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by ploum 4y ago
"Doing the good thing is pointless as long as not everyone is doing it" said every last man to do the bad thing in history. Don’t do what the world is, do what you want the world to be. Said the others. (disclaimer : I’ve fully de
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by ploum 4y ago
If someone from the future read this, I needed to add one more line to make it work: autoload -U edit-command-line zle -N edit-command-line bindkey -M vicmd v edit-command-line
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by ploum 4y ago
Thanks. Also learned about "fc" to edit the last command entered.
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by ploum 4y ago
Where did I say that everything they are doing is worthless? I said exactly the opposite. They are doing good stuff too. Because, statistically, it seems really impossible to only do bad thing. The main take is that "doing good "i
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by ploum 4y ago
They don’t use money to save lives. They use the money to maximize their prestige and their power. They save lives when it fits their agenda. Look at the Gates foundation : they finance vaccine in Africa, which is good. How to they spend it
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by ploum 4y ago
There are of course exceptions who became billionaire nearly by accident. Such is notch and, if I remember correctly, it was really hard for him to become so rich. Also, now that he has enough cash, you never heard him "trying to chang
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by ploum 4y ago
I’m also using vim mode in zsh with simply "bindkey -v". I’m interested by your "v" as full vim session shortcut. Do you mind sharing the config?
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by ploum 4y ago
People who do not understand things are poised to reinvent them badly. The post manage to analyse terminal input without having acknowledging readline. So yeah, they have no idea what they are talking about. https://www.mastering
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by ploum 4y ago
Nope. That’s too simplistic. There’s no "effective altruism", just people trying to buy a good conscience. You can’t become a billionaire without f* lot of people and exploiting the system’s loopholes. There’s no way to be a moral
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by ploum 4y ago
The N900 was running a modified Debian Linux version call Maemo. Not related to Symbian at all.
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by ploum 4y ago
For one story like this which emerges because the engineer refused, how many stories we will never heard about because it was simply done? As software engineers, we are just like medical experts talking about the toxicity of cigarettes whil
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by ploum 4y ago
could you please write me your details about the crash (distro/readability version). I would like to fix this issue. You can mail me at offpunk@ploum.eu if you don’t want to register to open a bug. Thanks a lot!
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by ploum 4y ago
It is better to have an official instance just like you have official websites. It means that accounts on this instance are official, that you can take their words as official statement. Having one big instance for every EU citizen is just
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by ploum 4y ago
Let me plug my own TUI web/gopher/gemini browser : https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/
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by ploum 4y ago
What I don’t understand is why there’s no effort from Proton to expose the underlying protocol between Protonmail.com and the Bridge. This protocol should be an open source effort, allowing mail clients to implement it and other provider to
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by ploum 4y ago
no IMAP means a definitive vendor-locking. Like Tutanota. You simply cannot escape and get your emails back if you want to change.
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by ploum 4y ago
Instead of megacorp, I recommend Mailfence (Belgium) or Mailbox (Germany). There are many other providers which are trustworthy and work well (protonmail is also not that bad but receive a very bad press at every bug). The only durable solu
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by ploum 4y ago
To be fair, Ubuntu had a hard time with lot of hardware too at the time ;-) source : I ran Ubuntu Install Party at my local university and, for some laptops, I had to spend hours figuring out what to do. Situation is way better now for hard
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by ploum 4y ago
No. The main motivation behind Ubuntu (and its predecessors Knoppix, Mepis, UserLinux) was realizing that a knowledgeable person could get a nice, easy to use Debian desktop in a couple of hours and then let it in the hands of less knowledg
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by ploum 4y ago
For someone invested in decentralized protocols, it just sounds like people trying to reinvent the wheel. "let’s make it decentralized" "wow, very cool idea". Those guys are business guys but they have no idea what they
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by ploum 4y ago
I wish I could be excited but Astrohaus has a really bad record. - They produce the worst software you can possibly imaging - They’ve shutdown their user forum because people had (very valid) complains about their product - They force the u
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The Appeal of Small Computers(andregarzia.com)
5 points by ploum 4y ago|0 comments
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by ploum 4y ago
The more I’m on the smolnet, the more I believe that there’s no content on the smolnet. Only conversations. You will not find that trendy topic everybody is talking about. You will not find buzz and virality. You will not find a bunch of co
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by ploum 4y ago
I would like to point out at Gemini, which is an incredible community regarding this. I’ve developed a terminal browser for the web/RSS/gemini/gopher and I’m everyday astonished how 95% of what I need is best served as simple
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by ploum 4y ago
Monopolies are like a layer of magma destroying everything and transforming everything they touche into more magma.
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Gafam to Magma(informatique-libre.be)
2 points by ploum 4y ago|1 comments
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by ploum 4y ago
This is why this hack tells a lot about our society. We value television so highly that we take care of it as soon as we subconsciously think it’s a television. Television is such a symbol that we start to abuse that symbol. Pretty sad when
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by ploum 4y ago
Indeed, they added the ability to create an account with your eid. It was not the case a couple of years ago.
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by ploum 4y ago
Worth mentioning that itsme is a private consortium of several banks and phone operators which explicitely says that data collected will be used for marketing purpose and "research". That you can’t even think of using it if, like
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by ploum 4y ago
himalaya : https://github.com/soywod/himalaya

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