BirAdam

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by BirAdam 2y ago
I miss the days when this was possible. Apple used to make a big deal about this sort of thing too. Too bad. I did stop using Macs a few years ago. When my iPhone 11 dies I’ll probably switch to an older Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I always use Brave first, and when that fails, I try Bing. If Bing fails, I try Google. Most of the time, I can just use Brave.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
So, uh, Copilot+PC, how much of their AI computer thing would be completely useless right now?
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Yeah. I like Brave Search. In my own usage it seems to offer far more useful results rather than 5 pages of ads.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I feel your pain. Thankfully, even the archive occasionally takes stuff off.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Not just personal sites, but even news sites. Storage is expensive. Site owners don’t want to hold stuff forever, and the Archive cannot afford to hold everything forever either.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
People never picture themselves as being among those great numbers who suffer and die in these scenarios.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Nah. Politicians will still have the wrong incentives, and they’ll just let the poor die. Meanwhile the rich will buy up all arable land, and all land not largely affected. Following that, they’ll tighten control of national borders to stop
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Well, also, plastic waste getting dumped in water ways, and in the USA, steel and coal waste being dumped into the Ohio (causing a huge dead zone in the Gulf). There are serious pollution problems everywhere, and I kind of hate the climate
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Sounds like a challenge for which our species is well suited.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
English is fun like that. Rules everywhere invented for the fun of being broken.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I’d love to check out your Ruby code. Link?
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I really don’t like to put down the creative work of others, but yeah. The motion stuff made me realize just how great UIs like Win95 and early Mac System were. I love creativity and experimentation, but I dislike lots of motion, lots of an
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by BirAdam 2y ago
From what I saw in their video, there’s a top bar that on mouse-over expands and becomes a virtual desktop switcher with an arbitrary number of virtual desktops. Otherwise it appears to be a somewhat standard floating window setup. I didn’t
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Did you mean this ironically, cuz uh… it’s been tried many times and often led to death on very large scales.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
No. Poverty is the default no matter what. From there, there are really only two methods of human interaction. The economic or the political. The economic means are voluntary and the political means are force. So far, all attempts at creati
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by BirAdam 2y ago
The USA became the richest country despite many people having been made wealthy via corruption, and despite the establishment of a nearly all-powerful oligarchy.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Were there some other intelligent species (or even our own) that developed some advanced civilization before 13 thousand years ago, we’d have evidence in plant and animal life. Supporting large populations required humans to selectively bre
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Heresy. 2K was never a bad choice. lol. J/k For real tho, every Windows version after 3.x was bad at first. Then people moved, and then the next one was worse.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Well, the hardware isn’t actually too severe as it’s paid upfront for very long time periods. The real cost isn’t even the salary. One system professional might be 150k, so let’s say employees are going to cost 500k for the system. I imagin
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Right, but this makes me wonder why I can’t just do: ssh user@host “echo ‘Hello World’” All these kinds of tools essentially just executing commands over SSH… I could just SSH.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
If more people did this (across many different industries) life would likely be substantially better. However, humans always optimize for the wrong things.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It’s weird because there are several hotspots like that: Seattle, SLC, Akron, and so on. Each one pumps out greatness for a time, and then things move again.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
According to his own words, he wasn’t aware of Bush, Engelbart, or Nelson when he started working on Enquire, but hypertext more generally was known to him. He became aware of those other men and their work over time and their ideas helped
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Blaming tools is rather dumb to me. That good software has been made with languages other than Rust proves that the issue is not the tool but rather the person using the tool. Additionally, claiming that a language’s compiler automatically
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by BirAdam 3y ago
From an exceedingly anthropocentric point of view. People assume that humans are the only or first animal of the Holocene to have left lasting global impacts. The mastodons essentially great swaths of steppe. Ants and worms have essentially
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I love SeaMonkey, but I do wish it could handle more modern sites, maybe with Goanna?
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I may be alone in this, but I personally feel that older GUIs were better than modern ones visually. I really and unironically think that IRIX, CDE, Win3, OS/2 Warp, and KDE1 look better than what has come after. Sadly, software has ac
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Helping either side will still kill people, and likely kill more people, and likely lengthen the war. The USA should not involve itself in the affairs of others. Period. It’s just a modern form of colonialism where the UsA views itself as s
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Uh… growing up in America isn’t all gravy. I grew up near a uranium enrichment facility and toxic waste dump and have lifelong health issues from that. I also have known an unusually high number of people who died way too early from very ra

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