Viewing profile — abrowne

[flagged]

And related to what happened in Ceuta recently. "The Moroccans orchestrated a similar cross-border influx in 2021 in retaliation for Spain’s allowing Western Sahara President Brahi…

Agreed. If they really want to get ahold of me they'll leave a voicemail. But I feel like I have to answer when my son is at school/camp.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises , https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-hemin…

I prefer the Firefox PDF viewer personally, and now that it can do all this I uninstalled the default Ubuntu PDF reader recently. It made me think and I uninstalled the image viewe…

Was your bookshelf stained from sliding them out? Ours was all red on the bottom edge.

All good deadpan deserves a downvote?

I think that's true, but energy efficiency is only one potential benefit of epaper displays, and not one that is a goal with this product.

> Touchscreens on your wrist suck so bad. I don't mind myself, and especially in winter with mittens on I can – and often do – use my nose :-D

Bangle.js 2 ( https://banglejs.com/ ) also has a transflective LCD. It's very fun product with a great community. Bangle.js 3 is being discussed: https://github.com/orgs/espruino/d…

Or they meant 2010s?

Bankman won't be Fried

Source article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187998172...

I agree with your comment generally, but note that Dell's $699 competitor they announced this week has has a slightly larger screen than the Neo with similar resolution and brightn…

I can't imagine browsing the web without user stylesheets. (I guess I can, but I don't want to.)

Any site I visit regularly gets a user stylesheet via Stylus that I use to hide anything like this.

I know that if you want `fd` ( https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ) you need to `apt install fd-find` and which installs the binary `fdfind` (!).

Hearing this in the news reminded me of William Langewiesche's great piece in vanity fair about the cause: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

Sustainable means those sources of income will continue, not that they are positive for users.

There's plenty of legal gambling in Minnesota. To quote the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library it includes "horse racing, a card club at Canterbury Park, Indian tribal casinos…

14-month old article headline, but hasn't aged a bit: American Foreign Policy Is Being Run by the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive (Daniel W. Drezner https://danieldrezner.substack.com/…

Contrary anecdote: I've installed and used Linux, mainly Ubuntu desktop (GNOME) on a dozen or so computers in the last ten years, including several older MacBooks, a Surface Go for…

Ditto. The only thing I can remember of is Apple Maps. They used to allow only Windows or something? But they relented eventually.

If a {Dell, HP, Lenovo} firmware update fails leaving the computer bricked, can you use another {Dell, HP, Lenovo} to restore the firmware? (Honest question: I'm a longtime Mac use…