Comment No it fucking hasn't (Score 5, Informative) 203

by urbster1 on Monday July 05, 2021 @06:43PM (#61553734) Attached to: Is Open Source Audio Editor Audacity 'Spyware'?

"Audacity makers clarify data usage – and there’s not reason to dump the editor yet" https://cdm.link/2021/07/audac...

Comment and still no way to search through Hangouts (Score 4, Interesting) 178

by urbster1 on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:12PM (#54693009) Attached to: Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today

other than in Gmail on a desktop PC browser. why no search feature in the Hangouts app, Google? for some reason I thought you were supposed to be good at searching

Comment Re:Title smells like bullshit (Score 1) 105

by urbster1 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:01PM (#53057093) Attached to: 'StrongPity' Malware Infects Users Through Legitimate WinRAR and TrueCrypt Installers

came here to post this

Comment Just use Youtube-dl (Score 2, Informative) 310

by urbster1 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:25AM (#52969001) Attached to: YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI

It's trivial: youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://youtube.com/watch?v=vi...

Comment How about that TCP bug (Score 1) 67

by urbster1 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:24AM (#52719127) Attached to: Linux Kernel 4.6 Has Reached End of Life, Users Urged To Move To Linux 4.7.1

Is that fixed in 4.7? (referring to this https://linux.slashdot.org/sto... )

Comment Is mathematics invented or discovered? (Score 5, Interesting) 189

by urbster1 on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:02PM (#50894881) Attached to: Interviews: Ask Mathematician Neil Sloane a Question

In other words, is mathematics a fundamental part of the fabric of reality (i.e. Platonism)? And are concepts like zero, infinity, imaginary numbers, and so on, actually real objects? Or do you think mathematics is mostly a tool created by humans out of convenience (akin to language), and numbers and other concepts are just abstract ideas in our brains?

Comment So can we get a fork that doesn't track all your (Score 0) 51

by urbster1 on Friday May 22, 2015 @02:58PM (#49753465) Attached to: Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source

browsing activity? Or am I gonna be forced to use Firefox forever? No I don't want Google to know every website I visit!

Comment I took an elbow to the face last night... (Score 0) 420

by urbster1 on Saturday February 28, 2015 @10:51AM (#49153491) Attached to: Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black?

When I woke up this morning, my eye was all white and gold.

Comment I'm using Feedly (Score 0) 335

by urbster1 on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @01:13PM (#43975577) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader?

Feedly has been amazing to those of us migrating from Google Reader: http://feedly.com/

Comment Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Score 0) 256

by urbster1 on Sunday December 02, 2007 @01:07PM (#21552321) Attached to: DS Games for Pre-readers?

is the game I would recommend.

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