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by thrusong 1mo ago
I'm a web developer and I have a deep love of Firefox. I've been on it since version 3 and I'll be with it to the bitter end. I love that uBlock Origin is still available and while the news of Firefox's declining market
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Startup Incubator Y Combinator Cuts Canada from Countries Where It Will Invest(bloomberg.com)
21 points by thrusong 8mo ago|1 comments
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by thrusong 11mo ago
I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba where it is quite cold for a big majority of the year. I have dabbled with supplements because I get a couple of major colds every year. I've heard things like you only need 15 minutes of sunshine per day t
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by thrusong 2y ago
That's what I thought too when they touted this meteoric rise to 100M in the early days of Threads. If it's tied to Instagram, and these users aren't using Instagram while they're on Threads, isn't it basically the
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Mark Zuckerberg teases a 2025 return to 'OG Facebook'(techcrunch.com)
18 points by thrusong 2y ago|7 comments
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by thrusong 2y ago
mpv is a key part of my home theatre automation I wrote in PHP. It runs on a Pi 4. PHP assembles playlists with a Dolby ad, a vintage dancing hot dog ad, trailers, and the feature. It runs mpv through proc_open. It monitors the progress and
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by thrusong 2y ago
Not sure why I got downvoted— for context to non-Canadians, a core policy of the Conservatives is to defund the CBC.
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by thrusong 2y ago
I mean, they'll probably shut down if Pierre Poilievre assumes power, though.
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OpenAI exec says they might eliminate some unimportant creative jobs(theverge.com)
4 points by thrusong 2y ago|3 comments
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by thrusong 2y ago
I really enjoyed Flexbox Froggy and felt like it helped me a lot better than Grid Garden. Maybe my brain just isn't a grid-oriented brain— CSS Grid never seems to stick.
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by thrusong 2y ago
I'm getting a 502 error with a robot graphic. EDIT: It's up for my partner beside me, and it's up for my mom in Calgary, but still down for me.
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by thrusong 2y ago
Thank you for this— I was equally frustrated I couldn't look up Canada too!
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Capturing a Billion Emo(j)I-Ons(highscalability.com)
1 points by thrusong 2y ago|0 comments
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by thrusong 2y ago
Can't send any messages on Messenger on my phone, but facebook.com appears to be working fine.
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Show HN: Screenploy – Write two-column scripts for the screen(screenploy.com)
2 points by thrusong 2y ago|0 comments
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by thrusong 3y ago
That's fair. I learnt my lesson and have a shock-absorbing case now.
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by thrusong 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not holding out much hope, but I'm an AIO guy and I have zero interest in putting a tall Mac Mini on my desk. I ended up adding a 32" TV as a second monitor and it's good enough.
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by thrusong 3y ago
No, sorry, I meant it was so fragile, it no longer exists— I bumped it off my coffee table and the screen shattered (fell 18" to a hardwood floor). I balked at spending over $700 to replace the screen. It definitely was leaps and bound
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by thrusong 3y ago
I had a 13" M1 MacBook Air. It was an OK machine to move to from my 2012 MacBook Air, but the thing was super fragile. Let's just say it's been retired while my 2012 is still going strong (my not-so-technically-inclined partn
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by thrusong 3y ago
I hesitate to post this here because I probably can't handle a rush of traffic if it gets attention, but I've been working on this at prezince.com. Just launched an MVP on February 1st and it is very much alpha software. It's
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by thrusong 3y ago
I'm a small user— only about 250,000 objects in storage and a lot of those cold storage behind Cloudflare, but I've been using SeaweedFS for years. I think since v0.7— I was always intrigued by Facebook's Haystack. SeaweedFS
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by thrusong 3y ago
I only have a half dozen web servers, but I used CentOS for everything so I'm sad it's the end of the line. That being said, I've recently completed moving entirely over to Debian and there's just something about it I lo
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by thrusong 3y ago
My partner and I decided to buy a Wii together for our first Christmas in 2009. We had a lot of fun playing online with our friends and strangers until the services went offline. It looks like those servers went offline in 2014, but it felt
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by thrusong 3y ago
We've had these in Winnipeg for as long as I can remember, but this is Canada where 5-pin is king. I first saw them in the late 90's at Uptown Alley which was located on two levels of an old movie palace. They definitely tangled a
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A Year at Elon Musk's X: Twitter's Top Wildest Moments of 2023(variety.com)
3 points by thrusong 3y ago|0 comments
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Google is deleting unused accounts this week(npr.org)
2 points by thrusong 3y ago|1 comments
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by thrusong 3y ago
Really interesting to see Dougald Lamont trending here on Hacker News: he was most recently the leader of Manitoba's Liberal party. He lost his seat a few weeks ago in a provncial election where the party was reduced from three seats t
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by thrusong 3y ago
I've been obsessed with this number for most of my life. It's like I see it on every clock I look at, or on every license plate in front of me. There are random things about it like channel 37 has significance: https:/&#x2F
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by thrusong 3y ago
Apparently Robert Fife told the PMO they were going to run this. The government asked them to hold off for a week, and then The Globe and Mail said "no, we're running it in 24 hours."
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by thrusong 3y ago
This actually seems like a great way to say it: maintenance mode. I'm really shocked at how badly facebook.com runs in Firefox latest on an M1 MacBook Air. It's completely broken and has been since they've launched this React

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