nexxer

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by nexxer 2y ago
You're talking about WURFL and Luca Passani. I recall working with it for a project 15 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WURFL
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by nexxer 2y ago
All of that would be great if it was actually available to me in the smaller country/market I live in, which is less of a priority for Google. I still paid for them as part of the phone.
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by nexxer 2y ago
I use Obsidian as a journal but I have year-long notes. Each day is a H2 heading and each task/note is an H3 heading, with structured tags for each task/note in the same line. This way I can quickly scroll through my recent notes.
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by nexxer 2y ago
It's down to supply and demand. You get a license from local govenrment, buy some nice furniture, hire some young people, and set up shop offering a nice looking product of beach access with food, drinks, service at your umbrella, for
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by nexxer 3y ago
Came here to say just this - it's probably the first extension I install everywhere and significantly improves usability and control. For Firefox it's this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ad
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by nexxer 3y ago
Low contraxt text tires me. I tend to toggle Reader Mode in my browser or simply click on this bookmarklet (a bookmarked link with the below in the URL field) that changes all fonts to "Open Sans" or "Lucinda Grande". I
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by nexxer 4y ago
Steve Holt!
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by nexxer 4y ago
Oh wow I had forgotten about your wallpapers... I loved the blue earth with tiny airplanes so much that I became a paid member back in...2009. And my account still works! Kudos. Nowadays my monitors are always full of full screen windows so
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by nexxer 4y ago
I do something similar with the old Gmail for Domains product (or whatever it was called before Workspace) - it lets me add real mailboxes but also have a catch-all, where everything else gets delivered to a specific address. I know this is
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by nexxer 5y ago
He's had covid twice, once in June 2020 and now in December 2021, a good example of immunity by infection not being worth much.
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by nexxer 6y ago
I've been hosting dl at work for many years and it's filled our needs admirably. Simple, zero maintenance, just works. It even has a useful Thunderbird extension that auto-uploads any large attachment using the FileLink API when c
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by nexxer 8y ago
I've been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sync-tab-grou... for hundreds of tabs. When I open up a tab group with many tabs in it, the extension loads all of them up (snoozed) in a wa
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by nexxer 8y ago
c:\install for downloads, once in a while cleaned out apart from directories that I want to preserve. Browsers download there by default. c:\work for work-related things, subfolder for each project. Listary (and other app launchers previous
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by nexxer 8y ago
In the clients I've used (SQLYog, Mysql Workbench), aliasing a table lets you use autocomplete when referencing that alias followed by a dot. So, I will start with a SELECT * FROM myTable t, then go back and replace * with t.<column
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by nexxer 8y ago
Back when I was much more active on Undernet and EFNet, there was talk of 1-2 people actually having paid for an mIRC license. Personally, a couple years ago I found the latest nagging screen guilt-trippy enough that I paid for a license ev
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by nexxer 8y ago
I looked around https://erpnext.org , got to https://erpnext.org/get-started , where there is a broken link "Start a Free Trial on ERPNext.com" ( https://erpnext.com/sign-up ).
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by nexxer 8y ago
It's to avoid showing the server names to the public on some IRC networks for various reasons including security through (some) obscurity.
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by nexxer 8y ago
I'm using PhraseExpress (free) too. I have a few macros set up for commonly used phrases, but thanks to its prefix matching and popup of multiple results, I also use it as a quick lookup tool for various strings so that I don't ha
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by nexxer 8y ago
I set up an OpenGoo (now FengOffice) instance internally where I work many years ago. We use it to store Notes, categorized in Projects and Subprojects. The interface makes it easy enough for non-technical people to use it and search works
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by nexxer 8y ago
I have the 2017 X1 Carbon Yoga. As a laptop itself it's great, excellent keyboard and ergonomics, fast enough, good battery. What I didn't expect was to make so much use of its touch screen or "tent" form. It is very use
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by nexxer 9y ago
After a few failed starts with exercising and eating regimens, what really did it for me going to a nutritionist together with my significant other. The nutritionist built a pretty intuitive schedule for both of us, with slight variations f
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by nexxer 9y ago
This brings back incredibly relevant memories: my first paid job back in 2002-2003 was maintaining an old Filemaker database and related forms. I ended up doing an Access database and created a few forms on top of it, including automation f
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by nexxer 9y ago
I've been using The Regex Coach [0] for years. Simple, free, does the job. [0] http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
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by nexxer 9y ago
After many years of RSS (Google Reader, then Feedly), I gave up on it due to sheer volume and now get my daily fix from curated email newsletters, a mix of news and tech-related ones. This post lead me to make an inventory of them: http:&#
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by nexxer 9y ago
The public post office in Cyprus [0] has 3 of those machines (1 for each big city). SMSes get sent to you as notification, and you have 3-4 days to pick it up. After that (and a second notification), it gets sent to your local post office a
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by nexxer 9y ago
They do, it's referenced at https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-password-is-too-damn-shor... which linked in this post.
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by nexxer 9y ago
I did too before I enabled WebGL. If it can't show the mp4 movie it won't show any content.
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by nexxer 10y ago
Shrug, yet another product we cannot even try in Cyprus due to Location History being disabled country-wide, for some reason.
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by nexxer 10y ago
I'm waiting to see who will first set up a system that stores all of reddit's posts and then checks them every X minutes/days for silent edits while posting a reply to it letting everyone know, or provides an API to check an
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by nexxer 10y ago
Me too! Eggdrop with TCL/TK on Undernet, with fbsql as mysql client. Rudimentary chatting with the bot and getting it to answer preset commands, looking up records in the database. It was frustrating, but when it worked it felt gloriou

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