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by zafiro17 6y ago
Have a look at serendipity. Certainly doesn't have "tons" of plugins but it's had all the ones I need, and it's dead simple: PHP and either a Mysql or a postgresql database underneath. I've used it for years,
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by zafiro17 6y ago
Sorry to see there has been no mention of Zulip so far. I fooled around with Slack a little, and then Zulip. And in my opinion zulip hit that sweet spot between email and chat. I really like the way conversations can be segregated into ac
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by zafiro17 6y ago
Yes. Many years ago the internet allowed anyone to post their own websites, blogs, and comments on forums. Sites like Buzzfeed quickly blurted out "Oh noes, now that anyone can publish, will the publishing industry survive?" As
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by zafiro17 7y ago
This was useful to me: I've had trouble managing vcard with mutt, and without mutt I'd probably have to give up email. I began using caldav for a similar reason: I'm on Android and my wife is on iOS, and it annoyed me that A
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by zafiro17 7y ago
Pale Moon at the office for anything even vaguely non-work related (i.e. anything I'd browse on my lunch break, etc.). Google Chrome for all official work stuff. At home, Vivaldi on Linux for absolutely everything. Even with that stri
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by zafiro17 7y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. In-app purchases as an architecture gives me a chance to try out the software, and then purchase it to make the ads go away. That's a compromise I like quite a bit. It's a lot cleaner than having one p
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by zafiro17 7y ago
Prioritizing new content is going to exacerbate a lot of already existing problems with the WWW. I won't echo the already good list of reasons why old content is relevant. But I will point out it will usher in a new era of re-showing
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by zafiro17 7y ago
Ha - I have the same problem. Then for fun I log into some nntp sites and browse around. I often visit a webpage with lynx and save it locally, then read the file later using emacs or something else. BTW I discovered by accident that Lyn
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by zafiro17 7y ago
I'll put in a vote on behalf of access. I work in a consulting industry and as part of my work I have to track thousands of companies, individuals, tenders, and projects. It became obvious early on that a nice little DB would simplif
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by zafiro17 7y ago
This conversation went down the rabbit hole. I read the statement, and interpreted it to mean the GNU project should also be a safe place for women programmers. I'm a bit sad the comment that's risen to the top has taken us in a
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by zafiro17 7y ago
I did some searching around and finally settled on rsync as a backup system about 5 years ago, and I've been happy since. I don't understand the fixation on finding the lowest price solution - pay more, get more. With rsync you
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by zafiro17 7y ago
For about a decade now, the easiest way to get FreeBSD on your desktop is to install TrueOS (formerly called PC-BSD) - http://www.trueos.com . TrueOS is FreeBSD, and the last time I installed it, you were given an option of s
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by zafiro17 8y ago
A second vote for elephant - In my experience they recognize they're smaller and have to deliver more hands-on support, and they do. I use their smallest, hobbyist tier and it's been totally free. I wrote them to suggest a great
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by zafiro17 8y ago
I really liked this update for a couple of reasons not related to my opinion of the software itself: 1) it seems focused on informing, not propaganda. They report the good and the bad, and those are the facts; too many announcements sound
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by zafiro17 8y ago
I'd looked into Zulip a few months ago when it appeared on HN and it looks great to me. But this announcement mentions a new beta terminal client! That seals the deal for me! Love the idea of Zulip on a terminal: too good to be true
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by zafiro17 8y ago
I was looking for hosted PostgreSQL and eventually wound up at http://elephantsql.com , with which I've been happy. I don't have a 'production' service in that I'm not relying on a DB to sell a service,
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by zafiro17 8y ago
There are dozens of these in my neighborhood in Washington DC and they're huge hits. I see people of all backgrounds and languages perusing, sorting, maybe giving the books a quick shuffle. They're generally well-treated and wel
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by zafiro17 8y ago
No, they meant percentage of total energy production/consumption. It means that given Palau's existing grid, substations, generators, transformers, etc. it would be impossible to put on more solar/wind than an amount equival
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by zafiro17 8y ago
Interesting stuff, and apparently an interesting guy. This DataCase app looks great - wish I had something similar on my *nix box today! Lots of "note taker" apps out there, but this one was "databasier", which is to m
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by zafiro17 8y ago
I don't have any RSI issues but I love the idea of alternative/improved keyboards and layouts and have accidentally become kind of an aficionado/collector. I have on permanent rotation and have written reviews of a Kinesis E
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by zafiro17 8y ago
In Jakarta the people speak Bahasa and Javanese equally. People who have come in from other areas of the country speak their own language plus Bahasa; the Javanese who were born there make Javanese the most common language. Malay and Bahas
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by zafiro17 8y ago
This was a cool project - I'm impressed. Just wanted to point out that http://topicbox.com offers similar functionality. Topicbox won't interface with Slack but rather replaces it. Run by the folks who do Fastmail,
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by zafiro17 8y ago
In a way, it exists: visit comp.misc where a small group of devoted usenet fans discuss HN-type things, and where a fair number of HN stories have been linked and discussed. Visit misc.news.internet.discuss for non-computer tech discussion
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by zafiro17 8y ago
I once worked in an architecture/engineering firm with an old school architect who worked wonders with pencils and inks. He had a cartoon over his desk: "Computer aided drafting." Showed a crusty, bearded architect sitting
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by zafiro17 8y ago
EFL are Enlightenment Fundamental Libraries - the underpinnings of the Enlightenment Desktop Environment. And the author is writing on the Enlightenment website: it's clearly intended for current developers/users of Enlightenment
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by zafiro17 8y ago
I checked the link expressly to see if it had indeed come from the Enlightenment Project. If you want an easy way to try it again, I recommend Bodhi Linux, which packages Ubuntu fundamentals with a modified Enlightenment Desktop. It amaze
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by zafiro17 9y ago
A bit more obscure for some, but hugely useful to others: if you're a newsreader (Usenet) kind of person, there's Gwene, by the same folks who did Gmane. While Gmane took mailing lists and made them available as news articles, gw
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by zafiro17 9y ago
"Dec is dead! Long live DEC!" It's a decent telling of DEC's rise and fall for those of us that missed it but are curious. Written by an insider.
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by zafiro17 9y ago
Not everyone uses/likes gopher, but I do. I'm very grateful someone thought to do this. How funny that a gopher feed (pheed?) basically suits the purpose that an alternative stack requiring lots of HTML and javascript does at mu
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by zafiro17 9y ago
I've continued using RSS for years, even when it was a "dying" technology. It certainly never died for me, and is super useful. It's probably the first app I reach for in the morning. I use a few apps not mentioned he

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