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by apostacy 10y ago
> MIT is only giving up half of this mother lode, so each student merely is allocated ~700 each. MIT also claims 14m of those IPs have never been used in internet history. Good. I didn't realize how many ip addresses they have. I th
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by apostacy 10y ago
A student ran an IRC server (necromancy.poly.edu) that anyone could connect to from outside the network, if they used their student VPN. I love that that was possible. There were so many cool projects that their network facilitated. I went
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by apostacy 10y ago
That's too bad. I think universities should make these resources that they've been granted available to students and researchers. Last time I was at the MIT media lab for a conference, I was able to get an unfirewalled external ip
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by apostacy 10y ago
Some people are getting hit with paywalls. So here is the full text of the article: It’s hard to find examples of worse decision-making and customer treatment than United Airlines having a passenger dragged from an overbooked plane. But Uni
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by apostacy 10y ago
Most of those problems have been replicated with HTML5. Yes, HTML5 can do some cool things. But I also find myself missing flash sometimes. HTML5 was not a replacement. And, based on the direction things are going, I think it's only a
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by apostacy 10y ago
I don't buy that anymore. In theory, it makes sense, but, the idea that it is ok to force users to update has been used to justify so much crap. Just off the top of my head, I've seen so many "home users" get burned. My
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by apostacy 10y ago
> P.S: oh, and if electron is flash, remember that flash won the web for 15 years while it sucked. And you know why ? Because it allowed people to do stuff they wanted easily, like videos and animations. And it's not because we coul
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by apostacy 10y ago
The description of what an update contains is often dishonest. They don't mention the features they remove, even in small print. Also, they are highly deceptive in how they push them on us. Finally, my computer is important to me, and
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by apostacy 10y ago
I miss those days. You used to be able to deinstall windows updates, and other updates as well. I would confidently install new updates, secure in the knowledge that if it broke something, I could roll it back. But Microsoft has so little f
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by apostacy 10y ago
I hope she is OK now. I was horrified to see that certain people on IRC were egging her on, when this all started.
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by apostacy 10y ago
I honestly would not have been surprised to find out that Apple automatically created iCloud IDs for people if they didn't have one already.
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by apostacy 10y ago
This is a major flaw with a lot of technology now. The assumption that you will have an internet connection. It's horribly inefficient, especially when we have robust p2p wireless protocols.
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by apostacy 10y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your Roku. Whenever I get a device, I now have to spend time backing up as much as I can, for the inevitable "upgrades" that will hit me. With Android devices, you should always copy all of the .apk fi
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by apostacy 10y ago
The device is useless without the app. They disabled the device.
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by apostacy 10y ago
> What is it about pushing diversity that puts people in a near-constant defensive/attack posture? (emphasis mine) I think your answer is embedded in your question. It is human nature to respond with hostility to things being &quo
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by apostacy 10y ago
Well, I couldn't. I deeply regret not rooting it when it was on iOS8. I was given it by my work specifically for development, and wanted it to be pure, so I installed flux by signing it with my developer account, and sideloaded it with
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by apostacy 10y ago
Thank you for sharing that article. However, I don't see how the algorithm is itself racist. That is like, if I give you glasses to put on, and through those glasses, you observe racism. That doesn't mean that the glasses made rac
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by apostacy 10y ago
I have never really brought it when they say that they are disabling some feature because they can't support it, as if there's an avalanche of phonecalls that is swamping their tech support resources. By that logic, why don't
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by apostacy 10y ago
It makes me sad that people on the Internet always try to find some justification for Apple's decisions. It is nonsense that there's some special requirement for this. Apple decided to do this because they could. I used Flux to di
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by apostacy 10y ago
I would strongly suspect that there is absolutely no technical justification for this decision at all. This was a political and marketing decision, to punish customers who use third party devices. This falls neatly into line with Apple&#x27
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by apostacy 10y ago
Apple forcibly prevented flux from working on iOS. [1] It worked fine on my iPad 2. Apple killed it, and then withheld the feature from me until I brought a new iPad. It would be like if they reached into your computer and locked the sound
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by apostacy 10y ago
I agree, but, I think that the reason that things got this bad in the first place was because we let them set the rules for what a web browser should be. Firefox was the first major browser that didn't include an email reader, a news r
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by apostacy 10y ago
I like the idea of that, but, Mozilla is absolutely abandoning what made Firefox amazing. They are embracing this strange thing where they think that they are a for-profit app platform, like Google, when they aren't. So they're lo
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by apostacy 10y ago
> At the time that Firefox started really turning heads, it took an order of magnitude less money to build a better browser. JIT innovations that were once just good research ideas... Is that really how things are, though? Isn't it
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by apostacy 10y ago
All you can do is gently request that the google updater deamon (keystone agent) please not update. It is still running. And the way to disable it is very obscure, and no user would be able to discover how to disable it on their own. If you
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by apostacy 10y ago
Because I hate it when features are irreversibly changed, at random. Which is what happens with "evergreen" software. I don't care if it only happens occasionally. Never is better than occasionally. I want the peace of mind t
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by apostacy 10y ago
Those are all really good ideas, and I've had some similar thoughts myself. But, they won't be added to Firefox unless they are first added to Chrome, and they certainly won't be added to Chrome. Firefox was I believe the fir
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by apostacy 10y ago
This is the strategy Microsoft tried over a decade ago with ActiveX. And Firefox saved us. It was starting to be normalized, to have to install ActiveX controls to view certain content. Companies like CinemaNow[1] offered Netflix-like strea
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by apostacy 10y ago
I use Netflix, simply because it is slightly more convenient than what I used to do, torrenting. I'm willing to pay for that convenience. Besides, they said that the Apple Music Store couldn't survive without DRM. And then one day
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by apostacy 10y ago
I used CallRec. It wasn't easy to get it working. After rooting my phone, I had to spend hours making other tweaks. And of course the software ecosystem is so fragmented, and if you do want to find anything out, you have to sift throug

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