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by matthewn 7y ago
Still running Rockbox on an iPod Video for tunes in a car that doesn't speak Bluetooth but has an aux jack. Considering an upgrade, having recently discovered there are new devices that can run Rockbox, including this one: https:&#x2F
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by matthewn 7y ago
A Commodore 64 only had 2 joystick ports, so the C64 version of M.U.L.E. uses the keyboard for players 3 and 4 on screens where all players are active, but accepts input from any joystick on screens where only one player is active -- allowi
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by matthewn 7y ago
This gets a lot closer to what was removed from Firefox: https://projectdelphai.github.io/panorama-tab-groups/
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by matthewn 7y ago
Check out vim-dokumentary: https://github.com/gastonsimone/vim-dokumentary
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by matthewn 7y ago
Well done. M.U.L.E. is absolutely one of the finest games of the 8-bit era, and the Atari version is superior to the C64 version. If I could spare the cash, I'd buy an old Atari and four joysticks just to have a M.U.L.E. machine. (Luck
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by matthewn 8y ago
I replaced Evernote with Turtl and never looked back. https://turtlapp.com/
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by matthewn 8y ago
Thank you for sharing this! I had not encountered an RSS addon with 'subscribe' functionality before. This addon basically restores everything I wish had not been removed from Firefox. (It's a shame I couldn't have found
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by matthewn 8y ago
> The "rss support" was a folder, filled with links named after the article titles. You're describing the "live bookmarks" feature, which was only one part of the RSS functionality that was removed from Firefox.
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by matthewn 8y ago
"At the time, Six Apart was a small software company best known for authoring the blogging software TypePad." Oh my. Is Movable Type really that forgotten by history?
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by matthewn 8y ago
The sort of global history you want is possible with bash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755276
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by matthewn 8y ago
> The replacement that is compatible with the new form of extension isn't able to unload the tabs, just hide them, which undoes most of the performance benefits. I believe this information is out of date. Firefox 58 brought extensio
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by matthewn 8y ago
I am 120 pages into Miss MacIntosh, My Darling because of that article. It is definitely challenging. But two or three of the (very long) sentences I've encountered are without a doubt among the most beautiful I've ever read.
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by matthewn 8y ago
FWIW, Dealers of Lightning (by Michael Hiltzik) is a much more engaging read that tells the same story.
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by matthewn 8y ago
I use Turtl for this sort of thing: https://turtlapp.com/
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by matthewn 8y ago
People who don't use RSS say it's dead, and they won't be convinced otherwise. People who use it every day know that it's not dead at all. Firefox's decision will not make the slightest bit of difference for either
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by matthewn 8y ago
This will work: http://nullrefer.com/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
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by matthewn 9y ago
I'd be interested to know where you find this to be true. I have noticed that BART trains through Rockridge don't make much noise. But the track noise is so bad through Fruitvale, you can hear the trains over a mile away.
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by matthewn 9y ago
When you say "always" are you indicating you've been using the site roughly since its inception? I have, and my memory of its first 10 years or so does not match your description at all.
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by matthewn 9y ago
From 2014, though the AMP version linked to does not reflect this. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the...
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by matthewn 9y ago
There's no hoodwinking. The grandson is the problem, and has been for a long time. I've met scholars who've been personally confronted by him at conferences. It's his personal crusade. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by matthewn 9y ago
Same here. I have a couple of ancient (roughly ten years old) Threadless shirts that still look good, and I have a couple of recent ones (within the last two years) that never fit the same and have not held up. Since many (most?) designs th
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by matthewn 9y ago
The Thinkpad X series has been giving me a first-rate Linux laptop experience for something like a decade now.
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by matthewn 10y ago
O'Reilly's "Modern PHP" (270 pages) is a fantastic introduction to the new way of doing PHP.
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by matthewn 10y ago
Berkeley's statement on why they are disappearing starting 3/15: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/01/course-capture/
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by matthewn 10y ago
OWL is a nifty fork of Dave Winer's work that stores all data locally and doesn't require a Twitter account. https://github.com/interstar/OWL
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by matthewn 10y ago
> They're only relevant if you have a cable subscription This is news to those of us who use DVRs to record over-the-air HD broadcasting. My homebuilt DVR is what makes NOT having a cable subscription workable.
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by matthewn 10y ago
Apple ][s could run CP/M if outfitted with an expansion card sold by Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard A friend of mine had that card specifically so he could run WordStar on his Apple; I&#x27
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by matthewn 10y ago
You can make the Google search widget open links in Firefox again here: Settings -> Google -> Search & Now -> Accounts & Privacy -> Open web pages in app [turn this off].
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by matthewn 11y ago
RMS does not think this at all. RMS rejects the term "open source" outright, and is rather strident about it.
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by matthewn 11y ago
I was delighted to see pigdog.org appear on the front page of HN; I thought it had died years ago (and I guess it mostly did). The Pigdog Journal was a Big Deal for a certain clique of nerds/technologists in the late 90s/early 00s

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