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New comment by everybodyknows in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

everybodyknows — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:17:00 +0000

2023.

"Antarctica" – Fiction; the Yale Review

everybodyknows — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:03:38 +0000

Article URL: https://yalereview.org/article/jen-silverman-antarctica

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198693

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by everybodyknows in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

everybodyknows — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:42:57 +0000

How does enforcement work? The article does not say.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

everybodyknows — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:57:19 +0000

HTML editions from the two sites contrast interestingly:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1513/pg1513-images.html

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-shakespeare/romeo-...

Each has its particular advantages relative to the other ...

New comment by everybodyknows in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

everybodyknows — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:38:32 +0000

You can contribute to Standard Ebooks by finding OCR errors, then pushing your fixes to https://github.com/standardebooks

New comment by everybodyknows in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

everybodyknows — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:25:44 +0000

Better machining on a Phillips tip really does help.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

everybodyknows — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:58:38 +0000

> Festool CT ... vacuum

I use one of these for household floors: quiet, powerful, rolls easily.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

everybodyknows — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:06:10 +0000

The only full colons are in the headings, and there are no semicolons whatsoever. For embedding a large volume of factual info in prose, these are irreplaceable.

New comment by everybodyknows in "We accidentally recreated old Facebook"

everybodyknows — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:51:00 +0000

Did Slashdot reveal your identity to those whom you had "foe'd"? That's where the real-life trouble can start.

New comment by everybodyknows in "// Bookmarks: Firefox Bookmark Manager"

everybodyknows — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:04:03 +0000

> The extension adds a tagging system on top of Firefox's bookmark data

But FF already has its own tagging system. How are the two coordinated?

Ask HN: Cryptic refusals of credit cards with Firefox?

everybodyknows — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:09:14 +0000

On Ubuntu 24 Firefox, trying to buy a ~$1500 item from major vendors new to me gets failures at various points in the transaction. At last reaching an actual human on phone support, was told FF is the problem.

Anyone else seeing this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016156

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by everybodyknows in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

everybodyknows — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:52:25 +0000

https://github.com/TheoKVA/ascii-box-editor

A visual editor of UTF-8 BOX DRAWING characters, contrary to "ascii" in the name.

No server, no installation: browser-side Javascript only.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Ubuntu 26.04"

everybodyknows — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:31:38 +0000

Is there a CLI way to dump/restore those settings?

New comment by everybodyknows in "Ubuntu 26.04"

everybodyknows — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:19:11 +0000

Gtk-3

New comment by everybodyknows in "Ubuntu 26.04"

everybodyknows — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:12:51 +0000

> worst Canonicalisms

Do the Mint team treat fixing the other half of the problem, the GNOMEisms, as out-of-scope?

Asking because I maintain my own pile of gsettings and .gtkrc tweaks as mitigations yet pain points remain, apparently unfixable outside the source code.