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by _emacsomancer_ 7mo ago
GrapheneOS is working with a manufacturer to change this:[0] > We're working with a major OEM and the devices will be the future versions of existing models they have now. The devices will be priced similarly to Pixels. The initial
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by _emacsomancer_ 7mo ago
See Colin Gorrie's "How far back in time can you understand English?".[0] [0]: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-u...
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Dyslexia, Programming and Lisp(iwillig.me)
20 points by _emacsomancer_ 7mo ago|2 comments
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by _emacsomancer_ 7mo ago
(including HN! - https://media.simple.photo/12M3xnh3VhDMUgCs8DVhkTBI6OgDGGIX/... )
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Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action(lisp-screenshots.org)
163 points by _emacsomancer_ 7mo ago|49 comments
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GNU Guix 1.5.0 Released(guix.gnu.org)
3 points by _emacsomancer_ 8mo ago|2 comments
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by _emacsomancer_ 9mo ago
Of course, SteamOS is an immutable Arch spin, so it's not as if this isn't an idea that's been had before, but Arch is indeed on the surface sort of a weird distro to implement as immutable.
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by _emacsomancer_ 9mo ago
The Guix pages have styling: https://guix.gnu.org
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YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state(bird.makeup)
95 points by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago|48 comments
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
And in Spanish here: https://www.poeticous.com/borges/el-disco?locale=es (Not having much Spanish, I at first thought "Odin's disco(teque)" and then "no, that doesn't make sense about sides&quo
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
almost: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
You can set default margins in the user interface of KOReader too.
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
I'd suggest KOReader, on various devices, as the best renderer and interface.
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
One can also remove DRM from books one purchased with Calibre+DeDRM plugin.[0],[1],[2] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/2024_guide... [1]: https://www.mobileread.com&#x2F
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
And it works on Android too. Even for devices that aren't e-ink, I prefer KOReader to anything else.
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
> ....It's not some moral axiom that demands action to shut down problematic speech whenever it happens. No, that would probably end up in a logical paradox, if one were intolerant of any degree of intolerance. > It's a conc
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
TeX puts more space after periods/fullstops (which is why you're supposed to do special markup or other measures to mark '.' in the middle of sentences which aren't sentence-enders (e.g. like e.g.)). But it's g
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
There's a 1990s Alan Alda video interviewing Thad Starner with these elements: https://youtu.be/X7DM1mT8r7c
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
Yeah, I think KOReader started out for Kindle first, and then added Kobo (and then other things - works on Android for one, and KOReader is typically what I use if I'm reading on my phone too). I just went with Kobos from the start bec
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
I qualified the air-quoted "great" in the subsequent text, which was really intended to be the main point. (And high price and high quality may sometimes correlate, but high quality is obviously not definitionally high cost (nor v
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
What people aren't generally used to doing is installing OSes. Any OS. Using OSes... Windows 11 is far more complicated, finicky than plenty of Linux installs. (People get caught up in the "you're not holding it right"
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
It happens that lots of people who use Linux like to mess around with things, and, from a certain perspective, that's a waste of time. (But can be enjoyable.) But it's perfectly possible to just use Linux and not muck around. Or,
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
(Though only in a small percentage of the world are those smartphones primarily iOS devices....)
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
Don't recommend Apple if you know better. Not everybody does know better. You can just say that you don't have enough time or spoons to do free tech support.
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
(this is excellent!)
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
An answer with a catch: I ran rooted android phones for a long time, but have for the past few years been on GrapheneOS, which doesn't require Google Play, but allows you to use it while sandboxing it (so, harm reduction), and it'
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
Microsoft couldn't compete themselves out of a wet paper bag (it may be a slightly different script, but they're anti-competitivists just like Apple). Apple technology is "great" as long as you you're rich enough to
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
Or also just have a corporation with enough technical knowledge themselves to work out security.... I suppose they figure it's not in their business interests though.
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by _emacsomancer_ 1y ago
People who don't read Hacker News occasionally want nice things too, and don't necessarily deserve corporations infantalising them.

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