This site is blocked at my workplace as well. A message from FortiGate says: "Category: Illegal or Unethical"
Readit Newstorh commented on Sci-Hub has been blocked in India sci-hub.se/sci-hub-blocke... · Posted by u/the-mitr
>What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong. But what's the foundation of that brand? One that's more globally recognized than practically anything else.
I genuinely and sincerely wish that America can get past this level of mediocre sycophantic Idiocracy. What a pathetic administration that only wants to hear good news for their bad work.
If I had to make a list of global brands, Trump would not make it. I do not think about it as a brand. And when I hear the name I get a bad feeling.
> To be honest, this is part of why TVs can be offered for so cheap these days
I spent $3,000 on a Samsung Smart TV -- and all I got were ads and unwanted content - https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/i-s...
It'll be a cold day in hell when I believe corporate lies that they're doing all of this for my benefit. Especially when they neither clearly disclose all the ads and spying before purchase, nor offer an option without it at any price.
I bought a Philips many years ago, and it was perfect until an update suddenly gave me a lot of crap (ads) on the home screen.
Ironically they also provided a button where I could "adjust what you see on the home screen", but it turned out I could only add more crap. Not take anything away.
It's annoying, because it is not the same product I bought. It's worse.
Any Norwegians here to relate how this all feels in practice?
Norwegian here. While I do not have an electic car myself (yet), I would more or less agree that roughly half of the cars I see on the road (in my area) are electric.
There are a lot of Teslas (easy to spot), but also cars like Volkswagen Golf where you basically can't see the difference unless you either check the registration number (most of the electical cars have a plate that begins with EB, EC, EE, EV, ...) or notice that there is no air intake in the front grill.
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torh commented on My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage blog.jgc.org/2024/01/my-d... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
Wonder how long Windows 7 will last for him. I have Windows 8.1 at home (not my daily driver, for that I use Linux), and Google Chrome is no longer updated. Nor is much else. But it works for my tasks, which is Lightroom (the last one that was not subscription I guess).
I like the gist and spirit of this, of course, but isn’t this basically impossible in today’s day and age? For instance, if I want to host a small web server running in my closet to serve cat memes to a small number of users, I still am beholden to my ISP who 1) must allow me to host a web server in its TOS and 2) provide me a static address.
I don’t really see any way to get around corporations on the internet, unless I’m missing something.
1) Haven't really checked, but...
2) I have a fixed IPv4 address, and a dynamic IPv6. So far the latter also seems to be fairly stable, and I host my webpages on both IPv4 and IPv6 these days.
My server is a ThinkPad X240 with VMware ESXi which in turn host Ubuntu for SSH, Web, etc... And a Pi-hole VM just to block the "wost" of the internet.
torh commented on Ptext: A Nano-like text editor built with pure C github.com/proh14/ptext... · Posted by u/asicsp
Most of that is probably attributable to being based on Kilo: https://github.com/antirez/kilo - a tiny text editor written by antirez who notably also created Redis. Antirez has a bunch of really interesting side projects if you dig into their github repo.
I like the extensive way Antirez has commented the data structures (and the rest of the codebase), something that was missing in the ptext code.
I recently installed KDE and I'm surprised how good it is. It's miles ahead of both Windows and Gnome. I mean, it's crazy good.
Like the small things: when I plug my laptop into the docking, the various applications are moved to the correct external monitor. That never happens on Windows.