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Is the desktop app native?

There's an old Jepsen post that used to be referencing that song, but it looks like it's been modified/renamed now: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb (you can still…

DGG lets you disable ads in the settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#general But the main difference is that DGG chooses ads based only on search term, as opposed to tracking …

The bottom of the page says it was updated today, now it says this: > Are these stories personalized to me? > For the most part, no. Most recommendations on your new tab come from …

I just don't understand why a "static site" needs to download and run almost 1 mb of minified JS.

You can press Ctrl+C and it should give you a message reminding you how to quit.

If anyone is looking to delete their account: https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center

I've found it's great for Discord, and pretty good for Slack (although I've been using Slack in my browser now that it's become critical during WFH). Unfortunately it's proprietary…

> privacy-conscious people and those adverse to advertising are the very people advertisers would pay a lot of money to reach. Why? Not trying to be snarky, just genuinely curious,…

Is there language server support/is it planned?

The other project, GitGardener[1] is... not necessarily sketchy, but it's obviously designed to make your Github look "better" than it really is (not that the contribution chart ma…

> The homepage is basically a book you have to read from top to bottom, without any content structure your eyes can hook up to to correctly extract important information. Are you t…

Not sure if they've fixed anything, but this blog post describes some of the issues: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/13/GitHub-notifications.html

Same here - seems like these issues have been going on since last year, especially with Actions.

Switching to Lineage OS after using bloated stock ROMs is a breath of fresh air, both in terms of performance and simplicity.

And it’s built by one developer, and supports Slack and Discord! Imagine what these massive companies could do if they made their own native clients.

Is it possible to view the page you linked without creating an account? It redirects me to your landing page.

From a quick search, it looks like someone is recreating Yahoo Pipes here: https://www.pipes.digital/ Unfortunately, it looks like it's not open-source, their Github repo is only f…

Off topic, but it would be nice to mention Zoom in the title, it's pretty ambiguous otherwise

I’ve experienced the same thing - I always right the microphones attached to earbuds were worthless, but compared to a laptop microphone, which picks up every last bit of backgroun…

Svelte is my favourite framework right now (it's really reignited my love for web development after using React for a long time), but unfortunately one of their criteria/use cases …

> But I'm calling out slack specifically... I also don't understand this. What makes it even worse is that someone has already done this. I've been using Ripcord [0] for a few mont…

It would probably be bad PR for them to reveal the extent of their surveillance.

I miss the Eudyptula Challenge [0], I never got around to complementing it. It was a series of 20 challenges to introduce you to Linux kernel development, and it was done entirely …

Sounds like plenty for a speaker.