Beej Jorgensen @ beejjorgensen @lemmy.sdf.org

Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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I've been using TB and K9 for about a year now. Not even wanting to look back.

I've also read this--recommend!

When I needed Windows for a piece of software, I ran Windows on another computer. Later I got into a position where I didn't need to use that software. 😁

Firefox does something else very important: provide another rendering engine for the web. When that landscape homogenizes, you get IE6 all over again. And we never want to go back there.

A shell script can be more concise if you're doing a lot of shell things. Keeps you from having os.system() all over the place.

Things like "diff the output of two programs" are just more complex in other languages.

I love rust, but replacing my shell scripts with rust is not something I would consider doing any more than I'd consider replacing rust with my shell scripts.

This is my favorite cd feature by a large margin.

Some comedian, I don't recall who, talking about his "job interview":

"Are you good with the Microsoft Office suite?"

"I excel at it."

"...Did you just make an Office pun?"

"Word."

I've been using LibreOffice for ages. It's been excellent--a most impressive project.

Even though librapay doesn't take a cut, the providers they use do. Someone is taking a cut; I just try to make it smallest with the least-shitty company. :) But it's tough, as a buyer, to find ways to pay people. I really wish creators would have obvious tip jars, and there was a standard way to tag them in HTML so search engines could find them.

It would be nice if people finally reject the idea that X and FB are "The Internet".

It would be excellent if he could get fully funded through Patreon. I chipped in a bit, and I don't even use it--looks like a cool approach, though. There have to be enough enthusiasts out there to pitch in enough cups of coffee to cover his dev time.

Nostalgia city...

This is a bummer to hear since I have the 4A and it's out of support. (Google support terms suck, especially since the phone is still going strong.) I was going to buy a used 6 or 7--but that sounds like not a super-great plan. Or maybe... GrapheneOS?

Potential Microsoft power play if this happens: ban Chrome from Office 365 and gain a pile of market share in a day. 😅

"The expert has failed more times than the beginner has even tried." 😊👍

Yup! That "interoperability" Doctorow is rightly on about that all these large monopolistic companies hate.

Amen. This was what stopped me from paying Google anything. Canceled premium, moved off drive, off Gmail. It's unethical to give them money or watch their ads. The company needs to fail.

As much as I hate ads and hate the concept that I would be forced to view them, these kind of legal wranglings freak me out. It seems quite possible that a ruling in my favor here would be used against me somewhere else. Courts and lawmakers don't understand technology and don't realize the effects laws have. And frankly, the rest of us don't have much idea, either.

I love that this project is still going. I rarely use it, but it's going to be instrumental in preserving tons of Windows abandonware.

Holy cow, this sounds like a moderation nightmare--glad I don't have to do it! There's no way you're going to get through it without someone complaining about it.

In my mind, this is definitely something that individuals should address with blocks and filters. If those filters don't exist, they should be written.

I think it's just a different beast. He writes:

It’s perhaps not the greatest at finding what you already knew was there. Instead it is designed to help you find some things you didn’t even know you were looking for.

If you are looking for facts you can trust, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?