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24 votes
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This Austrian website exposes the truth about soaring food prices
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Software development jobs for people that want to have a life outside of work
Hey there! Back when the pandemic was in full swing, I stumbled upon a comment that shared a link to a website with a title quite like this post. I can't quite recall if I saw the comment on...
Hey there! Back when the pandemic was in full swing, I stumbled upon a comment that shared a link to a website with a title quite like this post. I can't quite recall if I saw the comment on Reddit, the orange site, or even here. The site was quite basic, and claimed to have a list of jobs from companies that understood that its workers would like to have a life outside of work
The job market has changed a lot since the pandemic, but if any of you awesome folks happen to know where I can find a good part-time software development job, I'd be seriously grateful.
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The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed the way we use language
38 votes -
We were wrong about the GPLs
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The unreasonable effectiveness of plain text
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Ardour 8.0 is released - a free and open source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application
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How can I get my engineers to accept being on call?
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Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak
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Sovereign workspace openDesk: German Ministry of the Interior provides answers
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Jellyfin - A Call for Developers
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Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro to get seven years of software updates
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Yes, you can measure software developer productivity
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The epistemology of software quality – Studies show that human factors most influence the quality of our work. So why do we put so much stake in technical solutions?
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Cracking the chaos - Tips on reading and debugging other programmers' code
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In need of a side-by-side image viewer that runs through directories
I've taken on the monumental task of scanning my family photo albums in and saving them to a NAS (plus cloud, of course). 1000+ photos in, and I had the great idea of also banging through the...
I've taken on the monumental task of scanning my family photo albums in and saving them to a NAS (plus cloud, of course). 1000+ photos in, and I had the great idea of also banging through the images with AI to clean them. Anyone who plays with AI knows it can be a little hit-and-miss. The tool of choice was GFPGAN and in some images it cleaned them lovely, others, not so much.
To help sort this out I'm looking for a side-by-side image viewer, similar to something simple like Gwenview, that allows me to look at the files and simply pick the better image. I'm not sure this software even exists after the exhaustive time I've been looking for it. I'm on Linux, so that may be the hindrance here. Brownie points if I can pick the better image, and it copies the file to a new folder to allow building out a mixed bunch of files from the two source folders.
Absolute worst case, I'm willing to put some money in a pot for someone to develop this very needed tool. Best case, if the software doesn't exist and they build it for timasomo.
Note: Tried XNView but it won't compare across folders.
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Automated translation programs cause problems with US asylum cases, make 'insane' mistakes
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Android 14 adds native support for using smartphones as a webcams
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Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads
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MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency
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Today I learned this weird Windows keyboard shortcut opens LinkedIn
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Should I use third party firewall or antivirus on Windows (or elsewhere)? Which one?
It's seems to have been common sense for a while now that Windows has good-enough security software that you don't need 3rd party tools but is it actually the case now? Is there anything to lose...
It's seems to have been common sense for a while now that Windows has good-enough security software that you don't need 3rd party tools but is it actually the case now? Is there anything to lose or gain from trusting 3rd party with this stuff?
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Chromebooks will get updates for ten years
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Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?
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Lucid dreamers transmit musical melodies from dreams to reality in real-time in groundbreaking study
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A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation
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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
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Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster
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First look at AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3
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My secret to dating in San Francisco is a spreadsheet
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Pyramid schemes are illegal. MLMs are not. What about the tech that powers them?
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NVIDIA debuts AI-enhanced real-time ray tracing for games and apps with new DLSS 3.5
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Tips for buying + reading ebooks that are synced without using kindle/play books?
Hey! I’ve been trying lately to get rid of big platforms from my life. One part of it is that I usually buy ebooks/audiobooks from apple, Amazon or google, however I’m then also forced to use...
Hey! I’ve been trying lately to get rid of big platforms from my life. One part of it is that I usually buy ebooks/audiobooks from apple, Amazon or google, however I’m then also forced to use their reading app, which is a vendor lock-in I’m not comfortable with.
I know there are plenty of ebook readers out there, but I’m trying to find
- A store where I can buy ebooks that can be opened in a ebook reader of my choice.
- A way to then sync my progress between phone and laptop. I have nextcloud setup, so if I can make use of that then it’s perfect.
Anyone here got any tips?
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darken (developer of SD Maid for Android) has had his developer account terminated after twelve years for "stalkerware policy" on Google Play despite having no actual stalking tools in the app
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Windows Secure Time Seeding sometimes resets clocks months or years off the correct time
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Backward compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
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The XMPP Newsletter June & July 2023
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Many temptations of an open-source browser extension developer
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Best word processor for Ubuntu?
Hey folks, looking for recommendations. What's your go to word processor on Ubuntu? (EDIT: For regular writing, not a text editor for coding.) I haven't been the biggest fan of Libre office tbh...
Hey folks, looking for recommendations. What's your go to word processor on Ubuntu? (EDIT: For regular writing, not a text editor for coding.) I haven't been the biggest fan of Libre office tbh (please don't hate me...) There were just several bugs in Writer that made it unusable for me. I'm curious about alternatives. I read that WPS office is on ubuntu, but I've always found it to run kind of slow (however, my experience was on Windows.).
I don't need a lot of fancy utilities, but would enjoy something a little more beautiful than notepad++ :) My biggest concern is just that it's a stable software. I'm OK with glitches or UI bugs, just nothing that's going to crash and burn and corrupt my work. (I mention this because there are several newer word processors made by single developers, and I'm a little weary to use them because I don't genuinely know how stable the software is.) I'm also not a fan of software that saves in some special format where you rely on that software to open it (or have to go through hoops to convert it.)
Any recommends?
EDIT: I'm new to Ubuntu, in case it makes a difference.
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Any offline bookmark managers (or similar software) you'd recommend? (simple and open source preferred!)
I have way too many bookmarks. Currently, I use firefox's bookmark manager to categorize my bookmarks within folders, and to assign tags. However, I'm looking for alternate solutions. I am not a...
I have way too many bookmarks. Currently, I use firefox's bookmark manager to categorize my bookmarks within folders, and to assign tags. However, I'm looking for alternate solutions. I am not a fan of online services where you need an account, personally. Curious if anyone knows of any offline software to store your bookmarks, that you have found useful?
Tbh I was thinking of just throwing together some web page that I can just host myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. That said, I hate depending on more and more software, as none of this stuff lasts forever.
I'm open to other software that could be used for this purpose, not just something devoted to storing bookmarks. Ideally something that is simple, and just allows you to visually categorize into folders. Tags are a huge plus.
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Recommendations for self-hosted spreadsheet software (such as Grist or Ethercalc)
two promising options I found from some quick googling were Grist and EtherCalc of the two, Grist looks more compelling (I like the tech stack of Python+SQLite more than JS+Redis) but I'm open to...
two promising options I found from some quick googling were Grist and EtherCalc
of the two, Grist looks more compelling (I like the tech stack of Python+SQLite more than JS+Redis) but I'm open to any other suggestions as well.
the specific use case I have in mind to start out with is planning ratios for a Factorio megabase (sort of a local, homegrown version of tools like the Kirk McDonald calculator). if that works out well I'd also like to play around with doing household budgeting and finances with it.
if it matters: I'd be running this on Linux (NixOS); on an x86 box with plenty of headroom so I don't have any particular resource constraints; and I have an existing Postgres database server if that's an option for the backend
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The mind-blowing machines that stamp millions of metal parts
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The cloud is a prison. Can the local-first software movement set us free?
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Nostalgia -- what programs do you miss?
What are those programs that you used back in the day (or even recently!) that you look back on fondly and think about how they once were-- or worse, programs that seemed to have just up and...
What are those programs that you used back in the day (or even recently!) that you look back on fondly and think about how they once were-- or worse, programs that seemed to have just up and disappeared?
What made me think of this question, for me, was Opera. It had everything: browsing, RSS, and torrenting all in one browser. However, a lot of sites loved to break in it since it was the least supported and I eventually moved to Firefox (then Chrome, then Firefox...). Looking at the browser now-- and unsure if I'm just picky or its a case of enshittification, or both-- I'm just "meh."
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Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti's software undetected for at least three months, US and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies warn
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Emacs 29.1 released
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Windows could become cloud based in the future
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Textual Paint a TUI image editor inspired by MS Paint
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C64 OS: A modern(ish) operating system for the Commodore 64
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What text comparison software do you use?
I've only had exposure to Beyond Compare and would like your opinion/suggestions on what's good. mostly, I use it to compare two different versions of similar csv and potentially to merge them....
I've only had exposure to Beyond Compare and would like your opinion/suggestions on what's good.
mostly, I use it to compare two different versions of similar csv and potentially to merge them. Next use case is to compare two versions of simple scripts to see what's been updated.
Command line tools are a little too much for me, but if it seem to be very important to learn I supposed I could be encouraged to do so.
11 votes