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by troyvit 3y ago
I think it took you longer to ask that question than it does to move the tabs to where you want them. Personally I have them on the bottom and like it.
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by troyvit 3y ago
> I'm loving Plasma 6 so far. Wayland support is much better! I'm jealous. I lasted about half an hour on Wayland, but several apps I use still don't work. xtrlock (anti-cat measures) and freetube both wouldn't work,
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by troyvit 3y ago
Or what? The article doesn't say.
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by troyvit 3y ago
I had the same problem with Kubuntu. I switched to kde-neon and pretty much all of my problems went away. XFCE is awesome though.
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by troyvit 3y ago
Thanks I updated my comment. Also, damn that's cool.
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by troyvit 3y ago
I think I'm down for this in the abstract, but that's because I'm not a powerful voice that has been censored by one of these big players, and I also am glad for most of the censorship I've seen them do. But if I step ou
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by troyvit 3y ago
Good example with Cloudflare, and they offer an interesting flip side with Project Galileo, where they offer their Business tier product for free to groups they deem vulnerable: > Any qualified vulnerable public interest site can seek pa
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by troyvit 3y ago
Depends on how you describe "useful." Kagi is a profitable search company that satisfies its customers while competing directly with Google. They aren't useful in the sense that they're taking marketshare from Google, bu
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by troyvit 3y ago
> As distasteful as this content may be, it is protected by the First Amendment. But that protection only extends to government actors. Amici are private actors, and the forums they control are private forums. Those who are censored are
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by troyvit 3y ago
I agree with you that it's entirely predictable. Why was it not predicted by a company that has achieved hegemony over so many aspects of our online lives and therefore must be pretty good at stuff? Other people offer: * google drove t
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by troyvit 3y ago
> there's no way I can get a better job in this market (even if I had the energy to practice leetcode problems to prepare for interviews), and I'm not rich enough to just stop working. I had almost this same problem. I just got
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by troyvit 3y ago
Horribly. We use Confluence for much of our documentation, but we can't afford the license to give everybody access to the documentation who needs it, so often we'll be copying data out of Confluence and into google docs. There&#x
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by troyvit 3y ago
The cool thing is, if you're the right Amazon employee, you can log in and literally _see_ the anger on their faces next time they go in the front door.[1] [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-to-pay-58-million-fo
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by troyvit 3y ago
I use it because if I used a debit card and it gets compromised then I lose whatever's in my bank account. Maybe I can get it back if I can prove it's fraud? If I use a credit card and it gets compromised then my cash is still sec
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by troyvit 3y ago
Our problem as a < 200 person non-profit is that our teams are being convinced that we _do_ need these systems, and in that scenario it is bloat. We keep telling ourselves that we need to "grow into" SalesForce and all its anci
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by troyvit 3y ago
I enjoyed trying to tell if the circle had a 3d aspect to or not, and also trying to tell if it was completely black or actually dark dark gray. I'm not sure if I'm cognitively more focused but I'm going to try it again when
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by troyvit 3y ago
It's probably not as good, but I type my notes really quickly and then go back later to proof them, taking out spelling errors and clarifying stuff. It seems to help me retain a little bit.
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by troyvit 3y ago
> How could you "fix" it? The larger a company is the more it falls back to "let the market decide." In this case the market is starting to decide (again) to bypass the poor user experience the big players offer and j
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by troyvit 3y ago
I just want to add that folks like Cloudflare directly engage in the "non-reformist reform" that my second linked article talks about. Their Project Galileo[1] is a cool example of infrastructural support of journalism (and nonpro
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by troyvit 3y ago
Love me some techdirt, but this is off base in a few ways. For one thing NYTimes and Politico are both profitable. Whether they're good is up to interpretation, but I don't think the likes of techdirt can say they're failing.
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by troyvit 3y ago
If we're talking qualitatively about bubbles, I'll take government-led building programs that help lower real estate prices and help build trades over hilarious tech bubbles that all rely on the same memes (Quantum! AI! Selling us
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by troyvit 3y ago
<meta>It's lame when there's one comment on a post, and it's being down-voted instead of replied to.</meta> I agree that Ukraine has problems which it's inconvenient for MSM to focus on. That said I can
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by troyvit 3y ago
I agree. If you're enjoying your time it has value.
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by troyvit 3y ago
This "one weird trick" will eat your brain!
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by troyvit 3y ago
Wyden's letter[1] is a lot more targeted than the Techdirt article. The letter says this: "The U.S. government should not be funding and legitimizing a shady industry whose flagrant violations of Americans’ privacy are not just un
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by troyvit 3y ago
> The idea of that "constant imbalance" is always the rule is simply false. Modern ecology would like a word: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4188511/ A natural balance is the actual
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by troyvit 3y ago
It's not philosophizing, it's ecology.[1] Regarding stars and solar systems, over the lifespan of the universe those things are just blips.[2] In 110 trillion years the Milky Way will be down to about a hundred stars. That's
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by troyvit 3y ago
It might, but the first time I heard it (put differently) it blew my mind. The way I heard it was: There is no such thing as equilibrium in nature. It's more about constant imbalances. It made me re-think our whole approach to environm
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by troyvit 3y ago
The original paper is pretty clear that they're talking about killing plants, not just weeds, but that it might be useful for targeting weeds with it.[1] Roundup, which they mention, is another example. It kills anything leafy (that is
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by troyvit 3y ago
FWIW the top reason I'd buy a truck is so I could take it camping, but here in Colorado though it's exactly as you say. Trucks are giant, gas-guzzling status symbols that people use to get to and from work. Most aren't used t

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