ColonelBlimp (u/ColonelBlimp)

ColonelBlimp commented on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive idiallo.com/byte-size/say... · Posted by u/firefoxd

sugarpimpdorsey · 5 months ago

An open source developer (the creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy Linux) made a political comment someone didn't like. Now there is a concerted effort by a small group of terminally online histrionics to ruin his life and get all his projects cancelled. The comment was apparently made on his personal blog and not in any official capacity.

ColonelBlimp · 5 months ago

As far as I know, this is the blog post that led to the backlash https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

ColonelBlimp commented on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system newyorker.com/news/annals... · Posted by u/dmazin

CrossVR · 8 months ago

Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands are all part of the European Union. Would you make the same claim if we were talking about US states? (With Texas being a special exception)

ColonelBlimp · 8 months ago

Norway is member of the European Economic Area, not of the European Union, together with Iceland and Liechtenstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area

ColonelBlimp commented on I tried every top email marketing tool sitebuilderreport.com/ema... · Posted by u/steve-benjamins

ColonelBlimp · a year ago

I thought that having your website/article on the frontpage of Hacker News was good news. I guess I was wrong.

ColonelBlimp commented on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

ColonelBlimp · a year ago

The best book I've ever read isn't the best book I've read but one that connects me with a particular moment: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov.

It was the start of summer school holidays back in the late 1980s, in my teenage years. I went to my local library and, because I didn't know what I wanted to read, I decided to pick one book blindly from the fiction section. I didn't know what book I had borrowed until I got home. I had never heard about Bulgakov or that particular novel. I had no easy way to know who that writer was or if the book was good or not. I was tempted to return it. But I didn't.

I read the book over several weeks of a particularly boring (and lonely) summer. I enjoyed reading it although I didn't love it. Looking back, I suppose that book gave me something I needed in a completely random way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita

ColonelBlimp commented on Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? · Posted by u/MrsPeaches

camjw · a year ago

"That part of the world" - christ mate its just a military base

ColonelBlimp · a year ago

The fact that, as you say, "it's just a military base" is the consequence of the forced eviction of the local population (around 1,500 people) in 1968 by the US and the UK.

ColonelBlimp commented on US Bans Kaspersky Software wired.com/story/us-bans-k... · Posted by u/Anon84

lostmsu · 2 years ago

> Why do you think so?

For starters US hasn't razed any cities lately to later claim them as their own.

ColonelBlimp · 2 years ago

“Lately”.

ColonelBlimp commented on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus

KptMarchewa · 2 years ago

Wouldn't be that Nashville? IDK that much about Taylor Swift, but that's the only city that comes in mind.

ColonelBlimp · 2 years ago

Lucky you. Search for Travis Kelce unless you prefer to keep your exposure to useless information under control.

ColonelBlimp commented on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 lwn.net/SubscriberLink/96... · Posted by u/jrepinc

wkat4242 · 2 years ago

Yet it's horrible to use and really wasteful. Huge window handles that make no sense on a desktop without touch, unnecessary extra clicks by hiding things in hamburger menus. Again something handy on a mobile, not a desktop. Almost no customisation.

It might satisfy hipster designers but not users.

ColonelBlimp · 2 years ago

I’m a happy Gnome user.

ColonelBlimp commented on Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/mikece

erinnh · 2 years ago

It’s an ok way to do it. And I’ve been subscribed (but not using it) for 2 years.

But until Firefox Relay supports custom domains, I am of the opinion that it’s not ideal.

ColonelBlimp · 2 years ago

With providers like Addy and SimpleLogin it is possible to use your own domain.

> https://addy.io/ > https://simplelogin.io/

ColonelBlimp commented on Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/mfsch

arzig · 2 years ago

The Firefox deb in the repos redirected and did a snap install or some weirdness at least at some point.

ColonelBlimp · 2 years ago

Flatpaks are a perfectly functional option https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox

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