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by whalabi 7y ago
I'm wondering if I should fork Firefox mobile...
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by whalabi 7y ago
Had a chuckle because this article starts with: "I read these points in this other article" ...Which links to an article that says: "I read these points in this other (other) article" ...Which links to the article I wr
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by whalabi 7y ago
The best kind of correct
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Google suspends New Zealand 'trending' emails after suspect's name released(abc.net.au)
1 points by whalabi 7y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
My bad, didn't see
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EFF warns people of the dangers of using Slack(businessinsider.com)
44 points by whalabi 7y ago|20 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
This is a great step in the right direction …but I really don’t like the thing that slides up at the bottom of the screen. It takes the place of content which is 99.99% the reason I’m there. Not to share our bookmark. If I want to do that,
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by whalabi 7y ago
You can hear some spoken Arabic and a comparison of some of the dialects here: https://youtu.be/WEwgafTDrOU I think it's an awesome sounding language. The differences between the dialects are huge though, but everyone
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by whalabi 7y ago
But most importantly, you can use an Arabic letter, teh (sounds like t) as a smiley face: ت See this happy fellow? ت
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by whalabi 7y ago
Yeah that one's tough for me and I grew up Arab ت
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by whalabi 7y ago
It's really not that hard It's in the word "Saudi" for example - right when you transition from the a to the oo sound, your throat just does a bit of the work along with your mouth. There's another letter that'
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Google’s immense power threatens the open Internet(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by whalabi 7y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
This. Most of the times I Google something I get content farm rubbish. Know also that low paid "freelance writers" are often writing a lot of this information that so many people rely on. I use reddit queries for things that aren&
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by whalabi 7y ago
A gigabyte actually (which definitely has its downsides - I just wanted the new generation of CPU early)
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by whalabi 7y ago
I dual boot Windows and Fedora on a laptop with a NVIDIA dGPU and an Intel iGPU, don't use the NVIDIA one in Linux but when I boot to Windows I can game. As far as I know, Ubuntu has even better NVIDIA support than Fedora so you should
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by whalabi 7y ago
This makes sense There's extra vertical space on the lower half of a MacBook, and the dock wastes vertical space on the screen I normally put the dock on the side, but putting it above the keyboard works too Now if only the damn keyboa
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by whalabi 7y ago
Really impressive what's been accomplished by purism. And in such short time! Imagine if there was a viable free software choice on mobile, and as much choice in distros. Not gonna lie, little worried about the hardware though
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by whalabi 7y ago
I can't imagine a factor of an economy, including property prices, that wouldn't be strongly effected by population stability. What happens to wages? Inflation? Energy? Companies? The share market? ...aged care? Absolutely fascina
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by whalabi 7y ago
Thanks for those links, fascinating
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In Europe, cars automatically call for help if they crash(unlikekinds.com)
4 points by whalabi 7y ago|8 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
I think as well there's a snowball effect when you're the world's only superpower - a rich get richer equivalent for countries. For example, a brain drain to the states because it's seen as wealthy and powerful would onl
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by whalabi 7y ago
I think a big reason America dominates is having a country with hundreds of millions of people speaking the same language on a massive, resource-rich continent. If a competitor to Facebook started at the same time in Switzerland, Facebook w
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US Customs and Border Patrol announce hackers stole license-plates, ID photos(theatlantic.com)
1 points by whalabi 7y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
Curious, why didn't you guys decide to use a cross platform framework?
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Comcast broke law 445,000 times in scheme to inflate bills, judge finds(arstechnica.com)
54 points by whalabi 7y ago|8 comments
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The hoops you'll have to jump through to use your domain with AMP(unlikekinds.com)
3 points by whalabi 7y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
Sure, but I was referring to the amount of money being spent to develop Linux, Apple obviously has infinitely more cash and developers. And Linux has to compete with that. It's really more astonishingly impressive that Linux gets what
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by whalabi 7y ago
I'm just astonished by the sheer amount of changes. On Linux it seems there's maybe 1% of this in each major update (not their fault of course)
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US 'extreme vetting' kicks in forcing visitors to hand over social media details(newshub.co.nz)
74 points by whalabi 7y ago|85 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
Agreed, I set up a news site recently, currently focusing on the tech industry. [1] Very deliberately didn't include anything I personally found annoying (I'm pretty easy to annoy with bad UX) Absolutely despise chonky sticky head

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