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by RunSet 4y ago
I clicked through eager to see LXDE curbstomp all comers but alas it was not included in the results. I use LXDE because it responds when I click its widgets. Every other desktop environment, by comparison, has a noticeable lag when respond
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by RunSet 4y ago
> would you rather see it used or see it dog slow trying to load UI components from disk? Are those the only two options? In any case the memory is technically "used" when dog slow trying to load UI components from disk. It is
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzhqC5zXIA
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by RunSet 4y ago
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." ― Anatole France
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by RunSet 4y ago
> The Signal Protocol somewhat excessively provides forward secrecy for each and every message sent. That is sort of pointless while the messages still exist on the screen. Or if the message's recipient took a screenshot.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> any walled off website that blocks you from accessing it is unacceptable because it's not the web anymore. It is a personal point of pride that LokiList allows posting over Tor. Not many clearnet sites do, especially without regis
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by RunSet 4y ago
Further reading: https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-...
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by RunSet 4y ago
> anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river. Did Apple ever implement the ability to run software without first phoning home and ask
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by RunSet 4y ago
> It's pretty easy to go buy a completely unlocked computer You will pay a premium if you consider "a completely unlocked computer" to be one sans Intel Management Engine or the AMD equivalent.
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by RunSet 4y ago
"My definition of a great story has nothing to do with 'a varied and interesting background.' It is: One that can be read with pleasure by a cultivated reader and reread with increased pleasure." - Gene Wolfe, from a cha
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by RunSet 4y ago
I feel the same way about Hank Ketcham, who I have only recently come to appreciate. It is easy to lump Dennis the Menace in with Family Circus and Marmaduke in the "unfunny single panel comics" set but Ketcham's artwork is s
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by RunSet 4y ago
This but unironically.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Reminds me of how Firefox removed the ability to set a URL for new tabs (the better to display advertising on them) but justified it by saying "Users can trust and install a third-party extension to enable that functionality."
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Sites that work without JavaScript. Perhaps you will like this: https://lokilist.com/about.php If you have feedback, please send it to me via the contact page.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I haven't seen one commenter here concerned with copyright violation While we are enumerating things we haven't seen... In the United States, copyright exists "to promote the progress of the useful arts and sciences&quot
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by RunSet 4y ago
A bit of a tangent but I have observed that whenever a networking record for bandwidth is broken it is typically by a nonprofit such as a university, but whenever a networking record for latency is broken it is more often than not by someon
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by RunSet 4y ago
> how to cache windows updates on my local network without an enterprise windows install https://download.wsusoffline.net/ will download Windows updates and create an installer for them.
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by RunSet 4y ago
People are so quick to assume malice whenever a multinational conglomerate practices deception in pursuit of profit. Whatever happened to engaging in good faith?
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by RunSet 4y ago
That appears to be because Session uses Firebase as a dependency. https://github.com/opendocument-app/OpenDocument.droid/issue... Per F-Droid's definition of "the upstream source code is not entirely f
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by RunSet 4y ago
> the job itself is basically all about justifying its existence not actually achieving any purported objectives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I love the TST addon. Sadly it builds on an unstable API and is quite a bit of work to get it installed in FF. The amount of nails FF has scattered in the road of moving the tab bar to the side is atrocious. At one point (in the halcyo
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by RunSet 4y ago
These are practically ancient in internet time but they are good examples of physics-based gameplay. https://jet.ro/dismount/
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://getsession.org/ * Doesn't require users to provide a phone number. * Doesn't use centralized servers. Hopefully Session will stay legit for a while. Just when I get most of my contacts to use Signal, Sig
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by RunSet 4y ago
> The moment you're manually typing a username it's game over. Is copy/paste also too much to ask of technology's current generation?
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by RunSet 4y ago
A: "Let's attempt to solve poverty, addiction, spousal abuse, and sexual abuse." B: "Why do you have to make everything political?"
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Devs need to be careful, and they need to measure things. They shouldn't start with the assumption that something will be slow. I disagree. The specs of developers' machines typically so far surpass those of users as to make
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by RunSet 4y ago
> browsers are much faster than people think they are Does "people" include you? Also web pages are more bloated than people think they are.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Correct; neither did I mention kiwifarms.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> From a cynical business POV it's in a dating app's best interest to not let you find a relationship and keep you spending money/watching ads. https://teddit.net/r/LokiList/comments/s0a0w6&#
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by RunSet 4y ago
> And we are fucking bickering about how we were cheated out of $0.00034 because our repo from 2015 might have been used for training. I just hope Microsoft AutoPlagiarist is not the Final Solution to Free Software they have been seeking

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