jamienicol

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by jamienicol 6y ago
I'll continue to put my software under the GPL until I'm convinced a different license would be better. But along with many others I certainly won't be contributing to an FSF project.
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by jamienicol 6y ago
What about people that love free software, but are appalled that RMS was reappointed to the board. Where should we go?
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Clunky interface aside (a given with emacs), what's wrong with package-list-packages and customize? It's essentially no different to installing and configuring packages in vscode. Why do you think use-package is necessary?
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Personally, having my sensitive data under my own control (but internet facing) terrifies me. I know enough to know that there are risks, and yet wouldn't have a clue about how to make it secure.
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by jamienicol 6y ago
The rating is increasing so the positive ratio is far higher than 50/50. There was an extremely vocal minority who left lots of negative reviews after the switch, and yes many of them may now be gone. But clearly new users are happy wi
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by jamienicol 6y ago
The reviews on the play store are extremely positive
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by jamienicol 6y ago
That's the same argument Emacs developers use to justify alt (sorry, "meta") + w as copy. But it's a terrible argument. (In the Mac case at least using cmd+c is superior, and even works in Emacs!)
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Like so often on HN when this comes up, you fail to even get the basic facts right. Such as which CEO was "kicked out". And it certainly wasn't for far less
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by jamienicol 6y ago
The only one of those that's plausibly "adversarial" is telemetry (and I strongly disagree about that). The rest are just settings for which you don't want the defaults
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Presumably you're fine with tracking adverts all over the web then? God forbid Mozilla try to make some money (to pay their developers, not for profit) whilst preserving your privacy.
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Another good trick in emacs (if using git and magit) is `magit-find-file HEAD <file>`, then you can edit in one window and see the old version in the other
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by jamienicol 6y ago
> The best thing to me even at a game is to go, hang out, relax, talk shit with your friends, and watch the game. Not have the game take up all of your attention. If the sport is actually engaging and doesn't stop every 2 minutes th
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by jamienicol 6y ago
To follow the analogy, having the choice of Chrome and edge is like having the choice of Google android and Samsung Android. I don't want either, I want a real FOSS browser (and mobile OS)
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Mozilla employee here. A donation to Mozilla Foundation can't be spent on Firefox development. So if you want to specifically help Firefox then yes, pocket or VPN are the best ways to do that. It still won't go 100% towards Firefo
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by jamienicol 6y ago
I can't recall any issues with texture arrays on angle, though there may have been. certainly on macos and especially on mobile. We only have to break the batch if the avatars are in separate textures and they overlap, so it isn&#x27
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Firefox / webrender developer here. We used to use texture arrays, but we ran in to countless driver bugs with them so have stopped. Back when we were using arrays, we indeed "resized" them as you describe. When they became l
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by jamienicol 6y ago
"X11 works perfectly there was no need for Wayland"
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by jamienicol 6y ago
> move somewhere freedom of speech isn't permitted We're on hackernews, where comments are indeed moderated
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Brendan Eich wasn't replaced by the current CEO though. Nor was he fired. Nor was it just because of [his] politics. Nor does that article say what you think it does. But whatever, think what you like.
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Sorry, didn't check my replies. I'm also outside of the US and honestly find your reply quite baffling. That quote about Clinton is not in any way "saying the election was rigged and that the result must be fought and overtur
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by jamienicol 6y ago
You are under an incorrect impression then
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Especially since listening to the radio doesn't require a TV license anyway, so it's not like only watching catch-up TV to avoid needing one.
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by jamienicol 6y ago
The blindingly obvious difference is that nobody was saying the 2016 election was rigged and that the result must be fought and overturned.
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Sure, there's no such thing as context. Quite the imagination you've got there.
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Who said anything about "can only"?
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Everything he's tweeted since election day has been inciting violence. In fact since much earlier, since he was trying to delegitimise the election long before it happened. If a democratic election has genuinely been stolen then what o
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by jamienicol 6y ago
The key word is "incite"
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by jamienicol 6y ago
I agree with your assessment of Johnson, but I don't think the majority of the country (or perhaps more importantly conservative voters) do
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Sweden's economy was also hit hard. Like many young people I don't want to catch covid. I'm not "shielding", but even if there were no restrictions in place I'd still be working from home and contributing far l
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by jamienicol 6y ago
Because they claimed that elderly patients were sent to care homes. I guess you could argue this is "fact based" in that it's a distortion of the facts. Because they argued that comparing Sweden to it's similar neighbour

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