severus_snape

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Authenticate Your Git Checkouts(guix.gnu.org)
3 points by severus_snape 2y ago|0 comments
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Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment(guix.gnu.org)
1 points by severus_snape 3y ago|0 comments
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by severus_snape 3y ago
Don't forget Tor Browser https://www.torproject.org : the Tor Project modified version of Firefox. It aims to make all users look the same, making it difficult for you to be fingerprinted based on your browser and device in
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by severus_snape 3y ago
I pay. People pay, stop saying no one wants to pay, it's wrong. One example that comes in mind is Wikipedia: no ads, people pay.
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by severus_snape 3y ago
I don't want ads all over my screen when I browse the web. It doesn't mean I don't want to pay for content (I do pay). If ads were all blocked, websites would charge for content, and I believe people would pay. I would. I
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by severus_snape 3y ago
For most channels you don't need an IRC account. And there are web interfaces like https://web.libera.chat/ . I'm trying to subscribe to Discord. I'm currently stuck in a captcha loop.
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by severus_snape 3y ago
I usually know, when the interface is not too shiny, that the content might be good. It's the same with HN. And those interfaces are still very easy to understand and use. That being said, there is certainly room for improvement.
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by severus_snape 3y ago
There is usually no need to subscribe.
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by severus_snape 3y ago
You don't need to subscribe. You are in CC when people want you to be notified, otherwise there are web interfaces you can browse. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/ for example. On e
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by severus_snape 3y ago
# do your code change git commit git send-email --to=<some mailing list> -1 # amend your change git commit --amend git send-email -v2 --to=<some mailing list> -1 I'm not sure what is needlessly annoying a
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by severus_snape 3y ago
0 A.D. Began in 2001, now in 0.0.26. https://play0ad.com/ https://releases.wildfiregames.com/
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by severus_snape 3y ago
Related (2016) thread: Why kernel development still uses email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620468
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by severus_snape 3y ago
Another great thing about those laptops is that Libreboot is supported ( https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/#laptops-intel-x86 ). One can buy an X230 with Libreboot pre-installed at https://minifree.org&
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by severus_snape 3y ago
Both fronts use DJI drones[0][1], although DJI suspended its activities in both Russia and Ukraine as of April 26, 2022[2] and contractually forbids[3] any sales by dealers to either country and for combat use. However, other actors are ent
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by severus_snape 3y ago
Parrot (Anafi) is French
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by severus_snape 3y ago
There is no "database", it's just a bunch of GPG encrypted files synced with git. (Their default location is ~/.password-store.) For Android there is https://github.com/android-password-store/Androi
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by severus_snape 3y ago
My experience as an embedded software programmer is quite the opposite. We do care about releasing our Linux modifications under GPLv2, and we do contribute to community when it makes sense. > see vmware from https://lwn.net&
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by severus_snape 3y ago
Let's see 20 years from now which of React, Angular and Linux is still around.
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by severus_snape 3y ago
> and then others came along GPL came after MIT ( https://nitter.net/humphd/status/1112747178685026304 ) > and it's a genuine improvement How?
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by severus_snape 4y ago
OsmAnd "online maps" are much smoother than the default vector maps, because your phone doesn't have to render them (they also take more space). I find OsmAnd incredible for - hiking (lots of useful maps, possibility to add o
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by severus_snape 5y ago
I found annoying to restart all the windows that depend on Emacs window manager (namely EXWM) every time I used to modify its conf. And I modify its conf way more often that I would for any other window manager (because I use it for progra
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by severus_snape 5y ago
I use DuckDuckGo's bangs[0] to search, say Wikipedia (!w, !wf), Word Reference (!wref, !wrfe), Hacker News (!hn). They are incredibly useful and using Google would be a waste of time for such queries. I'm glad these sites implem
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International Watch Page by the Cellar(gregsteer.net)
2 points by severus_snape 5y ago|0 comments
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Tennis pro sells lifetime space on her arm as an NFT(opensea.io)
1 points by severus_snape 5y ago|1 comments
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by severus_snape 6y ago
Arletty's accent[1] in Hôtel du Nord (1938) is amazing too! [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYic1U1a6yw
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by severus_snape 6y ago
> I feel that nobody should need to have spent so much time in a terminal to be able to understand those things. True! Too bad the author doesn't use a GUI just because they are "a Linux nerd". Magit contributed a lot to
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by severus_snape 7y ago
There is woof: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html When -U is specified, it provides an upload form, allowing file uploads.
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GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.15.0 released(gnu.org)
115 points by severus_snape 8y ago|25 comments
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Tarballs, the ultimate container image format(gnu.org)
342 points by severus_snape 8y ago|191 comments
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by severus_snape 8y ago
Thankfully, since 2004, the law for trust in the digital economy[0] (LCEN) mostly liberalized the use of cryptography[1]. [0]: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFT... [1]: https://en.wikip

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