sparr

joined 2 years ago
[–] sparr 8 points 7 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 7 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 7 months ago

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

[–] sparr 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] sparr 66 points 7 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 8 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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