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1. 511.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   "continued hostilities" -> "offline engagement".
2. 512.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   Indeed. I was frustrated to learn that a 1871 paper [0], referenced previously on a HN thread [1], wasn't freely available online. [0]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1478644710864060... [1]
3. 513.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   Not only was she demoted, Penn is trying to portray her as if she played a minimal role: > "We are grateful for Dr. Karikó's important contributions both during her time at Penn," said university spokesperson Maccarthy, &q
4. 514.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   Sorry if this is a naive question, but how comparable would bupstash be to Duplicity [0] (commonly used via its wrapper, Deja Dup [1])? Duplicity uses librsync and GnuPG; it also uses rdiff/rdiffdir to produce tarred incremental snapsh
5. 515.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   Instructions unclear; burnt fingerprint on incandescent lightbulb.
6. 516.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   The EU sounds like a great approach; do you know if and how often they re-evaluate the impact and level of their dependencies?
7. 517.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   There's also WereTurtle's Ghostwriter [0]. [0] https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter
8. 518.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   Nowadays, it's common to live in small places (apartments or studios); I'm thinking that the shelves and fridge space is a limitation.
9. 519.▲
   by rolandog 6y ago

   It's sometimes useful to say a different thing when explaining to someone that doesn't understand. For me, the importance of metadata can be conveyed by comparing its usefulness to knowing the answers to the game of 20 Questions.
10. 520.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    Nice! I loved using Konqueror back when I used Kubuntu. It has a lot of great features that I wish were more commonly available.
11. 521.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    Indeed. I get a feeling that there's a coordinated campaign to have a negative presence of mind regarding Mozilla?
12. 522.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    I've seen this in some forums; you suddenly get a lot of cpu usage; at first I thought a crypto miner was getting through my external script blockers, but after checking the source and grokking the minified code, it dawned on me what i
13. 523.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    > Webviews are okay on mobile though. IMHO, I guess for 'us' (this community of savvy power-users/developers) they'll be flaky when it comes to logging-in whilst switching apps to generate passwords and 2FA codes... B
14. 524.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    I checked my first result, and I think it's parsing the URL's address as a date, instead of relying on the article's meta "DC.date.published" tag.
15. 525.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    That's such a great effort, and a laborious undertaking!
16. 526.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    Hey Saul, your talk was great and engaging! Great work!
17. 527.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    Thank you for clearing that up; I know they must weigh in all the options... but currently --- given the current chaotic political climate --- I'm quite sure they expected to fly under everyone's radar.
18. 528.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    I think they were considering being charitable by taking into account people's feelings and situations during a trans-national emergency. I myself borrowed an old book (which I already owned, but I wanted to compare differences among v
19. 529.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    Thanks for the link to the talk, it was really enjoyable and informative!
20. 530.▲
    by rolandog 6y ago

    This is a nice article. I've been incorporating ReadMe.md files in most projects and folders, as well as self documenting Makefiles, with their default target set to help so that it displays something informative about what it will bui
21. 531.▲
    by rolandog 7y ago

    But isn't the reason for the sole existence of college loans that there aren't any regulations controlling the private education industry? More availability for loans means the schools can charge more for tuition. Just like the wh
22. 532.▲
    by rolandog 7y ago

    I remember Google+ had a way to configure how frequent you would be shown other's posts, that was a really nice feature.
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    by rolandog 7y ago

    These uncoordinated set of strategies by different countries seem to me like battles in RPGs; Sweden's probably opting to take less economic damage and instead take a x2 damage on health points. The Netherlands is switching strategies,
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    by rolandog 7y ago

    I was thinking of doing something like this the day before yesterday! I love your implementation! Extremely useful. I actually wrote about the laborious effort to create a pseudo 'false document' by manually using Gimp on my blog;
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    by rolandog 7y ago

    I love these kinds of war stories of incredibly capable people. That was great planning for the unknowns.
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    by rolandog 7y ago

    I don't want to sound dismissive of your proposal, it'd be great to have a more restrictive set of defaults to prevent tracking... But just consider the automatic way a regular user clicks at any prompt that gets in their way out
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    by rolandog 7y ago

    An interesting thing to also note is that their public signing key has a typo on it ("Zoom Video Communcations", missing an 'i' in 'Communications'). It might be a benign mistake, but as an occasional tin-foil
28. 538.▲
    by rolandog 7y ago

    This is so cool! Thank you for the great effort.
29. 539.▲
    by rolandog 7y ago

    'make all' the things with (GNU)Makefile! From pandoc pre-processing with a great tool called 'pp', to generating my CV in different languages and paper sizes, to ensuring my repositories have the latest .gitignore files
30. 540.▲
    by rolandog 7y ago

    Ha! I had forgotten the crucial first steps of setting up new computers from back then. A more recent habit, until recently (if I had to use Windows), I would also try to install most apps through Chocolatey to help keeping up to date.