sirl1on

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by sirl1on 4y ago
> Endless hobby sites, non-profit groups, and things such as clubs(bike clubs, etc), are completely free of any commerical intent or advertising. As people aren't okay with having to actively looking for content (anymore), this has
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by sirl1on 4y ago
tried zzzyyyxxx... so infuriating
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by sirl1on 4y ago
The slur filter isn't hard coded anymore since more than a year now
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by sirl1on 4y ago
HERZOG: I have had a dream for many years now, ever since I was a child. I don't know why, but I always dream that there are giants on a tiny island in the Pacific and we humans can't see them but they are there, where
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by sirl1on 4y ago
We would have found a renewable and clean energy source :(
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by sirl1on 4y ago
But do we care? This calls back to a web of interconnected, non-commercial websites. Before Google there certainly were search engine websites but they weren't the big internet hub Google is today. Instead people created webrings, topl
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by sirl1on 4y ago
> Not sure if there's still tools out there where a 13 year old kid with no technical experience can immediately get gratification with something so simple on a computer. Lego MindStorms! There's a lab at my local university f
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by sirl1on 5y ago
>$ footool --help Unrecognized bar "--help", aborting! Use: "footool help" to display usage information >$ man footool No manual entry for footool
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by sirl1on 5y ago
I don't necessarily think they only had higher QA standards back then. Back then you delivered the game on a physical medium, i.e. CD/DVD-ROM and could not expect the customer to be 24/7 online. If you did mess up your Golden
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by sirl1on 5y ago
The devs do not suppress or remove anything. They just will not accept PRs for things that they don't want to change as most free software projects do, e.g. sway won't accept PRs for nvidia-eglstreams. There are forks and instance
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by sirl1on 5y ago
Well, while I really enjoy the broad topics on HN, it does present all topics through the lens of technology and tech-work which can lead to the impression that this is all there is to it.
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by sirl1on 5y ago
Meh. The whole thing seems to be a shallow summary of various messengers without any detail what made them fail (e.g. Why is HTTP/WebSockets bad?) only to arrive at the desired "XMPP > * ;)" Conclusion. I don't know w
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Justin Bieber “bought” an NFT for $1.3M. But he didn't pay for it(dirtybubblemedia.substack.com)
37 points by sirl1on 5y ago|3 comments
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by sirl1on 5y ago
Why does my browser need connectivity to some internal services? I am fine with offering opt-in service integration (Firefox Sync, Pocket, ...) but is there a reason why Firefox needs internal infrastructure to do the one thing it is suppos
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by sirl1on 5y ago
Keep in mind you will have a small downtime until the new IP is registered. Also the cache TTL of your domain will be very low, so your site will have a small loading time penalty from time to time.
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by sirl1on 5y ago
I just copy-pasted your comment into notepad.exe
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by sirl1on 5y ago
I'd say most non-technical windows users are used to download executables via google search. As an example case, when you search for "vlc player", the top 3 Google results are: - vlc.de (A scammer site blocked by my ad blocke