Grumbledour

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by Grumbledour 2mo ago
One the one hand, that many people on here are so opposed to this kind of thinking (your post was flagged) is no suprise, since this is in many parts more of business than a hacker forum, so profit trumps all other concerns. Yet considering
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by Grumbledour 2mo ago
In light of the topic (and because of personal gripes), i think a link to the actual podcast, RSS feed and all, would be more appropiate than big techs radio-show version of it. https://adventofcomputing.com/ Though frankly
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by Grumbledour 3mo ago
Later on, in Shadow Warrior, you could even do that, i think they used portals to implement it and i remeber it was a pain to set up in the editor.
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by Grumbledour 4mo ago
> Realistically though, I'm not going to build software for free any more than I'm going to tidy someone's garden for free. I think the better analogy here would be to tidy the public park for free. It's about doing s
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by Grumbledour 4mo ago
I don't think it is this novel anymore though. Which easier and cheaper distribution, the same thing is starting to apply to other creative endeveours like music, art, or writing, where the costs of publishing start to get negligible,
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by Grumbledour 5mo ago
The problem though is, using undocummented communication channels on private phones by people not technically inclined. That Signal is an american company and subject to NSA scrutiny while the users a politicians of a foreign goverment only
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by Grumbledour 5mo ago
I think the law is actually pretty clear on that front, that it is not ok, but in the meantime, all the big publishers do it and make so much money, they actually don't care much about fines, especially given the chance they might get
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by Grumbledour 5mo ago
The bundestags president, Julia Klöckner, was recently a victim of phishing on signal. While there could be different motives behind her suggestion, I think they are just another facet of her not really understanding technology and security
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by Grumbledour 5mo ago
I think Win2k already had that. As far as I remember, the explorer sidebar, the white box with the colored line under the heading, already being HTML. I loved hacking on that back then to customize my windows experience.
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by Grumbledour 6mo ago
I've been using FairEmail[1] for some years now as a replacement and find it superior to the gmail app. Of course, depending on your needs and tastes, I could also understand calling it a bit clunky. It is FOSS, but has a one time pay
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by Grumbledour 7mo ago
And the pandora took years to arrive, got constantly more expensive while waiting, while the hardware got pretty long in the tooth. Still, it was a greadt device! But when it arrived, it was already a curiosity from another time and I feel
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by Grumbledour 7mo ago
I had a similar idea a few years ago and tried to set it up, but failed at making it easy to connect to. I wanted the phone to prompt you like when connecting to wifi hotspots where you have to accept some T&Cs before you can connect t
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by Grumbledour 11mo ago
I think they just confused bavria with munich. It was the city who had their own linux distribution (LiMux) and the move of the headquarters where part of microsoft efforts to change that, because it means more tax income for the city (Muni
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by Grumbledour 11mo ago
It's "Rattenfänger von Hameln" in german, so the literal translation would be "Rat-Catcher of Hamelin". I do remember him wearing brightly colored patchwork clothing in the stories, but I could not say if that was a
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by Grumbledour 11mo ago
The question is of course always where someone draws the line, and thats part of the problem. Too many people have the "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote internalized to a degree they won't even think abou
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by Grumbledour 11mo ago
And to add to that, because some people might not know or have forgotten, colors where easily adjustable in winforms, so dark mode, high contrast mode, green, blue, hot pink etc. were all easily adjustable for all these apps and back in th
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by Grumbledour 1y ago
It's quite interesting, that while this topic comes up from time to time (it has been going on a long time after all already), people on here seem to seldom talk about the organizations that lobby for this proposal for years, with big
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by Grumbledour 1y ago
This is a good time to remember the short span when Firefox actually would show an RSS Symbol in the address bar after it found a feed on the page, allowing you to click on it to view it and subscribe. I thought, the future of RSS was brigh
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by Grumbledour 1y ago
I am so conflicted about this project every time it comes up. I think I understood for quite some time what it wants to do (Though when checking the website there always creeps in doubt, because it is so incomprehensible) and every year whe
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by Grumbledour 1y ago
This is such a bad and reductionist take. When progressive enhancement was the thing, nobody wanted to "disable 1/3 to 2/3 of their browser's technology", browsers mostly lacked many of modern CSS and JS enhancemen
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by Grumbledour 1y ago
But, at least speaking for Germany here, the anti-technology stance of politicians and Germans in general certainly has a huge part in hampering the startup scene. This always goes both ways. It's not wrong to be skeptical and wanting
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by Grumbledour 2y ago
It also gives you something hacker news mostly lacks (besides the occasional Ask HN) and that is discussing topics organically vs. just discussing what people elsewhere have said. I think this is also an important distinction older type of
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by Grumbledour 2y ago
This is the main problem of the "Hacker News for [x]" type sites. Lobsters got lots of people interested, but it is itself mostly not interesting to read, because there is very little discussion. Sure, you keep out some noise, but
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by Grumbledour 2y ago
No, because this is about more than just supporting non-js use cases, it is about the type of design from the ground up and how you structure your application. JS is very welcome on these kind of interfaces, but also really unnecessary for
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by Grumbledour 2y ago
Well, they claimed for years they wanted to strengthen civil liberties, stop surveillance, progress digitalisation of government etc. That all should have worked well with their coalition partners and the fact that they never actually inten
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by Grumbledour 2y ago
It used to have darkmode++ back in the day, because windows allowed you to just choose all the controls colors in any way you wanted. Of course it lacks features we want today, especially things we are used to from the web, like highlightin
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by Grumbledour 2y ago
Personally I have seen a few over the years come and go. Podcasts (Adio and Video) for example often tried to use youtube as an additional channel, but still maintain their websites and RSS feeds. It seems these days, most Youtube creators
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by Grumbledour 2y ago
If the shops are full of people working, are they not a second place? Of course it sucks if removing the free second place also removes the third place, but it really seems to stem from a cultural problem of people using coffee shops as cow
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by Grumbledour 2y ago
Easy. Just slice of parts into your bowl until the scale shows the desired weight. I am a bit envious of American butter packaging, because it saves so much time, but if they ever change anything about it, you are all hosed, because nobody
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by Grumbledour 3y ago
Depends on the manual. In my experience "How to read" either indicates the manual is borderline incomprehensible, or more often, the manual only describes trivial concepts that won't help you at all, for example, that clickin

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