MrDOS

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by MrDOS 4mo ago
> The AI Agent is powered by the company’s proprietary AI model, Apex When will I be able to talk to Salesforce Apex from Salesforce Apex?
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
> There is a funny email that had been released after before Jobs's passing where a user complained of a spotty signal, and his advice was basically to not hold the phone in that direction (or with his hand over the top part where t
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
No, they blocked the UK because it was either that or open themselves up to £18m in fine liability thanks to the Online Safety Act[0]. Social media sites which are unable or unwilling to operate strict, full-time content moderation have all
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
Yep! Just that the post title should have a (2019) in it. Or maybe (2021) or (2025), given the most recent revision dates.
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
This is great, but it was originally published in 2019. See the past discussions in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22932134 (114 comments) and 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576902
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
I often use my laptop for reference while cooking, and I find recipe websites are the most common and egregious offenders.
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
> it would be almost unusable at anything less than 13" Native resolution on a 13" MacBook Air is already pretty unusable. Out of the box, the 13" MacBook Air (physical screen resolution 2560x1664) is configured with dis
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
I think that is basically exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you!
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
And when you say “PC original”, you really mean “DOS version wrapped in DOXBox”, because it's easier to ship that on both Windows and Mac than patching the Windows version for Windows, and shipping a Wine wrapper for Mac. (Have they ev
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by MrDOS 4mo ago
You're flabbergasted that Lenovo would trash a sub-brand? Lenovo? The company who trashed their own brand with Superfish?
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
This argument would hold a lot more water if the alternative you're siding with weren't Amazon.
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
Anna's Archive aren't filing the serial numbers off the epubs they redistribute. Rightfully or wrongly distributed, the attribution is crystal clear.
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
The “liability” I refer to is that of wilfully, knowingly leaving a system unpatched in order to avoid the learning opportunity of upgrading it. We're working toward the same goal here, yes.
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
Assuming password authentication is disabled, why wouldn't you SSH into your hosts over the open net? Why Tailscale? Why Wireguard?
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
> for learning. That's great if that's what you want, but you are commenting in a thread full of people gleefully spouting off about decades-old installations that they self-admittedly have “no idea” how to upgrade. Most peop
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
If you want 0 maintenance, then you don't want to run your own infrastructure. Go give NearlyFreeSpeech or some other shared host a few cents every month and you'll be much happier.
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
https://youtu.be/4Q7FTjhvZ7Y?t=1577 > This is bad. > What's that? > Um, well, so I connected to the, uh... The machine that- that controls the FTP push, is like, not answering. Spoiler: he had the wrong hostna
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
Ken Silverman (of Build Engine fame) has written a few deflate-centric compression utilities[0]. The PNGOUT recompressor is the most famous of these (and is very good – it practically always beats OptiPNG), but the suite also includes a .zi
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
Fwiw in the UK, the page says > Coming autumn 2026 I would also never expect this kind of text to be localized. Strange.
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
Nowadays (as of Sequoia, I think), I find that I need to run `xattr -c Foo.app` to clear the “this was downloaded from the Internet” bit on the application bundle before I can right-click, “Open” it. Used to be that you only needed to do th
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
I think this is already happening, sort of. At least, people are hanging onto their older-but-not-yet-old components for much longer than they used to. I recently tried to build a NAS from eBay parts, and I was surprised to find that the ne
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
PINE64 were trying with the PineNote[0], sort of. It's quite a large device (10.3"), in the same size class as reMarkable/Boox devices. It's cost-competitive with those products, but it's way too big and too expensi
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
I'd never really thought about it before, but Enter to advance to the next field field and Ctrl + Enter to submit the whole form (which is the typical keyboard shortcut for submitting the form while a multi-line text input control has
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
> Qt Arcane build system. I mean, I guess it technically supports CMake these days, but I have never been able to get anyone else's Qt project to build without much gnashing of teeth. Emulated native widgets try for pixel-perfect, b
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by MrDOS 5mo ago
> APIs may be copyrightable Didn't Google v. Oracle disprove this?
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by MrDOS 6mo ago
No, contributors to FOSS generally do not give away their rights. They contribute to the project with the expectation that their contributions will be distributed under its license, yes, but individual contributors still hold copyright ov
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by MrDOS 6mo ago
Here in the north east of Scotland, I have to switch back and forth between Google Maps and Apple Maps. Apple Maps provides vastly superior residential navigation (it understands that many houses only have names, not numbers, and knows what
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by MrDOS 6mo ago
Not to mention that those devices all support regular EPUBs out of the box, and so you can still put new content on them today. Of course, you'll get a bit more out of them if you convert your EPUBs to KEPUBs with Kepubify[0], but the
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by MrDOS 6mo ago
> easier to do bad things like "charge for individual internet user in a home." This idea comes up in every HN conversation about IPv6, and so I suppose this time it's my turn to point out RFC 8981[0]. tl;dr: typically, ma
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by MrDOS 6mo ago
> Gun Rocket also stands out as my most lucrative personal project. > I tried to boot up Gun Rocket to play it. But it refused. No matter how hard I clicked the game would not open. > After trying a few times I realize if the ship

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