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Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today).

Why not using Firefox?

The main difference is not in the OS itself, but in the services around.

/e/ wants to provide a private set of services such as e-mail, files, etc.: https://e.foundation/e-solutions/

China is not a communist country, it's a “communist with Chinese values” country. I don't know what it means, but every time the topic is brought on the table, this is the official stance from the Chinese Communist Party.

I guess it means you owe loyalty to whatever authority you get: father, teacher, employer, emperor. Respect them, or they will crush you.

Thanks! I'll check this out.

I've bought an AMD Radeon RX580 on my desktop for gaming, and it's been working great so far with the default open source drivers that come with Ubuntu (18.04 onwards). Didn't have to do anything.

I remember reading this article back when it came out, and it made me think a lot about software licenses.

I encourage everyone here to invest some time to read the different libre and open source licenses out there and decide which one would be the best for the software they produce.

The choice of a software license is important and is a political choice.

Thanks for pointing this out!

I'm currently using a feed reader installed on my web server so that I can access and sync my feeds between all my devices (home computer, work computer and smartphone). I use Firefox on all of my devices. Do you know if there is a way to sync the Brief database on different devices to keep them in sync?

Thanks for the answer!

I've seen this advice before. Keep a streak and practice a little every day.

I didn't know this!

The Blender team is working on Blender 2.8 which will bring a lot of new features, including a lot of UI changes.

There was an article about some of these changes a while ago on their blog [1], and more recently a video showing a lot of these UI changes... available on the Blender Developers Youtube channel (how ironic!) [2].

[1] https://code.blender.org/2018/04/tools-toolbar-and-tool-widg...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZufGqRP6Gc8&t=6s

Not only that, but in China, tech companies are blatantly sexist:

http://laorencha.blogspot.com/2018/04/in-china-tech-companie...

Whooo... that 4kb is amazing! Very dark, very different from the usual technical performances, especially in that category!

Thanks for sharing!

French newspapers Mediapart and Canard PC have teamed up and released a bunch of articles about the video game industry and its toxic practices.

The articles are available online [1] but they're in French and some of them are behind a paywall.

The situation got to the point where a labor union for video games creators, « Le Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo » (STJV) [2], was created in France last year. There are currently around 70 members (out of 5000+ video game related employees in France). A strike is currently on-going in Eugen Systems [3], a French studio author of RTS games like Steel Division.

[1] https://www.canardpc.com/online/crunch-investigation (French)

[2] https://www.stjv.fr/en/ (English)

[3] https://www.stjv.fr/en/2018/03/already-more-than-3-weeks-on-... (English)

The Dell power connector is a barrel style connector with an LED embedded in it. The LED appears to serve no useful purpose. It’s always on, whether connected or not and doesn’t change colour or turn off when charged.

I believe the only use for this LED is to know that the cable is actually plugged to the wall. It's probably useless for people who keep their charger plugged all the time, but it's very useful for me, a QA engineer with a testing table full of devices and cables, plugged and unplugged :)

Or just "Reader View" (Ctrl+Alt+R) in Firefox.

Well since January 1st, they cannot give you a plastic bag for free anymore. That's already a push in the good direction!

Yeah but the problem is that in Taiwan, a very popular drink is 珍珠奶茶, bubble milk tea... And you cannot sip the bubbles without a straw!

Wut?! No, they ask you to pay 5% more when you want to pay by card: it's the Visa/Mastercard fees.

I like to ride my bike to work because it's much faster than taking the bus (20 minutes versus 40+ minutes) . However, when it rains, I take the bus. And it rains quite often where I live (Taipei).

Any advice from fellow bikers? Clothes to wear, gear to get, etc.

it seems control-z does nothing

Normally v2.4.0 improves this. As stated in their release notes: “Add undo support for masks and more intelligent grouping of undo steps”.

Basically, in v2.2, even low-level operations that didn't have a visible impact were in the undo list, so when you pressed Ctrl+Z it would undo something, but you wouldn't see any change. You would actually have to press Ctrl+Z several times to finally see something on the screen.

This was changed and should be more human-friendly :)

how do you understand the history function?

This is indeed a little bit more complicated that just a list of things to undo. You can read a bit more about it in the user manual: https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/darkroom_concepts.ht...

I just assumed it was a work in progress... the rest of the pages seems finished, maybe they didn't put the final version of the index page online :)

Gimp and Darktable are very different beasts. Darktable is tailored to work on RAW pictures coming directly, unprocessed from your camera. Gimp cannot do that and only works on compresseda and/or rasterized images (thinkg JPG or PNG).

Another big difference is that Darktable does non-destructive changes: you have a history of operations that you applied and you can rollback to any step. None of the steps directly modifies the pixels of the image, instead the program computes the changes made by all of the effects in the history for every pixel in the image, then shows you a preview (or exports it).

Handling a big RAW file and all the modifications that you've done is an intensive process, and that's why it requires a beefier computer than Gimp for instance. There is also OpenCL support, to leverage the power of your GPU.

If you're into game programming, Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero [1] project is worth checking. From the website description, “Handmade Hero is an ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code”.

[1] https://handmadehero.org/

Well... Fortunately, there is still Taiwan, the only Chinese-speaking country where creativity and freedom of speech is nurtured and not censored!

Changes with nginx 1.12.0 12 Apr 2017

*) 1.12.x stable branch.

Well, thank you very much, that's a very informative changelog. :)

Long time Ubuntu user here.

The solution to your problem is data encryption. On Linux, there are different levels of data encryption, whether you want to encrypt the whole hard drive or only the /home partition (where all of your private files will be stored).

The ArchLinux Wiki has a very detailed page [1] about all the available options for disk encryption.

Regarding Ubuntu, when you install it on your system, it will ask if you want to encrypt your /home partition [2] or your whole disk [3].

I got my laptop stolen in France last summer, and as much as this was a pain in the ass, at least I didn't have to wonder if the thief had access to my private data (photos, documents and the like) since the /home partition was encrypted. Hell, the thief probably had a WTF moment when (1) he discovered it was not a French version of Windows but an English version of Ubuntu running and (2) when he discovered it was a Taiwanese laptop with this keyboard layout [4]. Good luck to sell that on the French black market :)

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ximage8...

[3] http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ubuntu-16....

[4] https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7501/16104079539_00c39c200d_b....

Yep... Some of my ex-classmates from engineering schools who stayed in France now have 45+ holidays per year. One even has 52 holidays per year. FIFTY TWO! And that's excluding bank holidays!

Save time. Support having good laptops and good drivers. Buy pre-installed. Paying the "windows tax" and installing a Linux on a windows laptop isn't just more work, it is bad for the ecosystem.

I wish I could. Unfortunately, I live in a country (Taiwan) where no one knows about Linux. It's impossible to buy a pre-installed Linux laptop here.

You know the most ironic part? My job here is to certify hardware (including a lot of laptops) to work on Linux... so that you guys in the US and Europe can enjoy it :)

My friend mentioned this to me this morning and he's devastated as well. (edit: I just realized he helped me to download out of print Jazz albums from the 60s on that website so I guess I am devastated as well!)

Since we are on a tech-friendly site, I would like to ask: what are tangible solutions to avoid a disaster like this? I don't think a centralized website and bittorrent tracker is the answer, since it can be taken down pretty easily.

So what other options are there? A few years ago, everyone was about peer-to-peer protocols and technology, but it seems to lack the "centralized" bit that seems mandatory to create such a vibrant community.

This is a genuine question and I'm really interested in any information in that regard!

This is a little unfair, a lot of these really aren't too unreasonable if you are unfamiliar with China. $730 for 3 Chinese Visas with rushed service actually isn't really overpriced, in fact it's about the price I would expect.

If you are unfamiliar with China, you read about China instead of playing Nintendo DS... This is everywhere on the Web if you take 1 minute to look it up.

It's hard for them to know exactly how good the Hong Kong public transit system is without being explicitly told

Again, it's everywhere on the Interwebs. The expat community is HUGE in Hong Kong and therefore there is a HUGE source of documentation online (not only official websites, but also blogs and the like).

It's not crazy to want to eat something familiar and safe. It's good to try new things which they did, but some times you just want to order something to fill you up that you know will taste decent. It takes awhile to figure out which local cuisines are delicious and which are a bit too foreign for westerners.

And that's why you usually prepare a trip like this, at least to know how to recognize characters like 雞 (chicken)， 豬 (pork)， 牛 (beef)， 魚 (fish), 麪 (noodles)， 飯 (rice). With these 6 characters alone, you can already have a much better understanding of any menu in Chinese.

I'm laughing at Chinese tourists who, after two days in Paris, are sick of the French food and want fried rice, but it looks like it's the same the other way around (and even worse, cause usually the Chinese tourists are old and I can understand they are not used to some food, but when you're young... come on!).

From http://needwant.com/about/ :

Marshall Haas, CEO & Co-Founder: A Texas native…

David Myers, Design & Co-Founder: From New York…

Jason Cox, Head of Operations: Jason was a fashion model in NYC…

The only one who's not from the US is

Jon Wheatley, Product & Co-Founder: Born and raised on the south coast of the UK…

Are you telling me in addition of not knowing that people in China speak Chinese, they don't know how to write in their own language?