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Re:Elementary OS is imploding on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:06AM (#30613235)
Having interacted with Danielle a few times in the community I can say that she is very difficult to work with and obviously doesn't know what it takes to scale a project like elementaryOS up. It's actually amazing it's made it this far.
Re:Make Linux look like Windows 95 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @01:25AM (#30475595)
Kolour Paint is really good - basically a much improved version of MS Paint in terms of interface and simplicity. I run a GNOME system but I still use the Klour Paint flatpak since it's so good.
Homepage is skipping loading.
Do you wake up at 7AM and get off work around 5PM?
IMO the goal is to add friction to the external payment methods so that people just give up and use the built-in Apple payment method that they make insane margins on.
Re:Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life on Saturday January 29, 2022 @11:56PM (#30134167)
> In case someone has any advice beyond ... going to therapy

Everyone proceeds to tell him to go to therapy, lol.

Re:Ransomware-resistant backups with duplicity and AWS S3 on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:20AM (#30110938)
It actually does not as you can see all of the file names before you enter your encryption password.
Re:Trailing slashes on URLs: Contentious or settled? on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:47AM (#30096663)
> SEO: if your content exists at two (or more!) distinct URL endpoints, it is a SEO no-no. SE-no-no. SEO-apolo-graphql-anton-ohno (I apologize for nothing). Ahem. You need redirects.

Probably not.

Re:Turing Pi Trouble with PayPal on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:35PM (#30095469)
My understanding is PayPal positions themselves in a very specific way to avoid many consumer credit-related laws. They aren't a bank, it's not "credit" by the standard definition, etc.
Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:55AM (#30069338)
My content labeling system identified this as an advertisement.
Re:Nova by Panic on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:53AM (#30069325)
Yeah, with 32GB of RAM I'm not so worried that my text editor is taking up a gig of memory TBH
Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:38PM (#30028883)
Having come from elementaryOS I can say that Fedora 35 is awesome. So much better!
Re:TypeScript Features to Avoid on Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:42AM (#30008757)
Article makes no real good arguments about not using the private keyword. It's more descriptive and carries knowledge from other languages compared to putting a hashtag in front of a variable name.
Saying CSW represents the cryptocurrency enthusiasts seems wrong.
That's awesome, thank you. The irony of "show me or you're bullshit" is amazing!
Re:Show HN: Web proxy in iframe with Flash and incognito tabs on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:39AM (#29976243)
I'm so confused. Why do I want Flash?
Doesn't this mean there is a $3m scammer out there somewhere that probably should get caught?
Re:It takes $420k per year to run Lichess on Sunday January 16, 2022 @08:57AM (#29956007)
> $68,600 in Servers
It's worth mentioning Reddit uses the Karma system as part of the rate limiting. If you have a lot of karma you'll virtually never get the dreaded "You're doing that too fast" error message, but if you have a low karma account you might only get to post/comment once every 30 minutes.
Occam's Razor
They likely don't have POP3/IMAP though which is what would be required for the reading aspect.
I think you need enough pixels to convey the story / vision of the artist. More is better but there are diminishing returns above 1080p and most of us just don't care lol
ThePirateBay is free and easier.
I'm assuming [1] didn't work very well then:

[1]: https://plc4x.apache.org/users/commercial-support.html

Re:Michigan DOT Snowplow Names on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:56AM (#29888099)
I thought this was going to be a story about a domain name ending with .snowplow
Matrix supports encryption out-of-the-box without any strange key exchange problems. Most of the time the way key exchange is done in XMPP is very insecure.
Re:Elementary OS 6.1 on Monday December 20, 2021 @04:30PM (#29630558)
I just tried elementaryOS and the selection of apps is terrible. There is almost nothing there that you actually need and of the apps that were there I found either unusable or so lacking in functionality compared to other apps it wasn't worth trying to compromise.

> Also I noticed that Elementary is taking a 30% cut (with a 50c minimum) which I find obnoxiously high

It does seem really high considering they are just taking from one Stripe account to another.