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901.
by josteink 6y ago
> The truth is very different Evidence seems to suggest differently.
902.
by josteink 6y ago
> considering the sustained months of police violence that have been inflicted upon them illegally What part about the police stopping a violent riot which has been going on for months to end is illegal? I realize it depends on who you a
903.
by josteink 6y ago
This HN news-story is all about the news we get about this “mostly peaceful” movement being extremely biased. And you cite those very same news-stories as evidence of this article being wrong. Congratulations. Also, that guy who only beats
904.
by josteink 6y ago
> Go after them for what? Are they doing something illegal? Intimidation, blind (racist) violence, looting, attacking the police and setting property which isn’t theirs on fire. I’m pretty sure all those things are illegal.
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by josteink 6y ago
> any "mostly peaceful" claims can and should be dismissed as unverifiable I honestly thought “mostly peaceful” was a meme at this point. With cities on fire for months and months, how can anyone take such a claim seriously? Ed
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by josteink 6y ago
> SMS app I don’t get why it is critical to be modifiable to be perfectly honest It lets any third party messaging system become a viable SMS replacement (like Hangouts and Signal does on Android), by making it seamless to send all messa
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by josteink 6y ago
> I find this interesting that they are using Google Sheets instead of Excel. If MS management found out and didn’t like this, how would they take down a Google sheet? They couldn’t. How would they take down a O365-sheet? Oh right. Insta
908.
by josteink 6y ago
> Please choose Apple Music or Tidal - they pay musicians substantially more than Spotify Funny how you say that when Tidal have been caught faking plays[1] of artists close to Tidal-management, giving more money to them and less to ever
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by josteink 6y ago
> I'm both upset Google Play Music is going away and that it might risk YouTube Red. What do you mean? YouTube Premium (“Red” is a legacy name from waaay back) won’t go away. When Google Play Music dies, YouTube Premium will instead
910.
by josteink 6y ago
> Also you mentioned in another comment there being 2 browser-engines. There are in fact 3 major browser-engines. Fair enough. I was thinking in terms of browser-engine families (WebKit-based, Gecko-based) and tried to keep things simple
911.
by josteink 6y ago
> I'm still surprised by this. What you are observing is the same thing that got Microsoft in anti-trust trouble back in the days, but which is now being done web-scale instead of desktop-scale by Google. Also, Google is/was bu
912.
by josteink 6y ago
I noticed that too, and thought the very same thing. At the same time you had stand-alone code-samples which were of dubious quality at best: if (document.someBoolean) { setEnabled(true); } else { setEnabled(false)
913.
by josteink 6y ago
I am using Firefox, and I find that attitude among developers infuriating. If not enough users are using a platform, let's actively sabotage for that platform by making it less viable, further justifying your own laziness? Is that
914.
by josteink 6y ago
> That's just plain wrong. In theory yes, in practice no. If code doesn't run in 1 of 2 the browser-engines we currently have, I would consider that a major short-coming preventing me from using it in production.
915.
by josteink 6y ago
> 1) Is a Pinephone a viable alternative either iOS or Android? No, probably not, not currently. It's a prototype phone, in low-production numbers, with a somewhat underpowered SOC (but with proper FOSS drivers/kernels). The re
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by josteink 6y ago
> Python -m venv in your project directory. Then source ./bin/activate. And how do I do that from inside an already running Emacs session? (Or Vscode?) Needing to "prepare" an environment before you can work with it,
917.
by josteink 6y ago
While I'll be first in line to criticize the overall Python packaging-story, you also have to consider how Python itself is being used to implement the underlying platform which the OS's package-manager depends on. If you allow th
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by josteink 6y ago
Yeah same here. SMS (and email) from DHL about shipment on the way from “Syabas Technology Hong Kong Limited”. I also never got an order-confirmation upon ordering, but received one later quite swiftly when I emailed support and asked.
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by josteink 6y ago
Awesome project. Honestly worth a post if its own.
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by josteink 6y ago
> when I see people using Ubuntu, I always wondered why? As someone (still) using Ubuntu today, I have 1 simple answer: OOB experience. Back in the days, I could insert a Ubuntu live-CD (remember CDs?), and have a fully working system, i
921.
by josteink 6y ago
I pre-ordered the PmOS community edition, and it's getting delivered tomorrow. From what I can tell, this is the same HW, but without a different distro pre-loaded. I'm super-stoked to try out the different distros, and will defin
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by josteink 6y ago
> since earlier this month Pandoc can read Word documents in docx format. Given this line, I think it's fair to add (2014) to the title. This is pretty old news by now :)
923.
by josteink 6y ago
Fair enough. For me, Matrix was not just about bridging IRC, but about unifying communications. And when you first decide to do that, bridging IRC too becomes a no-brainer.
924.
by josteink 6y ago
If that amazes you, you’ll be even more impressed with Matrix + Riot/Element and IRC-bridges (plus lots of other bridges of course).
925.
by josteink 6y ago
I believe the commonly used term for this is "largely peaceful". Sure. They're largely peaceful, except when attacking and almost killing civilians[1]. And it's not even intended as a joke. There's some crazy levels
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by josteink 6y ago
> The outlier for the US is murder, overwhelmingly due to the mass proliferation of illegal gun possession. Emphasis mine. Most people miss that part and just blame people having guns in general , when law-abiding citizens with legall
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by josteink 6y ago
> For me it's the weird new way of handling custom search engines that annoys me. It's like we used to have a "search bar" and when you wanted to "search" for something you used the "bar" designate
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by josteink 6y ago
> I'm directly talking about Portland, where Portland where there’s been continuously rioting, looting and attack on civilians for three months now. The police’s job is to provide law, order and security for the people, something
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by josteink 6y ago
I observed that on my ReadyNAS too and always thought it was a weird setup. Now I know there are proper reasons for it. Good to know.
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by josteink 6y ago
> I think the biggest issue is the social problem of the long and arduous process to become a trusted Debian Developer. Although there's now an easier Debian Maintainer option for restricted access, it's still not easy to becom

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