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by rhblake 5mo ago
As far as I know, the rights are still owned by her family. The albums were issued by an independent label operated by one of the persons who tracked down her music. The recent reissue of "How Sad, How Lovely" is on Jack White&#x2
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by rhblake 5mo ago
Great story, thanks for sharing. Just a minor correction: it's Judy Finelli, not Pinelli.
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by rhblake 5y ago
I mean, visiting Shakespeare & Co _is_ a very touristy thing :) They have a nice selection, but it feels a bit like a well-curated tourist trap these days (pre-covid, anyway...), with a large part of the visitors mainly there to take a
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by rhblake 5y ago
Switched from Gmail to Fastmail in 2008. No regrets. Haven't considered anything else since (and didn't notice these recent problems I now read about). Email hosting is something I'd want to change very rarely. Track record c
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by rhblake 5y ago
Some of the latest models in the "classic" lines with one or more RAM slots: P14s Gen 2 AMD/Intel (a.k.a. T14 Gen 2 AMD/Intel); T15 Gen 2 / P15s Gen 2; P15 Gen 2; T15p Gen 2; P1 Gen 4; X1 Extreme Gen 4. Plus some of
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by rhblake 5y ago
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Firefox (from the default Ubuntu repo) is updated frequently. It might lag behind the official release by a few days, but I can live with that. Currently at 87 [0], so I expect 88 (which Mozilla release
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by rhblake 6y ago
Sublime Text 4 dev builds (with public download links for Linux, Windows and Mac) are announced on their Discord [0]. If you're using Arch, or just want a quick download link to the probably most recent Linux build, see [1]. I believe
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by rhblake 6y ago
It's the latter. A third party provides you with the stuff you need to export to consoles, e.g. export template(s) and such that for legal reasons can't be included in the normal version of Godot. Here's a recent thread about
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by rhblake 6y ago
Stephen "Blue" Heaslip is still at it, ~24 years later, doing daily updates [0]. Full archives stretching back to 1996. Quite a bit of history in there. [0] https://www.bluesnews.com/
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by rhblake 6y ago
Corona Labs is shutting down in a couple of weeks. While they're releasing everything under a permissive license (MIT) and turning it into an open source project, the future is very uncertain.
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by rhblake 7y ago
My personal favorite, which is in a similar vein - an Italian, although the site is in English; Frontpage; still updated - is https://www.luigicases.com/ . He makes leather straps and cases for cameras. Famous in the classic
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by rhblake 7y ago
No need to speculate, it's right there in the GitLab issue. The now-resigned director of risk and global compliance Candice Ciresi wrote this six days ago [0]: "The countries selected were not chosen because of legal requirements,
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by rhblake 7y ago
The PDF downloads aren't working, but the HTML archive (all issues, 1-301) works fine: https://secure2.linuxjournal.com/ljarchive/LJ/ There's also a ZIP with issues 1-293 (March 1994 to December 2018):
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by rhblake 7y ago
Per capita , which seems like a more fair comparison, plenty of Western countries produce more CO2 than China; the US and Canada each produce about twice as much.
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by rhblake 7y ago
It really should be noted that years later Joe changed his mind about OO and came to the realization that perhaps Erlang is the only object-oriented language :) From a 2010 interview: ..."I wrote a an article, a blog thing, years ago
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by rhblake 8y ago
The astonishing thing to me is that, as mentioned elsewhere, this mess in the GitHub issue happened after the person doing the port politely asked the Pale Moon people about the right way to do things with regards to patches and branding:
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by rhblake 8y ago
It was a work-in-progress tree and they weren't redistributing any binaries/sources from there. The Pale Moon devs were both wrong and remarkably hostile.
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by rhblake 8y ago
Some congress-goers see tons of talks, some see none. I wouldn't stress too much about it; do what you feel like, but be sure not to miss out on the non-talk-stuff, because that's an equally big part. For me the "best stuff&q
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by rhblake 8y ago
No live subtitles this year: "This year, we'll focus on providing high-quality subtitle tracks for the released videos in a timely fashion. In particular, we will not provide any live subtitles for talks." (Subtitle Angel des
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by rhblake 8y ago
If you happen to be around on the 26th ("day 0") you can go check out the venue in the afternoon/evening. Wristband exchange usually opens at some point in the evening of day 0 (last year it was open until midnight-ish). Nice
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by rhblake 8y ago
EB Garamond is wonderful. Just as a FYI for anyone interested (because it's not mentioned on the EB Garamond site): Google commissioned Octavio Pardo to create bold versions of the fonts, and they're available at https:/&#x2
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by rhblake 8y ago
FastMail supports CalDAV. I use my FastMail calendar with Thunderbird (Lightning) and on my iPhone; works great. They also support CardDAV for contacts. /satisfied FM customer since ~2008 or so
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by rhblake 8y ago
Definitely better than in Sweden, where there is no central site similar to gov.uk to begin with. Many individual government agencies have pretty good sites though, and most are actually available at least partly in English. https:/&#
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by rhblake 8y ago
You can indeed self-host Firefox Send: https://github.com/mozilla/send
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by rhblake 8y ago
Not sure what there is to talk about here: TLDP has been essentially dead for many years, unfortunately (exactly one document was updated in 2015; one was updated in 2014; ..). It was a fantastic resource back in the day (I wrote one of man
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by rhblake 8y ago
Makes me think of this case from the early 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy ("Over the course of his life, McElroy was accused of dozens of felonies, including assault, child molestation, statutory r
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by rhblake 8y ago
I use it on an EdgeRouter Lite 3 which is about $99. See: https://github.com/Lochnair/vyatta-wireguard https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/Release-WireGuard-f... (discussion)
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by rhblake 8y ago
> I am guessing they are counting cable as fiber. The Swedish competition authority is saying 1 300 000 fiber, 670 000 cable and 960 000 dsl The numbers in the report you linked are from 2014 and 2016 and are based on statistics from PTS
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by rhblake 8y ago
> If you ever wondered why so many people only have relatively expensive cable internet in Sweden instead of being connected directly to widely available fiber networks that is to a large extent because of EQT. Care to expand on this? Am
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by rhblake 8y ago
That's just a mirror. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... is where it's at.

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