Beto Dealmeida makes music as a one-person band called The Fishermen & the Priestess.
They/he
Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book for a limited period.
So sad that we solved the problem of knowledge scarcity, and because of greed we need to add it back artificially.
There’s was a scanner app that I loved, for Android. Turned into a subscription, even though most people use it less than once a month and even though the app was basically complete and never got updates.
I worked for a startup that had as main investor a company called InterTrust. Our office was inside their building.
InterTrust was a patent portfolio that belonged to Sony and Philips. All they did was sue people. One day they were able to sue Apple on some stupid patent, and there was much rejoicing at the office.
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^ this is a Venn Diagram showing people who would fall for that scam, and people who would be able to figure out how to buy Bitcoin if their lives depended on it.
It depends on what you mean by better. Faster? More user friendly? More versatile?
ffmpeg is written by Fabrice Bellard, who’s one of the most underrated programmers in the world (he also wrote QEMU). It’s probably the best tool out there, still actively maintained, and most commercial apps are probably using it under the hood for any kind of conversion.
I’ve been using Alacritty for a while. It’s fast and does everything I need.
I don’t think AI would get the mirror reflection right?
Fun fact: if you search for copyrighted material in Google and they show that a link was removed due to a DMCA takedown, you can click on the DMCA link to see the original request, which includes the original URL, which is usually still up.
I did this Wednesday for my instance. Migrating the existing content took some downtime, but now everything is running great. Thanks for the tip!
To demonstrate the OS’s capability and relatively small size, in the late 1990s QNX released a demo image that included the POSIX-compliant QNX 4 OS, a full graphical user interface, graphical text editor, TCP/IP networking, web browser and web server that all fit on a bootable 1.44 MB floppy disk for the 386 PC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
I use qutebrowser, it’s a keyboard driven browser that uses QtWebEngine (based on Chromium).