VelesDude

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by VelesDude 2y ago
My default is Duckduckgo but in the recent weeks they have massively upped how abrasive their ads are. Nothing wrong with there being search related ads but the sheer volume is getting out of control.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
This was made more as an example of how much power Google has. While Google is not technically a monopoly, using any alternative is most likely going to hurt your potential reach. Essentially, damned if you do, damned if you don't with
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I always sucks when you have to quote Steve Ballmers but "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!". At least in principal Microsoft used to get it. I think they knew that without developers, Windows would be no
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by VelesDude 2y ago
It is only a matter of time until Apple ends up selling this data to 3rd parties. The quarterly market performance demands endless growth.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Jobs always hated that the original Apple 2 had expansion slots. Woz wanted them because it would allow folks other than Apple to make things. You know, Woz being Woz. Those expansion slots allowed Apple 2 to become what it was and practica
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by VelesDude 2y ago
We all forget Ping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
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by VelesDude 2y ago
More on localized tech that we use directly day to day. All the things you mentioned are big scale things that need large economic inputs, some larger than entire small nations to get off the ground. While they can impact us, they are thing
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I'm not sure that it will ever go 'mainstream' but it looks like it will have a vibrant and stable future ahead. It is taking the slow boring but reliable path upwards. Better than crashing and burning.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
It was bound to happen. Think about it. What was the last big application on the Desktop? Chrome in 2008 is probably the last. The last really big advance in apps? Big new social media as you said? New communication paradigm. Heck Smart wat
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Apple, we "care about privacy". But we will take billions of dollar every year to keep your data funneled towards Google via the defaults. Steve Jobs was barely out the door before Cook ran to allow PRISM access, something Job&#x2
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Regarding No 2. That is very true but it is astounding just how much inertia is in the system that keeps iPhone going. Turns out that the curated experience of iPhone combined with a lot of fumbles from various android vendors has kept iPho
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by VelesDude 2y ago
It is also possible to keep safe guard in. You have to explicitly enable side loading side loading for instance.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I am down to Hacker news, local weather updates when I remember and the occasional wiki look up. A few podcasts . The local library is now more my jam. I have been tracking my data use and last year it was only 70GB. And I have trimmed a bi
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I will take the wheels popping off occasionally over whatever that 8-dimentional abyss of hell that is Windows 11.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
That is very cool, played far more than I thought I would. Great job! I always found it funny when you would leave the store it would have this fade out/shrink animation. It is the same transition I have on my desktop windows and for a
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I always say, I was so stupid/pointless - it had to be done!
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by VelesDude 2y ago
On top of all the other examples, Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shogi 2 was a cancelled SNES games from 1995 that was going to us a 21MHz ARMv3 processor for AI. I just like the idea that they would throw in a processor that was probably about 5-1
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Come join us in the free world of Linux (and related systems)... even if the wheel do pop off for like no reason some times.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
The cellphone is the one that concerns me personally the most. Even then I have locked that down as much as is viable. No needless apps. Deifnetly no social media. But there is still just the fact a locked baseband processor, operating syst
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I remember years back someone form Microsoft calling the windows code base "The Abyss" because of how much technical legacy there was in it. I think it was Steve Gibson who said that the Windows code base had some very questionabl
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Not surprised at all that this stuff sticks around. I find it very endearing actually. Ain't broke, don't fix it!
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Ed Zitron did a reasonable rant about why this is happening. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yeah, it is pretty bad in Oz now. My wife and I have fun every night playing our missed call messages to see what spam calls we got for the day.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
That is a neat exception that would be very handy. My phone now permanently lives in 'Do not disturb' mode as it at least filters based on contacts. But it doesn't help with other calls you want. It will still list the call i
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by VelesDude 2y ago
It was a few years back that the question came up to the developers of a Call of Duty title. "Is there still code from Quake 3 in COD?". They dodge around it by saying something like "we cannot deny this but e use the most ap
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Fixing one bug only to find the fix reveals another bug. Repeat til the end of time.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Going back to Windows XP is wild. Just how clean and pure it is. Clean boot and fire up the network connection. It check for an update... and that is it. Nothing more. My last daily driver Windows was 7 in about 2009 and now my only hands o
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by VelesDude 2y ago
There is the possibility for there to be a non standard valuation. A few decades where neither the US or another currency is dominant. Personally I still see the US dollar as having a lot of strength but that can change surprisingly quickly
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by VelesDude 2y ago
This can come across as Whataboutism. Whataboutism - 'The technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.'
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by VelesDude 2y ago
For the most part I have adopted the trope of 'the only way to win is not to play'. By that, I mean checkout of online life as much as possible. The issue is that if 95% of folks decide against building these systems of oppression

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