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jamespullar··on Personal Wiki for Vim
Something to try is Spacemacs which provides vim bindings for emacs and then use org-mode directly.

https://www.spacemacs.org/

jamespullar··on Police Brutality Bonds: How Wall Street Profits from Police Violence
Had to jump through two useless posts to get to the actual pdf report here. https://acrecampaigns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PoliceB...

This should just link to the pdf directly.

jamespullar··on What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
The page I linked above doesn't mention DuckDuckHack. Are you quoting that from a different source? It does mention DuckDuckBot which is their own web crawler.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...

jamespullar··on What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
Per https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/, "...DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google)."

So yes, while they do get results from Bing, it's a bit disingenuous to say that DuckDuckGo is just Bing.

jamespullar··on Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
I was not familiar with userChrome.css before. Thanks for sharing! My browsing experience has improved by removing the top tab bar.
jamespullar··on Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
Spotify actually has supported video for a while (https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/videos...). However, the feature itself is horribly hidden. I have in the past accidentally come across music videos, but right now can't intentionally find any video content to cite as an example.

Edit: Another article discussing Spotify testing video content https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/6/21249389/spotify-video-pod...

jamespullar··on Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe
Portland, OR is planning on closing 100 miles of streets to help provide space for social distancing. I hope that from all this we get more initiatives around the world like this.

https://beta.portland.gov/eudaly/news/2020/4/28/transportati...

jamespullar··on Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds
They show fine for me using uBlock Origin
jamespullar··on Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds
There's already enough questionable images up there that I don't feel comfortable sharing this with my company.
jamespullar··on Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds
Is there a way to report or flag images if any inappropriate ones are uploaded?
jamespullar··on FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
It does feel odd that this links directly to the sales page instead of an FDA statement of approval. This headline should be changed. It clearly states on the site that "This test has not been reviewed by the FDA."
jamespullar··on Twitter, Elliott Strike Truce That Leaves CEO Dorsey in Place
What would a bot do with $7?
jamespullar··on DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
I just decided to try DDG out because of this post and am so happy there's a native dark theme. Now if only Github would release one!
jamespullar··on Netflix releases Dispatch
Looks like the original post is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22405961
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