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edjw

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    Comment #48685234

    The Open Knowledge Foundation is an organisation that has been going since 2004. https://okfn.org/en/ > This is different to the Open Knowledge Format announced by Google in June 2…

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    Comment #39547417

    You’re probably right that some people who participate in music that has high status in society (that you might call “serious musicians”) would sometimes look down on Sacred Harp a…

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    Comment #39545078

    There aren't any accompanying instruments but singers do play other instruments in the rest of their life. In Sacred Harp, before a song is sung, somebody sings out the notes of th…

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    Comment #39544297

    I've sung a lot of Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony that use four-shape and seven-shape shapenote notation respectively. I've never sung roundnote notation so a bit hard for me to…

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    Comment #39544077

    The YouTube channel [1] of the Sacred Harp Museum [2] also has lots of good audio and video recordings 1: https://www.youtube.com/@sacredharpmuseum8890/videos 2: https://originalsa…

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    Comment #39544023

    FaSoLaMix is a paid iOS app that lets you listen to a small selection of well-recorded songs where you can listen to the individual parts but sung by real people. Might be interest…

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    Comment #39542809

    This article is from 2016

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    Comment #39542657

    If you're into this, you can sing it in places all round the world. It's a very welcoming community of people Couple of links to get going… US: https://home.olemiss.edu/~mudws/regu…

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    Comment #39485901

    The Build and Distribute parts of the docs are the things I clicked on first. How can I get Tauri mobile apps in Apple and Google app stores? But they're both 'stubs' with no conte…

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    Comment #38368529

    Thanks! It’s kind of hard to understand what you mean without screenshots. Also there are so many variations that I’m not sure which rules you’re playing with. My dad is the only p…

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    Comment #38361912

    I've been playing around with making a version of tic-tac-toe that's interesting to grown-ups. Experimenting with rules a lot as you'll see. (I think 1357 is probably the best but …

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    Comment #34268313

    Looks very interesting. How well does this handle different accents? Say an Australian child moved to the US, would this work?

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    Comment #33696585

    I made this tool a few years ago to find the closest colour from the Tailwind colour palette from any given colour https://find-nearest-tailwind-colour.netlify.app

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    Comment #33204322

    I've visited Metafilter every so often which might be what your're looking for https://www.metafilter.com

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    Comment #32740244

    I’m not sure when this was published. But Johnson has been a well-known politician in the UK for at least 10 years. I’m not sure he’s ever really been thought of as forward-thinkin…

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    Comment #31811491

    I just checked and nobody did. I didn't really promote it. Might have helped if I had said what I might do with the money to improve it?

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    Comment #31808948

    Similar idea I made a few years ago. A text editor with no editing allowed and lets you export to Word/MD/HTML for later editing https://first-draft.netlify.app

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    Comment #31752235

    I find that the dialog pops up without focussed when I launch Bitwarden, but does have focus when I launch 1Password. It is confusing

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    Comment #30788711

    > How can I uninstall the Bitcoin and Lightning node? > Currently, Umbrel installs a Bitcoin and Lightning node by default and it is not possible to remove it. Over the coming week…

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    Comment #30659563

    Your company keeps some things on GitHub but not everyone in the company wants to learn git, the command line, the concepts around git.

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    Comment #26911860

    This is campaigning. You show decision-makers why they should make the decision you want them to and sometimes that includes playing into the decision-maker’s self-interest.

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    Comment #26778100

    body { font-size: 18px; } would help with squinting as well

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    Comment #26140101

    It’d probably be helpful to say on the homepage that no data leaves the user’s computer. As it is, it feels very risky to use the site