skrowl

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   by skrowl 8y ago

   Or... you know... you could just get a Chromebook that has Android apps and Linux apps (via Crostini) in a supported fashion.
2. 362.▲
   by skrowl 8y ago

   Universal windows platform also runs on Xbox One and certain mixed-reality headsets. It's not just for Windows 10.
3. 363.▲
   by skrowl 8y ago

   I agree. Don't deprecate just to clean house. Only deprecate when you have a mature / table replacement.
4. 364.▲
   by skrowl 8y ago

   Finally, a use case for Deep Neural Networks that we actually need as a society!
5. 365.▲
   by skrowl 8y ago

   Looking forward to testing this with Blazor. This was the biggest problem currently.
6. 366.▲
   by skrowl 8y ago

   All you had to do is see that it was on vox.com to know it's biased. vox.com is pretty well known to be very left-leaning.
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   by skrowl 8y ago

   An OPINION article from the hard left New York Times on a political issue probably doesn't really belong on HN. Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and the 2nd sentence on the 1st section points
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   by skrowl 8y ago

   Financial accomplishment during Trumps admin? It's just crumbs! https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/nancy-pelos...
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   by skrowl 8y ago

   Looks like Mozilla's last word on it is that they won't add it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1111277 > Thomas Daede [:TD-Linux] > Comment 13 • 3 years ago > The licensing costs for HEVC m
10. 370.▲
    by skrowl 8y ago

    How does it compare to WebP & HEIF(both in performance and acceptance in modern browsers / etc), which seem very similar?
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    I'd imagine for most Linux users (not all, of course) that they're not interested in paid proprietary products, which is why they chose Linux in the first place.
12. 372.▲
    by skrowl 8y ago

    Are you implying the the current year and a half hysteria about Russia is credible? Even the people still pushing it say no votes were manipulated!
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    How are they escaping EU regulation about monopoly bundling (basically all the same things Google is accused of in this judgement?) They basically do the same thing (sometimes to an even greater extent) when it comes to bundling their own s
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    The biggest downside is that your phone / tablet / etc can hardware decode h.264, and has to run h.265 or av1 decoding in software. As a result, your battery life gets killed when watching h.265 / av1.
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    Apple doesn't have anywhere near 1/3 of the worldwide market. It's closer to 11%.
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    They love their walled garden. When you point out > 80% of new devices sold are Android and can't use FaceTime, they don't care and just downvote without comment.
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    GoToMeeting, Hangouts, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, ooVoo, Viber, etc Wire or Signal is probably the closest in end-user use / UX to FaceTime, but I think their video calling is only 1:1 so far.
18. 378.▲
    by skrowl 8y ago

    Trying to stream video over tor is a terrible experience, even if you stay within tor onion sites and don't rely on the too-few-and-too-overloaded exit nodes
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    Are there any that are client-side / javascript instead of server side?
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    Coming in 2019 - Cat poop prime with 1 hour delivery, for when your dogs are really hungry.
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    Should the government seize the means of production, comrade? Businesses should be allowed to create whatever products they want, as long as they don't do anti-competitive things like work together with their competitors to fix prices.
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    by skrowl 8y ago

    Target via Google Express is pretty nice. Also, why is Amazon launching this for just dogs? My cats are offended that they were left out!
23. 383.▲
    by skrowl 8y ago

    The liberal media narrative for every tax cut ever is that it only benefits the rich. Forget that your paycheck and mine saw taxes go down, it was only for the rich according to the media.
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    by skrowl 9y ago

    Maybe check Amazon's tax rate before "this Republican tax policy" went into effect prior to blaming low corporate tax rates on one party. If you think lobbyist-driven tax policy in America is ONLY done by Republicans, you sho
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    by skrowl 9y ago

    I know it's marketed to gamers, but if you're looking for a free Slack alternative check out discordapp.com. It's pretty great. It supports bots, so you can easily integrate your git / trello / etc.
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    by skrowl 9y ago

    Consider using VeraCrypt instead of Microsoft's closed source BitLocker. Basically for the same reason's you'd use Telegram over Facebook's WhatsApp.
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    by skrowl 9y ago

    We know from Snowden leaks that Microsoft (Skype) & Facebook (WhatsApp) are already freely handing info to any government that asks. Search Wikipedia for: PRISM (surveillance program) Other programs have probably superseded it (and incl
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    by skrowl 9y ago

    I think you're missing the point. As web apps get more and more powerful (and more difficult to distinguish from native apps), they become more of a serious challenge Apple's cash cow of their App Store. If you click on a web app
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    by skrowl 9y ago

    To be fair you can't go very far without running into garden walls in Apple land. It doesn't just apply to development. Want to change your launcher / dialer / etc? WALL! Want to run a different web browser (an ACTUAL
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    by skrowl 9y ago

    For what it's worth, they've provided a version that can use Tor for a while now. What's new is that the provide a portable version that ONLY uses Tor. Pretty handy!