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   by ploum 3y ago

   Another part of the problem is that the "OpenOffice" brand is still strong. Lot of people continue to talk about OpenOffice and look for it on Google. Oracle just managed to kill a strong FLOSS brand. But, in some way, the LibreOf
2. 152.▲
   by ploum 3y ago

   "If you want to hide something, you should not be doing it in the first place" Eric Schmidt, then Google CEO
3. 153.▲
   by ploum 3y ago

   Wow, thanks for the info. This is indeed quite a huge sum of money for such a cheap service from which you can easily migrate. That’s a bit worrying.
4. 154.▲
   by ploum 3y ago

   (too much rant, removing comment)
5. 155.▲
   by ploum 3y ago

   This is sixel. It’s kind of a standard and supported by a growing number of terminals, including xterm (but you need the VT-340 profile). This is also really useful. I use it in Offpunk to display pictures when browsing the web.
6. 156.▲
   by ploum 3y ago

   yeah, indeed, my bad.
7. 157.▲
   by ploum 3y ago

   That’s the very goal of IPFS: hosting is distributed. Every node taking part in the IPFS network may or may not have pieces of this particular website. Eth.link seems to be a centralized proxy enabling you to access that without an IPFS&#x2
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   by ploum 3y ago

   Note: You can support Solene, the author of this webzine and of a very interesting related blog, on patreon and liberapay: https://liberapay.com/solene/ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=23274526
9. 159.▲
   by ploum 3y ago

   Why is it a scam? Are those filters not filtrating as advertised?
10. 160.▲
    by ploum 3y ago

    Any Microsoft code is indistinguishable from malware
11. 161.▲
    by ploum 3y ago

    My laptop is USB-C. Everything else I have is micro USB: my phone, my ereader (PocketBook), my reMarkable tablet, my bluetooth headset, my bike GPS, the lights of my bike, my portable batteries. I fear the day I will have to replace all of
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    by ploum 3y ago

    Then it means that, yes, you accept being tracked to browse the web a bit faster. Imagine the situation: your computer is slow and someone promises you to make it faster in exchange of knowing everything about what your computer is doing. W
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    by ploum 3y ago

    Those looking for adblocking should not use Chrome at all. If Chrome is really needed, it should be in its own container without any personal data. Adblocking in chrome is like smoking cigarettes with filters because "it’s better for m
14. 164.▲
    by ploum 3y ago

    Never heard about this drama. Any link to share?
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    by ploum 3y ago

    Always wondered why such projects are not part of Debian main repository.
16. 166.▲
    by ploum 3y ago

    Discussion started here : https://mamot.fr/@ploum/111028702144600436
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    by ploum 3y ago

    Are you on Mastodon or on the fediverse btw? Any plan for Kagi to have an account there? (not really required, I don’t think that companies should necessarly be on social networks, that’s mostly a waste of time)
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    by ploum 3y ago

    That option exists. When displaying an image, simply type "open" to open with an external program. By default, it uses xdg-open but you can configure it in offpunk with: > handler image/* sxiv %s note that "open"
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    by ploum 3y ago

    Agree, I’m also a fan of CLI. That’s why I developed a CLI brower ( https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/ ). When reading the title, I clicked hoping to see some alternatives or innovative solution to browse the web fr
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    by ploum 3y ago

    I’ve been burned by Fairphone. Bought one only to realize a few months later that a new, incompatible model was released. And now yet another. https://ploum.net/2021-09-30.html How is that ecological ?
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    by ploum 3y ago

    Yes. The solution is very simple: uninstall Chrome and Chromium. We are the people with the most influence on the tech. We are prescriptors. We are legion. – Yes but Chrome is a tad faster and I have my bookmarks and my favorites extension
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    by ploum 3y ago

    I guess you’re right, "Randism" is only one more fundamentalist bigotry where people take a fantasy book and assumes it is a scientific truth.
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    by ploum 3y ago

    What’s also funny is that between "Internet" and "social media", there’s a huge layer called "World Wide Web". That layer (which is now often confused with Internet itself) is an European invention. (A Brit and
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    by ploum 3y ago

    That’s one huge part of Ayn Rand’s legacy. In Atlas Shrugged, Hank Rearden locks himself for year in a small laboratory, comes up alone with a new formula for super strong steel and, because it is the best steel, Rearden becomes a very succ
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    by ploum 3y ago

    As per XKCD’s law [1], I offer you https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/626 [1] https://ploum.net/xkcds-law/index.html
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    by ploum 3y ago

    There’s nothing to argue. The "World Wide Web" or "Web" is defined as servers and clients communicating using the HTTP protocol. (Usually, it means that content is using HTML but this is not mandatory). "Gemini&quo
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    by ploum 3y ago

    Imagine for a second what the discussions could be for the official European institutions to open their own instance? https://social.network.europa.eu/explore (and yes, it was created early 2022, before Musk takeover of Tw
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    by ploum 3y ago

    I don’t know how I should feel about the fact that I did know what xkcd comic would open before I even clicked the link. https://ploum.net/xkcds-law/index.html
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    by ploum 3y ago

    That’s an awesome idea, I would be really curious to see the result. (hoping that this does not backfire, for example encouraging people to spam HN with their own posts to gain some karma on the blogroll)
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    by ploum 3y ago

    Yeah, planet were awesome. I’m proud to say that my blog was both on planet.gnome (the original one) and planet.ubuntu. Now, I feed that the most interesting planet is planet.debian, which offers lot of variety without being focused on Debi