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extro··on A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)
>“You’re hurting her,” a woman yelled.

What should we do with people like this?

extro··on DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block
Exactly.
extro··on DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block
https://duckduckgo.com/donations
extro··on DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wePMUqnBn0
extro··on XDG Base Directory Specification
Too little, too late, *nix filesystem directory structure is a legacy mess and plenty program not respecting the xdg spec, so the poor HaikuPorters needs to patch everything to stop littering the $HOME folder.
extro··on [dead]
I don't care if there any pre-defined quicklaunch icons on the starting page in your browser after install, but could you stop adding/readding unwanted elements to it? I don't have facebook, why on earth are you adding it back after every update? Is this normal? What would you think if i would always mess with your stuff without asking just because i can? No, you aren't supposed to mess with my stuff, so please leave my startpage alone.

I am not searching for workarounds, i can always put the browser onto RO disk or use an own, handcrafted html startpage, but do i really have to use workarounds just to be able to use your product without frustration? What about not using your product at all?

(Image is just for reference to know what i meant.)

extro··on Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
>The ideals of Haiku are great but is anyone using it consistently? If they are what workflows benefit from Haiku's feature set?

I do, but maybe i am not the best everyday example with my ~20 years user experiences with BeOS and Haiku and do development/porting for Haiku. I use on a dedicated Haiku laptop and planing to switch to Haiku on my main system too, the only roadblock is the external-display support. After it gets enabled (i have intel based system) i will switch completely.

>I'm curious if anyone is actually using Haiku features in some non-trivial way, e.g.

All the files coming from packages have an own attribute which identifies the parent package, so it is extremely easy to find from which package the questioned file comes from. For example.

I have to frequently search for existing recipes, i use bash to craft me a search query. I definetely could use `find` instead.

I like that i have no email client, so if i need to search for a mail on a busy covered desktop i don't have to hunt for the mail-client icon on the taskbar i just click on the desktop where it visible between all the windows, Alt-F > type what i want > ENTER.

I really like the virtual-desktop handling, S&T, etc., so long story short: i like so how it is.

extro··on Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
I am waiting for the next big thing, where the 3rdparty programs comes as a virtual machine image with a complete OS in it, with own kernel for maximal platform-independency.
extro··on Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
> audio through HDMI, and bluetooth didn't find my mouse

Both unsupported.

extro··on Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
WebPositive is included.
extro··on The History of Development of Norton Commander (2010)
mc is disgusting.
extro··on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
>Reasoning that RSS have less clutter.

>Recommends a webclient.

So the question is dear author: how much did Feedly paid for you?

extro··on The faded beauty of abandoned cars across Europe and the US
Tastelessly overdone HDR is ____.
extro··on Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
In src/main.c at line 33 i had to add an ;.
extro··on Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
Works on Haiku: http://0x0.st/i_3I.png
extro··on Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns
Example site ( https://bansal.io/pattern-css ) misrendered in Vivaldi, which brings me back PTSD grade memories about the browser war and css bugs, implementation-diferences, etc. So let me ask, how is it possible on the almost completely monoculturized web, where is no Presto and almost no Trident anymore, where almost every browser is kind of chrome-isotope. So let me ask, maybe a web developer cn answer me: what is missing to be able to provide complete support forthe main browsers? Is there still prefixed css tags? OR is it so hard to handle differences between browsers/browser-versions? Doesn't CSS have any graceful fallback functionality for older browsers? Why is this phenomen exists today?
extro··on Show HN: React-tater – A React component to add annotations to any element
Placing a potato resets the css animations. NICE!
extro··on Sorry Huawei, the P40 Pro without Google apps is just too broken to live with
TLDR: Author bought a phone which comes with no Google API and surprised because it comes with no Google API, so cries a river because can't consume, so the product is sh*t. It could be drastic to recognize nowadays a nice hw doesn't mean anything without the support of the program developers, which requires some API. But you wanted this, you got this. In your next life you will maybe consider to support not just big players with your money.
extro··on Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
Possibly related https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/04/07/an-attack-on-greek-her...
extro··on On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data (2018)
Asking the user is ALWAYS possible before you tracks them.
extro··on Darling – Run macOS software on Linux
Unrelated comment, but am i the only one who gets annoyed by the "does it runs safari?" or "does it runs adobe?" questions? It seems a significant portion of "readers" can't or won't actually read, which is pretty ironic on a news site. I hate this.
extro··on Group of homeless moms and families are taking over a house – this time in L.A
https://i.imgur.com/322zDhK.jpg
extro··on Group of homeless moms and families are taking over a house – this time in L.A
It is illegal use then, what will envolve to theft as soon as they decide to stay indefinitely, what they actually already did, and will realised as somebody try to push them out with or without police force. I don't care if it state or private owned property is: "occupying" homes is theft in my eyes, as it fundamentally shaking the work and merrit based society.
extro··on Group of homeless moms and families are taking over a house – this time in L.A
This is basically theft. I bought a home in my home country and still working in foreign land to pay for it, so the home stands there empty, but i would kill if somebody would just "occupy" it while i am landlocked in a different country because corona.