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by hjek 9y ago
As xbkingx is writing, it would seem like Windows version of Gimp has some serious performance issues. I'm mainly running Gimp in Debian on a laptop with 512 MB RAM, and the performance is pretty OK (as long as I don't go above 15
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by hjek 9y ago
> And most people do not care one iota about whether a piece of software is "free" or not. Can "most people" afford paying $600 yearly fee to edit images? Are "most people" concerned if they fail to make a y
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by hjek 9y ago
> 2. a good vector graphics app Check out Scribus. I'd describe it as more of a serious publishing app, where Inkscape may be more for artists. Scribus uses less resources and supports multipage documents. I've also had issues
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by hjek 9y ago
Yes. As the hosts file redirects to localhosts, you can run a local server, displaying a notification. As root: while true; do printf "blocked by hosts file" |nc -q 1 -l -p 80; done
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by hjek 9y ago
I also went from Geany to Vim. I found Geany really useful when I'd just started programming, as it has some useful features, like file browser, symbol list and terminal window, while not being as overwhelming as Eclipse with its proje
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by hjek 9y ago
The PsDoom version that is linked to on the page doesn't work. Here's an actively maintained fork: https://github.com/orsonteodoro/psdoom-ng1
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Using Spell Checking in Vim(linux.com)
2 points by hjek 9y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 9y ago
Yes, but in a flippin <script> tag. Is this to weed out the readers who don't have JavaScript enabled? Luckily Links2 supports neither JavaScript nor CSS. People in China should start using that, as to not take part in The Great
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by hjek 9y ago
> an arcane language like Scheme, which the students are bound to almost never encounter in real-world usage Posted on a site running on MzScheme.
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by hjek 9y ago
I agree completely with your observation about Google EEE here. Just wanted to say that you can read HTML emails in Mutt by having a browser, like Links2 or Lynx, do the formatting. https://www.marksanborn.net/howto/rea
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by hjek 9y ago
It's even got bindings for Chicken Scheme: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/nuklear
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Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Popcorn Time Information(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by hjek 9y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 9y ago
Honey is clearly an animal product as it is made by bees. Simple. https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/why-honey-not-vegan > There are even people that will argue that shellfish are suitable for vegans to eat You c
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by hjek 9y ago
Tox is also worth checking out. Decentralized, supports video calls, and you're automagically given an ID without having to provide any personal data. https://tox.chat
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by hjek 9y ago
It's actually the same implementation used there. (See Help -> About Paint)
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by hjek 9y ago
Pinta comes close to that, and is free software, unlike Paint.NET. https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/
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by hjek 9y ago
I think the non-web app that comes closest to MS Paint in functionality is GrafX2. Only other paint program I've seen that has selection-as-a-brush. http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 The interface is a bit diff
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by hjek 9y ago
Today the author added support for transparency, and thereby also shift+left-click brushes from current selection. My most favourite MS Paint feature. https://github.com/1j01/jspaint/issues/23#issuecomment-358
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JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake(jspaint.ml)
906 points by hjek 9y ago|248 comments
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by hjek 9y ago
True! I fixed that issue in the community maintained HN version here, https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/commit/0d6cea75d902899... Would be nice if HN would fix it, too. I always browse HN using the links2
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by hjek 9y ago
> Cutter is not aimed at existing radare2 users. It instead focuses on those whose are not yet radare2 users because of the learning curve, because they don't like CLI applications or because of the difficulty/instability of ra
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by hjek 9y ago
It's hexdump. It outputs a hexdump alongside ASCII rendering (when possible) of a file. In Debian it's in the `bsdmainutils` package. I found it very useful for doing the initial guess work about the binary printer control languag
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by hjek 9y ago
SABLE is pretty advanced. It is a "XML-based [language that] allows users to add addition controlling commands in text to affect the output." https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/festival_demos/sable.html It&#x27
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by hjek 9y ago
I was trying to use radare2 some time ago when reverse engineering a printer driver. I couldn't grok it, so I gave up and just used `hd` and `grep`.
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by hjek 9y ago
> Javascript is required for viewing, please enable. Someone should tell them about progressive enhancement .
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Show HN: Search Bar for Hackernews (in Anarki, a Fork of Arc Lisp)(github.com)
1 points by hjek 9y ago|0 comments
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by hjek 9y ago
Yup, https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bjekedpipaedojkb...
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by hjek 9y ago
Links2. http://links.twibright.com No, it doesn't show PDFs or videos, but does that belong in the browser anyway?
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by hjek 9y ago
Give Searx a look, for example at https://searx.me , but there's many other public instances running, because -- unlike DDG -- it's fully free software, https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ Of course
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by hjek 9y ago
Really? I'll give it a try. Thanks.

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