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by _zzaw 3y ago
https://archive.is/H1EI7
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by _zzaw 3y ago
I hadn't heard of Kaleidoscope, but this is one of those utilities that I might have bought if it had a lifetime license, even an expensive one. I won't spend even a second considering it now.
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by _zzaw 3y ago
Yeah, I'm conflicted about Ars. They present themselves as firmly on the side of user-friendliness and privacy, but they're not above scummy ad/tracker practices, autoplaying videos, and obnoxious popups. They also charge you
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by _zzaw 3y ago
I, uh...actually don't find it difficult to believe he spent $44 billion just to create a better version of Microsoft Tay.
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by _zzaw 3y ago
Fhfkdj: command not found
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by _zzaw 3y ago
You don't, technically speaking, pay for it, which is why it's making news lately. They give you a free TV crammed with ads and trackers. (It's a little amusing to me to see this discussed on Ars Technica, a site that is also
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by _zzaw 3y ago
Also: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/telly-free-smart-tv-privac... I'm looking forward to the threads about how people are hacking these things—perhaps "exorcising" is a better word—back to
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by _zzaw 3y ago
https://archive.is/Vyo5Q
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by _zzaw 3y ago
https://archive.is/HS1sF
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by _zzaw 3y ago
It's astonishing to me how many people wanted the heir to BeOS to look like Windows XP.
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by _zzaw 3y ago
I was being somewhat sarcastic, since at least for me, I don't use Twitter anymore. A lot of the people I followed on there left too. Yeah, it's a toxic shithole. I think paulpauper is partly correct that much of what makes Twitte
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by _zzaw 3y ago
TIL that Twitter still exists
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by _zzaw 3y ago
https://archive.is/i1SZQ
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by _zzaw 3y ago
I don't know, the stupidity here seems very believable. Someone whose proverbial uncle works at Nintendo wants to earn prophet points on one of the top Apple rumor forums? I'd buy it.
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by _zzaw 3y ago
My guess is that the account-deletion thing is them freaking out about (1) Apple's lawyers—which, assuming MacRumors's host has backups, is likely a futile gesture—and (2) random crazy people who will target them for whatever reas
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by _zzaw 3y ago
This is fantastic. I'm so sick of rentware; I think most of us are.
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by _zzaw 3y ago
That sounds pretty impressive until you remember that an ape did the same thing: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-succ...
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by _zzaw 3y ago
Yes, there's absolutely no downside to taking already disaffected, unemployed young men who can't find a wife, giving them weapons training, and then sending them off to a meat grinder somewhere from which they—well, some of them—
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by _zzaw 3y ago
https://archive.is/RZsmB
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by _zzaw 3y ago
Owning my content means it's on my local drive, like with Obsidian (or, well, Apple Notes). I realize that may not be the case with a web-based tool, like Notion or Asana; that is justifiable, but I'd like to know that from the ou
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by _zzaw 3y ago
This is a 500 MB app that demanded a login the first time I opened it. So I don't own my content, I guess? The author couldn't even take the time to provide any screenshots, or a brief overview—you have to sit through a video. Not
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by _zzaw 3y ago
https://archive.is/xUDjR
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by _zzaw 3y ago
https://archive.is/GwzSC
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by _zzaw 3y ago
No, I said the OS didn't look like something you'd use for heavy-duty development work. I was being a little sarcastic, but I was just amazed at all the people who spent ten seconds looking at this and said "this is useless,
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by _zzaw 3y ago
Yeah, this whole thread is why Hacker News has the "orangesite" reputation it does. I wouldn't have shared anything like this on here, and that is a criticism of HN, not projects like Mercury OS. I thought this was an interes
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by _zzaw 3y ago
I also suspect that there are more legislators than you'd think becoming very well acquainted with VPNs right now.
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by _zzaw 3y ago
https://archive.is/bz9nG
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by _zzaw 3y ago
> until a journalist went and ruined his life. That's a very strange way to describe a violent criminal finally being held accountable for years of theft.
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by _zzaw 3y ago
This is an absolutely fantastic app. No subscription bullshit or anything—does what it's supposed to, which is a lot. I think my favorite feature is the ability to include custom CSS for sites; really helps to hide adblock whine screen
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by _zzaw 3y ago
Musk has done a lot of stupid things, but I think the absolute stupidest was regarding Twitter users as freeloaders to be milked, mocked, or both. I doubt anybody would argue against finding ways to make Twitter profitable, but Twitter is o

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