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> I just converted a small personal site from Hugo to Jekyll Did you mean "from Jekyll to Hugo" instead?

> What is in it for Valve? Aside of political motives regarding Microsoft, the technological problem that Valve is solving with using the flatpak technology is creating a single Li…

Which platinum game? Which known problem? I wish complaints were less vague, then it wouldn't sound like exaggeration and would be actionable for people who are working on these te…

Thanks for looking up the timeline, I was not sure. Also full disk encryption on phones is another thing Apple did way earlier. I agree it's not exactly apples to Apples. Does Appl…

You're correct, both Android and iOS have improved. Both have the features you described today, neither had them several years ago.

Agreed! That's one thing that I know Gmail is _very_ good at, at least. I didn't get the impression that Fastmail cares particularly about that problem yet.

I also had some bad experiences with Fastmail, they're very aggressive at shutting down your account if billing fails (expired cc) with zero warnings. Ended up missing emails on tw…

I just tried and failed: https://twitter.com/shazow/status/1295835462360338436 I used a realistic sounding name, I tried several email addresses that were rejected as blocked, even…

> But did Facebook add any value (i.e. engineering money/hours) to improve the device? What you've listed are all negatives, but there have to be at least a few positives to come o…

Here's a blog post I wrote in response to the acquisition when it happened in 2014: https://medium.com/@shazow/re-facebook-acquires-oculus-f8589... I was far from the only one who …

70% as revenue by Alphabet in 2019, 60% of that from Google and 10% from YouTube. https://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/HMtQjcWW/Alp...

Same. I'm hoping that Valve's commitment to do a Linux-native release of Half-Life: Alyx is at least a commitment to get an end-to-end working VR experience on Linux sooner than la…

> The majority of the games do not support multiplayer on Linux, due to dependency on Windows-specific anticheat software. Definitely not majority. Maybe majority of the top 10-20 …

> Go does absolutely nothing to ensure you handle the error. Go has many community linters available, https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck is popular for checking unhandled errors. …

Overdrying clothes damages them. Hang-drying clothes increases the clothes' longevity.

Love it. By far the best fully cross-platform experience (including Linux) of any alternative, with great independent self-hosted server implementations.

Why would you not recommend Deoplete? It works well for me.

> Do I think Google would look out for me like that? Hahah, no, I do not think so. This article is literally about things that Google's Project Zero did which were for your benefit…

> FWIW the Bitcoin one happened 1 year after it launched and 5 years before Ethereum launched FWIW the Ethereum one also happened 1 year after it launched.

Nearly 100% of people spend some time in a hospital in their lives. Unless you're claiming that hospitals only gouge some tiny subset of people and are benevolently generous to eve…

> If you are able to pay, American healthcare can be higher quality and more timely than Canadian care. Especially the hospitals and doctors in and around Seattle. That's why wealt…

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