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dpg23

Re:HandBrake 1.2.0 Released on Sunday January 20, 2019 @12:35AM (#18951380)
Lovely piece of software.
Re:HandBrake 1.2.0 Released on Sunday January 20, 2019 @12:29AM (#18951359)
What content comes in 10-bit in the first place? HDR is just becoming a thing and I'm pretty sure that's restricted to UHD Blu-rays.
Re:Clojure is Capable on Friday December 28, 2018 @12:00PM (#18777907)
I don't fully get the syntax (I've had a tiny bit of Scheme experience) but wow that's awesome.
Re:Krita in 2018 and 2019 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:00AM (#18769762)
Do you have tips for text manipulation? Whenever I make dumb memes it's a pain to move around text on GIMP.
Re:My one-liner Linux Dropbox client on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @12:37PM (#18763353)
You _can_ do it with libreboot on ancient thinkpads, but it requires a decent time (or money) investment and some know-how. https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html
Re:The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:13PM (#18717228)
I'll admit, I feel somewhat smug over this after being talked down to by BSD guys. Regardless, I'm glad we can all enjoy a shared codebase for an amazing filesystem.
Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:08PM (#18717160)
The Newspeak phrase "Double Plus Good Duckspeaker" from George Orwell's 1984.
Re:What makes BeOS and Haiku unique on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:21PM (#18586113)
Check out GuixSD if you like Guile Scheme REPLs when something breaks! I also recall OpenBSD and FreeBSD dropping to debuggers on kernel panics.
Redox has made way more progress than I ever thought it would, so who knows?