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by josteink 6y ago
There’s the whole X86 arena of middle ground. Most people don’t need a Mac.
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by josteink 6y ago
> Bugs have been reported with IE 1.5 Not sure if that is a joke or not, but I do like it :D
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by josteink 6y ago
> It’s as if they’re running a gigantic-scale, totally unique collaboration platform No it’s a centralized SaaS IM/chat platform with a very slow web client and no native clients, because it’s not a standardised internet protocol su
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by josteink 6y ago
> But now you don't have granular sharing mechanisms Many (Windows) apps support OLE/COM-based objects which can be copied, mixed and processed in between applications. This allows the clipboard to hold rich objects and not jus
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by josteink 6y ago
> not thinking about files And I hate app-data not being files, not being portable. My data may be stuck inside a SaaS and only accessible through a closed-source app, and I have nothing to say about it. > Real sandboxing, with a nice
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by josteink 6y ago
If you want to fight centralized censorship, there's really one thing missing on your list: https://joinpeertube.org/
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by josteink 6y ago
> Just like the initial iPhone needed one carrier to get things right Except for the rest of the world, which did just fine. Apple tried to do US-like deals with European carriers and it was just so fundamentally incompatible with the Eu
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by josteink 6y ago
That's lots of "yes, however, why, what about, etc", except the one true question which should be answered: What value is Apache OpenOffice providing to anyone, anywhere right now ? Why should we have to expend mental effort
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by josteink 6y ago
Sounds okish and very nicely priced. Too bad it seemingly relies so much on Siri. I haven’t been able to make Siri play me any music what so ever, despite multiple attempts. Once I’ve started playing, I can’t even make Siri skip tracks forw
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by josteink 6y ago
It’s completely broken. You can’t even select text. Might as well just make it one long-ass video.
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by josteink 6y ago
Why do men who code have to be "bros", and why does it have to be a bad thing that guys like to work in IT? Are we derogatively saying that the "hos" are increasingly taking the doctor-positions? Of course not, because t
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by josteink 6y ago
> Try pasting this into your URL bar. If your browser is nice with you, you should be able to use Ctrl+B or Ctrl+I to make text look bold or italic. No. On most normal browser this triggers the bookmarks-bar and in case of Firefox, the P
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by josteink 6y ago
I see snap is used over apt to install bpftrace and friends. Any reason to not use apt here? I’d think for something kernel-related you want to use tools provided by the same package-tree as the kernel itself.
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by josteink 6y ago
> It is often difficult or untenable to "step aside" and pass along the baton because there's nobody seriously available to take it on. Then you step down . If you’re burnt out and the project no longer gives you joy, you
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by josteink 6y ago
I keep seeing these kind of threads popping up here on hacker news, where people are lamenting the pains and sufferings of open source maintainers. I agree about the base problem: open source maintainers do lots of work and they are not get
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by josteink 6y ago
> I love it. Because I don't notice it exists. It just does its job, like a TV should. Yes. This should be the goal of any good product. Nowadays, every single time I’ve had to help my wife with the TV (you have to help people with
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by josteink 6y ago
> That said, I'm not sure this year can be salvaged. It's not clear whether all the existing spammers will get the message. I think the biggest problem DO will have to address somehow is that Hacktoberfest now has become such a
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by josteink 6y ago
> just so some people can get a tshirt, not sure it's worth it. That’s looking at things a wee bit one-dimensional isn’t it? Until this year Hacktoberfest has been a fun event where people of all levels of skill has learned how one
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by josteink 6y ago
Nonsense. At the time MSIE was the best, the fastest and most featured (API wise) which is why people started developing for it exclusively. Do you see a recognisable pattern here? Do you get a sense of deja vu?
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by josteink 6y ago
> I find it troublesome that a room full of people and no one raised a concern about how the whole thing would be misused As someone completely unaffiliated with Hacktoberfest (only attendee over several years), my impression is that the
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by josteink 6y ago
> I had a great experience with Hacktoberfest last year. Yeah same here, but as a contributor. I decided I wanted to make my PRs count and decided on a targeted effort of taking one mans tiling WM for Windows[1] and fixing enough of th
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by josteink 6y ago
Reddit has an API, and it's Oauth-based so the user must give consent. I don't think there's any part here which is "official" though?
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by josteink 6y ago
> Hacktoberfest reminds me of an event called Oktoberfest I'm pretty sure that's 100% intentional. > where alcoholics from around the world join their ranks and collectively destroy their livers and promote destructive drug
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by josteink 6y ago
You're not the only one. I had the exact same thoughts.
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by josteink 6y ago
When not even a site full of techies can tell what you’re tech-product is after studying its product-page intensely... You know you’re in for a hell of a marketing phase later on.
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by josteink 6y ago
> I'd be willing to pay extra for a remote without the YouTube and Netflix buttons. My TV also came with such buttons and it’s one of the reasons I absolutely refuse to use that remote.
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by josteink 6y ago
Maybe this will be a product which Google cancels twice then. Would that be a first?
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by josteink 6y ago
Headsup, for me (Mainland europe), this instantly redirects to the general google store homepage, which is currently selling the 'nest audio' product above the fold. Not sure where to find the real product page. Edit: Link: https
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by josteink 6y ago
So Google TV is a device which runs Android TV, which obviously supports Chromecast, because any Android TV device supports that, and lets you run apps such as YouTube and consume a US-only service called YouTube TV, just like any other And
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by josteink 6y ago
Oooh. How nice. Just a few days ago I considered setting up a Gitter-bridge for my Marrix-instance, but decided that it was both too involved and not well-enough integrated to be worth it. This is really good news!

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