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by weikju 5y ago
Same, it was obvious enough for me. It's probably an outgrowth of the trend to complain about Firefox, when there's a very visible feature like this that "takes away resources" from improving the core browser or restorin
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by weikju 5y ago
because Ansible doesn't solve the problem this tool solves.
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by weikju 5y ago
Perhaps the goal was to "fix the holes in the plan" rather than "an individual will save the day with heroic actions". 3 more episodes till we find out if they went that route or really butchered the novels' premise
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by weikju 5y ago
Just like in the books, one person close to Hari went to the Foundation to nudge it in the right direction at the start, I'm assuming that this is the role Gaal was to play, but didn't get a chance to do.. Either way, in the absol
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by weikju 5y ago
"presented as Chosen Ones" -- from the Goyer AMA, he said the show explores when believe think they are Chosen Ones, but that there are no Chosen Ones. In fact, the whole thing about Salvor believing she's a Chosen One is fal
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by weikju 5y ago
I agree, especially the directing, and the over-reliance on end of episode cliffhangers, which are often not revisited until 2, 3 episodes later. I do like how the story is developing though, and I know that often it takes a show one season
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by weikju 5y ago
> The idea of a CI/server for Apple software is a Mac mini... Not exactly production grade. Apples hardware/software lock in is disgusting. while obviously not applicable to all circumstances, and no idea what state it's i
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by weikju 5y ago
I had a look at the Wikipedia page and it turns out that this age of sin started around 3000 BC and will last another 426,000 years give or take a few centuries . So, conveniently it encompasses all known history and imaginable future of ou
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by weikju 5y ago
Or rather: People who value privacy do not upload their photos to someone else' servers
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by weikju 5y ago
I think the question is more along the lines of - was there another news, recently posted, that prompted this post? Like for example if fly.io was announced yesterday, and they said they used Firecracker, then someone would submit this link
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by weikju 5y ago
if companies and govt hadn't broken our trust so often wrt privacy, snooping, data-hunger, their might not have been so many controversies... I think the struggle is good if it stops or slows down these things.
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by weikju 5y ago
their launch is not just around the corner -- unless you count a barely-functional developer device as launching, and a suitable replacement for the Remarkable 2. The PineNote in 2021 will NOT be a consumer device, it may or may never end u
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by weikju 5y ago
They make stuff people want to buy and overall devices that people can use to get things done. Unpopular opinion around here I know.
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by weikju 5y ago
ok it installed but more might be needed to make it work.. haven't tried this yet: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#pro...
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by weikju 5y ago
You'll be stopped long before SSL VPN. Right about the "you're running an unsupported/unauthorized OS on your company-owned laptop, send it back so we can restore to Windows"
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by weikju 5y ago
You can download the extension as a file from the vscode marketplace and install it in Codium. The remote containers extension requires the latest Codium but it work now.
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by weikju 5y ago
> - Sponsored Backgrounds: just random places of the world like tropical beaches, Buddhist temples or mountains. No, these are just random backgrounds. At some point I started seeing backgrounds advertising Crocs and stuff like that, at
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by weikju 5y ago
Yah ads aren't inherently bad, but the business models that developed around ads and tracking is what most oppose, and has turned ads into evil, unfortunately.
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by weikju 5y ago
Related, "107 Year Old Irish Farmer Reflects on Change, 1965" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daIMIv8perM
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by weikju 5y ago
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html > The first web browser - or browser-editor rather > ... https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/worldwideweb/ > Editing > To edit any
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by weikju 5y ago
Right. and that was part of my point though - if the chemical reaction is able to make one or two lines appear, then it's surely able to make specific areas appear that are clearly labeled pregnant or not pregnant - no microchips requi
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by weikju 5y ago
If you can make specific lines appear as a result of a chemical reaction… can’t you make a line or dot appear next to printed “pregnant” “not pregnant” words instead? No microchip required.. Disclosure; I know nothing about this.
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by weikju 5y ago
Although they still need to be installed as an app from the app store, ios 15 now supports WebExtensions https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/ But according to the uBlock Origin developers, the available
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by weikju 5y ago
And yet when you leave Safari (or any other browser) and use other apps and come back, and have your tab(s) reload and lose your position in a long webpage or have to re-fill a form... sometimes happens even after 10 seconds... then you wis
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by weikju 5y ago
The industry is what got us here in the first place... we need to do this for ourselves. By us, for us.
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by weikju 5y ago
> Many people wouldn't find doing this fun. They'd much prefer being able to watch Netflix in ultra high-def and not having to futz around with Nvidia's drivers or what have you I think they were being sarcastic, maybe not
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by weikju 5y ago
that's exactly correct. We have to accept discomfort NOW (to our convenience, wallets) so that everyone can benefit later. We cannot give up.
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by weikju 5y ago
Would it be possible to share this custom CSS please? Also, what tracking/how are you stopping it?
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by weikju 5y ago
This. We need to put our money where our mouths is, and accept the discomfort NOW (both to our wallets and to how convenient it is to use a device), so that things can be better LATER, for us and for users who can't tell a Terminal com
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by weikju 5y ago
This has finally pushed me into finally getting a liberapay account and donating to a few projects, mostly related to XMPP and mobile Linux. My reasoning being that in the FOSS world there's not a single company you can pump funds into

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