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Not everything is about money. Sometimes its principles, sometimes its about giving back to the world, sometimes its the fun of it, or just raw boredom. I do not claim to know what motivates gorhill, but so far none of his motivations in bu
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For context, gorhill is the veteran author of original uBlock, and current uBlock Origin. He knows what he's talking about as author, maintainer and one of the community leader/voice of probably the single best and only conflict-o
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> It's really weird to watch science and science-like ideas grow out of faith and religion While there are certain events that can be filed under this category, more often than not its the other way around. That is, the ideas come o
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Perhaps this one?[0] It doesn't match exact description and I also have vague memory of something similar, but not able to find it right now. Drew's post does a reasonably snarky job though :) 0: https://drewdevault.com
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What? Those free users are practically providing free infrastructure testing. Those low-no profit margins are hiding a lot of stuff underneath. Intel and Cloudflare are famous for reaching scale by using cheap/free end of the market
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With Ubuntu being absolute worst crapshoot of Desktop Linux nowadays, while still riding the glory from days of yore, it kinda makes sense. Dell isn't targeting Linux veterans, they're targeting people who have heard of this Linux
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Also incredibly expensive and practically out of reach for vast majority of world population.
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GUI for package manager is fairly useless IMO. Homebrew is CLI only AFAIK and nobody cares, apt has aptitude but I've seen nobody use it in real life. Honestly only relevant package manager GUI I see are Play Store/App Store, and
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I have another similar story. Firefox didn't behave nicely and after multiple days of investigation (I am not well versed in front end, neither are most people in my org) we decided to just let it be broken and advises customers to use
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In India we have Ro-Ro (or whatever it is called now) where trucks are loaded onto trains and transported over long distance, fast and cheap. Then the roads take them last 100 km or so, in the heartlands (or wherever the destination). Best
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I've come to see this as symptom of increased prosperity. When money was tight, people were what provided comfort. Everyone got together to prepare and celebrate. Now that families can afford to pay someone else to do it, we are basica
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That is what I dislike about the Pull Request workflow. It encourages piling on commits, polluting commit log (not to mention useless merge commits). To this day I haven't found anything better than Gerrit for reviewing changes across
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GNU Hyperbole – The Everyday Hypertextual Information Manager(gnu.org)
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I look at his posts and dream to be that proficient Emacs user one day. I'd imagine if he records a video of doing his daily work in Emacs, it probably feels like the Matrix.
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When it does, they can just buy good reputation for pittance. (Looking at you, Microsoft..)
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WSL, starting with v2, is a fully fledged virtual machine, and comes with its own built in Linux kernel. The 'lightweight' part is because resource allocation is bit more dynamic than your usual VirtalBox VM. Other than that, ther
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> Buy Dropbox and Substack as well and now you’re a full Apple One competitor. Good one. To be 'full' Apple One competitor, you'd need default app installs as well as built-in advertisements/notifications channel acro
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These days I just go to /r/MovieSuggestions. Nearly everything I've watched since pandemic has come from suggestions there and they are quite good. The sub probably has a year of life left before it gets overrun, so enjoy whi
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Hi Jeff! Just want to say thanks for all the great stuff you put out for Pi. It really helped me get mine going (after keeping it in drawer for 6 months).
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Why is Netflix 'fundamentally unsustainable'? Hollywood studios are some of the oldest and biggest companies (notwithstanding overvalued tech stocks) on the planet. They've been 'sustainable' for decades. Netflix ha
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A goodreads for movies? I'd be interested in that.. But, Netflix was getting more barren. People would notice the reviews they wrote were disappearing, because the content itself got pulled (not-renewed) from Netflix. That's worse
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Well, lot of music is available on all major platforms (Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify) while most movies/series was almost always exclusive to platforms. Why spend time and money building your own music platform when you can get paid
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I recently got back into microcontrollers and embedded electronics as hobby, and uLisp caught my eye. However, as ubiquitous micropython is in the guides and projects, there aren't really any resources for uLisp beyond the website. Can
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Thanks for pointing out Inferno OS. I recently started tinkering with embedded devices after a long gap, and this looks like perfect project to work on!
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I am using WSL2 right now and it is not better than 'glass of cold water for someone stuck in hell'. It is better than running Virtualbox, but doesn't hold a candle to real thing.
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> cow-orkers Not sure if its a typo, but sure fits the theme.
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Our streets are digital in fully remote world. On HN for e.g. I've seen creator of DLang casually chimes in on a conversation. A big piece from past hits front page and the author simply joins and answers questions. While we've ev
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qBittorrent is indeed nice. Been using it for many years and couldn't be happier. Demise of uTorrent was a boon for open source clients in a way, otherwise I'd never look for replacement. qBittorrent is also written in Qt, so fits
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qBittorrent has webUI too, and works more or less identical to that of native client. Some day I'll get its NixOS module in abetter shape and just use that.
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If you're looking to learn Nix start-to-end, there manuals for Nix and NixOS, both are good. This is an extensive study at trying to 'understand' Nix, because is does so many things differently: https://ianthehenry

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