TheDong

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by TheDong 12d ago
And you can also sideload apps (only in the EU), change you default navigation app from apple maps (only in the EU), and use more features of the NFC reader (only in the EU). The code for all of those things is there, but not enabled if for
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by TheDong 12d ago
> Since when do Linux distros host their own NTP? Amazon Linux uses their own NTP server for EC2 instances (and a large number of distros on AWS use it too). Android, the most popular linux distro in the world, uses Google's NTP ser
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by TheDong 12d ago
To quote from the page: > Do not use the standard pool.ntp.org names as a default configuration in your system Apple's default is time.apple.com, ubuntu has their own pool, android as well, same for windows. All the big linux distro
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by TheDong 16d ago
I guess the apple making Vision Pro shows that VR tech is here? Apple isn't omnipotent, they have misses too.
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by TheDong 1mo ago
While we're at it, I guess we should kick out all the descendants of Europeans, etc, and the only people who should be able to get jobs and count as true citizens are the direct descendants of the Native Americans. What an offensive co
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by TheDong 1mo ago
> If I enter China on a temporary work permit visa, with a 15 year plan to obtain Chinese citizenship, no one will have sympathy for me if that plan is interrupted I would have sympathy for you if it was interrupted by suddenly changing
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by TheDong 1mo ago
ublock origin _lite_ https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... I also can't use Safari because I want my tabs and bookmarks to sync between my desktop machine (linux) and my phone (
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by TheDong 1mo ago
They still don't let me install uBlock origin + noscript. Whitelisting per-domain and per-site what can run Javascript does more for my privacy than anything else, and I can do that with firefox on linux and android, but on iOS I'
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by TheDong 1mo ago
I mean, China's seems to be doing an okay job at coexisting with other countries. Especially when you compare it to the US, where our democracy and capitalism have led us to numerous wars and war-crimes. Like, just this year, we'v
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by TheDong 1mo ago
> Btw everyone knows whether they're using iMessage or SMS, that's the whole bubble color thing. Everyone sorta knows, but because iMessage "feels" like it's just the native messaging app on the phone, it makes p
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by TheDong 1mo ago
Yes it is Apple's fault. The iMessage app does both SMS, and the iMessage protocol. Apple could have released an android app to let you have blue bubbles on android and communicate securely without any of the constraints of SMS by simp
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by TheDong 1mo ago
Apple themselves do not allow using anything other than WebKit unless you move to the EU or Japan: https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi... Firefox addons target gecko, not webkit. What Orion&#x2
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by TheDong 1mo ago
The only alternative to ads isn't people directly paying cash to evil private companies. Like, the fact that instagram's average revenue per user is around $25 means that instagram ads are, on average, tricking people into buying
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by TheDong 1mo ago
There are some cases where ads are useful for sure. For example, I found out about the local farmer's market in my city via advertisements being hung up around town, and that helped me get fresh produce and find some community. I'
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by TheDong 1mo ago
Just because some people are more resilient to opium, and some people can have a good time on it, doesn't mean you should get an opium injection when you're going for a regularly scheduled doctor's appointment. Ads are being
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by TheDong 2mo ago
The Go std library, as well as practically all go library code, is full of things that don't fully initialize all properties and things that nil-pointer-panic if you hold them wrong, so no, no matter what you do you have to deal with t
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by TheDong 2mo ago
Even if it doesn't give any edge in terms of using the data, just paying money into Trump in more ways (i.e. a quasi-legal bribe) is enough of a benefit that I doubt many will drop it. This is a lot cheaper of a bribe than i.e. the gol
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by TheDong 2mo ago
What makes your prediction more likely than: "LLMs will accelerate math research, allowing us to prove that meaningfully sized quantum computers are impossible and crypto is secure. Modern cryptographic algorithms remains unbroken unti
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by TheDong 2mo ago
Things that open-ended are ripe for abuse, which is to say when you have a team of white techbros, guess which candidates get high marks on these ad-hoc questions?
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by TheDong 2mo ago
Yes it can cause you troubles, even if you don't link to it. Just having a vulnerability scanner (incorrectly) flag it can cause you numerous problems. Say you distribute your application to a customer and link against libzip, and that
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by TheDong 2mo ago
> A for loop is more readable than the lambda soup. Let's assume you have a slice of strings you want to uppercase. Which of the following is more readable? uppercased := slices.Map(inputSlice, strings.ToUpper) /&#x2F
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by TheDong 2mo ago
I agree it's not a good fit. Go is a language built for people who don't wish to learn any math or CS theory, for people who don't wish to be "computer scientists" but rather "grug-brained programmers". Th
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by TheDong 2mo ago
Not all color can be represented digitally. Is a piece of software subject to patents? Is it export controlled? Both of those can change without the data changing at all. A new patent can be applied for and accepted, at which point all code
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by TheDong 2mo ago
This was really well written in "What color are your bits": https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 Programmers have trouble seeing color (two identical numbers are the same bits, how can typing '1234' t
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by TheDong 2mo ago
The more common steelman for go is "most programmers are idiots, so a language designed for idiots is a good tradeoffs since it's easier to hire programmers for a codebase in that language" I think that one is true. Like, if
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by TheDong 2mo ago
i.e. the blub paradox: https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox
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by TheDong 2mo ago
If the geneva convention didn't ban torture, I'd say that web-developers should be forced to actually try and use the apps they develop. The websites I mentioned use more cpu and memory than most games in Civilization the series,
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by TheDong 2mo ago
> Visiting a web page does not have that action-reaction causality in people’s minds It does in my mind. I fully expect visiting any of reddit.com, github.com, notion.so, or meet.google.com to have the chance to pin a cpu core at 100% fo
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by TheDong 2mo ago
It's easier if you create a new apple ID which you use for the EU, separate from your existing one, and then login to the phone with your old Apple ID, and login to the app store specifically with the new one. As a bonus, you can then
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by TheDong 2mo ago
You can also do that with reynard [0], and eventually firefox itself [1], if you just move to the EU or Japan. Or switch to android, an operating system that didn't need government intervention to let you install a browser engine. [0]:

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