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by ajdude 5y ago
It's gotten so bad on iOS I registered an easy-to-type .com TLD and spun up a libreddit instance on it. Now I just have to double-tap "reddit" in the url and bang out 6 random characters and hit "enter". I was so
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by ajdude 5y ago
As others have mentioned[0], this happens even when search suggestions have already been disabled. I’m pretty disappointed over this, I’m not moving to a chrome based browser but I wish we had more options. [0] https://news.ycomb
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by ajdude 5y ago
After checking out the link, I went to view the comments but I accidentally opened up another HN thread. I thought that I was reading satire based on this link, until I realized it was a whole set of different acronyms for a different artic
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by ajdude 5y ago
What I think is going on here, is that Telegram is hard coding the qwerty shortcuts for italics, Bold, etc. so ctrl+c on Dvorak actually causes telegram to process ctrl+i, italicizing the highlighted text instead of copying it to the clipbo
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Ctrl+ commands do not respect alternative keyboard layout; ctrl c maps to ctrl i(bugs.telegram.org)
3 points by ajdude 5y ago|1 comments
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by ajdude 5y ago
As someone who browses the internet by default without any JavaScript enabled, I also find it jarring when websites do this. I understand that some webapps absolutely need JavaScript to function, but I wish it was handled with a bit more ta
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by ajdude 5y ago
I dropped Spotify after that Facebook fiasco, now I just listen to my local college radio. The website does a good job of telling me what music they’re playing, and it ranges throughout the day from old-school jazz to techno or new age. Th
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by ajdude 5y ago
Apple should provide a “find my” app on android that not only detects rouge airtags but lets you participate in tracking your, and other’s, airtags like an iPhone can.
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Setting Up Windows for Remote Rust Development(codentium.com)
1 points by ajdude 5y ago|0 comments
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by ajdude 5y ago
My issue with the I don’t care about cookies add-on is that it auto accepts all of the marketing and tracking cookies, doesn’t it? I would love something that auto declines everything.
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Apple Bans the Quran in China(twitter.com)
56 points by ajdude 5y ago|22 comments
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by ajdude 5y ago
I got so sick of Reddit’s web interface pushing me to use their app or preventing me from reading threads on my phone unless I logged in, I registered a 6-character .com for the sole purpose of hosting my own libreddit instance. So if I am
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by ajdude 5y ago
Some years ago I went to the dentist and had to get x-rays done on my teeth. After a fair bit of time going through all of the different angles, the technician apologized to me and said that we have to do it all again. The computer tied to
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by ajdude 5y ago
Thank you so much for finding this, I have been trying to find it again for over a decade! I was just telling someone about the study a couple days ago.
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by ajdude 5y ago
I always remember the HN comment[0] where developer explained which video was the breaking point that pushed them into creating this app, and it was kurzgesagt of all authors. I am personally wondering if Yourube themselves are going to sta
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Google has killed Discord's best music bot(pcgamer.com)
114 points by ajdude 5y ago|63 comments
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NASA Is Recruiting for Yearlong Simulated Mars Mission(nasa.gov)
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by ajdude 5y ago
> While the difference between innocent images and something explicit easy for a human to identify, I’m not sure I’d trust AI to understand that nuance. I recall a story several years ago where someone was getting the film developed at a
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by ajdude 5y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/APzgD > turned out that the retired Portland, Ore., neurologist ― who had treated Alzheimer’s patients before he was diagnosed with the disease himself in 2015 ― was experiencing some of
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Retired neurologist with Alzheimer’s knows firsthand the risks of Biogen’s drug(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by ajdude 5y ago|1 comments
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by ajdude 5y ago
I think the point the parent comment was trying to make was, consider if you are storing data in North Korea; it’s 2010 and your encryption scheme is considered secure. At some point, North Korea has copied the encrypted data for later data
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by ajdude 5y ago
When I was in undergrad, my psychology professor gave me a list of books[0] to read; “if you read these books, you’ll be one of the smartest people in the world.” I actually noticed one of the books on that list! [0] https://web.
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by ajdude 5y ago
> The unidentified perpetrators managed to break through the company’s high security standards and access internal data, including the addresses and contractual data of customers, partners, employees, and external suppliers. > Also af
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Information Regarding the Cyber-Attack on Spread Group(spreadgroup.com)
2 points by ajdude 5y ago|1 comments
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A Google Drive Update Might Break All Your Links(gizmodo.com)
1 points by ajdude 5y ago|0 comments
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by ajdude 5y ago
You’re getting downvoted but I’ve seen this even with Firefox and Ubuntu lately. No, I don’t want to log into a web account! Then you have stuff like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114194
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by ajdude 5y ago
I found myself several times this morning to reach a search result on Reddit (from ddg, mind you), only to immediately change the address to reddit.net after being unable to view nested comments at best (get the app or log in to view!) or b
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by ajdude 5y ago
You should check out the interview with GPT-3; it’s impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqbB07n_uQ4 We can even solve math problems not because it’s programmed to but because it learned math by reading Wikipedia.
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All unlisted YouTube videos uploaded before 2017 will be made private July 23rd(reddit.com)
15 points by ajdude 5y ago|2 comments
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by ajdude 5y ago
And in fact the battery method has been proven to work to solve Australia's power issue (thanks Elon!).

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