rhabarba

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by rhabarba 2y ago
I am quite familiar with the basic functionality of Git. However, I am always amused by how it works in practice.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
I love how the same people who try to drag me towards using Git are the only people who seem to have serious problems working on their code when a website goes down.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
Every time a new browser appears and is applauded by HN, a NetSurf dev opens a beer...
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GNU APL 1.9 Released(lists.gnu.org)
10 points by rhabarba 2y ago|2 comments
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by rhabarba 2y ago
(Only two months later, I noticed it.)
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by rhabarba 2y ago
Ah, I did not hear about that before. Thank you.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
Don't forget that Clownstrike took down Linux systems in April.
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by rhabarba 2y ago
> Among the many hackerish features of ITS was allowing a user space process to act like a device, not just for a filesystem but as a TTY, which allowed a lot more kinds of terminals to be supported than would fit in the monitor (kernel
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The Origin of Emacs in 1976(onlisp.co.uk)
255 points by rhabarba 2y ago|115 comments
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by rhabarba 2y ago
That's unfortunate. I actually liked Flutter.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
Still being tortured for the crime of being a journalist? I see. Well, let's mourn a racist instead.
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Llamas with Hats: 15th Anniversary(youtube.com)
2 points by rhabarba 3y ago|0 comments
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by rhabarba 3y ago
Depends on systemd's considerations these days.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
People who want stable interfaces should not touch anything Linux with a ten-foot pole.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
AFAIR you can use and submit custom bangs. That said, they're curated, I think. See: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
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by rhabarba 3y ago
Well, "weather" is "it's snowing", "snow report" is "amount and quality of snow", I guess. Relevant for skiing and/or driving safely.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
Or it's some vocal guy on Bluesky which didn't allow public links until recently.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
uBlacklist has a button to enable other search engines, like DuckDuckGo. Press it!
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by rhabarba 3y ago
You can just use anything that looks like a mail address with Kagi.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
DuckDuckGo can do that for free though.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
That website only covers a small subset of free licenses though.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
Ah, twm is still better than Gnome.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
To be fair, X (VcXsrv) works on Windows and (XQuartz) pre-M1 macOS.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
Wayland won't work well on non-Linux systems, and this is intentional. So, for the foreseeable feature, it can't replace X because its developers don't care.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
If a and b are strings, Python would make "ab".
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by rhabarba 3y ago
Actually, I generally recommend to not leave easy tasks to the computer. The brain likes to have to do stuff sometimes.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
Sounds like it would be easier to just use C anyway.
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by rhabarba 3y ago
The website says he's still a member of the board. But I have not noticed his general disapproval, so thank you!
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by rhabarba 3y ago
And they all go over to Bluesky now, co-invented by the former Twitter CEO, paid by investors, providing exactly one server. What could go wrong?

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