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by jgneff 4mo ago
I'm so happy to see this change. I got involved with reproducible builds in 2021 after reading in horror about the SolarWinds attack. [1] I think Magnus Ihse Bursie said it best while working on reproducible builds of OpenJDK: "If
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by jgneff 6mo ago
That might have been Thunderbird doing its initial indexing of your existing messages. It's the first thing I disable after installing Thunderbird: go to Settings > General > Indexing (at the bottom of the page) and uncheck the s
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by jgneff 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this is the computer that my mom had hooked up to an old TV set back in the early 90s. She used it all the time to communicate with me by e-mail, printing out each message she received. I always knew a message was from
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by jgneff 1y ago
Yes, I have had a similar experience. I eventually gave up on finding a competent cross-border tax accountant and just learned it all myself. I would rather make my own mistakes than pay someone quite a bit of money to make even more mistak
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by jgneff 1y ago
I am also very grateful to James Gosling. I was working with C++ at Taligent (an Apple, IBM, and HP joint venture) in the fall of 1995 when I first downloaded Java to give it a try. I literally jumped up and down with joy after writing my f
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by jgneff 2y ago
That's actually pretty fast. It took 10 years for Java[1] and 5 years for JavaFX[2] to fix some trivial but rather severe text rendering bugs. Most of that time was getting enough courage to fix them myself. :-) Reporting text renderin
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by jgneff 2y ago
I enjoyed reading both books, but especially Herman Pontzer's stories in Burn about his time with the Hadza people in Africa. The study is based in part on his research (Pontzer, 2018, Pontzer et al., 2021). His hypothesis does seem
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by jgneff 2y ago
I think this study is related to two books I read this summer: Burn , by Herman Pontzer, presents his "constrained energy expenditure hypothesis," and Exercised , by Daniel E. Lieberman, discusses his "costly repair hypothe
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by jgneff 2y ago
Try this in your '.bash_aliases' file, for example: alias df='df -t vfat -t ext4'
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Claims of revolutionary superconductor LK-99 are meeting resistance(cbc.ca)
1 points by jgneff 3y ago|0 comments
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by jgneff 4y ago
You can now completely disable automatic updates of Snap packages. [1] [1] https://snapcraft.io/blog/hold-your-horses-i-mean-snaps-new-...
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Canadians find new ways to fight climate change(cbc.ca)
1 points by jgneff 4y ago|0 comments
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by jgneff 4y ago
It's the 'font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;' that ends up being Nimbus Roman as a substitute for Times (on my Ubuntu system, at least), and that font looks just terrible in white on a black background. I remove Times, or the
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by jgneff 4y ago
I spent years using NetBeans, then Eclipse, then IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, and now back to NetBeans. The features that made me return were having full C and C++ support (at the time, now less supported) and super-easy remote debuggi
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by jgneff 5y ago
I think it's a great option, mostly because it can run anywhere the JDK runs. I'm building and testing the JavaFX 18 early-access builds for Linux on six Debian architectures (amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x). I should h
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by jgneff 5y ago
I built a Snap package of OpenJDK 17 and 18 for armhf (armv7l) and arm64 (aarch64), along with four other Linux architectures. See: https://snapcraft.io/openjdk
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Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up(cbc.ca)
535 points by jgneff 6y ago|338 comments
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by jgneff 6y ago
I agree. Among all the open-source projects I've built, the OpenJDK is one of the easiest and most straight-forward I've encountered — even when cross-compiling for 32-bit ARM. They did a great job rewriting the build system a few
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by jgneff 6y ago
> So how does Ubuntu differentiate itself, in 2020? For me, by its ubiquity. It has desktop and servers images [1], cloud images for containers and virtual machines [2], and base images for all kinds of embedded devices [3], all with mul
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by jgneff 7y ago
The "About GitHub Sponsors" help page states, "To be eligible for the GitHub Sponsors Matching Fund, you must apply to GitHub Sponsors by January 1, 2020." This is the first time I see a deadline for the matching funds d
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Apply to GitHub Sponsors by January 1, 2020(help.github.com)
1 points by jgneff 7y ago|0 comments
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by jgneff 9y ago
I use Mozilla Pocket to do essentially just that. I add articles to Pocket with Firefox Desktop and then read them on my Kobo e-reader. I find it much more pleasant to read long articles a page at a time instead of scrolling.
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by jgneff 9y ago
I reported a bug on Launchpad last week for the missing JavaFX support in the Ubuntu OpenJDK package. For details, see "JavaFX support is in upstream OpenJDK 9 but missing in Ubuntu OpenJDK 9" ( https://bugs.launchpad.ne
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by jgneff 9y ago
I came to the same conclusion just this week. I got the best print simply by matching the density of my black and white laser printer with the black dots I wanted it to print. Specifically, I used the ImageMagick operations "-dither Fl