Lendal

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by Lendal 4y ago
Guess I deserved that. See, my commentary is on the fact that other services have a zero-friction sign-in page that lets you join up very easily and quickly. This is what users expect in 2022. Mastodon doesn't have that. Instead, you h
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by Lendal 4y ago
This article really had me excited. I really wanted to click the "Join Mastodon" button at the bottom of the article. But there isn't one.
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by Lendal 4y ago
The people come first, not the technology. I didn't really start using Twitter until I first knew some people I wanted to communicate with. It will be the same with Mastodon, or whatever. Then the choice of server will become much simp
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by Lendal 4y ago
They have WSJ, Newsweek, Miami Herald, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle. The main one they don't have (and probably won't ever have) is NY Times. The other major downside is it's only available on Apple devices (of course).
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by Lendal 4y ago
Apple News+ is kinda similar. You get a whole bunch of free news and pay one monthly bill, instead of dozens of bills. I like it so far. I don't know how they compensate the publishers, but I hope they get a reasonable cut.
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by Lendal 4y ago
Okay, what about $10,000? That's what I paid. I took delivery in August 2020 when he was still making the empty promises. Biggest investment failure I've ever had to write off. I guess if it isn't a Bernie Madoff level fraud,
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by Lendal 4y ago
Lane change is also buggy now for my Model Y. Since the last couple updates about 5% of the time it jerks back into the current lane after moving about 50% across the line, as if it had suddenly seen a ghost in that other lane. There is not
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by Lendal 4y ago
The reason I'm thinking maybe it's not so bad, is because which snapshot does it use? How does it know which snapshot of an algorithm is correct and which has a bug? What if you have code that's perfectly fine but then you ad
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by Lendal 4y ago
Do we really need to surface every bug/bot report in Twitter's backlog and then assume villainous intent? Come on. Aren't we better than this?
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by Lendal 4y ago
I suspect the developer selected trees not for their suitability to the environment, but rather for their appearance in order to sell more houses. Perhaps if I knew more I could make them live but that didn't happen. So as they die and
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by Lendal 4y ago
I have plenty of incentive to keep the trees in my own yard from dying, yet I lack the expertise. So they die. I need an arborist. Unfortunately the arborists in my town are incentivized to get me to pay their company to cut my trees down a
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by Lendal 4y ago
You can but it would drain the battery fast. You can use an old phone that stays plugged in, but my old abandoned phones were all abandoned for a reason, usually because some critical part of them doesn't work anymore. Search for &quot
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by Lendal 4y ago
"Craziest" is not really an appropriate word for this case. Awful, or shameful, or disgraceful are some more accurate words. Or insane if you want to emphasize the psychotic aspect.
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by Lendal 4y ago
No, teach them better. Management is still needed. A manager should be able to increase revenue, or at least productivity. If all they can do is reduce wages, that's a pretty low bar. Any asshole could do that.
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by Lendal 4y ago
Anecdotal evidence: I have had to replace a device because of a failed USB-C port, but I have never had to replace a device because of a failed Lightning port. I know, it's one data point, but there it is.
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by Lendal 4y ago
Wow, that worked perfectly. Thanks!
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by Lendal 4y ago
They mention the obvious medical uses like spray-on casts and spray-on bandages, but what about spray-on physical restraints? Or spray-on condoms? Get creative, think outside the box.
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by Lendal 4y ago
Any way to read this using my Apple News+ subscription? They have wsj.com, but I can't find this story in there.
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by Lendal 4y ago
I just assumed it was an unintentional typographical error, or a quirk for comedic effect.
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by Lendal 4y ago
I can disapprove of Snowden in general, and also see that he has a point in this article. The article is not political. Both Republicans and Democrats are equally blamed but the photo he chose is of the sitting president, a Democrat. The on
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by Lendal 4y ago
As 2FA adoption spreads, the possibility increases that someone could be using 2FA but not know the rule about not reusing a password. This feature improves the spread of that gospel. It seizes the opportunity to impress an abstract concept
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by Lendal 4y ago
I really don't understand why Alexa hasn't gotten any better, or why FSD is still in beta after so many years of promises from Elon.
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by Lendal 4y ago
Klomgan? This argument is a straw man because those names are all ridiculous and defeat the purpose of the naming strategy. If a real organization adopted the naming strategy described by this article, reason would quickly become a part of
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by Lendal 4y ago
Not all lobbyists are out to do evil, and not all politicians who do their job are doing evil. The alternative to listening to lobbyists and legislating is politicians who don't do legislation at all and instead spend their time fund-r
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by Lendal 4y ago
Good point. I did watch the keynote. SOS and Find My coordinates are the only explicitly specified use cases. But it's a paid service with the first 2 years free. I made the assumption you should be able to send text messages, because
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by Lendal 4y ago
Doesn't need to be that dramatic. Our Jeep got stuck in the Utah desert, and our guide had to pull out his Garmin satellite gadget to send a text message/coordinates for a friend to come pull us out. Lucky he had that thing. Yeah
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by Lendal 4y ago
So, it's basically just an email to your CEO? I would be professional. Don't criticize the silliness of the exercise. Treat it like it's the most ingenious idea you've ever been asked to participate in. Mention how much
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by Lendal 4y ago
I don't think "freedom" is to blame. Freedom in varying degrees has been around for a long time, and attempts to exploit it failed to produce results for the enemies of freedom. They have however recently identified a weaknes
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by Lendal 4y ago
That's the beauty of great click bait. A word or idiom can mean different things now to people from different social nets. "Downfall" here could mean in terms of sales, or it could mean in industry reputation, or even more th
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by Lendal 4y ago
I think it's a lot easier to manipulate social media than journalism. Stories like this one will always exist because the world is a huge place. On an average day they just get buried in the avalanche of information we have available.

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