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239 karma · joined February 14, 2016

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j_koreth··on Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
Is that Mate or Cinnamon?
j_koreth··on Is the Touch Bar a gimmick? Two years in, I can answer that
You can set it to just show your function keys too.
j_koreth··on Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate
Care to expand? I wouldn't usually think of browser history as particularly sensitive.
j_koreth··on Malta: an island of secrets and lies
It doesn't have anything to do the island of Malta
j_koreth··on Family fun with deepfakes
source ?
j_koreth··on How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/12/06/security-account-recove...
j_koreth··on Google Maps' Moat
Sounds like a problem with webgl? Try lite mode https://www.google.com/maps/@?force=lite&dg=dbrw&newdg=1.
j_koreth··on Update: Looking Glass Add-On
Still heavily disappointed with Mozilla I this case, especially due to the previous outrage with Pocket.
j_koreth··on No-Ads: Millions of banner ads blocked since 1996
Minor Minor Correction : By default konqueror comes with KHTML or Webengine (Chromium) depending on the distribution with the option to choose either one or also install webkit
j_koreth··on A straight talk about btrfs
Is there any reason why Oracle contributes so much to Btrfs while maintaining ZFS? Or am I mistaken in Oracle's relationships with ZFS
j_koreth··on Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule
What makes Indians or Brazilians special in that they can't eventually integrate as is the case with previous waves or Irish and Eastern European immigrants? Surely if American culture is so fragile that immigration would break it then it would have happened already.
j_koreth··on Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere
It was a joke based on Facebook's attempts to clone Snapchat's features by adding stories to Instagram and Whatsapp.
j_koreth··on Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
I'm not sure if even the EFF can rationally justify the amount of copyrighted materials on there.
j_koreth··on Night Shift compared to f.lux
Actually no program can support Wayland to change color temperatures except for the compositor.
j_koreth··on GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
Have you tried smartgit?
j_koreth··on PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems
It has Google sync the different is mostly in branding and in some codec support
j_koreth··on White House Echoes Tech: ‘Move Fast and Break Things’
Furthermore, wouldn't Trump's want to weaken the FTC and repeal Net Neutrality kill off a significant number of startups?
j_koreth··on Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
Small barriers to entry - Cost of purchasing said vehicles Cost of developing a Uber=style app Even past this, the industry will never be highly profitable in the long run because of competition from people who do get past this
j_koreth··on Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s Fantasyland
> Yet recently Apple has started to get into CPU design. Why? I think the analysis of this decision would be fascinating to see.

Oddly enough why would Apple have left it through dumping PowerPC then if it's just going to repeat this cycle

j_koreth··on Introducing Netflix Stethoscope
You obviously never commented. /s (sarcasm don't kill me)
j_koreth··on Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement
> You're also free to write your own software for the vehicle to bypass Tesla.

I thought the problem was that this part was illegal also

j_koreth··on Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple
Your description makes me increasingly worried; do you have any preferred CO detectors?
j_koreth··on My Next Mac Mini
> Cyanowhatever

Sadly it's too late for Cyanogenmod. http://lifehacker.com/cyanogenmod-is-dead-and-its-successor-...

j_koreth··on H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten Rules
H1-B workers are generally mostly used as programmers and brought in by large tech companies to use instead of native labor. I'm not really sure what manufacturing has got to do with this unless programming was made obsolete by robots already.
j_koreth··on LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance
> that I've simply gone back to building my own lights for my specific purposes.

Is this what your username references?

j_koreth··on Bitcoin plunges as much as 20 percent as Chinese yuan soars
This large change based on another currency may paint a dark picture in its future as a stable cryptocurrency
j_koreth··on Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X
In my experience, GNU/Linux distros do not usually include 3 seperate GUI settings windows with completely differing GUI's just to manage devices.
j_koreth··on The moving sofa problem
I guess if you look hard enough pi really is everywhere
j_koreth··on 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
> GNU thing at NeXT. Can you elaborate on this?
j_koreth··on Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’
>But note: Dr Baird deleted this article shortly after it was written in 2013.

Doesn't that invalidate his claim if he had retracted it?

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