gemlog

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by gemlog 8y ago
this. It doesn't matter one whit about the instance, except perhaps initially. Maybe. You choose who to read and follow and the instance doesn't matter. I already 'follow' about 80 like-minded geeks I'm interested t
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by gemlog 8y ago
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller Capitalism has to be replaced. Trying to change it is futile. We'
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by gemlog 10y ago
Thanks very much. I'd never heard of letsencrypt. Plus I happen to use nginx for websites these days. Great tutorial; simple.
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by gemlog 11y ago
Every democracy should have one. The author credits the original idea to Egypt and links a MorsiMetre in the 'about' link: http://morsimeter.com/en (there is an Arabic version too).
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Politician Promise Fulfillment Meter(trudeaumetre.ca)
1 points by gemlog 11y ago|1 comments
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by gemlog 12y ago
I just tested this with zimwiki, works perfectly, as it's all plain text files. http://zim-wiki.org/ I didn't try it with encryption as zim wouldn't understand it.
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by gemlog 12y ago
Another way to take advantage of ctrl+r is to add a comment at the end of the line when you have very similar commands. e.g. ssh fred@127.0.0.1 #servername ffmpeg -some -long -incantation #vid2mp3 It's better than an alias or function
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by gemlog 13y ago
RMS wrote: > To begin with, GNU will be a kernel Right. Not so much. That was exactly the last thing to happen as it turned out. He and everyone else in the effort worked on the tools and apps. By contrast: > I’m doing a (free) operat
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A Capella Science - Bohemian Gravity(youtube.com)
5 points by gemlog 13y ago|0 comments
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by gemlog 13y ago
How about coding sites such that folks don't need to 'add to cart' in order to find out what they'd actually be paying if they were to purchase? That's most often why I 'abandon' carts. They make me start
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by gemlog 13y ago
This is silly. I've run a printing press in my mis-spent youth. And repaired photo-copiers. One technique that is often taught is to turn the page upside-down -- in order that you not be distracted by the content. You are, at that poin
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by gemlog 14y ago
Actually, this is a very good question. The vast majority of people have not done the experiments themselves. We actually do 'take it on faith' about a lot of things, like the earth is spherical, the earth travels around the sun, how gravit
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by gemlog 14y ago
"What are we doing to make sure that the ones working to disrupt Mozilla’s products is Mozilla itself" Stop. Just stop it. All my users are sick of re-learning an app they've been using for years already. Every time they face relearning the