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Don't forget Tor Browser https://www.torproject.org : the Tor Project modified version of Firefox. It aims to make all users look the same, making it difficult for you to be finger…

I pay. People pay, stop saying no one wants to pay, it's wrong. One example that comes in mind is Wikipedia: no ads, people pay.

I don't want ads all over my screen when I browse the web. It doesn't mean I don't want to pay for content (I do pay). If ads were all blocked, websites would charge for content, a…

For most channels you don't need an IRC account. And there are web interfaces like https://web.libera.chat/ . I'm trying to subscribe to Discord. I'm currently stuck in a captcha l…

I usually know, when the interface is not too shiny, that the content might be good. It's the same with HN. And those interfaces are still very easy to understand and use. That bei…

There is usually no need to subscribe.

You don't need to subscribe. You are in CC when people want you to be notified, otherwise there are web interfaces you can browse. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel…

# do your code change git commit git send-email --to= -1 # amend your change git commit --amend git send-email -v2 --to= -1 I'm not sure what is needlessly annoying and absurd. Edi…

0 A.D. Began in 2001, now in 0.0.26. https://play0ad.com/ https://releases.wildfiregames.com/

Related (2016) thread: Why kernel development still uses email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620468

Another great thing about those laptops is that Libreboot is supported ( https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/#laptops-intel-x86 ). One can buy an X230 with Libreboot pre-installed …

Both fronts use DJI drones[0][1], although DJI suspended its activities in both Russia and Ukraine as of April 26, 2022[2] and contractually forbids[3] any sales by dealers to eith…

Parrot (Anafi) is French

There is no "database", it's just a bunch of GPG encrypted files synced with git. (Their default location is ~/.password-store.) For Android there is https://github.com/android-pas…

My experience as an embedded software programmer is quite the opposite. We do care about releasing our Linux modifications under GPLv2, and we do contribute to community when it ma…

Let's see 20 years from now which of React, Angular and Linux is still around.

> and then others came along GPL came after MIT ( https://nitter.net/humphd/status/1112747178685026304 ) > and it's a genuine improvement How?

OsmAnd "online maps" are much smoother than the default vector maps, because your phone doesn't have to render them (they also take more space). I find OsmAnd incredible for - hiki…

I found annoying to restart all the windows that depend on Emacs window manager (namely EXWM) every time I used to modify its conf. And I modify its conf way more often that I woul…