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by jboynyc 12y ago
I just installed it. This might become my replacement for dwb, which sadly seems to no longer be developed. I also use Firefox with Vimperator and I've tried Vimium on Chrome, but both are obviously tacked on.
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by jboynyc 12y ago
For a collection of GitHub alternatives (broadly speaking), including Kallithea, you can consult this list: http://jboy.silk.co/tag/github%20alternatives
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by jboynyc 12y ago
Very cool. There's a video on the painting in the excellent Smarthistory collection: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformati...
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The First Wave Power Plant Is Officially Operational(motherboard.vice.com)
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Two Steps to Obfuscation(arxiv.org)
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by jboynyc 12y ago
There's also a great free (SIL-licensed) typeface for signage: http://pixelspread.com/allerta/
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by jboynyc 12y ago
The Cuckoo's Egg is nonfiction, based on Stoll's work as a sysadmin. It tells the other side of the story portrayed in the German cult film 23 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28film%29 ). I have defende
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by jboynyc 12y ago
"Happiness writes white" has always been one of my favorite cliches.
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The digital is a place to hide(blogs.ssrc.org)
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The digital is a place to hide(blogs.ssrc.org)
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Wall Street's irresponsible behavior -- several orders of magnitude more irresponsible than making the wrong dietary choices -- cost the American public quite dearly around 2008, remember?
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That's a great idea. I use Livestreamer for that purpose. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/livestreamer/1.10.2
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by jboynyc 12y ago
Agreed. But I got a laugh out of the fact that the least valuable "evergreen" is called "Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce." So that's what that guy is on...
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Free Software, Free Labor, and the Freelancer(teleogistic.net)
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My Hacker, My Source, My Snitch(medium.com)
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Yes, it is. National ism as a political ideology just likes to pretend as though it weren't.
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by jboynyc 12y ago
"Enormous timespan"? I think if you take some history into account you will reconsider that. We tend to project the existence of a construct called Germany backward in time, but Germany did not really come into existence until a b
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Making Connections to Facebook More Secure(facebook.com)
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A searchable collection of websites archived by Stanford University(wayback.stanford.edu)
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Matt Taibi Has Left First Look(firstlook.org)
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by jboynyc 12y ago
Along similar lines, an excellent article on the gendered nature of content moderation work from earlier this year: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hate-sinks/
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Google hires camel for desert Street View(edition.cnn.com)
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Hangul (한글)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Hundreds of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths(buzzfeed.com)
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It is not, because it is not "designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge" in the sense that it seeks to communicate to wider scholarly publics.
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Facebook and OkCupid Broke the Law When They Experimented on Users(medium.com)
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Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Marcuse, Habermas etc. are definitely not "postmodern." (Said, on the other hand, often is considered po-mo.) Even if they were, you shouldn't simply dismiss them as "garbage."
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by jboynyc 12y ago
The App Suite provided by mailbox.org is quite good, but I'm not sure how well it does with collaboration.
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by jboynyc 12y ago
This keeps coming up in recent months. I suggest you look through what folks have been recommending. Discussion about KeePass: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7174595 Discussion about Pass: https://news.ycom
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Patent on linked lists(google.com)
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