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It looks bleak, but 99.99% owned by 1000 people is deliberately misleading.

> 99,99% of world wealth is held by less than 1000 people. Citation needed.

Nice, this is perfect timing for me to see this actually. I've been slowly building out a little cli tool that I use to track .env files (and other files that you don't want to che…

> I can't explain exactly why I think those factors make it suspicious, however. I think I have an idea of why, though I haven't been able to articulate it properly yet. I've been …

That's actually a really awesome idea. I wonder what the threshold of adoption would have to be before that signal is widely understood. Maybe that should become a necessary safety…

Should we stop hurricanes, even if we can? Yes, hurricanes are destructive, especially to human settlements, but I'd be surprised if there aren't massive ecological benefits to hur…

Was? Are you saying you don't hold that opinion anymore, or do you just not use it?

Time logging. I use one piece of software to track my time, then fan those time logs out into the various pieces of software that need to know about them.

I imagine it's probably a decent way to practice it though, assuming you have enough working knowledge of the language to still get around your phone. Edit: Well, except for the pa…

For anyone else who has never heard of greenwashing like me two minutes ago: > Greenwashing is like whitewashing with a green (environmental) brush: companies and organizations mak…

Out of curiosity, how did Ember and Meteor burn you so hard and why are you so averse to "all-in-one" tools as a result?

> i'm fine letting Chrome function simply as a dev tool and actually browse with Firefox, Opera, Servo, etc. w/uBlock Origin & uMatrix I'm definitely in the same boat. That makes m…

You must have a really good internet connection. I pay close to $200 USD/mo for a wireless, 10Mbps max connection, and that's literally the best I can get unless I were to personal…

Out of curiosity, does anyone here use tig[1]? I've been wondering if it's worth learning. [1] https://jonas.github.io/tig/

Just looking through the Chrome settings, I get linked to this help article: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/173424 > You can set Chrome to show all settings and menus in …

> The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags The whole point of the blog w…

Serious question: how do we know for certain that their DB hasn't been stolen yet?

That looks similar to the Kenyan Matatu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matatu

Or even better, the sticker for a competitor to your actual system.

Just because something else was more shit doesn't make it any less shit.

> Oh and Wellington is the windiest city in the world. This is not an exaggeration Seriously. I agree that it's a beautiful city in so many ways, but just spending a week there mad…

> You can't write a good blog post without having already written some number of bad ones. To add to this, I'd say: if you don't have a writing habit, the barrier to actually writi…

> If the only way to remain objective about the populace is to remove one's self from public Well, the opposite is true as well, and more likely I think: By removing yourself from …

I started adding serifs to my writing back in engineering school to help me decipher my own equations. I some moments where I couldn't figure out if I had written "+t" or "t+", or …

I use both UO and privacy badger, and the site worked fine for me.