jcynix

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by jcynix 4y ago
> But how much time do you spend dealing with that? Is it worth it? Not much, maybe on hour per month at most. I've been running Postfix on a dedicated server for 20+ years and don't need much time dealing with it. But I'v
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You might want to try out "window tidy" which allows to define arrangements of windows: https://www.lightpillar.com/window-tidy.html
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I just started to experiment with EndeavourOS, a prepackaged version of Arch. Looks nice so far. https://endeavouros.com/about-us/
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I recently saw a book whose title (in German) was "Life doesn't gave a reverse gear" ... which simply means one cannot go back and change things. But you are young and have many decades left which you can use to do what you n
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And then there's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wensenf (lion's mustard) my preferred variety. A bit "sweeter" than the Dijon variants, bur equally strong.
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> You're probably more or less on your own in terms of figuring it out [...] Sure, but as I'm not a good hardware tinkerer, ... but maybe I should visit some local self-repair community group and learn. Symbolics produced a nub
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Oh, yes, Symbolics Genera, loved it, miss it. And miss the keyboard with its control, meta, super and hyper keys. I actually do have one keyboard in my archive of things (aka "stuff" ;-), but I have no idea how to interface it to
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In my day job I use Thunderbird on a Mac, with HTML turned off. Because too many colleagues send Office attachments. So you don't need to use a command line to turn HTML off (but neither do you need to be afraid to use it CLI ;-) Citat
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Email does suck, at least HTML email. And that's not just because HTML was and still is the wrong markup tool for email. I'm reading most of my mail with mutt on the command line and that works quite well. Until … some email with
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I'm quite happy with Termux on Android. Allows me to rsync my data for backup or imports, I can ssh into real Linux machines, process images with ImageMagick, etc. Sharing documents from inside other apps works too (you can set up scri
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Hmm, here is someone who would have loved E2E for his emails (and images in the cloud): Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32560361 Given t
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Erasing a hard disc (i.e. spinning rust, not solid state ones) before retiring it is a proper use case. Linux/Unix example: dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8mb of=/dev/sda Note: this is a trivial example, which could
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Nice, but neither produces any output in Materialistic (Hackernews reader on Android) nor the Duckduckgo browser. Does play in Google Chrome. All on Android 11.
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> Not everyone will have set email up on the phone. Exactly. And not everyone accepts HTML E-Mail, i.e. I really hate these "endless" state carrying URLs, which wrap around in my 99 chars wide terminal windows. A short SHA-xxx
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Spinning rust isn't all that bad. I get 250 MB/s while sychronously (i.e. fsync/fdatasync) writing 384 GB to an Ultrastar DC HC550 (inside a WD Elements 18TB enclosure) connected via USB-3.
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I really like StreetComplete, and tend to use it while taking a walk or hiking, but ... the last time I used it, adding info about sidewalks was annoying. Legt? Right? But no Option to say "on both sides" ... need to check the läs
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I find the firewall app Netguard "quite reasonable" as an adblocker on unrooted Android. The default for all apps I use is 'block access' and right now most apps continue to work. Those that won't work get deleted u
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> I do not care about the OS anymore, I can upgrade/reinstall in a breeze. I actually now run Arch to be independent of upgrades and just roll. Interesting. Do you have any links to howtos or beginner's guides to such a setup?
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Multiple profiles in parallel? Sure, you can start multiple instances of Firefox in parallel from the command line and use them with different profiles. I do that (on a Mac) regularly. Works under Windows too, IIRC.
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From the description, the flowers weren't offered as a gift, but he asked her to hold them. And then disappeared. Just think of someone asking you told hold his stuff for a moment and then disappears. Now you have to care for something
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They where used for Chaosnet, which was, for example, implemented and usef on lisp machines from Symbolucs and others. cf. https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html
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by jcynix 5y ago
I regularly use "caffeinate rsync ..." to make sure that syncing finishes before the Macbook is allowed to sleep. So caffeinate just prevents sleeping until rsync terminates. You can tell caffeinate to watch for other processes to
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by jcynix 5y ago
Executive summary: I simply will use a second smartphone to record things going on on my primary smartphone if needed (and legal, of course). So Google, what does this restriction deliver besides frustration? I moved from IOS to Android som
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Baader-Meinhoffing? IMHO this should not be used as a verb, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction for some background.
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Interesting observation. They display the price before asking for account details like place of residence. Sounds like a "job" for a VPN then?
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I've been a student member a long time ago and cancelled my membership in the 90s when work differed very much from research, which was ACM's main point in ny opinion. Nowadays access to O'Reilly's bookshelves for member
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OK. I was in bed already when writing this, so didn't properly describe the features of physical keys I value. And, btw, most of the time it's a lightweight laptop, not a tablet. "Tablet" was a "placeholder" fo
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Photos can try to document a partial truth. But as soon as you compare a photo with the real world where it was taken, you might realize subtle or not so subtle differences. For example, I always wonder what was behind the photographer who
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Not just companies. I somtimes do this at home to save bandwidth / download time and then install software from usb stick.
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You cannot move the fake window out of its parent, but you can do this with a proper popup window. So it can be "catched" but this is (at least) inconvenient and easy to forget. As is 2FA, e.g. when I'm using a tablet in bed

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