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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's the new Quora?

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Listen to Wikipedia (listen.hatnote.com)
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You wouldn't steal a website (youwouldntsteala.website)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I liked youtube better in the era when its leading star was a talking orange.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I've been reading this for a few weeks now.

There's a section talking a bit about the history of unix that I quite liked. I'm young and don't know the whole story. According to this handbook, unix was used and taught in universities, so when students went out into the world they preferred unix systems. As a result, tons of companies started offering their own versions of unix touting portability with the other unixes but with their own differentiating extensions which sort of contradicts the claim of portability. People would write for one system and frustratingly find that their software doesn't work on a different vendor. I'm curious where linux fits into the story. This must have been before linux because the handbook makes no mention of it. Did linux and its free software license immediately kill off these other unixes? How much role did copyleft play?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It seems Mullvad has the OpenVPN option tucked away as the very last option even though OpenVPN seems to be the easiest method. Why is that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlp has the -x option to extract the audio, and as far as I can tell it doesn't reencode which is fast. Ripping music from youtube is a single command. yt-dlp -x url

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You linked to Koyaanisqatsi playing in reverse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Here's a good discussion on HN about this, including comments from lawyers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

https://blog.wolftune.com/p/software-recommendations-and-more.html

If anybody knows what you're looking for, the author of this blog does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do Debian and other distros feel about Rust? It's a fantastic language that can improve security, but it doesn't have a stable ABI and they don't really do the whole dynamically linked library thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'll offer a balanced position and say nobody can do it all themselves, but I think everyone should strive to be self-sufficient in at least one aspect of modern living. My neighbor grows their own food. My dad is good with cars. My aunt makes quilts and dishware. A society that has crafty knowledge widely distributed like this makes it more likely everyone knows an expert on a given thing, helping prevent people from getting screwed by terrible products. An Arch Linux user might be able to manage linux for 100 close people in their social graph, or at least advocate for it. This also keeps industry from having 100% market share.

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