browser can pull some tricks to insert images into the window in X as well.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Funny thing is that this sounds similar to what was Raskin's big idea for computer interaction.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
IRC in particular was great for this, as it was rooms not P2P, and quite often one could find quite local rooms. ICQ and IM in general ruined that, IMO, as it was more invite based.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
And then a few years later X don't wanna play with Y because Z don't like them etc etc etc...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
GDDR5 as CPU RAM sounds crazy in the best possible way.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Apple already have a good enough rapport with Intel that they can get "custom" variants for their laptops (the Air got a variant with a shrunk package back in the day, iirc). With Razer, dunno. But when it comes to gaming AMD has
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Depends on what part of the world you live, and what brand. Huawei and ZTE has had a presence in Europe for years, with Huawei even getting into the infrastructure market. Xiaomi is a different story, as they were not even interested in get
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by digi_owl 8y ago
SteamOS anyone?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Retro Man Cave giving a tour of such a clone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Resulting in some interesting dodges around the law over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaRyirU_EI
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by digi_owl 8y ago
the problem is invariably with upstream making assumptions and changes on a whim, not with distros. As for linux on the desktop, until there is a credible brand offering a credible pre-installed computer, via credible outlets, backed by a c
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The reason for the conflicts are rarely if ever at the package layer, and more often than not with upstream changing dependencies on a .x update. This leaves the distro maintainers two choices: either recompile/restructure the whole di
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The sad part is that Twitter started as a SMS relay, ans SMS has had a system for splitting and joining long messages for ages...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
It worked just now, just sure what i did wrong earlier. Maybe it had to fully load the feed before the proper dialog showed up.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Clever. But i was thinking more of using the whole surface area of a floppy as a PCB and cover it with flash chips.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Gotta love Retro Man Cave, delightfully British. Edit: On a different note, i would love to see a ssd based "floppy" that was loaded with the solid clunk of the 3.5" floppy.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I only see name and description boxes in the dialog that comes up...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Only problem i have bumped into is easily sending a entry to the browser without reaching for the mouse.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
When you can't even modify the URL behind a live bookmark, nor tell Firefox to mark all existing entries read, it is beyond basic...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
While i am sad to see Mozilla strip even more out of Firefox, live bookmarks was perhaps a real poor take on rss support. First of all it didn't cache old entries. second it didn't update unless the entry on the bookmarks was expa
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Mozilla has already crippled Firefox's extension system, so why bother?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Iirc, various people wanted to build encryption etc into tcp/ip. But there was a this thing called the cold war going on, and thus encryption was treated as military hardware in the eyes of export law. Though really one could probably
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I'm no accountant, but i have the impression that there are various international agreements in place that basically says that earnings are to be taxed where they are made. This is why there has been a bunch of hoopla over Irish tax in

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