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by lambic 3y ago
I cancelled my account last month, mostly because they were incapable of dealing with the fact that my IP address is not near where I live.
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by lambic 4y ago
On a personal level this is all true, but on an infrastructure level Mastodon can only survive and grow (and remain federated) with many well managed and well funded instances.
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by lambic 4y ago
That's harder to manage. Universities have dedicated IT teams and infra; individual research groups, especially underfunded ones, do not, and organising research groups on any grand scale is like herding cats.
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by lambic 4y ago
It's been suggested on mastodon that all Universities should have their own Mastodon instance, maybe that would go some way to alleviate this problem? Universities used to be the pioneers of online communication but they seem to have b
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Disabled Buttons Suck(axesslab.com)
3 points by lambic 4y ago|0 comments
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by lambic 4y ago
Find a university to work for. The money will likely be less, the time off will likely be more, and the working environment will be relaxed.
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Ask HN: Where do you go for help when you're using all the things?
1 points by lambic 4y ago|1 comments
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by lambic 4y ago
I happened to listen to this podcast this morning which has some interesting things to say about this topic: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-divided-dial/
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by lambic 4y ago
I hate seeing 'utilise' where 'use' would be perfectly fine.
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by lambic 4y ago
Loved the comment about using extra blu-tack to reduce ram wobble, classic hack.
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by lambic 4y ago
Until I can chat with all my friends regardless of which chat app they happen to use, we need to swing back. Open internet standards aren't just about the web.
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by lambic 4y ago
> If you have ADHD (or think you do) Does the "or think you do" mean you perform diagnoses too?
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by lambic 4y ago
It's a problem of scale. Usenet and IRC used to be self-moderated. The mods in each group or channel would moderate their own userbase, ban people who were causing problems, step in if things were getting too heated. At a broader level
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by lambic 4y ago
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors." -- Leon Bambrick
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by lambic 4y ago
I think this might be partly a generational thing. My son and my younger friends follow a wider variety of people and aren't so easily sucked into the echo chambers. The networks are also partly to blame with their recommendation syste
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by lambic 4y ago
30 years ago the company I worked for had just taken delivery of their first Unix machine (a Sequent Symmetry). It was about the size of a large refrigerator and sat in our machine room blinking at me. My boss, standing in the doorway with
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by lambic 4y ago
This has definitely changed over time, the first few airbnbs I stayed in had actual hosts who were friendly and helpful but it's been a while since I've found anything that isn't just an empty apartment or the equivalent of a
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by lambic 4y ago
Having stayed in some truly shitty hotels I would have to disagree with this sentiment.
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by lambic 4y ago
I've had a System 76 laptop for a few months now and I'm pretty happy with it. They've done a good job with Pop!Os, it's the only distro I've found that has made Gnome usable for me out of the box. The only downside
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by lambic 4y ago
Maybe OP is thinking of the Acorn Archimedes, which was also a fantastic computer and was very British.
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by lambic 4y ago
I helped my math teacher (we didn't have computer science yet) set up econet in the computer lab so learned all about how it worked (all of which I've now forgotten) and took advantage of its lack of security for the rest of the y
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by lambic 4y ago
> If Small Web actually worked, we would be discussing this on Small Web right now. Doesn't HN count as Small Web? It seems pretty minimal.
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by lambic 4y ago
> almost all the discussions revolved around different types of alcohol - taste, brewing techniques, etc. I'm pretty sure I've never experienced this, maybe this person just had a set of coworkers with very specific hobbies. Th
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by lambic 4y ago
The jira command has built in help, so 'jira help' will show all available commands and 'jira help <command>' will give help about each command. The bit I struggled with a bit was the template system, but once you
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by lambic 4y ago
I use GoJira for this ( https://github.com/go-jira/jira ) and I'm mostly happy with it. Gojira is the original name of Godzilla and the name of a heavy metal band so I always have to include "github" when
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by lambic 4y ago
I bricked my zx81 just plugging in the ram pack (dixons were good enough to replace it) so soldering probably wouldn't have gone well. I'm working for a startup in Canada and I'm the oldest person in the company by a fairly w
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by lambic 4y ago
Curious which computers had 4k of memory. I started with 1k, jumped to 16k a few months later (wobbly ram pack) and 48k a year after that.
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by lambic 4y ago
I shared a flat in London with two other geeks in the 90s and we wired up vt100 terminals in each of our rooms so we could talk to each other without leaving our rooms. They didn't last long, they were quickly replaced by PCs on a lan
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by lambic 4y ago
Same. I've travelled by bus in many cities on three continents and never experienced anything like that. The worst bus I've been on was in San Francisco but even that was pretty clean and decent. I haven't owned a car for thr
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by lambic 4y ago
Back when Usenet was popular I met a group of people from rec.autos.sport.f1 a couple of times, once for a karting day and once attending the Montreal GP. I was also part of an online trivia group for a long time and met a lot of people fro

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