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Nah. +4 for the thread after adding up the down/up votes. I dipped out, the conversation held no further value to continue to me especially after being told "well it's an idiom you…

> This seems to be a common point of confusion for people who aren't native English speakers Where did this come from and what value does it have, other than being condescending to…

Man pages can be tricky as the content can vary distro by distro (how up to date is your copy of man-pages, what changes have happened, etc.) - this technique is pretty portable to…

> One definition of "server" is "a service in a network" Can you link to something where this is a common accepted definition? I'm a systems engineer by trade, talk to a bajillion …

This makes no sense (too abstract of a statement), but here let's try this: $ man systemd | head -4 | tail -1 systemd, init - systemd system and service manager An email daemon (Po…

100% agree, I missed that - at this point in time (and maybe still a bit today?) there was a lot of grift between C and C++ being used for Linux systems things around that time as …

I disagree with your assessment, email is a service and not a server . A service can run on a server, or ephemerally as in this article (which still has servers underneath it, you'…

In the beginning (95-ish) Qt was license encumbered, there was serious agitation about KDE becoming popular while using it, leading to the very-open GTK based GNOME desktop competi…

In the US it's the same, the FDA has regulations and all the (not real cheese) items have either a funny name ("cheeze") or have something like "imitation cheese product" or "chees…

It's an extremely mild abrasive in this form (of vinegar, yep) - some folks dilute baking soda in vinegar, I feel that's too coarse myself. One of the mildest silver polishes I kno…

Many hobbiest collectors (in my travels, which is of course my experiences) use 100% acetone soak on metals. A brand known as Renaissance Wax is a popular microcrystalline coating …

> Official contact tracing in the US is a complete dud and had negligible impact on the spread. I am a US citizen, I simply have lost confidence in any promise made by any tech com…

It seems like this website is trying to convert to local timezone in browser, the ICS places it at 8pm on 4/24 New York time: DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210424T200000 DTEND;TZ…

nod and the .desktop file is just an INI-style file that one can hand create for anything at all, the launched app just needs to accept the URL as a parameter input as if typed on …

Sure thing, it's pretty simple and straightforward I can post right here. In your CI/CD runner, you add a "before" script like so (Gitlab YAML example): image: debian:latest before…

Each DE can have slightly different paths, but in general find the file mimeapps.list. It's typically looked for in the traditional manner of /etc/, /usr/share/ and /usr/local/shar…

I use pandoc in a CD pipeline, the version in the repos is stale compared to upstream (normal, that's how it is) unless you're on a rolling distro like Arch. I have reported pandoc…

The author is using random online radios so they don't get to choose the server end - as a client, VLC is powerful but I prefer Audacious for the user interface. (random user surve…

It's been awhile, but IIRC the recommendation to disable it is based on security, not privacy. Other comments here explain it better than I could, not a programmer by trade.

If the author is reading this, you've hit/stumbled on "HTTP Live Streaming" radios which are sort of the next evolution of classic Shoutcast/Icecast generated streams. There are be…

I've had WebGL disabled forever, I don't use Twitch (as the other comment describes a valid use for) and really have never missed having it enabled for many years. It's frequently …

> mines would shut down This sparks an interesting thought (for me) - gold mining (and really, any mining) is intertwined in modern times; copper mining produces gold as a by-produ…

> In fact the whole site is completely free Blog about this: https://blog.librarything.com/main/2020/03/librarything-goes...

You're not the only LibraryThing user around - we get drowned out in these HN threads because the UI isn't sexy.

B2C random internet user here, it's more complex than that for me and not always about price. I'd say the thoughts go something like this: - is this a product that involves a lot o…