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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

  Internet Archive | https://archive.org | Full-Time | Remote PT-ET Hours | Non-Profit Help build web crawlers, preservation, and public access services for over one thousand partner libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/91055-senior-software-engineer-archiving-and-data-services. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Wayback Machine Homepage is missing from Google results

  I have https://archive.org as second result, sep11... Is also the first for me. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Top 7 Free Unlimited Video Hosting Websites in 2023

  Internet Archive is best known for its Wayback Machine. But registered users also get 250GB of free storage for video uploads and other media. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Google Search Drops Cache Link from Search Results

  I went to the google search page and put in the URL with the cache: prefix. Eg "cache:http://archive.org/". This is now broken. Existing cache entries still exist, but unfortunately unless you know the URL it is inaccessible. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• A periodic table of visualization methods

  If you didn't already know of archiving websites, you're one of today's lucky ten thousand! See https://archive.org :). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Atril mentions (21)

• Systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative

  I don't know if you are DE shopping, but I've been very happy for the past few years with the MATE Desktop Environment, which "...is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems." https://mate-desktop.org/ Among a great number of things I really like, I will mention that Caja, the MATE version of... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Lobotomizing Gnome

  I agree that there is a balance between customization and "cleanness" in design and implementation. However, I think the GNOME 3 and 4 designers went too far and alienated many users: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4-to-be-a-total-user-experience-design-failure/ https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-7d96c3287f7... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)

  > Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs? I'd love a simple, opinionated WM that takes the features we know are useful today (workspaces, expo mode, sensible file manager layouts, system trays) and gives them a color-adjustable window theme inspired by 90's aesthetics, with minimal compositing that can run fast on hardware as minimal as a prototype RISC-V board. Or... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Still unsure as to how this managed to happen 😖

  Some people deliberately put mate on their PCs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Any advice on Ubuntu MATE?

  I have been using MATE for a couple of years now on an Intel Mac mini and it works... mostly. Things I am not a fan of: 1) Snap packages. For anyone that chimes in about how wonderful they are I have yet to see any evidence of that and, please, do show me how you launch OpenShot Video Editor because, well, it doesn't. 2) X-Windows. I'm sorry, but this should be brain-dead simple as running xhost+ on the device you... Source: over 1 year ago