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Well, the D.E. is pretty much an "unbranded Firefox", so the usual ways to deny Firefox's automatic upgrades will probably work here too.
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There is a Firefox Developer Edition without the addon signing enforcement available. We reviewers were told to use that one in the future. Sigh.
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux
« Last post by Tuxman on January 10, 2016, 03:08 PM »
Journalist Dan Gilmor (...) moved to Linux.

Wow! Now that's hella interesting stuff! Are the movie rights for this very discussion-worthy story sold yet?

...

"I moved to Linux" is the new "I am a vegan", huh?
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Calcupy! - your semantic desktop calculator
« Last post by Tuxman on December 31, 2015, 05:30 PM »
Update: v0.0.3. Happy new etc.

Next step: Implement a Settings window.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Why Does Programming Suck?
« Last post by Tuxman on December 24, 2015, 08:15 AM »
Whether programming sucks completely depends on the language and chosen runtime.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LOLCODE: a silly snack in a silly language
« Last post by Tuxman on December 23, 2015, 06:58 PM »
...

 :huh:

...

OK. I had to ask.
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Living Room / Re: Holy day
« Last post by Tuxman on December 22, 2015, 05:48 PM »
The exact day depends on the nature.  :D
The German Wikipedia has a list for the upcoming years.

Hm, a video? For what?
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Living Room / Re: Holy day
« Last post by Tuxman on December 22, 2015, 05:32 PM »
Nö!

The winter solstice is related to the sun's highest point on the particular day, which means "Dec 22nd at noon" which was around the time I posted here.  :P
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Living Room / Re: Holy day
« Last post by Tuxman on December 22, 2015, 05:27 PM »
Of related interest

Sure thing, if you'd prefer to make everything a weird form of Christendom ...  :huh:
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Living Room / Re: Holy day
« Last post by Tuxman on December 22, 2015, 05:25 PM »
You're late :p

Not in my timezone!
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Living Room / Holy day
« Last post by Tuxman on December 22, 2015, 03:08 AM »
Merry solstice, dear friends.
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Calcupy! - your semantic desktop calculator
« Last post by Tuxman on December 19, 2015, 08:10 PM »
As mentioned in the start post, I made the fatal design decision to use Electron as my runtime library because the whole thing is written in (a lot of) JavaScript and the portability to various platforms is awesome with it. However, Electron (similarly to Common Lisp) forces me to compile itself right into the resulting executable file. I already deleted a number of not required DLLs and threw the whole thing through upx, the .7z archive had 72 MiB before.



The problem is that I need features like a "syntax-highlighted input box" (as seen in the screenshot). I haven't found a similar widget for other languages when I investigated about how to actually start my development. - I would willingly drop support for any other platform than Windows if I could achieve similar things with a similar effort in a different language that I actually "speak". Of course, that would require me to start all over again. The unit converter could be an interesting beast too.
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Calcupy! - your semantic desktop calculator
« Last post by Tuxman on December 19, 2015, 01:57 PM »
I can't guarantee that I'll have something interesting ready on January 1st, there are so many things missing yet. I, myself, would never give me a prize for this application before the most annoying TODOs are fixed.
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Calcupy! - your semantic desktop calculator
« Last post by Tuxman on December 19, 2015, 01:47 PM »
A couple of years ago I found OpalCalc to be a useful part of my software repository, providing an easy way to do calculations of everyday things without having to think about how to tell the calculator what you actually want to calculate.

However, the full version of OpalCalc is not freeware. While I'd totally recommend to donate something to the guy behind OpalCalc, I'm not quite happy to pay for things I could develop myself. My natural lazyness loses ground when it comes to hard money.

So here's my first attempt.

screenshot-v0.0.2.png

Features:

  • Calculate things.
  • Convert units.
  • Convert currencies (currently updated once a day, internet access is required for obvious reasons).

History:

  • 0.0.3:
    • Fixed inconsistency: The window title is "Calcupy!" now.
    • Added an "About" window.
    • Updated libraries.
    • Calcupy! now tries to handle decimal commas more reliably.
  • 0.0.2: First "public" version (DC exclusive).

To do:

  • Add a history feature: Show the whole calculation history so you won't lose track of what you are actually doing.
  • Add an option to set the maximum number of digits for the "mem" field.
  • Fix some minor UI glitches.
  • Set up a website and blog. (In progress.)
  • Use a better runtime than Electron. Electron is awful.

Known inconsistencies:

  • (none)

Suggestions:

This is version 0.0.3. Don't even dare to think that this is (in my eyes) nearly complete yet. I'm positive that everything you'd want to suggest is already planned or would be rejected anyway. Version 0.9.9 will probably be the first one to not apply this rule to. 8)



Temporary download location until I find the time to start the project's website:
Click me!
(... knowing that "Click me!" is as trustworthy as "enlarge your p€n!$ here" ...)
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Living Room / Re: Merry Christmas 2015 (Feliz Navidad 2015)
« Last post by Tuxman on December 16, 2015, 01:33 PM »
Five days left until solstice. Waiting for the big Merry Solstice 2015 thread or for the confession that other religions are discouraged here.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LOLCODE: a silly snack in a silly language
« Last post by Tuxman on December 13, 2015, 10:57 PM »
Can you do web development in LOLCODE?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LOLCODE: a silly snack in a silly language
« Last post by Tuxman on December 13, 2015, 08:02 AM »
Why not COBOL?
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General Software Discussion / Listary 5 (beta)
« Last post by Tuxman on December 04, 2015, 07:22 PM »
It's here, and it comes with a "double-Ctrl" shortcut.

http://discussion.li...-beta-5-00-2134/2408

I just noticed that it can also launch applications.  ;D (No joke, I did not know this, only having used it as a favorites bar for Open dialogs...)
Hard times for FARR.
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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi Zero -- $5.00
« Last post by Tuxman on November 28, 2015, 03:00 PM »
The problem with ARM computers is that they, although rather power-saving, are not viable network devices. Their CPUs are too slow for serious file transfers.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Article on JS V8 math.random()
« Last post by Tuxman on November 22, 2015, 09:40 AM »
Well, yes, Chrome's underlying "engines" are not actually known for being secure. Yesterday I've read another thing: Did you know that Chrom[e|ium] lets you force-install "admin" add-ons?
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Whoa. Please take your ego off the shift key.
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linux and Internet security
« Last post by Tuxman on November 11, 2015, 09:21 AM »
Linux's "security" records are awful indeed. I can't understand why anyone prefers it to other systems.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Vivaldi: Promising yet.
« Last post by Tuxman on November 07, 2015, 08:02 PM »
After some investigation, I was told that Vivaldi will (unlike Opera) probably never have a real MDI interface. Sad.

when it finally got some features that are essential to me, like print preview.

In Germany, we use the term "internet printers" for politicians ...  ;D

The main reason I will continue to use Opera for the time being is that Vivaldi does not appear to have much in the way of privacy controls.

Vivaldi already works "great" (despite some UI flaws even now and then) with Chrome's uMatrix extension which actually should fill this gap.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Vivaldi: Promising yet.
« Last post by Tuxman on November 07, 2015, 05:01 PM »
Well, yes, currently I support both (yet) ... :)

AFAIR Iron was born because of Chrome's spyware. Is that still an issue with Chromium? (If so, Vivaldi might or might not have one more "bad" thing...)
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Vivaldi: Promising yet.
« Last post by Tuxman on November 07, 2015, 04:25 PM »
Don't get me wrong here: Pale Moon 26 is shaping up nicely and it is probably the best Firefox yet to be released. I just fear that its main dev could stop development because it's not becoming less work over the years, and some of the interesting parts of the browser are not quite "open source" after all.

Glad that you like it. Future OpenDownload² versions will probably be Pale-Moon-only as I don't intend to restrict functionality after Mozilla does not provide XUL interfaces anymore.
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