iamnotacrook

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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Forgive me for asking a sort-off-offtopic question, but what's the reason terminals - and therefore the programs which run within them - offer such limited scope for ctrl-key usage. A lot of characters are not available for remapping,
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Yes choose what you want.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
It was investigated and there was no harm?
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
You missed out the step where the knowledgeable people who run and have to support most of the major distros adopted systemd. When's that going to backfire? Any day now, right? I don't understand your last paragraph. Did the guy b
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
They're free, billed quarterly. Got it.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
The USA and the Chinese governments are not so different. All that ideology bollocks is window dressing; the API. The back end is the same.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Exactly. You look at this, remember that it'll be making its way around the world (slowly at first, admittedly) and it's impossible to ignore the little internal voice where your conscience used to be whispering "kill yoursel
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"Oh wait" Nobody needs to wait on the internet - you can just go right ahead and type! "there's EBay..." You're saying that for a business to be successful on the internet they need to get their money from buyi
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Sadly, despite the downvoting and "I am! And so is my wife!" replies, you're essentially statistically correct. The number of "firefox for android" users (and I'm one of them) is just a yawn and an ironic smil
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
You say that (and I agree - I use Firefox everywhere because there's no Chrome plugin support on Android) but I'm genuinely curious to see what happens if/when Chrome stops supporting ublock origin. I suspect - sadly - that t
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Did local newspapers have a problem "making deals with specific advertisers"? I mean, if that's the business you're in, better get on it, right?
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I don't care. If the web becomes largely paywalled as a result I'll just stop visiting those sites and stick to the still free ones. Or there's other things to do with one's time, if you cast your mind back 10 or so ye
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Quite. It's like I've wondered into the Large Print section of the library. What's wrong with normal sized fonts, and letting the minority with impaired eyesight or curious hardware resize as desired? Or maybe browsers cou
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Do you mean you worked on the case, or just that you read about it on the internet?
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"I cannot imagine how it can be a good idea to reject the internet. Avoid social media all you want, but choosing not to have a search engine, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps and so on at your fingertips is just bonkers. But we had a
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
> How many "error's" It starts with grocer's apostrophes, but before long everyone's splitting infinitives.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
No, reviews aren't important. Whether it's apps, books, movies or music, trusting a review only makes sense if you value the reviewer and I don't know if you've read reviews of Android apps but it's the same morons
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"often aren't available at all" It's in C11. Perhaps Red Hat use non-compliant compilers, or very, very old ones?
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I'm a bit puzzled how you've ended up with a system where you can't access email remotely. That probably took a lot more time than just creating a gmail account or even using your own domain but hooking it up to google for a
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
It's quite clear Microsoft are only a couple of years from either an official linux distro or some halfway house of using a linux kernel internally for major os functionality, so it makes little sense learning some new(ish) shell when
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
I always laugh when I see people saying "we..". I always think "well, what are you doing on HN (or whatever) typing then? Get on with it! We don't want that!".
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"I generally think of "int" as also an adjective, with both "const" and "int" describing the variable." Eh? int is a noun, surely? How does int describe an int? I can imagine cost and long being adj
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
You tend to get warnings to use the _s versions of some functions (strcpy_s in this case) these days.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
Isn't that Windows only?
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"Anyone here ever see something similar? " Nobody who wasn't off their face on drugs or mentally ill probably, no. "they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors." Other than little
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
That's just the "literally" argument again. Literally doesn't mean literally, and UFO means flying saucer.
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"If ads are too intrusive, I will 'vote with my clicks' and avoid that particular website in the future." They'll never even notice, and in the meantime you're at risk of all sorts of trackers, malware etc. Pl
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
It was a bit like a Stack Exchange blog, wasn't it. They weren't keeping up with inflation. That's not even a price increase in real terms - they should probably do what (UK, at least) mobile networks do and just increase th
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
"What if the answer is to kill social-media-as-we-know-it?" I know someone who was fine until he had to help select/edit news footage (unfiltered audio/video footage of wars etc) for the BBC. After a few months he needed
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by iamnotacrook 7y ago
You could say exactly the same about anti-vaxxer nonsense. The lack of statistics makes it something where you can only wring your hands and say "oh, how awful" and not "yes, but..." and consider meaningful alternatives

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