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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
>If you're using Qt applications purely in the open source world (e.g. KDE on some Linux distro) there's no new news here. A lot of small businesses use Qt for free under the LGPL license (allowing them to keep their applicatio
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
Well, when Elon Musk took over and gutted half the staff, I distinctly remember HN full out of outrage and predicting (in hindsight, "impotently wishing" would be more accurate) doom and how Twitter will go down any day now. Then
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
What appears to be the problem here? So Chinese online businesses are selling chemicals to Mexican customers which can be used to produce fentanyl? Then Mexicans smuggle this into America? The USA could simply protect their border and 99% o
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
It wasn't "just" that. Debian seems to want to be configured out-of-the-box as a secure server, and expects the user to turn it into a usable desktop, which is impossible for novice users and can be time-consuming even for po
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
Same here. Got my start on Ubuntu, always loved Ubuntu, but they lost me to Debian because of snaps. My reasons are different from yours: I can tolerate UI issues, polluting the mount list is far worse, but the dealbreaker is that the user
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
Disclaimer: I haven't actually watched his videos, I only read his Wikipedia page and heard people discussing him. I think young guys and boys are just so sick of the monoculture pushed on them by both traditional media and social medi
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
People who are opposed to abortion absolutely don't want anyone to die. It's a trolley problem to them, one with varying degrees of answers and consequences. How would you like it if someone called you an evil murderer (or whateve
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Ask HN: Why don't we have a best-of-class open self-learning platform?
7 points by gettodachoppa 3y ago|8 comments
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
It was already used as an insult in many parts of the Internet, long before Elon Musk's buyout. It's just the blue check people from that era don't really realize how many people despise them.
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
If TikTok didn't have a LGBT category, they'd be called out by modern "journalists" for suppressing/not recommending LGBT content and treating LGBT unicorns as second class citizens. It's disappointing that the
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
People turn to drugs because they are addictive. Once you start, it's hard to stop, and it can easily lead to drug abuse. Drug abuse and the lifestyle that it leads to will exacerbate mental illness. The issue is that the US half-asses
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
>>> Look into BCCI and a name you might be familiar with, Khoshoggi not the dismembered journalist by MBS, but his relative who was the arms dealer that sold his yacht to... donald trump. Who bragged about the purchase on nightly e
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by gettodachoppa 3y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by mesh vent, and what it is exactly you replace? I could not find any info. My father uses this machine so you have me worried.
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by gettodachoppa 4y ago
I read your link. It says Twitter and Youtube were ordered by the government to take down links to the BBC documentary and both complied. The BBC itself is sending copyright strikes to Youtubers who upload the documentary. Even the Internet
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by gettodachoppa 4y ago
Richard Stallman is a victim of the NGO/Media Industrial Complex. His aloofness makes it easier for him to be a target, but let's be honest, if those people want someone taken down, it will happen. People need to be a little less
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by gettodachoppa 4y ago
Agreed. I felt truly euphoric the moment I read this headline. I immediately called to my wife and my wife's son to show them this wonderful news.