pidgeon_lover

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by pidgeon_lover 5d ago
By leaking American info, Snowden painted a target on his back that can be reached by the USA and all allies with extradition agreements. That leaves him with very few superpowers who won't hand him over to the FBI/CIA and executi
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by pidgeon_lover 8d ago
I use Betula ( https://codeberg.org/bouncepaw/betula/ ) for this purpose of a self-hosted personal Google (for websites). (For file search, I use voidtools' Everything, and I'm not sure why anyone other th
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by pidgeon_lover 8d ago
What about Krionicle? References Chronological Chronicle, cryo- (freezing knowledge for later use), and a robotic toy from 2001
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by pidgeon_lover 22d ago
How arrogant of the Musescore developers to think they know better than hundreds of years of historical music notation by actual musicians. Seems in line with their arrogant disregard for the community and bad Audacity overhaul and nonsensi
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by pidgeon_lover 22d ago
I am frustrated by the constant rebranding and tech churn (Qt now? Why?) under the new Audacity management. A lesson for other open-source projects: don't be bought out by commercial companies.
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by pidgeon_lover 24d ago
Nuclear's great until you have a natural disaster or war. Then every single reactor is a potential Chernobyl. The less of those around, the better.
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by pidgeon_lover 3mo ago
How much does it cost? I was spooked when there were no prices on the website and it says only "email for quote".
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by pidgeon_lover 3mo ago
I will be buying a Mullvad subscription because of this. Keep up the good work! Private individuals should have the right to free speech/expression, whatever that is, and that is a value I admire this VPN company for standing up for. T
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by pidgeon_lover 3mo ago
Not Sequel-lite?
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by pidgeon_lover 3mo ago
Smart criminals go into politics
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by pidgeon_lover 3mo ago
Can those be used without logging in online to Steam?
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by pidgeon_lover 3mo ago
Can it be used without logging in online to Steam?
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by pidgeon_lover 4mo ago
If you want to make sure to block Amazon, use: https://github.com/Darthagnon/kindle-kual-blockamazon and also one of the Kindle software update blockers here: https://github.com/Darthagnon/BlockKin
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by pidgeon_lover 4mo ago
I wasn't very happy as a user with an interest in tech/internet history to find my old bookmarks and notes had been hijacked by the new renamed project. The Original Freenet (Hyphanet) was quite interesting. The new one, less so,
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by pidgeon_lover 5mo ago
Found a link to the Fossil forum thread I opened about this very problem of the split between Fossil Wiki and docs: https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/e19ed2bfea94fc91f544c...
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by pidgeon_lover 5mo ago
I wanted to host our company wiki in Fossil, but there is no way to import it because Fossil completely separates versioned project docs and the built-in Wiki function. Our git-based wiki could be imported into Fossil as "docs" bu
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by pidgeon_lover 5mo ago
I don't understand why browser-makers don't leave window management to the window manager. Split view has been standard in Windows (and probably Linux?) since 2009. I know Mac doesn't really do split windows without additiona
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by pidgeon_lover 5mo ago
> "This is a quite a unique situation, and I think the young female has a keen eye to actually spot it," [Chris Newman, director of the National Centre for Reptile Welfare, said] What an odd thing to say.
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by pidgeon_lover 5mo ago
Someone made a nice player website for the Aadam Jacobs collection (probably vibe-coded): https://aadamjacobs.dunlap.ai/
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by pidgeon_lover 5mo ago
> use the subscription plans you already have, avoid paying for API usage, and keep the setup simple enough that you can try it in a few minutes. That interested me, but the article does not explain how to do this at all. I was hoping it
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by pidgeon_lover 5mo ago
> Unused memory is wasted memory. Why does my computer freeze and become unusable when the RAM is 90%, then? That myth is complete nonsense - RAM is like a seatbelt or a crumple zone, serves as a buffer between the user and crashes, and
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by pidgeon_lover 6mo ago
Wagic the Homebrew and MtG Forge are both high-quality FOSS Magic the Gathering simulators.
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by pidgeon_lover 6mo ago
I love the smell of bloatware in the morning
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by pidgeon_lover 7mo ago
Once installed, I've found Electron installs tend to balloon from 80-200mb (installer) to 1.5GB or more (Electron + dedicated browser cache)
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by pidgeon_lover 7mo ago
Thank you very much for that! That might explain why one of the macbooks I installed Windows on seemed to have laggy screensavers, whereas the others (Air) seemed to work just fine. I installed the MacOS Lion installer from a memory stick t
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by pidgeon_lover 7mo ago
I had to reinstall MacOS Lion manually recently, as Macs do not have a BIOS and require a MacOS environment to begin installing Windows. I was installing Windows on legacy Macs, because it gives me 30+ years of software and performs well, u
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by pidgeon_lover 8mo ago
This sounds like a terrible deal, especially if it involves a flood of immigration from India
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by pidgeon_lover 9mo ago
I don't get IRC - it seems to be antiquated unencrypted live group chats, with no usable clients. Group chats are useless for finding information and for communicating in between 10 ongoing conversations. Web forums make sense and are
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by pidgeon_lover 9mo ago
It looks a bit like an IR scanner attached to glass, and quite a nice form factor for one. Does anyone know of a similar product that would work with actual computers (Windows, arbitrary monitors), not just fruits?
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by pidgeon_lover 9mo ago
I wish there were some of the Metal Gear or Monster Hunter maps.

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