Groxx

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by Groxx 6d ago
You can use "the" in the original sentence just fine if the pool had been established earlier, like with planning a pool party. Then the pool is the pool that you'd be using, and not simply a pool that will be found at some p
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by Groxx 7d ago
GET requests can have bodies too, and many low-level APIs will allow it - given how few things seem to be aware of this, you could probably sneak stuff through that way too.
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by Groxx 8d ago
> This leads to passkeys being the perfect fit for a corporate environment, but a poor fit for personal security. I 100% agree - almost everything about them screams "this is The Ideal Corporate Solution". This isn't a ba
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by Groxx 8d ago
Passwords can move between walled gardens generally very easily (export) or manually in all cases (enter by hand). Passkeys only very recently got relatively broad support for migrating data (after years of promise and no support at all),
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by Groxx 9d ago
I've been using keyboard-based launchers for a couple years now, I really like it. None quite yet feel perfect to me, but Olauncher has lasted the longest: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.ola
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by Groxx 10d ago
1b: the docs are a pointless ritual that sometimes ends up taking multiple times longer than implementing, and if too many people see it they start asking things like "what are your KPIs" and "when are your deliverables syner
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by Groxx 13d ago
Yes! I am indeed, thank you! Bottles has been useful, though I haven't used it in years.
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by Groxx 13d ago
(edit: removed because I was confusing Bottles and Boxes, no need to leak wrong ideas)
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by Groxx 15d ago
particularly if you want to support all of the message-body features, of which there are MANY. it's very business-comms oriented. I broadly expect third-party RCS apps to drop that though, like how essentially none support all of MMS.
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by Groxx 15d ago
For anyone unfamiliar with this strategy: it's literally just "clone from a /path".
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by Groxx 16d ago
Part agreed (E2EE by default so broadly is a great achievement), part "I think this is likely a massive communications power-grab on Google's part and not all that altruistic". They control almost literally all of the serv
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by Groxx 16d ago
Generally yes. But also it is sometimes like half the cost or less for comparative heating power, and for air-heating an apartment in the middle simply doesn't need anywhere near as much, and you literally heat each other so actually-f
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by Groxx 16d ago
Yep - where I am, it's moderately more expensive to use our heat pump to heat the house (at basically any time of year) than to use the gas furnace, and approximately nobody has a heat pump water heater. And with datacenters trying to
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by Groxx 16d ago
In most ways, yes. E.g. you clean yourself before you get in, so the water remains relatively clean after a few people. Unlike a hot tub though it's drained between uses, so it doesn't really have some of the nastier issues that
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by Groxx 19d ago
Year, back prior to the Zuckification I'd say it was a very clear upgrade for everyone in essentially every way. Dirt cheap (much less than even minimal texting), installable everywhere, adopted solid E2EE far ahead of basically every
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by Groxx 20d ago
It depends heavily on country, yes. USA is extremely light on WhatsApp, and MMS use is widespread (and has been free for a long time now, and SMS even longer). RCS is a mostly silent upgrade for USA. I'm not sure which of the two is
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by Groxx 20d ago
It has it in its current documentation (maybe 3.0 too? I forget, but it's new this year), and Apple and Google have had messages to themselves encrypted for a while (but not to each other, which is what the RCS docs are intended to r
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by Groxx 20d ago
Ah, yeah, agreed - "source available" fits that much better. I'm pretty sure that's the same for immich (which is also from FUTO). Thank you for the details! That lays it out nicely for anyone else passing through.
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by Groxx 20d ago
The source is here: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime Featured prominently in the "Source Code" container on https://keyboard.futo.tech/ AFAIK everything FUTO makes is open source? I
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by Groxx 20d ago
Spam is, rather definitionally, undesired marketing. If they don't desire it, it's spam for them. And they rather clearly do not desire it. (You could also go with the stronger "unrequested marketing" definition, which m
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by Groxx 24d ago
Probably speaking as someone who has used nexusmods in the past decade. Their monetization stuff is on the "lolwhat, that's kinda excessive" side of things.
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by Groxx 25d ago
Spotify definitely has a better claim for "mainstream", but Epic's store/game-app takes the cake for me. Stunningly slow and bad.
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by Groxx 27d ago
And accessibilize it. Pixel perfect per zoom level per language per font variant per font. Don't forget increased-contrast too!
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by Groxx 27d ago
Diamond hands pays off at last, congrats on the windfall!
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by Groxx 27d ago
It very much depends on the people and the relationship. Through many years, I've swung a few hundred$+ in either direction with a bunch of people, thousands with a couple. I much prefer zero stress - if money is tight, we just don&#x2
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by Groxx 27d ago
It's so weird to me that this kind of thing wasn't a day-1 kind of thing. Android's has loads of issues too[1], not least of which is that you need to manually enable it. 1: you can't get access to actions or details in
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by Groxx 28d ago
Prefetching applies to SSDs too, and that's generally sequential in some sense.
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by Groxx 28d ago
Absolutely, the ones that are clearly trying more than make up for the rest imo, and some are stunning. There are a lot of them. And many of the rest are just having a bad brain day and need help rubber-ducking to see the thing right in f
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by Groxx 28d ago
One of my favorites is spending nearly 10 minutes trying to get someone to read a single word on their screen correctly, in a dialog box that was blocking them, containing fewer than 10 words, so I could find the cause of their problem. Af
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by Groxx 28d ago
Even easier: click the download link on the website. https://sqlite.org/download.html

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