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LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S II(njh.eu)
1 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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by vog 9y ago
K-9 mail is great, but just one part of the replacement. I've yet to find a very good contact list for Android. ... and a calendar that works remotely as good as the one of Thunderbird (Lightning).
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by vog 9y ago
Thanks! That's something I can make sense of. And I agree that this is perhaps one of the many situations where people throw away the "C" of "ACID" for no reason beyond it is modern to do so. (At least most strive f
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by vog 9y ago
But then you have the whole industry of "security appliances" against you, which do want to have a look, and which do want to MITM everything - ironically arguing that this makes everything safer, depite becoming themselves a huge
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by vog 9y ago
> may be applied to Democrats, or the young (who disproportionally vote against Republicans). That doesn't make any sense! To affect elections, you'd need a really huge number of prisoners. Moreover, you'd need to deny p
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by vog 9y ago
QuiteRSS. This is a simple Qt application with good usability that does the job. Advantages: It's neither a web service that will disappaer tomorrow, nor a browser extension that ties you to a specific browser. https://quite
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by vog 9y ago
Would you mind to elaborate? Your criticism is so condensed that I'm unable to make a lot of sense of it.
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by vog 9y ago
Fomerly, I viewed TempleOS as some kind of useless exercise. But now I think this should be considered a piece of art.
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by vog 9y ago
General question: Wouldn't it make more sense to have a whitelist instead of (or at least in addition to) a blacklist? Moreover, I'd love to see this information maintained somewhere in Wikipedia/Wikidata.
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by vog 9y ago
Thanks for the link, but why isn't it part of the article?
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by vog 9y ago
I wonder if there is any way to redirect all that dedication to something that is constructive and good for society.
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by vog 9y ago
> It's like they need something to believe in subconsciously even if their logical mind knows it's bullshit. A simpler explanation is that they just love to gamble. Essentially, they bet on ending up in a higher position of t
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by vog 9y ago
Small nitpick: I'd relate "about office space/working environments," also to programming, because this is an important aspect of professional software development.
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by vog 9y ago
Yes, that's an issue, but only if you don't want to make your Qt client Free Software. Since nowadays most client-side applications are tied to some web service anyway, releasing those as Free Software might even be advantageous.
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by vog 9y ago
Do you care to elaborate? What exactly does this tell us about our financial literacy?
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by vog 9y ago
> tell the TSA to keep it because it’s garbage, and make it clear, your intent is to waste as much of their time, energy and resources as possible Wouldn't it be more effective (and safer!) to waste their time and resources withou
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by vog 9y ago
My feeling ist that the downside basically boils down to: Lots of work, and having to find volunteers implementing that.
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by vog 9y ago
If you are into this kind of thought experiments, I can highly recommend the old but far-sighted sci-fi novel "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep This no
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by vog 9y ago
Why not making scopes mandatory, to fix these issues once and for all? Wait, that's what GitHub did for 10 years ...
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by vog 9y ago
I wonder if the similar tricks work in other languages with similarily optimizing compilers, but "nicer" metaprogramming, such as Common LISP, Rust and perhaps OCaml? (with camlp4) Even more interesting would be whether this leads
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by vog 9y ago
Whoops, wrong URL. Sorry for the confusion! https://taler.net/ (Too bad I can't edit my original comment anymore here on HN. I find it disgusting to have helped spread a scam website and not being able to fix that afte
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by vog 9y ago
> I'm a cryptocurrency supporter but I'm not anti tax or anti government. The GNU Taler project might be interesting to you, then. It is based on design decisions that are refreshingly different from classic crypto currencies
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by vog 9y ago
What's the difference in this specific case? How do I automatically apply a custom CSS onto an external website? Is this somehow simpler than injecting JS into an external website?
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by vog 9y ago
I'm using QuiteRSS, which is also not perfect, but I like it a lot. It's better than any browser extension or web service I tried.
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by vog 9y ago
That's how I read it, too. And I can somehow relate to it. In many places, you can't walk down the street without being annoyed by ads. You'd have to go through parks and nearby woods. And now it doesn't even help to go
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by vog 9y ago
I appreciate the write-up! I always wanted to do a similar write-up for my own setup, but I never got around to it. (My setup uses slightly with different components: exim+dovecot+spamassassin+openldap.) However, after reading this, the sof
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Durable Design (2017)(exple.tive.org)
1 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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by vog 9y ago
Note that this works only well if the law of two feet has been established prior to the meeting. Otherwise, you should politely ask if you are still needed, wait for the "no", and only then leave. Among others, this avoids awkward
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by vog 9y ago
Good point. Although a bookmarklet can also ignore the current site and just open a new tab, it can't embed custom JavaScript into that new tab. But at least it can open a new tab with a full-page iframe, which was just enough for me t
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by vog 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I would still see this as an instance of unnecessary complexity in the Git workflow - mostly the workflow for submitting, but not just that. Of course, one could also argue that this is by design. Still, I don&

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