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by ploum 4y ago
As a manager, you simply don’t have the time to dig into technical issues. You can’t take uninterrupted 4 hours to enter into the code and debug something. When you are a new manager with a deep experience of the technology, you don’t see i
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by ploum 4y ago
In "Work without email", Cal Newport explain a case where a whole financial institution was margin-called for the exact same reason. They knew it was coming. They were willing to fix it. They spent weeks exchanging emails on how t
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by ploum 4y ago
Regolith (which is Ubuntu + i3 + very sane default settings) https://regolith-desktop.com/ (can’t live with a MacOS anymore)
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by ploum 4y ago
Starting an App Marketplace without knowing how to code and without being a salesman. What could go wrong? Add to that not having an original idea and not even willing to test the market-fit beforehand. Startups are looking everyday more li
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by ploum 4y ago
As a Vim user, I’m curious to know what I’m really missing. Vimwiki is doing exactly what I think it should (creating links under the cursor by simply pressing "return" and following them). But I feel org-mode might be a lot more.
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by ploum 4y ago
I want to highlight this answer. Ubuntu is completely based upon Debian. Going back to Debian ensure familiarity with tools (like apt). Also, the longer release cycle is perfectly adapted for people using only Ubuntu LTS (which, in itself
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by ploum 4y ago
installing chafa. Then, when you open a picture in offpunk, it will be perfectly rendered. (inline images will still be displayed as "sixels")
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by ploum 4y ago
You may be curious to try Offpunk: https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/ Offpunk allows to subscribe to a RSS and read the full html page directly in console, including browsing the website and having pictures displaye
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by ploum 4y ago
It is. Running a container on a virtual instance is a one-man/couple of hours job. Making a change impacting user experience in a product like Medium is a months-long/multiple comitees process.
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by ploum 4y ago
Main differences are: - Gemini is conceptually simpler (no difference between map and text, straightforward URLs) - Gemini is easy to write (unlike gopher maps) - Gemini has mandatory tls (which may or may not be an advantage) But Gemini wa
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by ploum 4y ago
I read a story about the "landing gear down" button being close and similar to the "shut off all engines" button in some bombers during WW2. A few of them crashed after very long flights, on approach of the runway. Inexp
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by ploum 4y ago
You may be interested by Gemini…
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by ploum 4y ago
This is the explanation: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FFm1yTf1aMAIC... Ploum-ploum is only used in the south-east of France.
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by ploum 4y ago
Exactly that. I’m also worried to see KaiOS phones featuring proeminent Google apps. I don’t want Google in a minimal phone. That’s why I’ve really big hopes for Mudita: they open-sourced their whole OS (I didn’t checked the code but it see
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by ploum 4y ago
I’ve been on it for the last 6 years and it has always been a very active place. Don’t confuse: "I’m discovering it now" with "it’s new and will not last long" and "Because I’m new, I don’t have the code thus very f
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by ploum 4y ago
This would requires some dev work. Goal here is just to look cool and visionary in case this "new mastodon thing really takes off in the long term".
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by ploum 4y ago
Maybe because most of the initial success was before Facebook bought Whatsapp. Until recently, lot of people were ignoring that their whatsapp was part of facebook (but those people were also using facebook messenger anyway). Germany and Sw
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by ploum 4y ago
Signal on Android is doing just that and I love it. But they announced that they will remove that feature due to too many users thinking that an SMS sent with Signal is secure (despite an open lock displayed next to the message)
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by ploum 4y ago
Belgian here. I don’t use "ploum ploum" either (else I would never have this pseudo) but realized over the years that a number of people use this expression. (look on twitter for "ploum ploum" for example). And, yes, lot
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by ploum 4y ago
If pinboard offers a RSS feed, then it’s already connectable.
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by ploum 4y ago
That’s why I used Pocket and now Offpunk (disclaimer: it’s my own project). When I find something that looks interesting, I place it in my "toread" list in offpunk. Then I go through that list, picking random articles and reading
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by ploum 4y ago
This opened up my eyes. My pseudo is "ploum" and I have the ploum.net domain since 2006/2007. I’ve used the ploum@ploum.net adress for years but it became unbearable regarding spam. It took me this post to make the link that,
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by ploum 4y ago
While I prefer to make a script for those kind of tasks (a script could be iterated, reused, produce multiple versions), I really appreciate the example to show the power of vim with commands I already knew!
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by ploum 4y ago
So you are telling me that someone managed to HN frontpage by making a website with: 1. content from another website 2. a look/template from a another website and without giving attribution for it? (ok, attribution to paul graham is no
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Reinventing how we use computers(ploum.net)
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by ploum 4y ago
Side note : it’s nice to see that Mastodon reached the point where you could point at it for stuff completely unrelated to Mastodon. Good job HN!
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by ploum 4y ago
"A journalists job is to report the news" Nope. A journalist job is to make clicks. That’s how their job is evaluated: how many click did the story bring. That’s all. That’s f**ing all. Every news outlet office now has a giant scr
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by ploum 4y ago
As soon as it goes below a certain depth, the watch is locked to use the "official garmin diving app". This is explained to prevent entering in any other app in the middle of a dive. I feel that the apple watch will be doing somet
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by ploum 4y ago
Yes. The app store is called "Connect IQ".
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by ploum 4y ago
Like always, Apple isn’t innovating but pretending to be. Garmin released the Descent Mk i 5 years ago : a smartwatch which also does diving. Really great watch (I’m a freediver myself and it does what I want it and, most importantly, does

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