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maverick74··on The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum (2017)
aaaaahhhhhhhh the GOOOOD OLD TIMES!!!

how i miss them!!!

No cellphones, no internet...

Hey Hey 16K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8UfQn3BEg

maverick74··on Firefox plans to remove large URL bar
I would - somehow... - integrate the URL bar (and a few buttons) into the Tabs themselves (not the tab strip, but into the tab itself) and get rid of yet another toolbar.

i would also move bookmarks bar above the tabs...

maverick74··on The power of imagination, and other parenting lessons from Calvin and Hobbes
Yeah, that's one of the things that made me like the guy A LOT!!!

He didn't milk the cow!

He is a TRUE ARTIST!!!

maverick74··on The power of imagination, and other parenting lessons from Calvin and Hobbes
Or that Don Rosa is not a Semi-God among men...

( Believing Bill Watterson is the God-King, naturally ahahah)

maverick74··on The power of imagination, and other parenting lessons from Calvin and Hobbes
There are just a few Writers that mean anything to me in the comics world. But I'd put Bill Watterson along with Don Rosa and Carl Barks right on the first place. (yeah, real tight and cozy!)

(on a completely different tone, and out of curiosity, James O'Barr would be in a close second place with The Crow... I leave the third place to Allan Moore or any other anyone sees more fit)

maverick74··on Ask HN: Is Minix dead? No commits since 2018
Genode running on top of seL4 seems very promising!!!

But there's still no minimal decent desktop (e.g.: lxqt)

maverick74··on Ask HN: Is Minix dead? No commits since 2018
Zircon... Another Google-product... No thanks!

What's your opinion on Genode (on seL4)?

(redox-os seems to be heading the way of the dodo as well...)

maverick74··on Can a Computer Run on RAM?
ZX Spectrum, anyone?
maverick74··on It's time to port your extension to Firefox
I use it daily on Linux for years now!

I've used it under openSUSE (either Leap or Tumbleweed), under Lubuntu, under kubuntu, and now under KDE Neon and I never had any issue with it!

Naturally, there are lots of people that can't say the same! But my experience has been mostly a breeze :)

There are some decisions I don't agree with... But that's life...

maverick74··on It's time to port your extension to Firefox
I wish more people would talk about the goods of Firefox!!!

It's becoming so un-loved and so neglected by users (and specially developers!) this days that I fear that tomorrow there won't be an alternative to chrome at all :(.

Those who lived the Internet Explorer 6 should be the ones to rise up first.

But everyone seems to have forget how bad it was and how hard it was to destroy that monopoly.

Developers should be the first to rise for Mozilla.

I think we own Firefox the good things we still have on the web. They fought for standards, for example...

Please, create a movement or something... Make noise... But don't neglect Firefox.

We need alternatives and we all are responsible for allowing projects like Firefox to exist (by using them)...

It's very sad to be ungrateful!!!

Everyone should take clues on the post from the OP...

maverick74··on ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy
Yes, i already knew about the Pi0...

I'm kind of close to this project.

There's two things:

1. Pi0 is not powerful enough to run a decent OS (say lubuntu, for example) and let's not even talk about starting a LibreOffice instance or a normal web browser.

2.Even if Pi0 was powerful enough, that thing works as just an accelerator for the ZXOS... it does not allow one to start another OS that allows one to do regular work.

It's a terrible shame, if you ask me.

If developers had a bit more vision on their very first release, ZX Next could now be the Pi 400...

maverick74··on ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy
Now...

If only we had the chance of using is as a normal computer...

Take Raspberry Pi 400 - Now, that was what i was expecting from a today ZX Spectrum!!!

If only we could connect the Pi 4 to it and be able to use it as a "normal" computer...

with the Pi4 connected we could have a kind of dual-boot where we could choose to boot the ZXOS or the Linux Distro used with the Pi4.

We could have a ZX Spectrum that could be useful for something else than gaming...

maverick74··on WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
Bug report:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690

maverick74··on WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
Bug report:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690

maverick74··on WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
KDE Plasma also had this many years ago (before Windows' Sets), but they ended up removing it in Plasma 5.

(there is a bug report about it: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690

)

maverick74··on Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access
there is also Briar ( briarproject.org )

;)

maverick74··on Firefox Mobile force open sites in new tab from bookmakrs list / top sites list
It's a very very very annoying behaviour!!!
maverick74··on EU approves sales of first artificial heart
Awesome!!!
maverick74··on Signal AppImage for Linux
It will also be interesting to see the p2p Matrix version, since they also use the same encryption tech as signal (it's equally private) and won't rely on centralized server.
maverick74··on Signal AppImage for Linux
For reference, what whatatita is talking about is at:

https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/releases

;)

maverick74··on Ask HN: Firefox cannot display PDFs correctly?
i already saw those warnings a few times also, but i never noticed any difference.

Can you provide any examples?

i always thought that probably they're just being cautions...

There is one thing they don't have enabled by default (at least it wasn't the last time i checked), however, that may also bring that warning up: PDF Forms.

You can enable them in about:config searching for pdfjs.renderInteractiveForms and setting it to true (but they probably have a reason not to).

This will enable you to fill pdf forms directly in the browser.

PDF.js is actually a very good tool. It's actually (again, the last time i checked) more powerful than Chromes's PDFium

maverick74··on Ask HN: What is the best way to build a multi-platform desktop app?
How about Qt: https://www.qt.io/
maverick74··on What is the best programming dad joke?
wait, how do i get a "minus 1" point? I didn't even thought that was possible!!! ahahaha

Was that such a bad joke?! ahahahahah :)

maverick74··on What is the best programming dad joke?
Yes, your right on that!!! I forgot "the desktop". I would edit it, but then your comment wouldn't make sense.

BTW, just to clarify, I use Linux as my main desktop everyday and I do recommend it to everyone, but Linux as mainstream desktop is still a (bad) joke. Lol

maverick74··on What is the best programming dad joke?
Wait, I've got the ultimate programming dad joke (ok... Maybe this qualifies more as fake news, but still funny):

"Programmers just release a stable version of GNU's the Hurd!"

Now, let's see who votes for this joke. Ah ah ah ah

maverick74··on What is the best programming dad joke?
Next year will be the year of Linux!
maverick74··on Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
WTF does this has to do with anything?!

The guy built a software everyone uses! You don't agree with what he believes in? So what?! As long as you are not "forced" to believe or do something you don't agree with i don't understand your complain!!!

He as his freedom, you have yours! Just because you like yellow it does not mean everyone as to like it as well.

Thank the guy, and if you don't agree with him appoint a debate with him thru some chat.......

maverick74··on What private search engine do you use? Why?
I use:

https://infinitysearch.co

It's Private and it's open-source! also, it's a search engine (not meta-search-engine, even if they retrieve results from others they have their own crawler and index)

maverick74··on Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy
WT...?! How the did I do that?!?!

I mean: I've developed websites... What the was in my head?!

LOL

THANKS for not letting me look like a dumb for too much long

maverick74··on Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy
I have a better one:

https://infinitySearch.Co

It's Open-source, it's a search engine (they have their own crawler and their own index) and it's private!!!

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