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by elagost 7y ago
At that point, IE was so technically far behind that you could easily point to reasons why Firefox was better: Add-ons, usable tabbed browsing, incredible speed increases, more customization, and websites actually working. Nowadays, we&#x27
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by elagost 7y ago
Lately there's been a lot of relicensing stories this year, mongodb[1] being the one I thought of first. It seems like the GPL is just a way for groups to protect their own assets without getting ripped off, and more permissive license
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by elagost 7y ago
You could always use pass-tomb, which is an extension that stores the entire tree encrypted. https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb#readme
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by elagost 7y ago
In what world is a 28-core xeon with 1.5 TB of RAM and 2 dual GPUs (effectively 4 GPUs) not a powerful spec for a desktop? Aren't we still in the era of most desktops having 4 cores and a single GPU? I don't bear any love for Appl
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by elagost 7y ago
It's got a lot extra proprietary components in it that make it attractive for those that want those capabilities, and it runs MacOS. Often MacOS is the extra $500 or so of any Apple machine you buy. If you don't care for MacOS or
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by elagost 7y ago
This is exciting. Glad to know they're focusing on making a stable, secure protocol, and that development is going strong. Great job and keep up the great work!
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by elagost 7y ago
>Take an iMac Pro, break it down, put its screen in a box (that’ll revive the Cinema Display we miss), add slots to the motherboard, put it in a vintage Mac Pro cheese grater case... I think a lot of Mac faithful talked around this line
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by elagost 7y ago
reCAPTCHA is malware. If a site uses it, I (usually reluctantly) stop using the site. It's not even a privacy issue anymore - I'm logging into the site, usually so I can give them some money (bandcamp, humble bundle) - I just don&
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by elagost 7y ago
I use it most days - I have a Quassel ( https://quassel-irc.org ) core set up on my raspberry pi, and connect to it with my phone/laptop. Official support communities for most Linux distros, general chat, and more technically
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by elagost 7y ago
The arguments about power consumption only apply to a specific set of old workstation CPUs. You can buy old hardware that isn't super inefficient. I bought an HP EliteDesk tower on the cheap ($150) last year that had a i7-4790 (an all-
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by elagost 7y ago
I'd leave Thunderbird in a heartbeat if I could find a contact/calendar syncing terminal client as well. Any recommendations?
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by elagost 7y ago
It's always sad to see these stories because they always seem like a preventable tragedy. DigitalOcean, Azure, and AWS seem like the go-to for start-ups these days, instead of self-hosting your stuff at home or even in a colocation spa
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by elagost 7y ago
That is a valid point. I don't think Yelp are bad people, just that in the context of this story, they're the "bad guys" doing the data collection. If you count any sort of data collection as "bad", then you&#x
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by elagost 7y ago
From what I understand (haven't set up an iPhone from default in a long time) but the 'limit ad tracking' is off by default, allowing apps to have background app refresh privileges is allowed for any app by default (you must
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by elagost 7y ago
Even for companies who are supposedly privacy-forward, their defaults say otherwise. A brand-new iPhone has all these privacy settings that are off by default, and that are usually confusingly labeled and buried several settings screens dee
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by elagost 7y ago
It would be nice to see some technical documentation on exactly what's being looked at, but I doubt it's available given that it would just allow users to game the system.
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by elagost 7y ago
This is insane. The issue's primarily addressing distros and projects that ship their own GTK themes as default to users, like Ubuntu and Elementary and System76. My wife's desktop runs Ubuntu, and if something doesn't look r
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by elagost 7y ago
This show made me realize that there are two distinct groups of people with zero middle ground: Those who enjoy or at least don't see anything wrong with it, and those who feel they are represented (poorly) in the show, and intensely d
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by elagost 7y ago
>Higher scores have been found to correlate with students... having better-educated parents. And this is a problem why?
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by elagost 7y ago
The pixel phones (and the nexus phones before them) tend to be a little easier on those who unlock bootloaders and load custom ROMs. I use LineageOS on my Pixel, with OsmAnd maps and no Google services. https://lineage.microg.org
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by elagost 7y ago
Timelines are always fascinating for me to see, given the massive amount of effort that goes into building something like this. Even though it's essentially a "it'll be ready when it's ready" post, and we obviously
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by elagost 7y ago
You know they're all open-source, right? I understand and identify with your concerns - I've railed against systemd enough myself - but they all work (fairly) well and have made management/administration of systems cleaner an
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by elagost 7y ago
I don't think there will ever come a time when 1) savvy users will stop suggesting/recommending clean Windows installs on new computers and 2) OEM bloatware will stop being crap. I clean-installed Win10 recently. There was no driv
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by elagost 7y ago
That's interesting. Glad that they mentioned that the old logo always felt "secretive and villainous" - it did to me, too, and struck me as strange why basically the most trusted Enterprise Linux system's logo looked sha
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by elagost 7y ago
These days many people don't know the difference between Facebook and "the Internet". We've handed the reigns to our communication and culture into the greedy palms of about five mega-corporations that put profit above a
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by elagost 8y ago
I've had this happen frequently because my configuration really aggressively blocks this stuff. It's bad enough that I have a separate browser (Gnome Web aka Epiphany) just for logging into and using sites that have Captcha, like
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by elagost 8y ago
Similar concerns should be made for Thunderbolt devices, which have direct PCIe access - much more low-level and dangerous than USB could be. The only system I've seen implement this is Gnome3 - it has a section in its system preferenc
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by elagost 8y ago
I don't use the Netflix (Qwikster?) DVD service, but I do still buy lots of DVDs/Blu-Rays. The visual fidelity on a good DVD/Blu-Ray player is much better than a little streaming box that has to buffer every five minutes anyw
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by elagost 8y ago
Pi-Hole is great as a caching mechanism and is easy enough for non-techie friends and family to use (just make sure you have it auto-update for them, or do it yourself once in a while). Bind9, a true dns server, doesn't provide the pri
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by elagost 8y ago
When I ran Gentoo on my laptop, emerging Firefox took far longer than compiling even the Kernel. Around 90 minutes, I think.

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