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by gerikson 3y ago
Not sure why this is posted after 9 years. The page itself seems to have been hijacked by some scammy ad company, and one of the distros suggested as an alternative (CRUX) is still alive, but lacks mindshare. From what I can see there'
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by gerikson 3y ago
That piece is cited in the Reference section on the page under discussion.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Oh no, someone call the Internet police.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Hard to see why the operators thought this would be viable in the long term.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Pretty sure Moses would have had strong opinions about this.
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by gerikson 3y ago
I have used both, just compared them to remind myself of them. Amfora reflows text so it's actually readable, bombadillo doesn't.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Thanks! I didn't know there were commercial interests behind LK99.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Amfora is the best console gemini client I've used. Recommended.
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by gerikson 3y ago
What market?
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by gerikson 3y ago
The first footnote says that Raku was formerly known as Perl 6.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Here's a Project Euler challenge featuring it: https://projecteuler.net/problem=226
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by gerikson 3y ago
Seems to mostly be a Facebook phenomenon: https://arkitekten.se/nyheter/arkitekturupproret-fem-ar-av-h... (in Swedish)
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by gerikson 3y ago
Also an OK novel by Douglas Coupland.
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by gerikson 3y ago
At least this author states openly that they used ChatGPT. In a couple of months such honesty will be rare.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Bret Devereaux is the author of the submitted article.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Yep, this is a thing: https://www.verisk.com/insurance/products/personal-aerial-im... I seem to remember reading on Twitter that 80% of the population of the US is photographed every 3 months or so by services lik
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by gerikson 3y ago
This is a typeface I'd be prepared to enable Google Fonts to use...
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by gerikson 3y ago
I read this years and years ago, it's really readable despite being very very long.
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by gerikson 3y ago
There's gemini already....
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by gerikson 3y ago
Apart from the suicide pill, lots of Americans do that...
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by gerikson 3y ago
Interview with the founder from 2013: https://medium.com/@maryps/a-conversation-with-andrew-smales...
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by gerikson 3y ago
Article is from 2009.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Sweden does this as well. If you're a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church, an item is added to your tax bill. Other churches can ask their members to register as such with the tax authority and dues are collected via that route. If y
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by gerikson 3y ago
Please read this comment that summarizes the situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36378817
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by gerikson 3y ago
I suggest using Atom instead and avoiding a whole lot of confusion and drama by not implementing RSS 2.0.
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by gerikson 3y ago
At least for me, a Google search for "RSS 2.0 specification" shows W3C and RSSboard.org links as top results. The Berkman center location isn't even on the first page.
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by gerikson 3y ago
To be honest, that's kind of the point. When you're "webscale" you're inevitably at a level where you have to pay a lot of money just to keep the site up. Smolnet is supposed to be run from someone's basement.
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by gerikson 3y ago
I think this site received the hug of death. https://web.archive.org/web/20230612115935/https://community...
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by gerikson 3y ago
https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora/issues/199
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by gerikson 3y ago
Stating that it's easy to develop clients and servers for Gemini is fine. But it's not how curl works. IF a feature is to be accepted, it will have to be maintained for a long time. In fact, it would not surprise me that curl&#x27

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