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by binaryturtle 9mo ago
That requirements.txt is HUGE.
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by binaryturtle 9mo ago
In my experience the small projects with actual volunteers have no trouble helping out here. They are happy to accept a patch too, f.ex. It's the big "open source" projects with company backing (or other larger organisational
153.
by binaryturtle 9mo ago
I got my AdSense account disabled because "fraudulent click activity" or how they worded it (someone clicked my ads frequently, I assume?). Google then kept all the my hard earned 16++ EUR or so.
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by binaryturtle 9mo ago
I'm on a slightly older version than 10.12. I'm out of this limited support range. The problem is that as soon Apple cuts off older systems by heavy force all of the Mac developers running in circles like lemmings and cut off thei
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by binaryturtle 9mo ago
I stopped scrobbling many years ago when they messed together my top artist at the time (the lovely "alan", spelled with all small letters) with other entirely unrelated artists by the same name (but with different letter case, e.
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by binaryturtle 9mo ago
For those who get blocked by gnu.org with a 403 (older Firefox) or an even sillier "Too Many Requests" error (older Safari) need to override their user agents strings to "curl" to make the site load again.
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by binaryturtle 9mo ago
Doubtful. I can't even get Rust to work here on my slightly older Mac system. So with TOR switching away from a well supported language like C it's simple another project lost to me (unlikely you can stick with an older version fo
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by binaryturtle 9mo ago
I'm not even from the UK (EU here). The following is what I'm seeing exactly, and because it still happens it seems deliberate, not a temporary issue where I was "snake-joking" about earlier. Well… no cute snakes for me.
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by binaryturtle 9mo ago
"Error 403 Forbidden" I guess that's this new UK laws in effect? How can I prove I'm old enough to watch some giant snakes? :)
160.
by binaryturtle 10mo ago
The PAL release is already the bad copy (starting with season 4 I think). You already had odd stuff in view that wasn't supposed to be visible. The only way to watch this show properly now is the 4:3 NTSC DVD release. I think the recen
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by binaryturtle 10mo ago
I wonder too. I don't trust SSDs/ flash for my archives, hence I'm stuck on max. 18TB drives atm.
162.
by binaryturtle 10mo ago
A browser basically is like a really dumb trojan, pulling a whole herd of wooden horses into the city.
163.
by binaryturtle 10mo ago
It still matters when you try to keep your components truly portable (aka you're not just targeting the big 3).
164.
by binaryturtle 10mo ago
And here I'm still trying to get an up-to.date Rust running on my outdated OS X (10.10). No luck (though I may not try hard enough).
165.
by binaryturtle 10mo ago
There are (older) OSes where this is NOT the case. Leaving things un-freed would leak memory after the application has terminated.
166.
by binaryturtle 10mo ago
Doesn't load here at all, I had to change my User-Agent to "curl".
167.
by binaryturtle 10mo ago
Some of us still use OS X and haven't made the unnecessary switch to any of the macOS that followed it. :)
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by binaryturtle 10mo ago
I remember visiting a computer exhibition (CeBIT) in the very early 90s. In one booth they had some of the big Amiga systems (2000, I think) and at some point on of the booth's staff did the 3 finger salute (press 3 specific keys on th
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by binaryturtle 11mo ago
AFAIR I only hat to put a bit of duct tape over that silly extra hole to make a proper (Amiga) 880KiB DD (Double Density) out of those weird "PC" HD (High Density) disks… — oh wait… I think I went the other way around than you! :-
170.
by binaryturtle 11mo ago
I guess that's that acceptable software bloat the site probably is talking about. :) (I have not clicked. I first read comments to find out if it's worth clicking.)
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by binaryturtle 11mo ago
I bought V2 a while ago too when it was offered extra cheap. The problem it doesn't run on my rusty machine. I bought it to have it as reserve once I upgrade my machine someday (who knows if my V1 stuff still runs then?). I learned abo
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by binaryturtle 11mo ago
I simply add "0.0.0.0 youtube.com" to the (network wide) hosts file on my router. Problem solved. I'm simply do understand why the problem is just with "shorts", most of the "longs" are not worth wasting t
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by binaryturtle 11mo ago
Isn't D supported by the GNU compiler collection? I personally would prefer this type of tooling over what Rust and Go do (I can't even get their compilers to run on my old platform anymore; not to mention all this dependencies on
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by binaryturtle 11mo ago
But is that a problem of the language itself, or is it just a problem of available toolchains? E.g. if the gcc compiler collection would come with BASIC support and you just could type something like "gbasic -O3 foobar.bas -o foobar&qu
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by binaryturtle 11mo ago
For example there's also something called "ghost leeching" (side channel entirely bypassing tracker reporting) which can lead to other peers reporting upload for which there's no opposite account of download on the track
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by binaryturtle 1y ago
In Safari I get "Too Many Requests" error; in Firefox ESR I get a straight "403 Forbidden". What the heck is going on with gnu.org? Edit, with cURL it's OK… 200. That makes no sense.
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by binaryturtle 1y ago
I definitely try to avoid any public statement of political nature online. You never know how the tide will turn at some point and who gets into power. And then you do not want to have a record of having said the wrong thing about the new g
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by binaryturtle 1y ago
What is that? Like 32x >100MB junk overhead per app? ~4GiB gone from the disk just to hold the same broken copy of some framework/library? It's quite the insanity, isn't it? If there was one copy of that electron (e.g. ins
179.
by binaryturtle 1y ago
I read that announcement and I have zero idea what this "immich" app (?) is. How about adding some short introduction text explaining what the thing is for folks just discovering this thing via a HN link (w/o forcing them to
180.
by binaryturtle 1y ago
I agree that this text in its current style is very hard to read. Feels like the text was ballooned up to 3 or 4 times its original length with pointless "side content"? Lots of distracting noise basically. AI or not AI, this is n

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