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by ttctciyf 6y ago
Thanks for adding this information. My "new tab page" is always set to just blank page and has been for years. I dislike all the fancy new page stuff and just set it to blank page on initial install. The sites that show up in the
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
This aligns with one of the few good takeaways I had from some unavoidable "agile coaching" I was subject to. The thought was that you can look at a person as a set of concentric zones from inner to outer, inner being "core v
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
I probably should, but I'd half expect to be told that this is intended behaviour due to some "clever" feature that knows better than I do how I want to use my browser.
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
Well, not strictly the completion - it's the behaviour when you click on the urlbar before typing anything. Normally (in my setup) it shows a list of "most visited" urls. The new behaviour is to still show this list but omit
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
In the last update (75) I had this bizarre problem that any amazon.co.uk links in my history weren't showing up in the "most used links" that the url bar is usually populated with if you click the down arrow (or in this updat
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
The box in question is in use as a media server, but reloading logind logs out the X session, so it wasn't really possible to test properly until today. Having the opportunity to restart the machine (probably I just needed to systemctl
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
> "what is the technically correct way, in the systemd world, of implementing this functionality?" In the case of terminating programs left running in an ssh shell by a logged out user, it's a pretty simple answer IMO: jus
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
Switching to CentOS in order to use screen is not an appealing option, and the config appears not to work on my current distro (that might be my poor testing, but it's certainly not the default anyhow.) I understand Slackware still lac
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
Nope: [user]@[host]:~$ systemd-run --scope --user screen Job for run-r0b2a43d19a564e2c9f36b5c9b934420f.scope failed. See "systemctl status run-r0b2a43d19a564e2c9f36b5c9b934420f.scope" and "journalctl -xe" for details. [u
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
To answer your question: remote login, start screen, ctl-A d (detach), log out, log back in, screen -r (resume) - there is no screen session because it was killed by systemd immediately after log out. (syslog entry: May 3 09:01:25 $HOSTNAM
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by ttctciyf 6y ago
As a somewhat dilettante and casual home sysadmin (currently) I was messing around with screen on a box downstairs and ran into this: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4ldewx/systemd... Namel
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
>> attributed Attribution to a single cause may be an indicator of unrealistic thinking about these events, but to dismis all concerns about the subversion of democratic processes by algorithmic influence as delusional is a staggering
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
That's an interesting (and I think worthwhile) read! Just how much it upset the denizens of r/cpp[1] is a sight to behold: > This starts ridiculously, then it gets worse ... > looks like a solid way to produce abysmal qualit
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Recreate USENET and we can put it all back where it came from..
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
If you search for "vim", you'll find there's already an issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/17213 - the latest comment is about a year old and says: > The current impleme
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Interestingly, the article makes no mention of the followup experiment where it seems a hospital invited a repetition and then claimed to have found 40 or so fake patients during the agreed period. Only to be told that the experimenters had
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
As someone who's vaguely aware of the workings of GA but not sufficiently immersed to fully grok your piece, could I suggest that some concrete specification of "geometric antiproduct" would be useful? Googling for that phras
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Something like DNS66 is a good idea too: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Schiff is also controversial on the "Moonlight"[1] > I don't know any other piece of music that has such a thick layer of false tradition on it like this one. As well as taking issue with the name - deriving from the poet
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
The article picks a "strangely thrilling Beethoven’s Fifth — strange, because tiny details spring out of what sounds like a big band" recorded by Peter Eotvos. This might also be said of the John Eliot Gardiner version[1] Performe
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
> she became one of my heroes The book had a similar impact on myself & partner after we picked it up randomly from a clearance box in a used book store. The idea that truly owning one's life, thoughts, behaviour and so on is a
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Nice! My "best unknown" in the espionage topic would be Gordon Winter's Inside BOSS [1] which tells of the author's stint in the employ of South African intelligence during the apartheid era. Sample passage: > I aske
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Severely underappreciated (IMO) is British psychiatrist Marion Milner's A Life of One's Own [1] (1934, as "Joanna Field") - an extraordinary recounting of the author's subjective yet diligent observational study of
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Ironically, the headline is misleading because the article has nothing to say on how to "fight" bad information - it merely provides hints on how to avoid being personally taken in by it. "Fighting" bad information would
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Computers Don't Argue[1], [2] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue 2: https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
The discussion at Scott Aaronson's blog[1] has some fascinating to-and-fro in the extensive comments, including claimed refutations and detailed responses to them from one of the paper's authors. 1: https://www.scottaar
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Sounds like you must have chosen the expert install option (or whatever they called it) in slackware install scripts.. Are you sure there wasn't also an option to just install a typical server or desktop application set, or just instal
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
Glad to see that http://pn/ and http://pn./ are both apparently working. I'm pretty sure that at one point I had to supply the trailing dot to make the browser (or resolver) believe it was a real hostn
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
The article we're discussing would be part of that superior 10% then :) My experience as a noscript user of several years is that the time I lose to one-time delays as I mark some domains trusted is vastly outweighed by the time I save
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by ttctciyf 7y ago
A direct quote: > The switch to Signal will also allow the Conservative party to stem the flow of leaks emerging from its inner circle. which implies there's some security advantage over whatsapp ( viz. the word "also".)

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