ivanfon

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by ivanfon 6y ago
Is the desktop app native?
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by ivanfon 6y ago
There's an old Jepsen post that used to be referencing that song, but it looks like it's been modified/renamed now: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb (you can still see it in the url)
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by ivanfon 6y ago
DGG lets you disable ads in the settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#general But the main difference is that DGG chooses ads based only on search term, as opposed to tracking you and collecting your data across the ent
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by ivanfon 6y ago
The bottom of the page says it was updated today, now it says this: > Are these stories personalized to me? > For the most part, no. Most recommendations on your new tab come from a general list of the best of stories on the web. But
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by ivanfon 6y ago
I just don't understand why a "static site" needs to download and run almost 1 mb of minified JS.
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by ivanfon 6y ago
You can press Ctrl+C and it should give you a message reminding you how to quit.
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by ivanfon 6y ago
If anyone is looking to delete their account: https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center
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by ivanfon 6y ago
I've found it's great for Discord, and pretty good for Slack (although I've been using Slack in my browser now that it's become critical during WFH). Unfortunately it's proprietary, but there's another native c
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by ivanfon 6y ago
> privacy-conscious people and those adverse to advertising are the very people advertisers would pay a lot of money to reach. Why? Not trying to be snarky, just genuinely curious, I'd expect that those people would generally be les
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by ivanfon 6y ago
Is there language server support/is it planned?
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by ivanfon 6y ago
The other project, GitGardener[1] is... not necessarily sketchy, but it's obviously designed to make your Github look "better" than it really is (not that the contribution chart matters for anything, but that seems like what
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by ivanfon 6y ago
> The homepage is basically a book you have to read from top to bottom, without any content structure your eyes can hook up to to correctly extract important information. Are you talking about this page? https://sourcehut.org&
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by ivanfon 6y ago
Not sure if they've fixed anything, but this blog post describes some of the issues: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/13/GitHub-notifications.html
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by ivanfon 6y ago
Same here - seems like these issues have been going on since last year, especially with Actions.
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by ivanfon 6y ago
Switching to Lineage OS after using bloated stock ROMs is a breath of fresh air, both in terms of performance and simplicity.
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by ivanfon 6y ago
And it’s built by one developer, and supports Slack and Discord! Imagine what these massive companies could do if they made their own native clients.
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by ivanfon 6y ago
Is it possible to view the page you linked without creating an account? It redirects me to your landing page.
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by ivanfon 6y ago
From a quick search, it looks like someone is recreating Yahoo Pipes here: https://www.pipes.digital/ Unfortunately, it looks like it's not open-source, their Github repo is only for bug reports: https://git
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by ivanfon 6y ago
Off topic, but it would be nice to mention Zoom in the title, it's pretty ambiguous otherwise
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by ivanfon 6y ago
I’ve experienced the same thing - I always right the microphones attached to earbuds were worthless, but compared to a laptop microphone, which picks up every last bit of background noise, my cheap ($15) earbuds’ microphone does a good job
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by ivanfon 7y ago
Svelte is my favourite framework right now (it's really reignited my love for web development after using React for a long time), but unfortunately one of their criteria/use cases was "build step as well as no build-step&quot
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by ivanfon 7y ago
> But I'm calling out slack specifically... I also don't understand this. What makes it even worse is that someone has already done this. I've been using Ripcord [0] for a few months for Discord and Slack, and it performs
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by ivanfon 7y ago
It would probably be bad PR for them to reveal the extent of their surveillance.
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by ivanfon 7y ago
I miss the Eudyptula Challenge [0], I never got around to complementing it. It was a series of 20 challenges to introduce you to Linux kernel development, and it was done entirely over email. I think it's been shut down for a few years
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by ivanfon 7y ago
Sounds like plenty for a speaker.
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by ivanfon 7y ago
> The address/search bar is much much inferior... I agree. It's also very minor, but one feature I miss from the old Firefox is being able to scroll the address horizontally. Now you have to tap on it, which opens the keyboard.
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by ivanfon 7y ago
I'm still unable to leave any code reviews, and occasionally I'm getting error pages.
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by ivanfon 7y ago
It's very weird (and annoying). There's some more discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22433673
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Sqlc: Compile SQL to type-safe Go (Kotlin and TypeScript planned)(github.com)
3 points by ivanfon 7y ago|0 comments
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by ivanfon 7y ago
In case anyone else is curious: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6719

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