distantsounds

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Wave of Spam Hits IRC(forums.unrealircd.org)
2 points by distantsounds 3y ago|3 comments
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DOSfetch, a Neofetch Clone for DOS(github.com)
3 points by distantsounds 3y ago|0 comments
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by distantsounds 3y ago
(2014)
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by distantsounds 3y ago
Yes, we know. Now can we please stop treating them as developer-friendly tools and more as a hostile theft of intellectual property?
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by distantsounds 3y ago
because people on HN think they are far more important than they really are
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by distantsounds 3y ago
web1.0 - read only (consumption only, very few self creation/publishing tools) web2.0 - read/write (forums, communities, cheap/free hosting) web3.0 - read/write/own (blockchain)
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by distantsounds 3y ago
I would absolutely love to run my own little TOC/OSCAR server and host my own private AIM community. The only implementation I found is the closed-source AIM Phoenix project, is anyone aware of one?
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by distantsounds 3y ago
The example is mimicking the Office Ribbon toolbar which is obviously taking up a lot of space. It's almost as if those little triangles in the corner of the toolbars allows you to change the size. Who would have thought! This is a hor
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by distantsounds 3y ago
you'll never get it again, nobody wants to recreate its magic for the modern web / operating systems.
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by distantsounds 3y ago
you can't search hashtags yet, once when that works I'm sure it will be much better. discoverability on the platform sucks right now, for sure.
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by distantsounds 3y ago
Yes, when you have no followers/new posts from followers the feed with fill itself with what it thinks you might like. It's not very good right now because it probably needs more data points, but if I can suggest one thing, it&#x2
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by distantsounds 3y ago
previous HN articles linking to instances has caused them to become overloaded. this instance just seems to know how to handle it
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by distantsounds 3y ago
did you even read RTFM? the admin had a local copy of the database stored on his personal PC.
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by distantsounds 3y ago
This is a constant ask every time a thread about desktop UI design comes up. Everyone wants a new Visual Basic, nobody wants to use the alternatives. The VB language itself likely doesn't appeal to people nowadays but the building bloc
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by distantsounds 3y ago
please point me towards literally _any_ text editor that dynamically remaps shortcuts on you.
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by distantsounds 3y ago
microservices? to sling video files over the internet? tell me you're over-engineering without telling me you're over-engineering
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by distantsounds 3y ago
not only is the title misleading and click-baity (connecting to wifi is the only pre-requisite) the format of the blog doesn't format correctly (text and media is cut off on the right) . maybe spend less time writing misleading article
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by distantsounds 3y ago
And then you hit CPU bottlenecks whenever you do literally anything bandwidth intensive. The limits of using hobbyist hardware, you get hobbyist level performance. A Raspberry Pi is a horrible solution for running Wireguard. You can get a
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by distantsounds 3y ago
if anything it teaches apple users a bit of humility, how to exit out of vim.
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by distantsounds 3y ago
He's not wrong. I'd love to join the fediverse but I want to do so on my own terms with my own server, and I don't want to set up an entire mastodon instance just to do that. Making activitypub synonymous with mastodon is dan
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by distantsounds 3y ago
lrzsz is one of the first packages i install when configuring a new system. being able to send and receive files between remote and local without needing a separate ssh session is such a time saver. it's really fast as well. i do wonde
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by distantsounds 3y ago
We had one. It was called Pebble. And then they kickstarted a watch for 3 million and decided to sell themselves to fitbit instead.
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by distantsounds 3y ago
Now open source TOC/OSCAR, dammit. I want my open-source AIM clone. Please!
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NPR Stops Publishing to Twitter(view.nl.npr.org)
14 points by distantsounds 4y ago|32 comments
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by distantsounds 4y ago
the "SSO tax" is literally the entire SSO product, a solution to a legitimate problem that businesses face and gladly shell out $$$ to not deal with. if your suggestion is to not pay said $$$ and instead roll your own solution, mo
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by distantsounds 4y ago
OP spent next to no time exploring Linux, which is a shame. running modern Debian on a Core 2 Duo is barely a better option than running a modern version of Windows. Alpine would likely run far better.
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by distantsounds 4y ago
Business will stop existing, websites will disappear. In the era of people not paying their AWS bill, we as the human race will somehow survive. Sorry OP, I'm almost certain there is no S3 bucket worth keeping eternally.
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by distantsounds 4y ago
yes, everything about this. for websites that still use forums (yes they are out there!) push notifications for quoted replies and direct messages would be extremely helpful. i believe push notifications are one of the largest reasons why f
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by distantsounds 4y ago
if you don't want to be down voted, don't say "I'm not a crypto guy" and then proceed to write an essay on a news article about crypto
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by distantsounds 4y ago
Imagine putting IP blocking behind your paid product. And here we have every problem with the Mac software ecosystem summed up.

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