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There is no intellectual curiosity in climate change denial. Don't editorialise.

parrot VM: initially a joke until someone twigged that a dynamic-lang runtime to compete with .Net & JRE wasn't so absurd.

Well at least it finally has a trackpad, after years of insisting that no one would ever want to manipulate the UI with a mouse pointer.

un-prevention, of sorts.

It's commonly used for malaria. A related '-quine' is the active ingredient of Gin and Tonic.

The (poorly worded) background suggests no previous research has been done concerning this compound w.r.t. corona.

UK (and Ireland) are outside Schengen.

Even if they don't restrict it to British passport holders travelling to the USA, it's still arguably easier to screen for the virus through one departure point than, say, 30.

the/e/ name will be abandonned for something else quite soon.

Good to know; a word that's more easily duckduckgoable may help with branding.

Indeed, there was a [0] story yesterday - an initiative Vodafone are supporting to compute a cure for cancer while your phone is charging.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479644

The article mentions a mismatch of 4KB (Linux) vs 16KB (iOS) page sizes. Further reading:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...

At least here in Australia, corner shops doing repairs are a dying breed - there's no money in it once you factor in rent and electricity and wages. An online search replacing a popular Samsung was $AU99.

My current 3 year old phone is also a dying breed where when the time comes, I can buy a genuine Moto battery for $AU16 delivered and replace it myself in under 30 seconds.

What part of "it ain't finished yet" would most users not understand?

It's a Preview release for a reason. Mozilla aren't exactly pulling a KDE 4 here.

Yes, to see what the fuss was about with respect to donating those coins to creators.

I didn't view sufficient ads to be rewarded with any crypto in the timeframe (monthly?) and none of the webpages I visit regularly seemed to be eligible for BAT donations. The latter seems a chicken and egg problem; it's an opt-in system for the website administrators who might already have alternative monetization (Google ads, patreon).

Windows 10 (Edge), Chrome OS and Android all now bundle Chromium, while it's packaged in desktop Linux. That really leaves only macos.

VSCode, say, as a slimmer download sans web runtime is a possible outcome.

After reading an article here on HN, I gave Brave a crack for a week but returned to my regular browser. The thrill of dopamine hits from earning a BAT oken for viewing a brave-blessed ad for the underprivileged wasn't worth changing a browser for.

A "drop in replacement for Chrome" just isn't my thing as a Firefox user - I just didn't love the browsing experience otherwise.

If the company were to expand their market for postive-ads and crypto coins by releasing a Firefox plugin as a "drop in replacement for uBlock Origin" it might tickle my fancy.

It has potential as a mouse-based launcher.

I use Taskbar from f-droid, which activates by touching a screen corner and draws a retractable taskbar over the current application.

A detailed introduction to setting up a RPi as a network device using the usb gadget interface.

It's good to have options if you already own an iPad.

c.f. tablets supporting Crostini, WSL2 or termux - or GNU/Linux native with the (forthcoming) PineTab!

Replicant has an evaluation page incorporating this info with a handy table.

https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Pinepho...

Yes, I did. 'Light-hearted fun' perhaps but it strikes me as in very poor taste as someone whose parents lived through the 1940s. Okay, you went there - to its logical conclusion in which your time adventures messing around with the past inadvertently sees the Axis win the war and the 1000 year reign commences as forseen. And nobody wants that.

'a heavily moderated community that takes being nice to each other very seriously' would describe this forum, for the most part. Thus my reluctance to join another community comprised somewhat of HN invitees merely to discuss topics HN might find taboo such as time travelling assassination of historical figures.

Top discussion currently is on Hitler.

No thanks, I'll give it a miss.

find a sequestering use for that algae.

Beer.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/growing-algae-to-brew...

For Android, they're proposing GKI module shims that a vendor can code against. So a vendor plugs a binary blob into, say a 5.4 GKI module, which is hopefully forward compatible with the interface to a 6.25 GKI module released sometime in 2026.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plan...

Understood but the point being made is that your OEM will build AOSP with some ancient, say 2017 or whenever your device was released, embedded version of chromium - susceptible to security flaws from that release date. Chrome overlays a replacement engine to ensure webapps don't get p@wned.

So yes, as a firefoxee, I never want to see the Chrome icon. However, purging Chrome is a security risk.

Here in Australia, the local council expects you to keep the nature strip, or verge, between the road and the pavement looking presentable but anything behind the front fence is your own creation.

And so the 'front lawn' is my vegie patch. Potatoes are dead easy to grow from eyes and pumpkins (winter squash) self-germinate from compost. This summer I'm experimenting with Jerusalem artichokes, which sprouted from 70¢ worth of store-bought tubers.

All you need is water and a spade - and no lawn police, I guess.

5. I'd expect various bricks-and-mortar cinema chains to go bust or amalgamate, thanks to online distribution and 8K TV.

Apple wouldn't have based a product around it if it were GPL.

Sounds like a business opportunity for the Brave browser.

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Microsoft, which is collaborating with Qualcomm on netbooks.

Google, which has previously collaborated (OP1) with Rockchip on Chrome OS.

They had a release only a month ago:

https://pivotce.com/2019/10/24/luneos-october-stable-release...

downstream LuneOS has ports to various devices, including a demo running on Pine64's phone devkit. https://youtu.be/G9lbXE_wWpQ

There's a companion volume for Spanish learners, i.e. The publisher likely just tweaks a chapter or two for each specific target language, i.e. English Grammar for Students of $X.

The 'surprising specific' bit is in how concepts in German/Spanish map to their English equivalents. e.g. the German edition might try and show how English emulates declensions with prepositions, while the Spanish might explain how the auxilary verb 'have' has multiple uses covered by tener/haber.

I'm not a native Romance speaker but yes, knowing 'French shenanigans' would perhaps help understand the other - when I learned Catalan on duolingo (from Spanish), I made more blunders in my rusty Spanish than in mistakes in the Catalan I was trying to learn!