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by lutoma 2y ago
> Every Mastodon instance is slow beyond reason and it’s still confusing to regular users in terms of how it works. I'll concede the confusing part but all the major Mastodon servers I interact with regularly are pretty quick so I&#
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by lutoma 2y ago
> not sending the client other players' positions until absolutely necessary (either the client can see the other player, or there's a movement the client could make that would reveal the other player before receiving the next
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by lutoma 2y ago
Here's a video of what one of those shops looks like by an Indonesian diplomat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYJ9u0sEE4
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by lutoma 2y ago
Debian is just about the worst Linux distribution to recommend for desktop use for newcomers to the ecosystem.
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by lutoma 2y ago
+1 for INWX. Reliable, reasonably cheap and domains is actually their core business rather than just something tacked on.
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by lutoma 2y ago
I switched from an iPad to a Surface Go 3 running Fedora a while ago and it really transformed my tablet use. I mostly just watched Youtube videos and did some light browsing on my iPad, but never really any serious work. Occcasionally I
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by lutoma 3y ago
Seems to load fine for me right now
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by lutoma 3y ago
They did try. There's the Societas Europaea, a standardized type of corporation largely governed by EU law. It's primarily used by large multinational companies (Think BASF, SAP, Airbus): https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by lutoma 3y ago
In my experience MySQL is still commonly used in the PHP world, but everything else is mostly Postgres
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by lutoma 3y ago
Except for the 'OneSignal' startup ones. I always think they're posts related to Signal (the messaging app) for a bit.
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by lutoma 3y ago
For me, it's two things: * Whenever I come across an interesting project hosted on Github (On Hacker News, Mastodon or some such place), I usually star it. Then when I'm later looking for a library or piece of software I usually s
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by lutoma 3y ago
Important limitation if you click through to the "Getting ready for Web Distribution in the EU" page: > To be eligible for Web Distribution, you must [...] be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two con
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by lutoma 3y ago
> Keep the politics out of this please Apart from how nonsensical it is to want to "keep politics" out of inherently political discussions: Your last comments on hacker news were about US trade policy, Navalny's treatment
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by lutoma 3y ago
I was just about to write that. No crypto scam nonsense in the same datacenter sounds like a plus to me. (On a more serious note, I imagine the reason Hetzner does not want crypto-related stuff is for the same reasons most hosting companies
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by lutoma 3y ago
> I’m glad there’s finally some cases setting precedent for the GPL. There's been a few before: https://gpl-violations.org/news/
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by lutoma 3y ago
Spotify does not allow you to subscribe in their iOS app. You have to do that in a browser and then log in. That way Apple does not get a cut.
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by lutoma 3y ago
One thing I miss from Google is a reliable built-in calculator. I know I could just use some other calculator app but the habit of just typing stuff into my address bar is hard to shake. Kagi also has a calculator, but for a lot of queries
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by lutoma 3y ago
The owner probably noticed but didn't care. Presumably the only reason they still had it was because they were legally required to so they could keep operating on FM. And I doubt the FCC is constantly monitoring any random AM station i
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by lutoma 3y ago
> Also, the C++ community is a lot more tolerant. Yeah the biggest turnoff for me with Rust isn't even the language anymore, but the community surrounding it. I realize it's mostly a vocal minority and the vast majority of Rust
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by lutoma 3y ago
Which so far they've accomplished by not being decentralized at all, which is of course convenient.
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by lutoma 3y ago
> has created their own programming language For me, that's part of the problem. I'm sure Swift is a nice enough language based on what I've seen. But I'm not going to invest a substantial amount of time learning a la
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by lutoma 3y ago
* and the EU, and Antarctica (.aq)
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by lutoma 3y ago
I think that prompt is for something different.
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by lutoma 3y ago
> I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. How come? That seems highly unlikely to me, especially when you consider that one of their larger competitors (Bitbucket) had Mercurial support for a long time
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by lutoma 3y ago
Because not everything needs to be a peer-reviewed scientific publication, sometimes just reading people's opinion on stuff is enlightening too, especially if they have expertise in a field. It may not be 100% accurate all the time, bu
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by lutoma 3y ago
I've regularly attended C3 since back when it was still in Berlin and I'm not sure growing the event every year is desirable. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with the goal of making it more accessible to everyone and I know
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by lutoma 3y ago
Yeah it's really irritating when American companies (or bands) put an Umlaut in their name but then just pronounce it like the regular letter.
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by lutoma 3y ago
Trending posts in Mastodon need to be reviewed by the admin. That message generally means the admin just never bothered to do that (common on single-user instances). But yes, the server is also not very popular (Because it was just set up a
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by lutoma 3y ago
I'm writing a hobby kernel/operating system and one of the things that surprised me was how simple ext2 is. It really isn't much different from fat32 in many ways, just a bit more flexible and designed in a more future-proof
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by lutoma 3y ago
This is how often people search for "twitter" on Google, not how many people are happily using the platform. Of course there's substantial search volume for a company that is in the headlines every other day for some controve

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