MiddleEndian

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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
I would say that normalizing giving random websites photos of yourself is harmful to children.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
I'm more interested in a business that reliably provides fraudulent IDs to services that unnecessarily want IDs that I cannot avoid for some reason.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
I would not let my (hypothetical) 12 year old on Instagram. I also don't want to give Instagram (or any other site, since I don't use Instagram) my ID to view content on it.
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
I have a Surface Laptop Studio. And while Windows 11 overall kinda sucks, the ability to turn it into a little easel and the responsiveness of the pen are both great. I also like precise scrolling with the touchscreen sometimes. The part of
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
They kinda created this fake locked down market that people expect to be able to be used, same as Apple, compared to say, just downloading apps normally like on a computer. Also "sideloaded" apps cannot be automatically updated, a
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by MiddleEndian 9mo ago
If I search for "Salesforce alternative" and something that isn't Salesforce shows up, great! That's what I want! If I search for Salesforce and something that isn't Salesforce shows up above Salesforce, the tool I&
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by MiddleEndian 10mo ago
I like Firefox and don't think it's about to collapse like many users here, but I have already unchecked "Recommend features as you browse" and "Recommend extensions as you browse" along with setting the welcom
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by MiddleEndian 10mo ago
Ideally it would just be like the Do Not Track flag, with one flag for each category of opt-out tracking, but actually enforced (even if on by default) so no popups would be needed at all.
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by MiddleEndian 10mo ago
I guess it's sort of amusing that this happens, but I have no particular interest in it lol Pretty much all of my Twitter (and Twitter clones) interactions are involuntary when they show up on news articles or other media.
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by MiddleEndian 10mo ago
When texting took off, it was the easiest (only) way to send instant text based messages between friends wherever you were, even if the phone system is now heavily used by spammers and there are better options. When Facebook took off, every
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by MiddleEndian 10mo ago
Think of it like a delicious meal or a grenade. You pay for it to be consumed once, then it's gone.
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by MiddleEndian 10mo ago
I'll be honest, I don't use github often. So if they're wrong, well, they fucked up in their complaint that could be redirected to one of many other websites instead.
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by MiddleEndian 10mo ago
More and more people should call out bloated buggy JS frameworks lol
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
If the govt is to do anything, I would support laws explicitly banning this kind of biometric ID under most circumstances.
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
One thing I found clever about certain celebrities, like Dolly Parton and Guy Fieri, is that their public images are so distinct but transient (Dolly Parton has a wig, Guy Fieri looks like Guy Fieri) that I imagine if they dressed down like
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
It doesn't seem unreasonable to me if you have the resources. If I could've paid Apple to somehow just support OS X 10.6 forever I'd probably still be a Mac/Hackintosh user lol
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
I have upgraded dropbox and google accounts and also a VPS, so it wouldn't be hard for me. But for people who aren't big fucking nerds, nothing exists that's as easy as that. Email's limit is crazy low.
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
In high school (2003-2007) it was super easy for any of my friends and I (varying technical levels) to send arbitrarily large files to each other with AOL Instant Messenger's Direct Connect. Honestly not even sure how a non-technical p
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
The GDPR somehow had the power to make (almost) everyone comply with it, even outside of the EU. If only they had specified that instead of banners, companies had to actually respect the Do Not Track header, even if set by default on a brow
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
https://www.miscbeef.com/octopoda Multiplayer QWOP-like where you control one leg of an octopus. I'm further ahead in the development than shown here, hopefully have the finished thing out with support for multiple gam
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
Vivaldi's email client is kinda clunky as well and has no way to show just my "inbox" (mail without any labels) from Google as far as I can tell, just one big unread chunk. And the calendar seems to just be a column on the le
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
I never looked into why, but when I moved from Boston to Seattle, I noticed dairy products (milk, cottage cheese) tasted different in Seattle. Confirmed it again when I moved back to Boston.
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
Which bagel shop in Newton is this?
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
I tried Thunderbird first, but unfortunately it was kinda heavy and was fairly unreliable, which kinda tracks with my experience before (at least on Windows). Mailspring works fine and is also open source. Couldn't find a decent minima
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
There are a lot of indie or other types of games that escape this. I mostly play games with local multiplayer, so I'm hanging out with people and playing at the same time. Recently got into Brotato, which has no 3d engine at all lol
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
Two things can be bad! But the GTK file picker has improved and now has thumbnails, while you can't really trust MS not to continue to damage its file picker
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
That detail is definitely true, I just think that in practice the frustration with behavior like this from MS will trickle down(/up/whatever direction). Like the benefit of Windows as a regular user or power user was also that aft
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by MiddleEndian 11mo ago
>backwards compatibility They are getting worse at this. I bought a Surface Laptop Studio 2 two years ago. Windows Mail and Windows Calendar, two nice minimalist programs from Microsoft, were actively killed in this time. If you open the
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by MiddleEndian 1y ago
The dishwasher that came with my condo was GE, and when it stopped draining completely, I found the instruction manual, and it was mostly ads for other GE products. Ironically, I replaced it with a Samsung dishwasher with a clearer instruct
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by MiddleEndian 1y ago
>or you can fire a lot of those workers Sometimes things can seem to run smoothly for years when neglected... until they suddenly no longer run smoothly!

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