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mariusmg··on Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
>you're basically under constant probing

So many chinese and russians IPs...

mariusmg··on How I Built LoginWithHN
Does HN has OpenID Connect support to integrate from another website ?
mariusmg··on React Native for Windows is helping Settings improve more quickly
>now ADO.NET

Now ?!!! ADO.NET is 20 years old already, it appeared in .NET Framework 1.0

mariusmg··on Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)
>it being the better browser

It still is :)

mariusmg··on Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
Very cool, way better than JS frameworks comparations :)
mariusmg··on Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks
DOS Navigator baby !!!
mariusmg··on Windows Subsystem for Android
I think they are just following the naming convention started (a long time ago) with "Windows Services for UNIX".
mariusmg··on The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward
>Minimalism is about getting out of people's way.

Nothing says minimalism as shoving a 80 pixels dock in people's face. :)) Here is current taskbar https://i.imgur.com/GkAfOMx.png , this is minimalist.

mariusmg··on OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog
I enjoyed both Crash 4 and Psychonauts 2 . Genre is not as popular as the PS2 days but is not dead yet.
mariusmg··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
>Do players really prefer the current AAA space right now though?

God of War, a 4 years old PS4 title, was just released on PC and sold very well. That should tell you everything you need to know...

mariusmg··on Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
> I really want System76 to succeed

Succeed at what ? Re-implementing Gnome in Rust ?

mariusmg··on Elementary OS 6.1
> I really miss CrunchBang Linux.

There's a name i haven't heard in a while :) Look up Archcraft, the OpenBox variant might scratch the same itch as CBL.

mariusmg··on Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
No chance of that, everything they do is in Java...
mariusmg··on Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
winget upgrade --all
mariusmg··on Windows Terminal Quake Mode
choco outdated
mariusmg··on Why we switched from Webpack to Vite
>Super excited about the future of JavaScript tooling ecosystem with more focus on efficiency and speed.

Well they can't get worse than now... 234mb for a friggin hello world app

mariusmg··on Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
>Shouldn't that be completely opaque to the user?

No necessarely, because app being written in Rust and Go is actually a feature for the user, it means the entire app is a single executable with a decent runtime performance.

mariusmg··on Please don't upgrade Docker without asking first
You have to support those LTS releases. Their solution is to update everyone to latest and only support that one.
mariusmg··on FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience
Funny thing is there was a .NET Framework "port" to FreeNSD a long time ago called Rotor...
mariusmg··on Mozilla plans to remove the Compact Density option from Firefox's Customize menu
I'm using it Mozilla, so move the option itself if you want to satisfy your UI designers but DO NOT entirely remove it.

This is how it looks with compact https://i.imgur.com/MXppXq2.png

mariusmg··on Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation
> I can't imagine how Windows devs who don't know Unix can get around easily. They seem to though.

It's simple, for filesystem operations most Windows people don't use CLI. I use Total Commander for example, which has tabs and bookmarks to quickly navigate around the filesystem.

mariusmg··on On navigating a large codebase
Turf Wars : Code Edition
mariusmg··on VideoLAN is 20 years old today
There is a MPC-HD fork which is getting updated https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc
mariusmg··on Italy consumer association sues Apple for planned iPhone obsolescence
My phone runs Android 4, which was probably supported for ~ 2 years. This title makes me laugh ...
mariusmg··on Man found 'living in airport for three months' over Covid fears
:))

For anyone missing this reference, see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362227/

Good movie, check it out.

mariusmg··on How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
I've tried a Servo nightly build last week. After 20s from starting it, the browser window rendered only black and nothing was working anymore.

Wish them all the best but i'm not holding my breath it will be PROD ready anytime soon. The bar to entry in the browser space is simply too high now....

mariusmg··on Medo: A modern UHD 4K open source Media editor for Haiku OS in less than 1.44 Mb
You're just bragging about your hardware :))

But seriously, it's great it works fine on bare metal in so many configurations.

mariusmg··on Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.
Well, consistency in itself is a good rule to follow. The problem is , if a bad decision was made at the beginning of the project, maintaining consistency despite that is madness.
mariusmg··on Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
He means the PC release of Arkham Knight.
mariusmg··on .NET 5.0
Nope, since this .NET 5 is NOT a replacemnt for .Net Framework 4.8
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