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by hrbf 4y ago
Author here. I don't expect people to pay me for anything. My main motivation was (and still is) to just give back, since I profit from free information and software created by others as well. I fully expect this temporary increase in
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by hrbf 4y ago
May I recommend Berkeley Mono ( https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/ ). It's a paid font but well worth it, given you're spending hours every day looking at it. I have found it to be excel
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Michael W Lucas: Good-Bye Twitter(mwl.io)
2 points by hrbf 4y ago|3 comments
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by hrbf 4y ago
If the TLD didn’t already somewhat give it away, the fact that one of the panoramas is titled „Buero of David Sarif“ is just so very “German” – confidently using the entirely wrong expression.
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Berkeley Mono v1.008 Released(berkeleygraphics.com)
39 points by hrbf 4y ago|2 comments
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by hrbf 4y ago
That’s what I meant with digital services being a decade behind here. I attribute it to extreme conservatism to preserve jobs that aren’t in fact necessary. Bureaucracy is incapable of seeing beyond itself, just like so many other areas are
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by hrbf 4y ago
I believe the author’s point to be that due to no English translation available, the already involved process in Germany becomes unnecessarily hard for a non-native speaker. As a native speaker I can attest to lots of gobbledygook official
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by hrbf 4y ago
The caching vs. update issue could be trivially addressed by running a daily cronjob to update the static completion file.
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by hrbf 4y ago
I believe the main point to be the common thread of increasingly infantile behavior in all of society that appears to be amplified by Twitter’s “engagement” circus.
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Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned(nytimes.com)
7 points by hrbf 4y ago|5 comments
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by hrbf 4y ago
Is this intended as satire or actually a serious statement? I increasingly cannot seem to make a confident distinction nowadays.
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by hrbf 4y ago
I see. It appears to be yet another instance of Stallman being Stallman. I’m going to be very surprised if this goes anywhere at all.
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by hrbf 4y ago
”Chief moral officer” – is this some kind of weird in-joke or meant verbatim as stated? I don’t get it.
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Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable(pluralistic.net)
5 points by hrbf 4y ago|1 comments
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by hrbf 4y ago
At this point this is the only explanation that makes any sense. Elon Musk may very well be a moron who has been incredibly lucky until now.
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by hrbf 4y ago
I thought we were discussing GitHub stars' correlation (or lack thereof) to donations. I don't see how usefulness for many people should be limited to software only. Anyway, I've said what I wanted to say.
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by hrbf 4y ago
One of it is, in fact, a static document, basically just a very large README.md file chock full of information. It could be a book.
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by hrbf 4y ago
You know, let them. Whatever I decide to share with the world, I do for reasons of giving back. If some grab, run and foul-mouth, that’s their issue. The main idea of free culture is building on each other, not maximum extractive consumptio
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by hrbf 4y ago
What about those self-contained ones like mine?
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by hrbf 4y ago
I have done exactly this, after being fed up with GitHub. Surprising no one, if you set out to build the “social media but for code”, that’s what you get. I’m using a combination of cgit, Gitolite and Nginx. Once set up, it’s easy to use a
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by hrbf 4y ago
GitHub stars are a useless metric. It’s basically a bookmark count. If there was any correlation between them and donations, my combined projects of 35k+ stars should make me at least a couple of bucks each month. Instead, lifetime total of
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by hrbf 4y ago
While it's certainly nice that those options exist, they are also entirely unsuitable for any kind of professional work. I assume the target user you're thinking of is looking to do some occasional, light-weight editing. And even
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by hrbf 4y ago
There used to be a time when Apple hard- and software delighted me. It was expensive but the cost could be justified. Today, Apple hardware gets ever more expensive while adding ever less value for me. With the recent push towards growing s
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by hrbf 4y ago
Thanks for the details, of which most I already figured. However, your response does not address the issue of solving content disappearing once the instance goes away. It doesn’t matter if the network itself is alive when the content itself
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by hrbf 4y ago
Regarding Mastodon, I really like the idea behind it but always hit a wall when thinking about starting an instance. The alternatives appear to be * paying around $9/month for a managed instance * hosting it yourself (with all the cost
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by hrbf 4y ago
Agreed, good distinction.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Equally destructive is the extremely conservative view of success and failure. Once you’ve failed in a business venture, you’re burned for years before any investor will talk seriously or any bank will touch you. Tax authorities and chamber
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by hrbf 4y ago
I couldn’t make it all the way though the article. Its reasoning is baffling, confused and unsubstantiated, all while demonstrating very little understanding of the environment they’re criticizing. It betrays a very exclusive and elitist vi
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by hrbf 4y ago
I have just tested this and am so very happy that it finally works. Mosh is one of the few indispensable tools I constantly rely on and wouldn't know what to do without it. A couple of days ago I tried Eternal Terminal as an alternat
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Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Learning Curve(techdirt.com)
21 points by hrbf 4y ago|8 comments

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