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piger 4 months ago | link | on: It’s Time to Retire “RTFM”

Thinking that people are your personal google is even less “compassionate” tho; often I’ve seen this “either you have the exact answer I need or I don’t care about what you’re saying” attitude. Even if you’re trying to actually explain things instead of giving a crude answer.

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piger 4 months ago | link | on: The 90 Minute Scheme to C compiler

the recording of the presentation is also available on youtube: part 1 and part 2.

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ptman 5 months ago | link | on: Encrypted cloud backups with Duplicity and GPG

I’m mostly using borg for backups, but still use duplicity where I want the backup source to only be capable of encrypting new backups and not decrypting old ones. Is there another backup system, nicer than duplicity, that allows you to make backups using only the public part of a keypair?
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  comzeradd 5 months ago | link
  
  Duplicity can also use your public key. Instead of providing a passphrase you can use the --encrypt-key flag to provide your key’s fingerprint.
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    ptman 5 months ago | link
    
    Exactly, that’s why I’m still using it. But is there a nicer alternative?
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      piger 5 months ago | link
      
      Not sure if it’s nicer, but tarsnap does it and hasn’t been mentioned so far
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        dbp 5 months ago | link
        
        While tarsnap is really cool, the pricing makes it sort of in a different category (i.e., it’s good for backing up important stuff, whereas duplicity, restic, borg, duplicacy, etc, can be affordable to backup everything).

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cmm 1 year ago | link | on: Emacs Themes

I personally use zenburn (Screenshot)
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  pab 1 year ago | link
  
  I don’t understand the popularity of Zenburn; it is really hard to see for me. Does anyone else experience this?
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    cvoxel 1 year ago | link
    
    I have a strong preference for zenburn, but in spite of regularly searching for replacement themes, my eyes seem to find zenburn the most pleasant. I have not been able to determine why.
    
    I would also be interested if anyone were to come up with a plausible hypothesis. (at least solarized has some sort of perceptual story to it :)
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      weaksauce 1 year ago | link
      
      zenburn is pretty nice, though, somewhat muted. Monokai is a clean and readable theme if you like it a little bit less muted.
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    feoh 1 year ago | link
    
    That’s the whole point of themes. Everybody can get what they want/need. Zenburn is totally unusable for me - I need a super high contrast theme.
    
    I like the Deeper Blue Theme which I find to have good contrast and high readability for my crappy vision :)
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      piger 1 year ago | link
      
      After some years I found myself preferring light themes and at the moment I’m settled with spacemacs-light (which works even if you don’t use spacemacs).
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    felixc 1 year ago | link
    
    I really like it, but agree that it’s too washed out — so I just shift the background colours down a notch to a darker version with more contrast. Specifically, in Emacs:
    
    (use-package zenburn-theme :init (defvar zenburn-override-colors-alist '(("zenburn-bg-2" . "#000000") ("zenburn-bg-1" . "#101010") ("zenburn-bg-05" . "#282828") ("zenburn-bg" . "#2F2F2F") ("zenburn-bg+05" . "#383838") ("zenburn-bg+1" . "#3F3F3F") ("zenburn-bg+2" . "#4F4F4F") ("zenburn-bg+3" . "#5F5F5F"))) :config (load-theme 'zenburn t))