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by weland 11y ago
HA! That would actually be lovely. Something easily-discovered, like a "isactualhypertextnotaturingtarpit" attribute for the <meta> tag (OK, maybe something less verbose) would probably solve half the problem.
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by weland 11y ago
Oh. I can't believe I missed that and kept hovering over it like an idiot, then going aaaah, crap, I have to press Alt. Jesus Christ.
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by weland 11y ago
Absolutely, but 1996-ish Java was really lousy.
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by weland 11y ago
My point was that, eventually , it won't even be a web frontend. They'll just get the web browser out of the equation. Of course, a web "widget" is still going to be there, it just won't be a program you open. I do
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by weland 11y ago
That's what we need for web browsers. Unfortunately, every other web designer today seems to think I don't want to read a bloody article, but rather to be engaged by an interactive article-reading application that's basically
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by weland 11y ago
At this rate, I predict that about ten years from now, they'll just ditch the bloody memory-leaking browser and just ship out a VM and a language that will have a small GUI library with a DOM-like organization in the standard library c
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by weland 11y ago
I don't know in what corner of the universe was that "only half-working". It was working absolutely fine. It has been working fine since... I don't know, v7, when it was first introduced.
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by weland 11y ago
> Just like "quiet", which is totally meant to affect userspace programs. What userspace programs interpret the quiet parameter? Genuine question. AFAIK, quiet does (or should do) nothing other than disable some of the kernel l
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by weland 11y ago
> Looks pretty good to me. Ok, let's put it to a simple test :). # pkcheck --action-id org.freedesktop.udisks2.ata-standby pkcheck: Subject not specified <What the hell is a subject?> # man pkcheck /subject <???> It
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by weland 11y ago
> That said, it's perfectly fine for the kernel developers to clarify that a flag is for their own exclusive use Oh for fuck's sake. It's a parameter passed to the kernel . Programs shouldn't parse it for precisely
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by weland 11y ago
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753882 Enjoy.
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by weland 11y ago
It's an HP 4720s. I didn't buy it on purpose -- it used to be my girlfriend's. When it broke, I gave her my (much tinier) ThinkPad and after I fixed it, we never swapped them back. I think the only thing that doesn't wor
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by weland 11y ago
Polkit is a great idea, don't get me wrong. However: * Like pretty much anything from freedesktop.org, the documentation is a joke. * The security system implemented through it is next to impossible to debug. It's very easy to a
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by weland 11y ago
If this one isn't satisfying, digi_owl has a nice one, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723476
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by weland 11y ago
It's very easy to agree that nuclear pulse propulsion is a bad idea for a vehicle, even among people who otherwise have very different preferences on what kind of engine they like on their vehicle. Unfortunately, yeah, the whole debate
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by weland 11y ago
All over their bugtracker, but the most famous one is here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935
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by weland 11y ago
I hope my reply didn't come pff as a passive-aggressive "those bastards don't care" or anything like that -- I didn't remember seeing anything about this on the mailing lists, so I just figured out no one wants it.
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by weland 11y ago
I've been playing around with Void Linux recently ( http://www.voidlinux.eu/ ). Unfortunately, even there, it's hard to escape a lot of the baroque nonsense of the Linux userland, and I eventually caved in.
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by weland 11y ago
But I don't want to (just) use it through a GUI, I want to be able to script it. What am I, a connection-making machine :)?
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by weland 11y ago
dbus-monitor ( http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-monitor.1.html ) and a lot of patience are your friends. I know of no other method.
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by weland 11y ago
Which also has an amazingly friendly community.
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by weland 11y ago
Unfortunately, the systemd development team is not that easy to work with, which is part of why a lot of people distrust systemd the way they do. In theory, yes, it should be the way you mention it. In practice, even bug reports end up unac
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by weland 11y ago
> For example, another one would be connecting to a VPN, a task that NetworkManager greatly simplifies, assuming that such integration is available of course (e.g. if you think connecting to a Wifi network is problematic, try connecting
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by weland 11y ago
> What are some things on OpenBSD that don't work for you? The sort of things that you mentioned -- Skype, Dropbox. I also can't use OpenBSD for PCB layout (Eagle doesn't run on it; don't know about Kicad, but I have
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by weland 11y ago
I've occasionally used {Net|Free|Open}BSD over the past few years (in fact, I think my Jornada in the back of the closet still runs NetBSD). I kept sticking to Linux partly because I was using it at $work, partly because it was simple
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by weland 11y ago
I'm one of the people who jumped ship to OpenBSD in the last year or so. I think I first touched a Linux machine in 1997 or 1998. systemd has been part of the reasons I did that for precisely the same reason. There is a lot of developm
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by weland 11y ago
I don't disagree on the quality of these manuals (see my other comment), but for a beginner, The Art of Electronics is a very bad choice. TAE is great if you've gone through university-level courses, understood (or at least was ab
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by weland 11y ago
> They're meant to get high schoolers without much (if any) formal science training to the level that they can safely maintain, operate and repair the specific electrical and electronic components used in Navy fleet applications. Th
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by weland 11y ago
Indeed! It never ceases to amaze me how easy we have it now. Ten years ago or so, when I first wanted to teach myself how to make PCBs, it took me weeks just to get what I needed to make them at home. There was no way I could afford to make
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by weland 11y ago
Fair enough; I was under the impression that the situation was far less serious.

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