Pxtl

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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I actually think things have changed slightly. With the sudden shift to political extremism of the US government there's growing mistrust of US-owned software products... and anybody who thinks hard about that will have similar concer
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
The Unenlightenment. Dereconstruction. > No other country that went through a phase like this has ever recovered. Not even in a century. Oh I can think of a couple in the '40s that bounced back after a while.
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
Yes but bartenders overserving is a crime done by a working-class person and not a wealthy business.
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
Ah the old "reverse identity theft". Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1279/ Yeah, I get the same regularly.
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
That's what we have now, but mandatorily , and without the anti-sockpuppet protection a true ID would provide. I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about digital ID. The people who benefit the most from fake peopl
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
All of my kids devices are identified, at device level, as children's devices. They could've trivially exposed this as metadata to allow sites to enforce "no under 18" use. However, I'd disagree that my bigger con
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
Yep. The president doing horribly fascist things with ICE like obliterating habeas corpus? Using the military to murder people in the ocean without trial? That's fine. Screwing with the money ? Not okay. See also how the prez is allo
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
If a lawsuit tackles this problem in the EU, will we finally also see somebody go after MS for their obnoxious code signing certificates? While MS code signing certs are more circumventable for power-users than Android's new approved d
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
I have a galaxy watch 4 which I'd hoped was old-enough to be supported but I can see that it is not. I get it, hardware is hard. I'm curious, is the challenge with newer hardware lack of chipset drivers for modern watches, or is
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
In general spitting out a scrollbar of text when asked a simple question that you've misunderstood is not, in any real sense, a "chat".
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
GH has a "Discussions" feature for message-boards attached to your project. Same sign-on as GH. Nobody turns it on.
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
MS' Sql Server Data Tools is such an abominable garbage fire that I have no interest in these kind of tools. Besides being a buggy mess, it's very often insufficient - you end up having to maintain migrations anyways because often
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
"illegal" At what point has that stopped literally anything this government has done?
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
They say 3.7v, so probably the wrong kind.
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by Pxtl 8mo ago
I've taken the approach of electrical-taping my USB-chargeable 14500s each to a dummy-battery, since the things I put them in have 2 adjacent slots for series AAs. The voltage is still high (3.somethingV instead of 3V) but they seem t
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
What's surprising is how poor Google Search's transcript access is to Youtube videos. Like, I'll Google search for statements that I know I heard on Youtube but they just don't appear as results even though the video
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
American Conservatives explicitly admitted they are not part of the reality-based community (their words) back in 2004 [1]. In 2017 Kellyanne Conway offered "alternative facts" (her words). In a lawsuit, Fox News admitted that T
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
I've a smallish lawn so I've just been using wired yard tools my whole life. Have to be careful to mind the extension cord but it's dead simple and zero-maintenance. My lawnmower is just about old enough to run for Presiden
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
In 1-on-1 it would be awkward to call it out but in a group meeting where I wouldn't be singling a person out it'd be pretty easy to just ask "could whoever's in the bathroom please mute?" without any kind of confro
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
Imho the real strength of markdown is it forces people to stick to classes instead of styling. "I want to write in red comic Sans" " I don't care, you can't". And markdown tables are harder to write than HTML t
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
> XML has self-closing tag syntax but it wasn't always handled well by browsers. So we'll add another syntax for browsers to handle. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
As somebody who's doing the same thing for the first time in almost 2 decades: kubuntu wins for me. Mint was too buggy. It just felt so single-threaded. It had upsides - easiest Nvidia support for example. Cinnamon is nicely customi
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
Government banning insecure open standards and then not providing a secure open standard is atrocious. If I must have an official authorizing thing to prove I'm who I say I am, make it as small as possible. If you mandated that they h
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
Hilariously the only impressive thing I've ever heard of made in AI was Yegge's "GasTown" which is a Kubernetes like orchestrator... for AI agents. And half of it seemed to be a workaround for "the agents keep stop
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
Well, that's a question for OS level. If the OS doesn't require the user to download the language and so language-switching to a new language is doable as an offline operation, I could see it being frustrating that switching to a
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
Imho there are 3 separate classes of notifications 1) Ads - these should not exist, really, or at worst should be flagged in the app store as an anti-feature isolateable from other notifications. 2) "Recommendations" - that is, st
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
css is bad. 1) Why is it using an NIH format instead of using XML or INI or something? 2) Why does it use symbols instead of words for selectors? HTML calls them "id" and "class", why does CSS call them "#" an
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
The dark mode action got an audible chuckle out of me.
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
The inconsistency and monochrome nature is problematic but imho including your icons alongside the text representation wherever practical is good because it educates the user what those icons mean so that when they see the icon without th
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
Thanks for this exhaustive info. Also it's worth noting that when the ban list was overreaching and included some common and venerable semi-auro WW2 rifles that were a bit too powerful or their fixed-size magazines/clips were a bi

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