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by rhabarba 13d ago
> authored in Markdown Tell me you have never used roff without saying you have never used roff.
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by rhabarba 2mo ago
If only there were more than two possible political opinions on the internet.
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Growing pains: An update on the ListenBrainz service status(blog.metabrainz.org)
4 points by rhabarba 2mo ago|0 comments
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Man Bought a Font(unstory.eu)
2 points by rhabarba 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rhabarba 2mo ago
“Don’t use an LLM for the task” is generally advisable.
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by rhabarba 2mo ago
I'm amazed to see that Kermit is still alive and kicking. Thank you, team!
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by rhabarba 7mo ago
Sad news. Really.
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by rhabarba 7mo ago
I'm still glad that NetSurf exists.
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GNU Octave 11.1.0 Released(lwn.net)
6 points by rhabarba 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rhabarba 8mo ago
They still don't unlock iPhones for the government. But please, by all means, enjoy your next U.S. ecosystem.
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by rhabarba 8mo ago
I wish it would support more VCSs.
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by rhabarba 9mo ago
When LibreOffice appeared on the stage, that was actually my first test back then: opening an existing ODT document I had written. It was already displayed incorrectly at the time.
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by rhabarba 9mo ago
Trademarked in USA, maintained by US citizens, mostly distributed by US companies who add US software like GNU and systemd.
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by rhabarba 9mo ago
Or Linux, being an American product.
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by rhabarba 9mo ago
Waiting for Adobe to rename Photoslop.
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by rhabarba 9mo ago
LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.
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by rhabarba 9mo ago
Especially not "Microsoft".
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by rhabarba 9mo ago
It is calming to see that in the end, WordPerfect Office outlived Microsoft Office.
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by rhabarba 10mo ago
I agree. CDE being heavier is probably mostly caused by its large functionality. After all, NsCDE is mostly an FVWM colour scheme, while CDE comes with all the bells and whistles.
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by rhabarba 10mo ago
Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!
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by rhabarba 1y ago
NetBSD and OpenBSD support “old” hardware notably longer than Linux does though. OpenBSD having dropped the VAX is not that long ago.
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by rhabarba 1y ago
I upgraded my OpenBSD machines a few hours ago, and I'm still not entirely sure whether I notice any obvious TCP speed improvement. Then again, they're not really high-load computers. Maybe people with a higher throughput will be
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by rhabarba 1y ago
FreeBSD is not really curious about being as portable as possible, I think. And it is somewhat larger, indeed, so it's not quite as easy to support more platforms.
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OpenBSD 7.8(openbsd.org)
73 points by rhabarba 1y ago|10 comments
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Show HN: Delout: Deleting files as a game of Breakout(code.rosaelefanten.org)
2 points by rhabarba 1y ago|0 comments
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Future Vim Builds on Windows(groups.google.com)
3 points by rhabarba 1y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft Invented a Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes(defector.com)
5 points by rhabarba 1y ago|0 comments
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LOL GitHub (2018)(jwz.org)
4 points by rhabarba 1y ago|0 comments
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by rhabarba 1y ago
I don't know whether operating systems need to be "cool". Is Windows, the market leader, "cool"? Or rather, I don't know whether those who think PewDiePie is "cool" have the same understanding of &quo
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by rhabarba 1y ago
There is not even one common "the Linux kernel".

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