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From HN comments: "Gemini sites load so fast, it's a little crazy". Not at all, what's crazy is that we've come to accept as normal that downloading O(1000) words of text that we actually care about reading takes long enough to notice and sometimes might make your laptop fan spin up a little - in 2020!

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Nice to see NixNet's Searx instance up and running! Thanks @amolith 😄

searx.nixnet.services

Donate to help keep their services online: nixnet.services/support/?proje

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Announcing the SourceHut project hub 🎉

sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-

I don't usually explicitly ask for shares, but this is a big deal for SourceHut - the project hub solves one of our major goals for the alpha. Please help spread the word ❤️

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@amolith Following the "Learn about the 1.0 Release" link on their homepage, the even more interesting part is Open VSX ( github.com/eclipse/openvsx ) as an alternative to the walled-garden Visual Studio Marketplace.

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@chmod777 I have VPS servers with both Digital Ocean and with Linode. I voted for the former, since I have had that VPS for longer.

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

-- Benjamin Franklin

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With the files-from-mail app, you can set up an email address so that all attachments sent to it are stored in your #nextcloud for easy access! apps.nextcloud.com/apps/files_

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I hear the "you shouldn't have to learn how your engine works just to drive a car" argument often used to counter my insistence on learning git's internals to understand its externals.

My response: git is a tool for professionals. Racecar drivers should definitely understand how engines work. Amateur users of version control systems are using the undo and redo buttons in a Google Document. Git is a professional tool and if you're a professional then you have a professional obligation to learn your tools properly.

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“It is highly disturbing that we still have to have to say this, but websites dealing with such sensitive topics should not track their users for marketing purposes. Your mental health is not and should never be for sale.”

privacyinternational.org/repor

I still think it is pretty inexcusable. A core bit of OS functionality should not be at the mercy of whether or not some backend service is up and running. The online piece(s) of it might go down, but the local search functionality should still work! There is no excuse for the whole search window to render as nothing more than a solid black rectangle.

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According to a Slashdot article that I just read, the problems with Windows Search have been resolved, with no need for everyone to edit their registries.

The problem was, in fact, Bing. For reasons only known to Microsoft, the Windows Search functionality apparently uses the Bing backend – even for doing local searches. There was a service outage today, which caused the frustrating black screen to appear.

kevin.thecorams.net/posts/2020

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Windows Search down for many

TL;DR: The issue is reportedly related to Bing, and the “fix” being suggested involves using RegEdit to disable Bing integration. Not for the faint of heart!

It's also pretty inexcusable . . .

kevin.thecorams.net/posts/2020

I really shouldn't laugh so much at someone else's misfortune or frustration. Still, as a 20+ year software developer, I have to wonder why anyone would have expected the plan to use a brand new “app” to count votes for the Iowa caucus to actually work out. It is never a good idea to make the first real-world use of a new application be something important and so publicly visible.

kevin.thecorams.net/posts/2020

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