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by jjrh 9y ago
If the revenue generating nonsense (ads, tracking, etc) weren't on the web they would creep in where every they could. At least on the web we can fairly easily block the majority of ads. I liked simple text pages of the past but I also
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by jjrh 9y ago
Plenty of companies use FOSS libraries,languages and tools outside the web - never to contribute anything back. And there is nothing wrong with that as long as the license is respected. That said many companies do contribute back and in the
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by jjrh 9y ago
Not sure who "The powers that be" are, but anyone can propose and contribute to IETF standards. They are called "Request for Comment" for a reason.
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by jjrh 9y ago
I'd tend to agree, but I think it really depends on what the person is doing/what the end goal is.
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by jjrh 9y ago
I wish someone would give this kind of love to emacs. emacs's gui is sufficient but really doesn't take advantage of any of the features a GUI offers.
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by jjrh 9y ago
The main issue I have heard is when something goes wrong it's very very difficult to find the cause. There are legitimate issues with systemd and it's not hard to find some good writeups on the technical (and design) objections. I
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by jjrh 9y ago
You can pretty much use any keyboard you want with USB. I used to use my tablet with one of those usb thinkpad keyboards - thin and easy to carry around. For my phone - I looked at some folding Bluetooth keyboards on aliexpress which /
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by jjrh 9y ago
I think the other point is we have decades and decades of code at this point written in C, or built on top of C. In some regards 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' holds quite a bit of truth. The embedded world may start t
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by jjrh 9y ago
> I often see people going way out of their way, making their work much more time-consuming, because of their everlasting pursuit of writing the fastest damn program they possibly can. Problem is you have the complete opposite on the oth
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by jjrh 9y ago
It's awesome to see they are so gung ho to get work started. Here's hoping the librem gets funded and things get on track on the hardware side.
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by jjrh 9y ago
> IRC was just too techy for tech and non-tech teams to collaborate. There are PLENTY of other chat protocols other than IRC. Not sure why people always make the comparison. IRC would be a poor choice for a workplace. XMPP is a pretty go
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by jjrh 9y ago
Is it IRCv3? http://ircv3.net/ Is the plan to update RFC 2813 and RFC 1459? Either way neat, and good luck. Like it or not, IRC is certainly going to be around for a long long time. It's going to be a long time before
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by jjrh 9y ago
Why not XMPP though? Why hang onto IRC? I mean sure this is cool but it's client specific features with no standardisation of the protocol (correct me if i'm wrong). If I have to install a special client (quassel) to access these
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by jjrh 9y ago
> Not having to manage a server Seems odd you would want to have you're internal company discussions hosted on a server outside your control. It's especially relevant to companies outside the USA who might not want to have thei
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by jjrh 9y ago
> If you find that your chat apps are not providing you with any value, maybe you're using them for stupid purposes like sharing funny pictures & this mornings cool tech blog post, or you're subscribed to the support channe
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by jjrh 9y ago
Chat is a business tool because they are a middle ground between email which a delay is expected and a phone call which is immediate and disruptive. Chat is supposed to be for quick questions, group discussions, alerts, etc. Turn off notifi
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by jjrh 9y ago
I understand physical keyboards aren't really a thing for most folks. What I wish though is that someone would make sliding keyboard cases for either more models (only one I saw was for iphone) or something generic that I could clip on
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by jjrh 9y ago
I think a extra bar or indicator (that could be removed with a commandline option or conf) with some reminders could be useful. The problem is you do crontab -e or something similar on a new or foreign system and get into vim and are now st
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by jjrh 9y ago
> "refuse to adapt to a more expected convention for exiting it." so forget about all the people who have used vi for decades? It might make sense to have a bar at the bottom or top with some of the very very basic commands a n
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by jjrh 9y ago
You can make the argument that they want to encourage you to submit patches to the project which is on github. It's kinda the same deal with GNU Emacs which bundles a whole bunch of stuff that is directly related to the GNU project. Re
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by jjrh 9y ago
Well this probably isn't going to succeed where others failed, but the idea is good. I'm glad someone is trying to move forward with the idea of using the very capable computer in your pocket as more than a phone. I mean my curren
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by jjrh 9y ago
I don't disagree, it's not exactly a uncommon practice. I think Raspberry pi for instance does this. Not defending it, totally stupid, just pointing out they aren't alone in this. The fact passwords are on by default for sshd
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by jjrh 10y ago
Javascript and a browser is essentially that.
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by jjrh 10y ago
I believe slack does have a IRC gateway. A webbased irc client that doesn't suck (and keeps a channel log) would probably be a good solution to making things easy for people unfamiliar with IRC. Some sort of one click setup for a chann
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by jjrh 10y ago
> This sounds more like "the vast majority of software developers like me" and I'm not sure how much value there is in debating something like that. Mark me down for "disagree". I'm not a fan of this, but le
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by jjrh 10y ago
These boxes are advertised all over the place, Kijiji, facebook, hell there is a advertisement in my elevator for one. Can you blame folks for thinking that if it's being advertised all over the place and sold in local stores, it MUST
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by jjrh 10y ago
Call the bank or who ever is in charge of the terminal. I think they would be pretty eager to get down there and recover the device and remove the pin capturing method (camera, keypad overlay, etc). If for whatever reason that didn't w
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by jjrh 10y ago
> It looks to me that it is rather another pathetic attempt to lock people into their hardware, with only Apple approved earphones being compatible with the iphone, etc... It reminds me of a much more agressive attempt apple made way bac