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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
There is a lot you cannot do on a Mac, but that you can do on Linux. The point is that you do not see it until you have seen it elsewhere. How do you change the GUI theme on a Mac? How do you update all the software to the newest version? W
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
A coworker mentioned the cursor bug yesterday; I have never encountered it, but he uses Ubuntu and I use Debian. If you have no need for Ubuntu-specific software, I would suggest to just install Debian Testing, as it is more up-to-date than
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
I stopped using Ubuntu years ago because of their development process making upgrades more complicated than necessary. When I do recommend an operating system to someone nowadays, I usually go for Debian Testing or Debian Stable.
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
> It's not the UI, the problem is that driver support for Linux is not as good as for OSX. Driver support for new hardware platforms or one where the hardware producer does not help enough might not be that good: I think Intel'
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
We were allowed to do multiple laps. I stopped attending the (non-mandatory) course after I saw that the other teams were no challenge and some even had problems to just follow a line.
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
> And it unlocked wondrous hacks, like using the IrDA transceiver on the RCX as a psuedo-lidar so that your robot could stop short of walls, it could even estimate distance. Ha, I did that as well with Mindstorms RCX in like 11th grade o
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
> At my age I can barely read the article's thin, small, low-contrast font I am 28 years old and find it hard to read as well. People who choose small font sizes and low contrast degrade usability a lot. Here is an article about the
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
Previously on Battlehacker Newslactica: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10021259
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
To me it looks like the actual security problem is that the browser does not trust the server, using its own heuristics instead. Mozilla asserts that as well: > While MIME sniffing increases the web experience for the majority of users,
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
I did not know that blog post. However, it does not give evidence that Moxie Marlinspike is friendly to federation and third-party clients. If anything, it shows that he opposes open, interoperable protocols as well. Moxie Marlinspike asser
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
The XMPP ecosystem has federation, security and almost every client can talk to almost every server. If Moxie Marlinspike claims that interoperability does not work well in the context of instant messaging, I see this as him trying to manip
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
Please elaborate on what exactly you dislike about XMPP.
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
You do not need an account at conversations.im – the app works without it.
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
The author of Signal (Moxie Marlinspike) seems actively hostile to not only federation efforts but also compatibility with other clients, even one that only removed the dependency of Signal on Google Play Services: http://news.di
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
I added an updated version of the above text to my own website: http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/notes/buch-schreiben.ht...
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
> I used to work for a company that sent spam (I swear, I didn't know until after I'd already accepted the job) Did you look for a new job as soon as you knew?
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
Thank you for the linked comment. I have rarely seen moderators address users' concerns in more depth – especially if they think such worries are unfounded.
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
I do not know what exactly he did, but I found two pages there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Isomorphic/Minions_of_the... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_s...
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
Please share the code to generate your view.
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
I think I understand what detaching means, but what effect does marking a thread off-topic have?
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
The point is that they have not reimplemented it. If the Microsoft versions of curl and wget were compatible with the original utilities, there would not be any problem.
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
Offtopic: What I find interesting about this discussion is that comments regarding “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” and Microsoft's past misbehaviour got upvotes first, then suddenly many downvotes at once. I have seen this earlier on HN
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
To me it seems they only try to fix it because they got caught (and now publicly shamed).
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
Microsoft has been doing this for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish...
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
To me this looks like a twisted version of step two of the “Embrace, extend and extinguish” strategy – creating interoperability problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish To recap: 1. Embra
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
The story mentioned by the parent seems to be this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebungsrisse_in_Staufen_im_Bre...
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
Please elaborate on the complaints. What about the directives do users consider problematic?
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
If she has written a blog post or something about her experiences, please link to it.
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
What do you mean with “more approachable” ? Markdown surely is more popular – but which constructs differ much in usability?
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by erlehmann_ 10y ago
A HTTP GET to a URL prefixed with http://web.archive.org/save/ archives the content behind that URL. I use the conkeror web browser [1] and have included the following code in my $HOME/.conkerorrc/config.js a

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