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by shiomiru 3y ago
I get the opposite impression: amd64 is something I see quite often, while ia32 is pretty much exclusively referred to as x86. (Even though for the average user, ia32 would be much easier to recognize as "32-bit", and amd64 as &qu
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by shiomiru 3y ago
I remember it from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court . Apparently it has some historical basis, which would explain the popularity of this motif: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1
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by shiomiru 4y ago
I prefer just /bin/sh too, it's portable and generally faster. When I get to a point where I'd need bash extensions, it's a sign that I should be using another language.
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by shiomiru 4y ago
Solution: use nitter. No suggested tweets, no bullshit, just the thread. https://nitter.net/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915
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by shiomiru 4y ago
> In the previous design I had to re-Google English version of the page. Now it's one click in the toolbar. No, this feature had always been one click in the toolbar. Now it needs at least two clicks, and usually also a bunch of scr
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by shiomiru 4y ago
I understood the intention behind the sentence as well, after all it's a common joke. However, it also distracted me from the post, and lead me to think about spelling instead of the author's compiler... which I don't think w
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by shiomiru 4y ago
Clicking on the first website, I can't even view it because it's asking for captcha. So, to extend your comment: you do not need to worry about content if your website isn't even reachable. A GET request should never result i
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by shiomiru 4y ago
It certainly is usable. I'd used Telegram FOSS from F-Droid for quite long before switching to Nekogram (also on F-Droid), a third-party Telegram client with some extra features. Incidentally, Signal is still not available on F-Droid,
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by shiomiru 4y ago
> Of course this can be easily mitigated by setting a “cloud password”, but I guess most people don’t do that. I have a faint memory of being forced to set said cloud password, or at least not finding a way to skip the set password scree
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by shiomiru 4y ago
I think they mean that punishment's main purpose should not be retaliation but deterrence.
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by shiomiru 4y ago
My bad. I blame autocomplete :)
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by shiomiru 4y ago
> It may sound like nitpicking... [snip] You're entirely right, what I said there was incorrect (or sloppy at best.) Thank you for the correction. > That's why it's called a zero-が if there's no "が", beca
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by shiomiru 4y ago
Indeed, my interpretation is also that the subject can be expressed by any of は, が, or the context. I am having trouble understanding the "implicit が" analysis because it seems to me that in many cases adding a が would make the se
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by shiomiru 4y ago
That's interesting. It indeed seems unnatural because I've never heard anybody say it like that - my impression is that you generally can't just use both particles with the same subject for the same sentence (or at least not
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by shiomiru 4y ago
Not sure if I understand this invisible が idea. Where is it in「私は牛肉を食べます」?
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by shiomiru 4y ago
w3m should work, so long as you enable inline image display (for HN's spacer gifs.)
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by shiomiru 4y ago
To be fair, `normal mode' may be a vimism. Both traditional vi's and nvi's man pages refer to the vim `normal mode' as `command mode', and `insert mode' (mostly) as `input mode'. (Though :set showmode stil
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by shiomiru 4y ago
^C interrupts the current operation, while ^[ actually finishes the input sequence. The only practical difference I can think of is that when you entered input mode with a prefixed number, ^C ignores it. So 2iabc^C only writes `abc', b
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by shiomiru 4y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find :wq a lot easier to type... For :x (or worse, ZZ), I either have to move my hand or bend my ring finger/pinky to reach the keys. On the other hand, my fingers reach both w and q at the same time with
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by shiomiru 4y ago
nvi2 [0]: I got to like the simplicity of nvi when installing Void Linux on my laptop, but it had some annoying bugs that made me switch to nvi2. In general, it feels like `good' software; powerful enough by virtue of being a 1:1 vi cl
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by shiomiru 4y ago
Or stay inside vi, and just filter your picture through the standard unix tool for hanging pictures.
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by shiomiru 4y ago
> Unfortunately, a browser cannot realistically be controlled by a non-corporate-funded entity (if you don't count a government). Surely it can, we just need to make it happen. It's actual code that helps here, not nihilism. To
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by shiomiru 4y ago
And start talking in awful beginner's Mandarin during these conversations. The colleagues will inevitably switch back to English just after a few minutes of suffering.
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by shiomiru 4y ago
POSIX sh also yields better performance, provided you're using dash.
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by shiomiru 4y ago
In the context of privacy, you can pretty much assume every black box is compromised. With Telegram this black box is the server (the client is open source); with WhatsApp, it's the client. I suppose there's threat models where WA
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by shiomiru 4y ago
The only annoying part of the name is getting beverage-related search results when looking up error messages; but upper-casing it would probably not help much there.
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by shiomiru 4y ago
> There are apocryphal stories of Google tar-pitting users with it, but I have never seen it in action. That used to be the case when using Tor; I remember having to rotate exit nodes to get recaptcha to load at all. These days the situa
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by shiomiru 4y ago
I'm having trouble understanding how giving this metadata to a centralized entity makes the transaction more "private". In the example, now instead of sharing my IP with a therapist, (who I presumably trust enough to... not d
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by shiomiru 4y ago
If you'd like to experience this treatment first-hand, try surfing the web using the Tor Browser. Spoiler alert: many websites simply refuse to load at all (e.g. any google service, and lots of websites "protected" by CF). Ca
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by shiomiru 4y ago
People are already paying companies to access the Internet. If the infrastructure (and the incentives) actually existed, I doubt the average person would have to worry much more about it than their phone bill. Of course copyright laws make

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