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by ews 4y ago
Adding to that, I didn't fully move to wayland until sway was mature enough for my day to day work. i3 (I think I found the project through a twit from somebody at Google) is completely burned into my mind and my current workflow and I
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by ews 4y ago
I came here to say the same and I really like your description of the core idea of his last book. After reading it (and with some caveats and small disagreements such as the cost of dealing with Climate Change) it is clear how the US has be
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by ews 4y ago
I was in the same situation, I tried EVERYTHING, including supplements (mucuna pruriens help a bit), no slack (affects my work), full screen emacs only (same) and a long etcetera. In addition to everything that was said... (no notifications
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by ews 4y ago
People like David from System Crafters and Prot are definitely doing a lot to bringing Emacs backs to the masses. They are a visible manifestation of the technical (and media) quality of part of the community. I do not think they get enou
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by ews 4y ago
The joke was funny maybe 5 years ago, it's a bit cringe nowadays.
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by ews 4y ago
I've done this multiple time across several countries, I usually upload my data to the cloud before the trip, just in case of lost/seizure. For very sensitive data (let's say crypto keys), you create multiple offline copies
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by ews 4y ago
Great idea, however, I had to disable MagicDNS in few of my machines as tailsscale changed my local DNS with 100.100.100.100 on my resolv.conf filet, yet for some reason that address was impossible to reach internally.
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by ews 4y ago
Hacker News has a serious mob mentality with regards to crypto. Some loud voices decides it was a "scam" years ago and would not get out of their high horse despite the evidence, and despite incredible technical feats like the mer
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by ews 4y ago
PoS is way more decentralized than PoW, as there are many more home stakers than 'home PoW miners'. Some numbers here https://ethsunshine.com/
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by ews 4y ago
According to the call, I think it was 0.2% of global energy usage.
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by ews 4y ago
I assume that because on true multi-user systems, syncing permissions between $HOME and /usr/etc/$USER may be a complete disaster.
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by ews 4y ago
Just putting this here: I am using denote nowadays after org-roam and while it's not org-roam (I miss the dailies) it gets some stuff really right (tags, directories)
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by ews 4y ago
Emacs has a mode to control mpv for easy note taking which seems perfect for this https://github.com/kljohann/mpv.el
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by ews 4y ago
I use freemind, although it's really dated at this point (last release: 2016)
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by ews 4y ago
This looks like a really neat version of org-roam, has anyone tried and if so, how does it compare to roam ?
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by ews 4y ago
Thanks for writing this, I lived briefly in Venice during college, and I visited the city multiple times since in the last two decades. I been in both sides of the fence: a inhabitant and a tourist. And the city can't be any more diffe
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by ews 4y ago
that's awesome, I wanted to publicly recognize your work, the tool is amazing, particularly for org-mode users (which is another incredible tool btw) - I appreciate your use of plain text as storage
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by ews 4y ago
I switched from pinboard.in / del.icio.us (the social aspect was becoming less and less important) to a workflow based on braintool ( https://braintool.org/ ) and org-mode TODO and tags, it completely changed the way I w
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by ews 4y ago
My desktop has been Wayland/sway for years and years, and it's incredibly stable (I am using Arch btw)
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by ews 4y ago
holy f*cking shit... that's pretty amazing
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by ews 4y ago
Correct: Phoenix came before Firebird, which came before Firefox.
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by ews 4y ago
Like uhmmm... making gun ownership difficult or basically illegal like the rest of the civilized world?
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by ews 4y ago
that sounds sweet. do you mind telling us which VPS are you using?
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by ews 5y ago
RENFE (national railroad company) had no competitors until very recently, they opened the market just months ago. I am hopeful the new high speed companies (i.e Ouigo) makes the market much more competitive and lowers pricing in all tiers.
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by ews 5y ago
Eric Weinstein has been crazy since day 0. He was better at hiding it years ago (when he started The Portal)
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by ews 5y ago
Got mine closed for no reason at all (didn't post a single picture in months, but supposedly my last one was against their TOS). Got into the mugshot bot loop for weeks and weeks. Absolutely nothing. Reached out to Facebook Legal. Noth
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by ews 5y ago
Same. We are back in the TV bundle channel era, unfortunately.
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by ews 5y ago
99% of times, the top comment for anything related to crypto on HN will have a comment like this. Some people just don't get it. Unfortunately, HN became /r/buttcoin long ago, and it looks like it's not the place to have
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by ews 5y ago
I thought about this too. My iteration of the idea is to have the USPS office to install a cert on a citizen's phone (upon verification in person) and make sure a cert is associated with one person only. This will allow easy and reliab
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by ews 5y ago
The Longnow foundation ( https://longnow.org ) and their Rosetta Project ( https://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/ ) may be of some help.

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