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Both of my computers (laptop and pinephone) get their native applications through secure, vetted channels that have practically never let malware through (their distro’s package repos).

It seems weirldly like the Minecraft devs tried Minetest and kinda randomly picked a couple of features to copy. The article describes how the new worldgen’s verticality and caves are reminiscent of Minetest, but inventory clutter is also very much like the default Minetest Game (which also has pretty useless copper, albeit as one of too many tiers of tool material, going into the same recipes as stone, iron, gold, diamond, etc.).

I much prefer the Minetest game NodeCore, which is playable with 8 inventory slots (the small HUD bar is all you get, because the game shuns all modal UI except a hints system for figuring out crafting and other gameplay mechanics without using a guide to see whole recipes, which are considered spoilers) and makes the fancy terrain more navigable by letting you scale cliffs and even climb overhangs without placing or mining anything.

“Viral” is a term with a fairly pejorative emotional connotation and is not a very accurate way of describing copyleft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_license#Criticism_of_t...

Aye, growing up in a church that teaches teetotalism I heard people say that ① wine was less alcoholic back then becaue you had to ferment by leaving things out to gather yeast from the air and not from industrially produced active dry yeast powder, and ② what alcohol wine may have contained was then a necessary evil because of pathogens in water before the proliferation of treatment plants.

I'm curious how true ① is, and/or if lack of distillation made wine weaker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor#Distillation_of_wine makes it sound like the process might have been uncommon knowledge still in the process of refinement).

Don’t most other Christians (Trinitarians) believe Jesus is the God of the Old Testament, just also the (only) God, period?

(Also HN seems to have a fairly high tolerance for pedantry, so I hope nobody gets angry if I interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Mormon, is in fact, Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, the Restored Church. Mormon is not a religion unto himself, but rather another prophet of a fully restored Christian church made complete with the other apostles and prophets of the past and divinely inspired direction as continuously revealed by prophet Russel M. Nelson.

Many people have heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints today, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the nickname for members of Church which is widely used today is “Mormons,” and many of its users are unaware that they prefer to called members of the Church, of Jesus Christ.

There really is a Mormon, and members of the restored church believe his teachings, but they are just a part of the gospel doctrine they believe. Mormon compiled the Book of Mormon; another testament of Christ that complements, confirms, and clarifies the Old and New Testament. The Book of Mormon is the cornerstone of the religion, but arguably useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete religion. The Book of Mormon is normally studied in combination with the rest of the restored gospel, the whole system is basically Christ’s church with the fullness of the gospel revealed. All the so-called “Mormons” are really members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)

Fair enough, I’ve edited my comment (I haven’t used Brave besides ~2 hours of trial months ago — I won’t use any Chromium browser more than that when I can help it — but that’s no excuse to leave misinformation up). Still, those promotions are more in line with the ones that Firefox is filled with (Pocket, Google and Amazon search, etc.), not really the same type of thing as Google’s banners and youtube autoplay videos, and AIUI they only track the referral source (Brave) not the individual user (a defining distinction IMO).

I just installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... to automatically fix them, and I manually s/twitter.com/nitter.*/ on non-FF browsers.

> Business model wise, Brave is same thing as Google just at a smaller scale

> if Brave "wins" […] Still ads everywhere, just Brave gets to pick them

No, Google’s business model is gathering humanity’s largest hoard of data and monetizing that through targeted advertizing. Brave doesn’t show any of their most traditional ads unless the user explicitly opts in, and then it doesn’t come with comparable tracking.

> blame the law (DMCA), not those forced to abide by the law (Github)

What about those abusing [a misrepresentation of] the law (the RIAA) and the members who pay their dues (Microsoft)?

That sounds dangerous. Rewrite it in Rust to make it memory safe, blazing fast, configurable, and minimal with only 1092 dependencies.

https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs

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> Yet you emigrated (at some point) to the Netherlands,

unless born there

> which is even more crowded than the UK

at least for now (0.37% growth vs. 0.48).

How powerful and effective could that be without launching the lighter vehicle backwards with dangerous force?

If you leave macOS you can get much better frontends for WebKit, from the simple, rather Safari-like GNOME Web (AKA Epiphany) to the powerful Pentadactyl-like luakit.

Because you can already `shuf -n 1 /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx` (or mnames for male ones) or `vis-menu /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx >> momlikednames.list`, and `cat {mom,dad}likednames.list | sort | uniq -d` to find names both parents like.

`shuf /usr/share/dict/words` was how I picked my HN username.

I’m on GNU with X11, and my Caps Lock key is already mapped to Escape when tapped and Super when held, so I don’t have space for another Control unless I make holding Tab, Enter, \ or something be it.

Luakit, Pentadactyl, and I think nyxt (the only one I haven’t tried) all offer everything you describe, except that their IRC channels are pretty sleepy, some of luakit’s configuration requires you to edit ~/.config/luakit/rc.conf (a lua filen with all the power that provides, but simple enough to understand without knowing the language) and :restart (which preserves tabs and scroll positions, though not all JS state), and I don’t remember per domain/page JS toggles in Pentadactyl (though global JS toggle worked, and luakit’s per domain JS toggle is great and global toggle fine).

Anything Chromium based is virtually as bad as Chrome in terms of increasing the engine’s market share, making it the de facto standard and making the majority of web devs test their sites less or not at all on other engines (I appreciate you being an exceptional dev in that regard, but I’d appreciate more you doing your small part to influence all the other devs of the sites you use).

Discord. https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs#getting-help

Probably best to learn Emacs first, because as a lazy vi user trying to learn Emacs I've really struggled. I've given up on the Emacs tutorial multiple times, it hurts my fingers and I really only want to use Emacs with evil-mode, but there doesn't seem to be a tutorial for that use case. Evil-mode does come with its own evil-tutor, but it seems to be just a lightly edited vimtutor with very little Emacs-specific information.

(Not to mention that installing evil in vanilla Emacs requires too much hassle, including first manually adding melpa as a package repo — which drove me to spend a lot of time trying to make do with viper mode — and later choosing yet another package to be able to redo, unless you use the unreleased Emacs 28. That pain is probably my fault for giving up on Doom because its support chat requires a nonfree client, and for not trying spacemacs yet.)

> qb, where keyboard gets first class in the application

No need to contribute to the Chromium monopoly, luakit (what this comment’s sent from) and some other browsers (off the top of my head: nyxt and, to varying extents, Palemoon, lynx, and eww + evil-mode) offer the same thing.

There was/is Unix talk(1).

> You could actually search your history and carry it with you over the eons. It was lightweight, fairly unobtrusive and ad-free.

All of that is still true of the chat protocol that came before and still exists, IRC.

At least as of 2 years ago, you could go to chrome://extensions, click a "Dev Mode' toggle in the top right, and sideload a downloaded crx (I know from installing https://adnauseam.io/ every time I had to use a Chromebook, it’s banned from the webstore for adding obfuscatory privacy enhancements designed as research by Daniel C. Howe and Helen Nissenbaum to gorhill's great µBlock Origin).

Perhaps the fumes made her too drunk to leave? Is that possible?

I like 3× speed with subs and librubberband (automagically speeding faster through silence and slowing down on fast speech, automatically activated by mpv's librubberband-helper plugin).

After reading the lies and cover-ups the NIAAA, NIH, etc. were involved in relating to the alcohol study, adding more bureaucrats to enforce new bans is about the last thing I'd try to help.

> Robert Lustig videos on Youtube are a great way to start learning about this.

Or off YT:

https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/feioCyaQEZ1ogHK1oNJM4K

> Thus, the people taking fiber out of and putting sugar into everything are the biggest current mass killers. Stringing them up may be an over-reaction. Maybe convicting them would be, too? Anyway stopping them seems like a good idea. Think about them next time the news is full of somebody killing a dozen people. Is a dozen bad, but a million A-OK?

IMO simply not compelling millions of people to pay them for it would be a good start. Defund all the agencies that promote poison, whether by subsidizing corn syrup, villianizing natural saturated fats to sell trans fats and sugar, or conspiring with drug companies and corrupt researchers to sell addictive substances (as discussed this week: https://dynomight.net/alcohol-trial/).

> Remember, you made this comment on server that was provided to you for free without the need of ad support.

HN has ads, just sneaky ones that blend in with user-submitted links on the front page ($YCStartup is Hiring, Launch HNs. But on the positive side, they don't seem to rely on tracking to target any narrower audience than the whole HN userbase).

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#percei...

> The transaction appeared to complete instantly.

I recently made a donation from a new bank account that took ~20-30 hours to finish processing. Meanwhile Monero trasactions have the 10-15 blocks needed for irreversibility mined in ~20-30 minutes, and the first block in ~2.

> Another thing I feel would be a flaw is the inability to increase and decrease the money supply - something central banks often do with fiat money to stimulate the economy.

Preventing that type of manipulation might actually be the motivation for Bitcoin's creation. Satoshi embedded the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" into the first coinbase in the blockchain¹. Inflation is a tax on savings that similarly benefits the money manipulators at the expense of common people with less control of the currency.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Creation