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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I rarely edit videos, so my needs are very basic. I tested a few such as openshot, flowblade, ... about 10 months ago. flowblade has the best UI IMHO (more streamlined), but it was annoyingly restrictive for quick edits such as opening a cl
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
Usetnet was (technically still is) essentially decentralized text-only reddit, with an open protocol and a client you can choose. You can post/read on a global network. The problem is that very few groups are still active and probably
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
Open mailing lists often have public archives, for example https://www.mail-archive.com/ . Many lists are subscribed to multiple public archives. Those archives are often searchable on their own platforms, and are indexed by
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I get >50% of my spam from legitimate hosts such as gmail and yahoo, which tick all the spf/dkim/dmark boxes. spf/dkim/dmark helps with phishing/forgery, it does little to nothing for spam, even though this polic
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
You don't necessarily need rain exposure. When I'm actively hiking, and especially during colder conditions, heavy condensation forms on the surface of the phone directly in the pocket. This is more frequent on sport jackets, whic
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
On a hiking trip.
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
> considering that AMD officially stopped updating drivers for Vega GPUs which are still being sold in products today(!) This happens waaaaaaay to often in hw/embedded :(. My experience in embedded is that usually you have two teams
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
Range is an issue for me. I commute by public transport or bike. I only use the car for relatively long weekend trips (3/4 hours, 300+km). For these trips, stopping halfway for charging makes no sense: I don't want to add another
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I was running FF (and netscape before that) on such machines, and they were about the worst possible program to run. My memory of browsers of the era was slow, buggy, and bloated. It was barely usable because the connection speed was by far
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I checked for a specific default value (server-generated), so having no-value or a random value both wouldn't work. It is pretty effective in most cases at evading most bots and dumb attempts, but it's also trivial to defeat if
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
It only worked for so long. I had spammers post with the hidden field after being targeted. I then switched the field to a hashed simple time-based value, to which they responded to by just fetching the page to get the value, and posting it
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I'm using earlyoom on desktop, systemd-oomd on servers. Due to cgroupv2, systemd-oomd tends to kill entire process groups instead of a single run-away process [1]. It's perfect for servers where almost every process is part of a s
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I used to have comments and a xapian index/engine on my website, something I wish every website would have. To share my experience, I eventually removed both. The xapian index was both faster, more accurate and up to date than any publ
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
Agree. Shorter lines are more readable the same way narrow paragraphs in multi-column layouts are more readable, as it's easier to follow to the next line. I'm not strict on the 80 column rule. Readability for code is a balance in
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I went from "c++ fondness" to "c++ distaste" over the years. The newest c++ standards fix a lot of issues, but at the same time increase complexity. The backwards-compatibility nature is the classic double-edged sword. I
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
At least where I shop, on a shelf if a product itself is smaller, more rows of them are used to that the space on the shelf is roughly the same, even though each row might not be stocked to the full depth of the shelf. In most cases at leas
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Measuring Smartphone Slow-Mo(thregr.org)
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
It's pretty easy to see why this behavior can come from programs that's don't use any standard OS toolkits, but go for custom or cross-platform solutions: - show the tooltip - rely on move events on the main window to hide it
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
When google first appeared it was a revolution compared to everything else. If you expect this kind of difference, none of the alternative search engines come close. If you are looking for big search engines, there aren't many really,
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
Did you watch the video, or is this a rhetorical response? Spoiler: it's about the conflict of interests in google search.
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
> PS I was reading (sceptically) 'google search is broken' already for a year or so in HN comments and have to admit I believe it now. Even ignoring results, mainstream started to notice a while ago. Perhaps the biggest social
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
This new pricing scheme made me switch. I still think though that in many countries it's still high. At least from my friend group, <5$/mo is the price where most would stop "thinking about it" and just subscribe to t
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
What's amazing here is how google did this essentially to themselves by degrading their own products to the point that existing users started to look at alternatives.
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
From by my own experience, you'll have to review/test the boring task from a one-time contributor, which is also not fun. You don't need to do that as often if the contributor is going to stay, but you're not attracting
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
That's a very good point. If I look at my android experience, two major updates is the limit I would _want_ to update to. On devices where I could push the limits with lineage/cyanogenos, I could perhaps extend this to 3, being pr
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I would definitely reposition the thumb cluster on the KA to be slightly lower (no more than 1cm lower really), however I didn't find this to be a problem for me. I rest my hands with the pinky/thumb at about 15' (that is, th
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
As a general question to anybody that used the Kinesis Advantage and switched to the Glove80: how's the thumb cluster? The double-length keys for bk/delete/enter/space allows a lot of vertical travel freedom on the hand.
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
My impression for the popularity of the 75% form factor is due to laptops and people being accustomed to never have used the "missing" keys in the first place. A tell-tale is that default layout even for thinkpads is to set the Fn
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
I was working on web maps before google maps steamrolled (effectively killed) the competition. The big thing for us was that we couldn't compete with the storage and licensing requirements for satellite imagery. I suspect it was the sa
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by wakeupcall 3y ago
If you're referring to the "mechanical keyboard" and similar subreddit trends, it's pretty obvious that the fascination is in the DIY and styling aspect. It's amazing how many switches you can find today, mostly bor

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