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by mlang23 7y ago
You might be interested in thss talk, in case you haven't heard about it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXACRrzLMA
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by mlang23 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXACRrzLMA (Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye...)
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by mlang23 7y ago
The BRLTTY way: 1. $ echo ZZ | brltty-clip -r 2. Switch to Vim and invoke the paste command of BRLTTY.
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by mlang23 7y ago
I usually don't bitch about Apple pricing, since I personally consider ROI for most Apple products pretty OK. But headphones that costs 2.5 times the price of my Apple TV? Nah, thanks. 250 for headphones is just a joke. Divide that pr
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by mlang23 7y ago
Thats part of it. Unwanted help is definitely an issue. However, it doesnt end there. The more religious a person is, the more they take their time to explain to me how bad they think my situation is. Patronisation, pittying, and a gener
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by mlang23 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this aspect of things out. I know what you are talking about. My father spend aroun 80k of the disability money he received in my name on booze. And nobody of my relatives ever raised this issue. It looked like they di
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by mlang23 7y ago
Just for the record: I have a disability (blind), and from my point of view, there is one category of people that tends to behave completely inappropriately towards me, and those are "believers". I tend to avoid them whenever pos
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by mlang23 7y ago
However, since you seem to count the GPU, fully utilising a modern system is definitely not easy.
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by mlang23 7y ago
I recently "upgraded" from a desktop to a laptop. This marks the end of an era for me. I always had a relatively powerful desktop at home, mostly running 24/7 since I couldn't be bothered to wait for it to boot. This
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by mlang23 7y ago
Isn't this a nice case against comments in code? Everything that your compiler can't parse is a waste of time. Where is #todo if you need it?
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by mlang23 7y ago
Looking forward to this years installment of talks. I sort of wonder if this year will be a bit more technical again. The last 5 years felt like technical topics faded into the background in favor if social issues and knitting ...
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by mlang23 7y ago
This is a pretty clear case of stalking. When children cut the connection to their parents, it is super easy to side with the poor mother. However, people tend to ignore that the pressure for the children must have been quite high to go to
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by mlang23 7y ago
"Kind of"? Nah, truly and really. Thats me. I am looking forward to christmas eve and the holidays afterwards being alone and having time for myself. Someone knocking on my door and offering to rescue me from this situation woul
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by mlang23 7y ago
I am thankful for having been born at the end of the 70s, just at the right time. Had I been born substantially earlier, I probably would not have survivesd as I started into this world with a tumor in both eyes which was treated with a to
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by mlang23 7y ago
I like the idea behind DDGR. However, I was surprised that it doesnt offer a pager for search results. Whenever I search something, I need to use the scrollback buffer to actually see the first results... That is not very userfriendl, eve
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by mlang23 7y ago
You are falling for a pretty common misunderstanding. While many blind people use text-to-speech in combination with a classical "screen reader", that is not the end of the story. There is another major technology called Braille
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by mlang23 7y ago
Thanks a lot for this positive reply! I am thrilled to read that this might be counted a regression and actually fixed. I really hope that can happen. Regarding 'L', Lynx sometimes "hides" links if the anchor is around
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I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx(blind.guru)
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by mlang23 7y ago
"A worldwide cultural phenomenon"? I have never even heard her name, not a single time. Maybe your world is smaller then I thought.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Best thing is to just not have anything to do with the US of A. Death penalty, loaded guns everywhere, a general attitude of being the masters of the world which leads to things like suspicionless searches. No, thanks. I think the best w
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by mlang23 7y ago
There seems to be an accessibility issue with this link. I do get an essentially empty page in Firefox and Chrome when I try to read this with a screen reader. Opening the same page with lynx also gives me an empty page (no surprise there
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by mlang23 7y ago
As written above, I know about the intro ads, but they are only being done in the podcast version. The youtube versions of the same talkshows dont have a single bit of advertisment for me, neither at the beginning nor in the middle.
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by mlang23 7y ago
The same applies to heroin as well. Deception is deception, no matter how you twist and turn it.
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by mlang23 7y ago
You are exaggregating. The current reality demonstrates that 1) nobody goes to jail 2) the corporation ignoring privacy rights gets a fine 3) everyone moves on
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by mlang23 7y ago
I am guessing in many cases, there is no money left for humidifiers. You start out with the idea that you want to build a passivhaus. But you still have a limit on how much you can spend. So all the ventilation stuff is being installed, a
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by mlang23 7y ago
Interesting, I dont see this. I used to watch JRE on youtube with my iPhone, and now consume the same channel via an Apple TV 3. I never got a single ad. I know that he is doing his own ads at the beginning of the show, but only in the
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by mlang23 7y ago
What I notice is that internet advertisment is pretty selective, I dont know about effective... If your interests happen to diverge from mainstream just that bit enough, you can end up in a pretty much ad-free zone. I happen to watch a lo
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by mlang23 7y ago
I can confirm the excessive dryness problem. My gf moves to a passivhaus a few years ago, and I had real trouble with cry eyes during the night. After a year, I sort of adjusted, but it definitely doesnt feel very healthy.
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by mlang23 7y ago
To blame the patient is a little bit shortsighted. In my experience, well established doctors do prescribe too much antibiotics as well. I used to have a doctor who basically gave me antibiotics for everything I went to see him. After a
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by mlang23 7y ago
Contaminated (game)pods. That was about 70% of the story.

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