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miniscript.org 3y ago

MiniScript – a simple, elegant language for embedding or learning to program

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techcrunch.com 5y ago

Facebook Now Lets You Fax Your Photos (2009)

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archive.org 5y ago

Opening the Flask (PyCon 2011)

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stackingthebricks.com 5y ago

How the Blog Broke the Web (2017)

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ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com 5y ago

Our Incredible Journey – catalogue of services shutdown by acquihires

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josephg.com 5y ago

Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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www.cbc.ca 5y ago

When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers'

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killedbymozilla.com 5y ago

A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services

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prev.rust-lang.org 5y ago

Chucklefish Taps Rust to Bring Safe Concurrency to Video Games (2018) [pdf]

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github.com 5y ago

GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP

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sorentwo.com 5y ago

Let Postgres Do the Work (2013)

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (2018)

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem

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mosh.org 5y ago

Mosh in a Lift (2012)

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www.pine64.org 5y ago

Pine64 August update: getting into a rhythm and not slowing down

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archive.org 5y ago

Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla (2000)

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idiallo.com 5y ago

The Machine Fired Me (2018)

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Wikipedia Has Cancer

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github.com 6y ago

MPV Stops Supporting Gnome

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privacypass.github.io 6y ago

Privacy Pass

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By default it's small, but all you need to do is zoom in and it's perfect. For example, on my 1440p monitor I'm at 213% zoom and it's working great for me.

I think a lot of people missed that only the early adopters batches will come with the pen and magnetic case included:

We will be making the PineNote available for early adopters later this year for $399. The early adopter’s PineNote batch will ship with a magnetic cover (working with an on-board hall sensor, putting the device to sleep) as well as the EMR pen. Following the early adopter’s batch, both the cover and the pen will be sold separately.

The Remarkable 2 costs $547 USD with a pen and magnetic cover. So right now the PineNote is ~$150 cheaper, but once they start selling the accessories separately, I'm expecting it to be around $50-$100 cheaper than the R2. Still a good difference, but it's not as competitive price-wise as people think.

Edit: Not that price is all that matters, I'm super excited to have a proper Linux e-ink device!

There's a great extension called Old Reddit Redirect [0] that'll always take you to old Reddit, highly recommend it.

Reddit's new direction in recent years has been really painful. There's so many great niche communities there that practically don't exist elsewhere on the Internet. Unfortunately, if/when they get rid of old Reddit and the API for third party apps, I'll probably drop Reddit entirely.

[0] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

GitHub Copilot 5 years ago

Yes, under "How does GitHub Copilot work?":

[...] The GitHub Copilot editor extension sends your comments and code to the GitHub Copilot service, which then uses OpenAI Codex to synthesize and suggest individual lines and whole functions.

From GCP docs [0]:

  Effect of ToS violations
  
  Google-wide disabled account
  
  In some cases a Google-wide account (which covers access to a variety of Google products like Google Photos, Google Play, Google Drive, and GCP) will be disabled for violations of a Google ToS, egregious policy violations, or as required by law. Owners of disabled Google accounts will not be able to access their Google Cloud resources until the account is reinstated. If an account is disabled, a notification is sent to the secondary email address provided during the signup process, if available. If a phone number is available, the user is notified via text message. The notification includes a link for appeal and recovery, where applicable.
  
  In order to regain access to their GCP resources, owners of disabled Google accounts will need to contact Google support and have their account re-enabled.
  
  To minimize the effect of an account being disabled on Google Cloud resources, we recommend that you add more than one owner to all resources. As long as there is at least one active owner, GCP resources will not be suspended due to the one of the owners being disabled.
Given the Google account horror stories that pop up every few months, seems risky if you're solo/only have one GCP owner.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/project-suspe...

If you point the comments to be fetched from an instance you host, I assume you could silence/suspend users or domains on your instance and they would no longer show up in the comments (although that's probably not an ideal solution for most cases).

I've set up my email client on my phone, so that it only notifies me if one of my developers emails me. I use the VIP feature of Samsung's email client, which seems to be unique to that specific client, since I haven't been able to find another with it.

Maybe not quite as simple to set up, but you should be able to get something similar on most clients with a folder and a filter. I've done this for some of my important/urgent folders, with K9-Mail set to only show notifications from those folders (notification class).

Like other commenters said, it's just Linux so you can do pretty much anything.

For Qt, the current stack seems to be Kirigami, which is KDE's library for convergent apps. There's also the Mauikit framework, which is built on top of Kirigami (I don't know enough to know the exact differences).

For Gtk, it's libhandy, which adds a few widgets for convergent apps.

It looks like Flutter doesn't support ARM yet, I found this after a quick search: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/60678

There's also a few Electron/Webkit-based apps (especially for UBPorts), which is a nice temporary solution to get an app on the device while there isn't yet a native equivalent.

I'm not familiar with the story, but this is what I found: https://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-cheung-brings-homejoy-...

The weird tale begins with an email that John Salzarulo received Tuesday afternoon. A Los Angeles based user, Salzarulo received an email from Cheung that "$20 cleaning is back!" thanks to its local partner.

"I wanted to reach out personally today to invite you to join a private house cleaning trial with our Los Angeles partner, Fly Maids," Cheung wrote, not disclosing his connection to the company.

When Salzarulo clicked the email link, the Fly Maids' site logged him into his Homejoy account, which still had his credit card number and notes about where to find the trash can.

I don't know if it's illegal, but I definitely think it's unethical.

I've been happy with BunnyCDN. Email and password login (and 2FA), FTP and API upload (I'm using lftp to deploy my sites from CI), pay as you go (I think the minimum is $1/month) and easy SSL. No complaints so far, but my usage is pretty basic.

Thank you, will fix that! I really should hook up a spell/grammar checker on post-commit or something...

Also, was Camino ever officially a Mozilla product?

It was until at least late 2004/early 2005, when the website was hosted at mozilla.org/projects/camino [0]. The project's website moved to caminobrowser.org in March 2005 [1], but it's unclear if it remained a Mozilla project after that.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20041117091214/http://www.mozill... [1]: http://caminobrowser.org/blog/2005/#itsofficial

Haha, the Google one definitely looks better than my 30 lines of CSS though.

If anyone is interested, I'm using a very simple Hugo setup, just one template that reads from a yaml file with all the services. I'm using BunnyCDN to host (first time), cache hit rate is currently sitting at 70% which I'm happy with.

Sorry - that definitely wasn't my intention! Although to be clear, I don't mean this to be anything negative about Mozilla, just an interesting collection of their past projects. There are definitely some changes I can make to the copy though, especially since this list is meant to include everything from commercial products to experiments and internal tools.

I think this differs from Killed by Google somewhat in that Google has killed off several commercially-viable products with active users, so I can see a possible intention there as a warning about relying on Google services.

Edit: as another comment said below, "abandoned" is probably a better choice of words for a lot of these projects.