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by gkya 8y ago
That world will come around when a majority of people will understand that running untrusted code on your computer is just madness (i.e. JavaScript). I wish some mainstream browser like Firefox created an easy UI for JS whitelists, and&#x2
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by gkya 8y ago
> The whole point of this subthread is about reading archives offline, and how RSS can't manage this. From my first comment: I don't think so, but maybe I missed. It is not the purpose of RSS anyways, though. RSS is for me to
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by gkya 8y ago
> I’m not sure why I need to have personal problems with your pet protocol to have an opinion on it, especially on one that stinks as much as POP3. It’s obsolete. Because you're trying to fight people that use it. In another comment
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by gkya 8y ago
I use POP3 for fetching mail from my remote mail server, and I don't want to keep mail on it (my current pipeline is: mpop > procmail (clamav, spamassassin) > gnus (nnsplit & nnml)). This does not bar me from using IMAP loca
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by gkya 8y ago
I for one use pop3 and am really content with it. I cannot bear the idea of keeping my personal mails on a remote server. And that of having to use a web interface to configure splitting rules via a web interface, unable to easily version
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by gkya 8y ago
Yeah, but for my case it means waiting 10 seconds per link, and another 10 seconds when returning to the initial page, which has some 20 entries, and there are more than ten such pages that I need to scrape, so I passed on that...
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by gkya 8y ago
> So apparently many people are doing (1), and if my feed is short then they are limited in the blog history they can read to how long they've personally been subscribed (or less, if they need to clear their device and can't re
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by gkya 8y ago
Take a nice little joke please, downvoters, will ya?
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> But people who don't use the right aggregators will not be able to read past 10 posts. I do not think such aggregators exist, and you can just ignore people using software that do not comply to widespread conventions. > And if
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by gkya 8y ago
Elfeed, if you are using Emacs. You can view most blogs and lighter websites w/ no problems with Emacs's web browser, EWW. Or you can tell Emacs w/ one variable to open links with an external browser.
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by gkya 8y ago
Also related: if your browser can not do this, view source, and look for a <link> with rel=alternate.
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For your RSS issue, you can safely truncate your RSS feed to the latest N articles, where N is a random reasonable number you choose (10 is good, because it's so decimal). RSS reader software will know how to deal with it. WRT scrapin
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by gkya 8y ago
Because it's common to write you script with the shebang "/usr/bin/env python3" or equivalent [1], and this behaviour can cause syntax errors when going from one system to another. [1] https://github
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I guess you mean "9" in 5.9.2 as the part that tells dev or production, no?
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Thanks (I don't know much about perl versions really, just did a /2005 in perlhist).
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In what ways? From an ethical perspective, books like Orwell's famous 1984 are good reads that can help reflecting on privacy and its implications on societal and individual levels, helping decide on whether or not to participate in p
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by gkya 8y ago
Sorry but BS. Marriage is an economical (oiko- in oikonomia---the Greek word that is the etymological origin of economy---means family/home), legal and religious phenomenon. In modern societies the accent is on the first two, and we
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by gkya 8y ago
Sexual assault and harassment can also happen in a marriage, as it is a question of whether some person acts according to the consent or refusal of other(s). Still, divorce and a second marriage is neither sexual assault nor sexual harassm
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by gkya 8y ago
How many languages haven't gotten any new features since 2005? Even C has seen some improvements. Python got one incompatible update openly, and some others covertly (syntax changes like f" and @-operator, where some.py written
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by gkya 8y ago
How? You referenced #metoo, which is a movement in which people that have sufferent sexual attacks in various forms "come out" publicly. I can easily see how the gp comment interpreted that that way.
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by gkya 8y ago
> an avowed life-time commitment That's everything what modern marriage today isn't. That's basically a religious view of marriage, which can freely exist, but has no legal binding at all, and whether divorce is ethical o
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by gkya 8y ago
POP3? You can use the gmail pop3 server via your mail retriever program, and set it to not keep mail on the server (which is generally the default). All mail suite software (Thunderbird, Outlook, Evolution, etc.) and individual mail retri
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by gkya 8y ago
She's one _real_ hero. You should quit this neo-cold-war complottist baseless scatter-blaming.
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by gkya 8y ago
Not only, of course. BTW I have consciously avoided saying I disliked it.
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by gkya 8y ago
The best part of a Wikipedia article is where it links to external resources and gives you links/DOIs.
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Python the community is full of dogma. That is why I don't like the language and I stay away from the community. Their own ideas come before objective truth to them.
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I am not familiar with this particular situation, but while baseless entitlement is bad, criticism is good, and when you publish something with the intention that others use it---and reading his post it seems to me that what he does it not
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by gkya 8y ago
I'm not from the UK so maybe I am mistaken but AFAIK the railways belong to the govt but they outsource the operation of them and of trains, stations etc. And if they limit operation times too (so that you get some certain amount of t
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by gkya 8y ago
In Istanbul we have both public (bus, metro, tram, "vapur" across the bosphorus) and private ("minibus" which are smaller private busses, taxi, "motor" across the sea). If we ignore shitty traffic on main road
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by gkya 8y ago
They deal with that nicely for railways, where if you want to operate some profitable lines, you're obliged to operate some infrequent lines too. Wonder why they did not do the same with the buses too.

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