sparr

joined 2 years ago
[–] sparr 8 points 5 months ago

Finding women for whom my appearance isn't a dealbreaker. I have moderate to serious rosacea and acne on my face. That filters out 90%+ of women before we even speak to each other.

[–] sparr 2 points 6 months ago

That name is decades old. XDG stands for "Cross Desktop Group".

A "pure" X environment (e.g. startx xterm) also doesn't define those variables, but many desktop environments do, just like many shell configurations do.

[–] sparr 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks, I hadn't heard of that. Time to add a few hundred lines to my dotfiles :)

[–] sparr 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What makes you think XDG doesn't apply to non GUI apps?

[–] sparr 66 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Instant messaging.

20 years ago, there were half a dozen competing major platforms (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, etc), like today.

The difference is that you had your choice of half a dozen clients that could each talk to ALL of the platforms. Adium, Trillian, Kopete, etc.

Today's kids have no idea what we lost to the god of profit.

[–] sparr 5 points 6 months ago

If you're at least a 4/10 woman or an 8/10 man, they are pretty effective. For the rest of us, not so much.

[–] sparr 10 points 8 months ago

It depends on what sort of games you play. Some games / genres / publishers are much worse about this than others.

[–] sparr 112 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Article author seems to have completely fabricated the "10 more". There are no quotes from anyone even hinting at more whistleblowers existing, let alone ten more.

[–] sparr 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You'd see posts in a community/group/etc based on your trust of the community, unless you've explicitly de-trusted the poster or you trust someone who de-trusts them (and you haven't broken that chain).

[–] sparr 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As a long time Pandora user... I never want to select individual songs. I want stations, vibes, playlists, etc.

[–] sparr 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

2-3 minutes on what kind of internet connection? How long at 10Mbps?

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