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How is it nicer with Wayland? I have a high-DPI laptop and it works great with X11. What would I gain with Wayland?

Can't you just set the dpi in each display with X11?

The whole notion of equivalency of evil is actually pernicious, as it is more of a contest of victimhood: "they did worse to us, so we are better". Arguing about numbers abstracts …

Copernicus himself was a Catholic priest and a Canon. The first opposition to his works was actually from Protestant thinkers.

It is also lazy thinking to say that since it is approved by an institution it must be good.

It isn't even really a theory anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIgi7KPl6tw

There is something already in place with the 'telegra.ph' site, which is connected with Telegram I believe: https://telegra.ph https://telegra.ph/api

Thank you for these. The First [0] link looks particularly interesting.

Yes, the phone has to be connected to the internet for it to work. It says so in the documentation, and on the very first page "To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be …

The article doesn't actually answer the question. How many kilometers and what is the depth of the sound channel? Where does the pressure/temperaure ratio cause sound to difract? A…

Fool The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. KING LEAR Because they are not eight? Fool Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool. (Shakespeare, …

Has Emacs ever been ported to Plan9 and if not how difficult would it be?

Actually the Romans counted their months beginning with March: March (1) April (2) May (3) ... July (5) (named after Julius Caesar) August (6) (named after Augustus) September (7) …

Has any witness ever been convicted? There are so many witnesses that give completely false information that is later shown to be a lie. Has there any been a case of prosecuting su…

I think it is something to do with this information: https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1328461277971288067?s=20 Josh Hawley is a US Senator for Missouri. Supposedly he will ask q…

I wonder if it is something to do with this information: https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1328461277971288067?s=20 Josh Hawley is a US Senator for Missouri.

There is a special mode for looking for files called "Dired". It is very powerful, especially with the extensions. This link is a good introduction to it: http://pragmaticemacs.com…

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An interesting article concerning the election results from a data analyst.

The best I've found is emacs picture-mode. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ba... Here is a good summary: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_ascii_diagram.ht…

I believe it was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping", or so the acronym was jokingly in tbose days.

Looking at this from an Assembler point of view, isn't everything really just a GOTO? Instruction Register + 1 = GOTO next memory location If A then B = Branch if equal = GOTO ADDR…

Anyone looking for a browser project that disables these add-ons should look at the 'waterfox project'. https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ Full discloser: I use waterfox as a rendere…