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by lewiscollard 2y ago
You copy it into the same directory as the post you want to put it in, and reference it as a resource from your post. I made a shortcode for this for my own Hugo site, adding auto thumbnailing & WebP support: https://gist.git
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
Then un-mess them up :) html { filter: invert(1); } img { filter: invert(1); } Bookmarklet edition: javascript:(function(){var s=document.createElement("style");s.innerText="html{filter: invert(1);
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
<3
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
There's also one in this PR now :) Saying I'm going to do something is more likely to get it done than just thinking about it! https://github.com/gdm85/lc/pull/1/files But, yes, that is the man
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
Not author, but lc was posted on HN some years ago and at the time I was like "oh, I should really port over the original man page some day". After which I half did it, then forgot about it. I'm commenting here to commit myse
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
Yes, I find it difficult to understand why anyone old enough to remember what British Rail actually was (or capable of e.g. reading Wikipedia, to find out what it was), would like British Rail to be resurrected in anything like the form it
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
If I may hijack your reply for a recommendation thread, I'd recommend "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker, too. It's worth it just for the section on metaconcepts. I loved how much simpler my writing became when I remo
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
> I see this as a net positive. We are counterintuitively rediscovering skepticism by democratizing nation-state propaganda. I think you've just described converting a high-trust society into a low-trust one, and I am inclined to th
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
The primary author is not a native English speaker; he resides in China. It's more charitable to assume a literal translation that doesn't work well in English than presumptousness.
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
https://imgz.org/i8CEMAJq.png Create a transparent layer. Paint on it in a colour of your choice. Set layer mode to "darken only" or "lighten only" depending on your background. "Difference" is
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by lewiscollard 2y ago
(Disclaimer: no special insights into what Microsoft was doing at the time; I merely lived in the same era.) I'd call it an artifact of only having 16 colours to work with when SETUP boots. Obviously, most machines at the time had more
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by lewiscollard 3y ago
> The intersection of people that care about open source and people that want to backup their photos also seems really minuscule. This seems like a lack of imagination, which is not to be confused with any deficiency of the software or i
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by lewiscollard 3y ago
I understand this. Some part of me also resisted them until I worked out that, if used consistently, they _entirely_ eliminate format string bugs (of the "a user-supplied string contains string formatting characters" variety). And
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by lewiscollard 3y ago
It may well be in some part because of what you say. But I _think_ one of the points is to allow playing video with sound. Current popular browsers only allow websites to do this after a user-initiated action on the site, such as a click. I
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by lewiscollard 3y ago
> With Simple Mobile Tools being sold to an adware company Well I missed this happening. I use the calendar, notes, music player (from F-Droid, so hopefully those versions will stay clean) and I loved them because they do exactly what th
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by lewiscollard 3y ago
From memory, WordPad's other advantage in Windows 95 days was that it could handle files larger than 64 kilobytes. Notepad could not; it would prompt you to open files in WordPad instead if you tried. I always liked WordPad better than
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by lewiscollard 3y ago
As Todd Snider once said, "I might share some of my opinions with you over the course of the evening. I'm not gonna share them with you 'cause I think they're smart, or 'cause I think you need to know 'em; I&#x
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by lewiscollard 4y ago
I think there's some kind of automatic title re-writing happening on HN, which sticks a question mark on the end of titles that contain the word "why" and "is". I think the goal is to make titles less clickbaity. In
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
My brain believes two things simultaneously: * that Windows 95 was the first GUI I used for any extended period of time and that I will naturally think it's the best one for this reason, for the same reason people tend to think things
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
In the WordPress world, it is the only database.[0] If you do WP, you do MySQL. You may sniff at WP (I certainly do), but it is used for 43% of all websites, which is not a trivial number of deployments, and not a small market. I suspect it
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
Shit, you're probably right. It only worked because I didn't tell SSH to only use the specified identity files (I threw it together in five minutes without really testing it, you can forgive me). Changing one of the lines to thi
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> I just thought it might be a helpful PSA for people to keep in mind and maybe remember if something goes wrong Oh, it was - I'm sure there's a lot of people who are being bitten by this, and nothing I said above should be see
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> So now when using plain git the choices are to have every action tracked, or to go through a very annoying process involving randomly generated keys. EDIT: this alias has a bug that means it doesn't work as intended, see below, do
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> Make using plain git more difficult The change in question does not. It only requires that you clone over SSH or HTTPS, not over git://. I don't see why anyone would want to use the latter today. Given how trivial it is
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
I dunno, I was there in the very early 2000s and as I remember it, for the subset of programmers I knew on IRC at the time, it was as Susam says: writing a shitty IRC bot - not a script, something from "scratch" that actually spok
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> And sorry for being so rude. You freely chose to post the insult, so you are not. > In 2021 everyone expects history and other things. I should hope I am included in "everyone" and I do not expect that. I think IRC rules a
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
I agree with basically all of the article. But I have a probably-misguided idea for better comments: Change text editors so that they don't put comments in dark grey (which for most of us, is on a black background)! Why does my text ed
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
Yeah, I might have read the parent comment, thought "oh neat, good on ya", and not thought more of it if you hadn't pointed out that it's $29 . Also it has open source software! Which runs on Linux! I had to order one j
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> I think they put an overlay on the page and intercept the first mouse event they can, ...such as one of those "totally-GDPR-compliant" accept-cookies-please modals maybe? :) I am 100% certain this is how a large number of sit
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> This recurring discussion is very "This is the year for Linux on the desktop" The only people I see unironically talking about "the year of the Linux desktop" are people that talk about _other people_ supposedly pro

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