grey_earthling

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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> There will be fewer flights This is the only thing that matters for sustainability.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Iceraven is a similar (in principle) fork of Firefox for Android. => https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Yes. But the UI is much clunkier than the excellent Android version.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Steam works out-of-the-box in Fedora Silverblue, via Flathub. Ubuntu avoids Flatpak for strategic reasons, which is a valid choice that might make sense for developers, but it also makes Ubuntu less easy-to-use for people who just want to u
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> Abstract concepts - The language seems to skate over complex philosophical or scientific ideas. You won't find an easy way to express ideas like "justice" or "quantum". It's a testament to its minimalist d
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I enjoyed this one, from their homepage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANYMii3Sypg
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
The pre-1.0 releases were functional (they were derived from the Mozilla App Suite) and relatively popular. I used Thunderbird 0.2, which Wikipedia says would have been in 2003.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> they are never going to write the documentation, do the testing, or provide the certifications that make a RHEL release a RHEL release. That's precisely what I'm suggesting they attempt. > The point releases of a RHEL fork
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I would have thought that all the documentation and tutorials would apply equally to CentOS Stream — as I understand it, the only real difference is the schedule for releasing minor patches and bugfixes. Is it the case that RHEL provides va
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
If I were Rocky, Alma, Oracle and/or SUSE, I'd be collaborating to define our own point-release schedule off CentOS Stream*, and trying to make our blessèd commits usurp Red Hat's as industry standard. * with blackjack! and
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I still don't really understand why being RHEL-compatible as opposed to CentOS Stream-compatible is so important (except in the specific case where you're running RHEL in production, e.g. on desktops, and need bug-compatible pre-p
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Yes, I do! Good point!
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I also use this (but for Firefox) and I always forget quite how obnoxious the “real” thumbnails are until I see YouTube on another device — it's the same disorientation as seeing a browser without an ad-blocker, or an OEM Android or Wi
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
If Apple want to argue that the logos are confusingly similar, well OK then: the newer company should be obliged to change their logo.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Of course the wisest thing to spend it on would be integrating a proprietary competitor to Wallabag. That's exactly what the open web needs most.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
The U.S. economy and welfare state are quite dissimilar to the UK.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> This whole idea is stupid. How about giving proper financial support for parents and covering all expenses for raising a child — like a universal basic income — > and not just give away money to lazy people who don't want to wo
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
It depends what you're writing the text for. If someone's going to read it thoughtfully, you still need to write it thoughtfully, and AI is at best a fancy Oblique Strategies tool. If no-one will actually care what you write becau
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> “Monotype fonts which have been specially adapted to these recommendations carry the name affix "1450".” Even this isn't wholly clear. They should have said: > “Monotype fonts that have been specially adapted to these
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
This is a great way to freak people out and make them distrust you — move their stuff while they're not looking.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
arewefishyyet.com is available.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
And SeaMonkey is still very recognisably the same program as Mozilla Suite 1.0 from 2002.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Ah, this is just a client for remote services, which aren't necessarily open source or trustworthy. Clear labelling of anti-features (like “relies on non-Free network services”) really is a killer feature of F-Droid. I hope Flathub cop
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I thought BlueSky was a protocol, not just a service. How can there be only one instance of a protocol?
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I don't understand how this relates to git.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Presumably this can't be a complete firehose — just the data known to a finite list of popular instances.
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
I'm not sure they fled IE as such. They saw a link (advert) on Google that said “make your internet better” and they clicked it. Yes, some techies actively chose Chrome knowing full-well what the alternatives were, but I'm pretty
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
> Microsoft needs to get their brand straight and decide, once and for all, what they stand for. They stand for weary resignation. Same as Google and Amazon. For most people, they're just there, and you can't not use them, so w
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
Drawing fits that description, but it isn't really comparable to Krita — the authors describe it as like MS Paint but for Gnome. Pinta seems similar, but more Xfce-ish. => https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/ =
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by grey_earthling 3y ago
In the UK, “Lego” is treated as a mass noun, whereas the U.S. always seems to treat it as countable, “Legos”. Historically “pease” was a mass noun, before it became the countable noun “peas”. Drinks can be either, if the unit is assumable:

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