grey_earthling

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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Or you can prepend "farside.link/" — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154536
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
A link to an alternative front-end, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154536
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I use a redirection extension to prepend " https://farside.link/_/ " to certain domains. For example: https://twitter.com/nasa …becomes: https://farside.link/_/twitter.com&
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Farside: A smart redirecting gateway for various front end services(sr.ht)
2 points by grey_earthling 3y ago|1 comments
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
This object is “2002 VE68”; “2002 VE” is the designation of a different minor planet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_designation_in_a...
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Celestia is a rare Linux app not on Flathub, but it is available from Fedora's Flatpak repo, which in theory should be usable on any distro: https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/discussions/198
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
If yt-dlp works, you can also use Celluloid to watch videos from Youtube — choose Open Location and enter the URL of the YouTube video or playlist page. => https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp => https://f
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Problem: a proprietary service Solution: another proprietary service
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Also on Flathub: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.github.Anuken.Mindustry
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
That's a standard part of Gnome! Gnome's Console and Web browser also use it, plus some third-party apps like Wike.
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Cactus Comments – Federated Web Comments(cactus.chat)
2 points by grey_earthling 3y ago|0 comments
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I know some of this is personal taste, but to me macOS really doesn't feel finessed. It feels confusing, distracting and annoying. I suppose a large part of the problem is that I want a useful tool, whereas macOS is designed to be a li
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I suppose it depends on whether their more important goal is to provide the best possible service to their customers, or to make the most possible profit.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
If I understand correctly, they're moving development to GitHub, and not hosting their own git servers. So you'd need a GitHub (Microsoft) account to merge a change to the code.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Now would be a good moment for OpenStreetMap to make the Tracestrack Topo layer their default view — it's much clearer than their current default; even more so when compared to Google's attempt. => https://www.openst
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Switching to Git makes sense, but choosing GitHub is diametrically opposed to what Mozilla claim their principles are — specifically principle 6 of the Mozilla Manifesto: “The effectiveness of the internet as a public resource depends upon
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Yeah, that seems fair. Though I suppose a limited licence grant is slightly more complex of an arrangement. If it's any consolation, compared to a month ago when everything was permissively-licensed, Element is no more or less able to
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Element requiring a CLA has only 1 practical effect: Element are effectively saying that in their repo of Synapse/Dendrite, they won't integrate any copyleft code they can't relicense. Other organisations could still choose
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
While this may make Flathub unsuitable for you, there are other Flatpak repos. Fedora and PureOS each offer their own Flatpak repos, which presumably follow those distros' security policies, so they may be more useful than Flathub for
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Dividing the Unix time by 100,000 produces a (currently) 5-digit number that increments every ~28 hours, and behaves pleasingly like a stardate. (It doesn't align with any of the various stardate systems actually used in the different
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Yes, it's a GNOME app in the sense that it was intended to be used with GNOME. In the same way, Netscape 6 is a Windows app. I don't think it's fair to judge GNOME's quality based on 1 app that targets the platform.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Historically it was a GNOME app, but it isn't any more. All apps that are currently part of GNOME are listed at https://apps.gnome.org ; File Roller isn't there.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
No, it isn't a core part of the GNOME desktop. It's not in the Core Apps list at https://apps.gnome.org/ . It's just an app that describes itself as being ”for GNOME”.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
KDE letting me change little things is exactly what causes me to quickly lose my focus :) It's good that there are 2 distinct, competitive desktop environments, that each suit different people well.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
File Roller isn't a GNOME app: https://apps.gnome.org/
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> It says if you modify the code you must distribute it. It doesn't. It says if you modify the code and make the modified binary available as a service, then you must share the modified code with users of the service. You're
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
A useful habit (which I think I picked up while studying physics at sixth-form) is to describe temperature intervals in “Celsius degrees” (and specific temperatures in “degrees Celsius”). So a temperature of 43 degrees Celsius is 18 Celsius
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> Linux isn't there yet to allow average users to upgrade major distribution versions. Which distro was this? The major-version-upgrade flow is very different for different distros. IMO it would be difficult to make upgrading betwee
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
In GNOME you can switch off overlay scrollbars in Settings > Accessibility > Seeing.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Oh, upright! I was expecting something like the Walkcar.

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