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by gravitas 7y ago
> ...isn't it just public land that it's OK to walk on? In the USA, no - it's owned by the federal government and has criminal trespass laws surrounding it just like any other owned property ("land parcel"). htt
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by gravitas 7y ago
It was a tongue in cheek sarcastic comment, my friend. Whole new paragraph, smiley face at the end, fun link to the "me, too!" history, you know - lighthearted and jovial.
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by gravitas 7y ago
The Buzzfeed article seems to focus around a particular user usage pattern, in that these were sites I personally did not use that horribly much. My "old internet" was Digg, Slashdot, GeoCities, HowardForums, ISP `~username` pages
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by gravitas 7y ago
This may rub some folks raw and be pessimistic, but a half a century on this planet has taught me that any solution which relies on "doing the right thing" (ethics) but does not have any rules, laws or other repercussion for abusi
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by gravitas 7y ago
It shows up on the search page, no need to even go that far - just search `-` and choose Users and it can be followed from the UI. https://github.com/search?q=-&type=Users
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by gravitas 7y ago
As a previous content creator, 8tracks was ergonomically hard to use and drove me away from trying to create more mixes. It's been a long while, but I recall having a lot of trouble ordering tracks (sometimes having to delete and re-up
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by gravitas 7y ago
My top 5 wishlist: bold, italic, lists, inline code `` and link formatting [](). (edit: and change 2 spaces indent to 4 spaces indent for code blocks to align with real markdown)
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by gravitas 7y ago
Collected alternatives from the comments here: https://wetransfer.com/ https://swisstransfer.com/ https://transfer.midrive.io/ https://send.firefox.com/ https://
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by gravitas 7y ago
I found a news article from February with a bunch of info: https://news.infomaniak.com/en/swiss-alternative-wetransfer/
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by gravitas 7y ago
I don't tend to think in that manner, more that it's pervasive enough (in the FAQ, the About, etc. - not just one page) that it "got to me" after awhile of reading. Small, subtle cuts instead of one large cut if you will
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by gravitas 7y ago
I mean this as constructive - reading through a lot of the website, it appears written by someone who is not a native English speaker/writer. There are many phrases and grammar oddities which feel/sound wrong or foreign as a nativ
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by gravitas 7y ago
In addition to the other comments, Red Hat (and SUSE, Oracle Linux UEK) have cemented partnerships with many hardware providers like Dell, HP, Broadcom, Emulex and similar. New hardware kernel module needs are routinely backported to their
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by gravitas 7y ago
I'm a +1 on BitWarden, I moved over pretty early on (paid account is only $10/yr) due to their fantastic migration page telling me point blank "LastPass may screw up special characters exporting your data" and lo and beh
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by gravitas 7y ago
My personal, obscure ISP user page (think the ~user/ era) from 1995 is preserved in all it's drop shadow blink tag marquee glory at archive.org with me doing nothing, it was just captured by whatever natural processes. The things
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by gravitas 7y ago
> So I was shocked to find that running an empty Python unit test at Dropbox took tens of seconds. Worse, when you fixed a bug and landed it, depending on how the daily push went, it might make it to production within a day? Two? Maybe m
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by gravitas 7y ago
There was lots of WWIV around but they did not use Fidonet, they used WWIVnet which was not interoperable (different protocols and such). I believe the Renegade code branch of WWIV source was Fidonet capable but it's been too long, mem
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by gravitas 7y ago
What I remember of my '94 sysop kit: 486/dx2-66, OS/2 (3.1?), Synchronicty, MailGate and XeniaMailer (I ran a fido <=> uucp node) and something I'm forgetting I'm sure.
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by gravitas 7y ago
It can go pretty wrong - look at a picture of a gun one time and IG will start shoving gun pictures down your throat, it's horribly non-forgiving and can't be tuned by the end user easily. You learn pretty quick to never look even
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by gravitas 7y ago
In this space is also https://riseup.net/en/vpn but I dislike they want you to use their custom client, just rubs me wrong.
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by gravitas 7y ago
I feel quite the opposite - stock Pixel 2, FF is snappier even with uBlock and SmartHTTPS enabled. I also enjoy features like the "Switch" popup bar when you open a new tab, once I have to use Chrome again for that one random webs
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by gravitas 7y ago
Github link: https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger
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Dillinger: Online open source WYSIWYG dual-pane Markdown editor(dillinger.io)
3 points by gravitas 7y ago|1 comments
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by gravitas 7y ago
For me, I learned the word from the Jargon file first where it explains it was from the book, I then read the book later on in life. http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/grok.html
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by gravitas 7y ago
`command` is a bash builtin, not an external program. The information is in the bash man page (which is hard to find in there because the word "command" is in the man page 7 bajillion times. Look in the major section "SHELL B
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by gravitas 7y ago
LinkedIn already allows discreet control over your profile's public visibility along with the ability to micro-manage some of it, the URL you're looking for: https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/settings
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by gravitas 7y ago
> 612 grams of silver is $342 today Subtle, but this is spot price - typically the price negotiated by large institutions based on large transfers. Individuals in the $300 range of silver buying pay premiums on top of that which scales d
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by gravitas 7y ago
Not arguing, but since this news article is a specific link to the Debian Security tracker - the package is `libjackson2-databind-java` on Debian, presumably similar on others. If it was installed via package manager, `dpkg -l | grep jackso
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by gravitas 7y ago
I find it... odd that an article on font rendering is using a 14px forced font size (default: 16px) making the article really hard to read on my 14" laptop screen from a foot away. Subpixel antialiasing on my LCD screen is just not my
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by gravitas 7y ago
Question after reading comments here on how check-kiting works, does the promise of Zelle combat this technique? or is it just a fancy digital wrapper around ACH and is still vulnerable to check-kiting as a concept?
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by gravitas 7y ago
Opinion: what we need is a better Android mobile app for LibraryThing[1], the already-exists alt-Goodreads. If you're an avid reader, there's a lot to be said for a service such as Goodreads or LibraryThing which handles the ISBN

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