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by RachelF 2y ago
Use Betterbird. They upgrade Thunderbird and fix bugs.
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by RachelF 2y ago
The original somebody was likely the US Secret service, who are also responsible for US dollar currency forgery policing. When color printers/copiers first appeared there was a concern about people photocopying money. The old joke was
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by RachelF 2y ago
I'm surprised there's not been a class action against printer manufacturers for all the extra yellow toner that's been used.
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by RachelF 2y ago
One thing not on the list (yet) is the freezing of protesters' bank accounts that happened in Canada. Or the de-banking that happens to politicians in the UK. Or the jailing of whistleblower lawyers that happens in Australia.
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by RachelF 2y ago
I think an even more bitter lesson is coming very soon: AI will run out of human-generated content to train on. Already AI companies are probably training AI with AI generated slop. Sure there will be tweaks etc, but can we make it more int
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, pig organs can be used for human transplants, the tissue types are similar. Perhaps the pork prohibition also has some anti-cannibal echos in it. You're never sure if your pork stew is grandma?
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by RachelF 2y ago
The "great flattening" fashion has made computers harder to use for many people. Older UIs separated computer output from where user input is expected. Compare Windows 7 or 2000 to Windows 10 or 11 and the older Windows versions w
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by RachelF 2y ago
AI is probably the threat executives understand. There are also some pretty good third party YT clients like GrayJay https://grayjay.app/ These let you follow creators across various video platforms in one app. Bad for YT l
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by RachelF 2y ago
>"At worst, straight to jail." The "at worst" is worse: Two recent Boeing whistleblowers died in rather suspicious circumstances.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Sopwith[1] as a test of PC compatibility for clones. I later years it was a great test of how much faster computers had become as it assumed it was running at 4.77MHz [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_(video_gam
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by RachelF 2y ago
Wow - that's a trip down memory lane - I learned the basics of flying from Flight Sim 1 on an Apple. The manual was pretty damn good. The application was amazing for its time.
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by RachelF 2y ago
It's ironic that one of Gino's partners in crime, Dan Ariely, has been writing bestselling pop-sci books about dishonesty, based on his own faked data.
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by RachelF 2y ago
I would guess it is a BIOS patch, just like the microcode normally is. So it probably needs to be installed at every system boot. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can correct my guesses?
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by RachelF 2y ago
I'd guess that they inherited it from the iPhone chips. It was nice and fast and also makes Apple a lot of profit as no third party RAM is possible.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yikes! One would have expected a little more code review or a design review from a hardware manufacturer, especially of security system. A system that people have been worried about since the Pentium FDIV bug. I guess this one just slipped
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by RachelF 2y ago
Some possible groups of reasons: 1. Until recently RAM amount was something the end user liked to configure, so little market demand. 2. Technically, building such a large system on a chip or collection of chiplets was not possible. 3. RAM
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by RachelF 2y ago
Thank you for the detailed reply. Your first product sounds like something that is needed. I wish your startup very good luck and will be watching your progress. Do ground vehicles also have GPS trackers with a radio transmitter, or do they
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by RachelF 2y ago
I have two questions: 1. Good overview of the technologies you are using, but what product are you planning on building or have built? I understand what you are doing and it's "extra safety over existing systems" but how does
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by RachelF 2y ago
Many years ago, I worked for what would now be called a startup building small gas turbines. The turbine was impressive, 400hp in something the size of 2 shoe boxes. However, it spun at 120,000rpm, which meant either a very heavy gearbox or
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by RachelF 2y ago
Even established companies use pirated software. The sounds in Windows XP were created in a pirated version of Sony SoundForge, and were only detected because of the metadata in the .wav files. I guess companies can get "too big to sue
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by RachelF 2y ago
Thunderbird does what it says on the box. It just works. It can also now talk to Exchange servers.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yeah, Apple will likely have this taken down. They have done so to similar "look and feel" projects in the past.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Get a Mac laptop. OS X is based on BSD.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Double commander?
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by RachelF 2y ago
Back in the 1970's the quality of Japanese goods had just increased tremendously with a huge nationwide quality drive. These things were built to last.
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by RachelF 2y ago
It also looks like a wing has been ripped off. That passengers could survive an accident involving so much force is surprising.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Not just enshittification in the way of spying and ads. The actual reading experience has got worse. I have a Kindle 11 and an old Kindle 3. The Kindle 3 actually works better - easier to read, no random pauses, easier to search.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, KOReader is the reason to jailbreak a Kindle. It's way better than the built-in Amazon reader app.
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by RachelF 2y ago
From my experience, 40 years ago PhD used to be hard to do and meant that the person who had it was smart. These days the only thing it indicates is that the person spent many years at university.
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by RachelF 2y ago
They actually had to use the non-cutdown version of SPARK that this company sells, called SPARK Pro.

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