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by japanoise 7y ago
That's probably for the best. Writing init scripts is easy enough for that small percentage of users (like gp) who really need it. Good choice on Debian's part, imho.
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by japanoise 7y ago
1984 is a great book, but I wish more who invoke it had read it or understood it.
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by japanoise 7y ago
That more seems like there's a hole in the market for a better gui.
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by japanoise 7y ago
I'm reminded of one of my favorite music videos: https://youtu.be/fTH71AAxXmM
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by japanoise 7y ago
And that's why wayland will never replace X
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by japanoise 7y ago
It's pretty popular in more casual circles. I'm pretty sure it's still the chosen format for videogame mods and the like
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by japanoise 7y ago
Think about what you'd use the os for. In general I'd say: Programming tools (text editor, assembler, compiler) Simple office software (spreadsheet, database) Multimedia (music/video player, image viewer/editor) Toys (si
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by japanoise 7y ago
He's become somewhat controversial due to his worldview and political writings, which include climate change denial
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by japanoise 7y ago
J is one of the strangest programming languages I've ever tried. I would reccomend giving it a go, though I wouldn't personally write actual software in it.
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by japanoise 7y ago
Well, on dvorak, the quote key is where the q is on qwerty, so you certainly won't be accidentally hitting return!
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by japanoise 7y ago
I kinda sorta use a local rss client myself, based on a screenshot I saw on someone's website: https://git.sr.ht/~japanoise/feedbag I'd be interested in other folk's take on this.
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by japanoise 7y ago
That's a cute analogy. Sounds like my maternal and paternal grandfathers :)
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by japanoise 7y ago
This is excellent! I'll be using this for my OSR sandbox campaign for sure! Note that if you want to use this for a hexcrawl, the hexes it generates are 50mi on their short diagonal - this means they fit five (four and two halves) 6 mi
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by japanoise 7y ago
This looks rather like an ebook written with pandoc[1]; if you don't mind, what prompted you to write your own rather than using an existing format? [1]: https://pandoc.org/epub.html
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by japanoise 7y ago
We have that in the UK, and unfortunately it doesn't work very well. Obviously the UK is different to the States in a number of ways, but you might want to watch Shaun's video on the subject: https://youtu.be/nP95F
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by japanoise 7y ago
This looks really useful, thanks for sharing!
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by japanoise 7y ago
Great article. I will definitely be subscribing to your feed.
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by japanoise 7y ago
>…the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it. - torvalds
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by japanoise 7y ago
There's a comparison in the linked article.
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by japanoise 7y ago
We need a web anti-browser, which only has a "reader mode"
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by japanoise 7y ago
Even more shameless: I used it as a base for my own ersatz-emacs in golang! https://github.com/japanoise/gomacs This is actually my go-to editor for small files/quick edits now
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by japanoise 7y ago
Yeah I learned Perl in 2013 or so and I almost exclusively use it as a better shell+sed for text munging, which is where it excels. In my experience Python is super bad at this compared to Perl or even shell
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by japanoise 7y ago
Your most recent article, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=3440 is tagged bitcoin, and in fact if I click on the tag, I see an awful lot of articles written in the last few months http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=42
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by japanoise 7y ago
Loper-os seems to suffer from the same problems as a lot of "unix hater"/lisp weenie types: while he does point out real flaws in the computing of today, he seriously lacks in a competent, coherent, non-vaporware alternative.
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by japanoise 7y ago
Profitable, maybe, but better than before? No. YouTube's culture and ux have slowly been killed by Google over the years, and the platform is becoming more bland and homogenized as we speak.
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by japanoise 7y ago
Some people use Tumblr for this; it's where I copped the term "microblog" from. Maybe mine was more like a nanoblog...
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by japanoise 7y ago
This reminds me of a microblog I used to keep; I had one `blog.html` page, and added to it with an `<h2>` for the date and a few paragraphs of text... good memories :)
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by japanoise 7y ago
>We now use smartphones and tablets most of the time, since they are much easier to use. ... With people switching to mobile devices for mundane tasks... Who are these people and for what tasks? Afaict, except for email and Facebook, the
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by japanoise 7y ago
The problem isn't change per se, but change for the negative brought on by mainstream exposure leading to an influx of new members who don't learn the ettiquette of the community before joining in. An analogy would be if HN was su
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by japanoise 7y ago
If you're willing to pay, that really helps. There are countless mail services that are way better than gmail while also not spying on you.

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