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by apostacy 8y ago
I totally respect OpenBSD and their commitment to security and stability. However, the thing holding me back is that they've dropped some features over the years that I relied on. I used OpenBSD on a netbook and it was awesome. But I r
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by apostacy 8y ago
Having thought about it, I think it's more of a Brooklyn startup thing.
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by apostacy 8y ago
Yes, but I think that UX is a particularly toxic vector for unqualified people. UX people are often good at dazzling upper management. What they do is vague enough that it can be hard to nail down a failure condition. Everyone wants the new
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by apostacy 8y ago
Of course. I think the problem though is the culture surrounding UX that empowers unqualified people to make messes.
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by apostacy 8y ago
That's the thing, this is what it is almost always like. Anyone who calls themselves a UX designer and is under 25 has just been insufferable. And they just assume that older technology must be inferior, because it is old. They use obs
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by apostacy 8y ago
I'm honestly terrified that America's nuclear missile silos are going to get "upgraded". Let them keep their 8 inch floppies and text interfaces, for the love of god. It works fine the way it is.
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by apostacy 8y ago
If most UX designers took the time to listen and understand people's needs, then this wouldn't be such an issue. But in my experience, there is a culture of hubris in the UX community. I doubt most UX designers have ever even used
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by apostacy 8y ago
In reality though, most UX designers will just try to transform an interface that people have been using for 30 years into a phone interface, and then smugly dismiss any criticism. "You'll get used to it" "It's the
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by apostacy 8y ago
This attitude might have some validity if updates were of higher quality, and they could be rolled back at will. But the truth is, these days, updates are rolling the dice with your computer. Major features are removed, and new bugs introdu
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by apostacy 8y ago
I think another factor is just that Chrome's speed changed the landscape of web design itself, which fed back into Chrome's popularity. By making javascript so much faster, it allowed web designers to do things that only Chrome co
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by apostacy 8y ago
Yeah, I remember that Quartz was far more advanced than X. My favorite at the time, e16, never supported translucency or transparency very well. But I love that it tried. It's probably nostalgia talking, but I miss the gnarly desktops
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by apostacy 8y ago
While I agree with Mozilla's decision, the reason that there are rules is so that it isn't arbitrary. Who is to say who is trustworthy? What if Mozilla wants to charge a fee or else they will remove someone? Those circumstances wo
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by apostacy 8y ago
I've had and seen the coolest desktops on Linux and other unicies. If you're knowledgeable, you have available to you some amazing things. Linux did lag in performance, but features like virtual desktops, notifications, transparen
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by apostacy 8y ago
I work for a fairly high traffic website, and we got a demonstration a few weeks ago from a company that is offering to install software for us that can force about 80% of our ads through, with minimal modification on our part. It is this p
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by apostacy 8y ago
Yeah, I agree. I seriously doubt they will take the inconvenient open-ish intel architecture to arm.
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by apostacy 8y ago
It is such an outrage that it is now just taken for granted that your hardware and software will be remotely attacked by the manufacturer. It doesn't even raise eyebrows anymore. And looking at the Sonos debacle, I don't think the
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by apostacy 8y ago
I agree, there are more than enough people to just make the less well known places overcrowded.
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by apostacy 8y ago
About 7 years ago, I wanted to take some online classes with a community college to get a few credits I needed at another institution. I enrolled in classes, but then changed my mind and never paid the tuition. I assumed, like most colleges
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by apostacy 8y ago
As disturbing as I find this situation, I think that it is a bad idea to force companies to block photos and videos of children to be uploaded.
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by apostacy 8y ago
I am honestly very curious about what file structure you use for your ebooks. After 500 or so, I threw up my hands and just wrote some Perl scripts to flatten the filenames into something meaningful, and threw them into a big git-annex repo
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by apostacy 8y ago
I spent so many years yearning. It was so unfair that all of the other kids had Pentium computers at home, and all I had was an old 386. My parent's refused to get me a game console, or cable tv. I was SO BORED, in my desperation, I tr
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by apostacy 8y ago
Thank you! I feel gaslit even talking about this! Mention this online, and you will get a torrent of people telling you that you must be doing something wrong, and even if it is true Google probably has a good reason that is just beyond our
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by apostacy 8y ago
How is that simple? I know a lot of developers that couldn't easily do that.
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by apostacy 8y ago
Is it reasonable to fail if you can't access a specific DNS server? This is unexpected behavior. And I don't have access to the /etc/resolv.conf on my Chromecast, that's the problem! Anyway, there's a new threa
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by apostacy 8y ago
Um, the pi-hole wasn't specifically targeted. They just wouldn't accept anything other than Google's DNS. Some ISPs will do DNS hijinks too, like transparently intercepting port 53 traffic and re-routing it.
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by apostacy 8y ago
This isn't a case of an IOT device though. My Chromecast went through massive amount of trouble to use Google's DNS servers, to serve ads behind my pi-hole. It would respect all of my DHCP parameters, but silently ignore DNS setti
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by apostacy 8y ago
You seem sincere, and I didn't mean to be rude. I'm just wrapping up for the day and have to leave soon, so I can't give a very complete reply. > For what it's worth, I have no doubt that trolls have tried to hide beh
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by apostacy 8y ago
See, this is a major flaw, because the definitions of harassment are further obfuscated. By having exceptions for bad behavior based on the self-identified identity of those involved, you are leaving open room for abuse. This ambiguity and
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by apostacy 8y ago
I have seen some of my favorite free software disappeared by its creator when they decide they want to sell it. Synergy comes to mind, but at least they are making a minimal effort to honor the GPL. Also AxCrypt. I don't think that cre
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by apostacy 8y ago
It reminds me of this article: https://external-brain.redwolf.com.au/2002/06/26/cd-pirates-... Published in a mainstream Australian Newspaper (But they've since deleted it). These journalists are outrag

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