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by beagle3 5y ago
My “desktop” of the last 8 1/2 is an MBP. Perfectly usable, does mail and web and zoom and a couple more things perfectly well. Only 8GB of ram, but Safari seems to become faster and require less resources with each update (Firefox ….
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by beagle3 5y ago
Never gave mine either, but that’s the strength of FB: you don’t even need to have an account. They know everything about you because your friends, family and colleagues gave them that information.
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by beagle3 5y ago
That used to be true, but hasn’t been in a while. My 6s got snappier with iOS 13 and snappier still with 14. Haven’t tried 15 yet.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Did it get feature updates? Security updates? FWIW, the iPhone 6S (first avail oct 2015) gets iOS 15 ; and iPhone 6 still got a security update in mid 2021 despite being out of feature support.
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by beagle3 5y ago
My daughter inherited my 4S from 10 years ago that was sitting in the drawer for 6 years now since I got my 6s (the week it came out, oct 2015). She’s bot yet 12. The 4S never had a screen or battery change. It’s battery doesn’t last long w
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by beagle3 5y ago
Israel has 25% or so of the population below age 12 which are thus ineligible. Israel is much, much younger than the rest of the world, statistically speaking.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Is there anything among these that incorporates a basic configurable firewall policy? In the more distant past, I used sshuttle to create “one way” poor man’s VPN; it is slow, but it was enough to saturate the remote connections I had at th
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by beagle3 5y ago
Yea and no. Consider mathematical notation. That digit 2 could mean “power of 2” if it’s small and upper right of an object; “index 2” if small and bottom right. “Multiply by 2” if regular sized and to the left - very confusing! Indeed, it
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by beagle3 5y ago
Incredibly unlikely. The backup is AFAIK an SQLite file that contains the text messages (and indexes, etc). The bigger files - images, videos and voice messages - are not included in that backup, and are backed up independently to Google Ph
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by beagle3 5y ago
That's correct. And yet ... back then, Google couldn't read your messages; Facebook couldn't read your backup; And hackers or law enforcement would need to both get a copy of the blob from Google and the key from Facebook - n
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by beagle3 5y ago
Religions do seem to get a pass, though - I’ve never seen accusations of people being “Jewish nationalist” or “Christian nationalist” or “Muslim nationalist” for expressing wishes their kids will marry within the religious “nations”. There
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by beagle3 5y ago
It used to be encrypted before upload to google, and then … one day it just wasn’t (but came with the “candy” that it no longer counts against your account quota). I could never found any explanation for this, best hypothesis I found is tha
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by beagle3 5y ago
But value is not absolute. I broke my 6s home key last year. The phone was 5 years old at this point. Apple would fix it, for $200 or so. A local guy fixed it for $30. But there is a difference (I was made aware of by both Apple and local g
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by beagle3 5y ago
But when your iDevice breaks, you don’t necessarily go to Apple to fix it. Increasingly more, yes, but iPhone screen and battery replacements on the cheap are common where I live (compared to Apple costs). Mac repairs aren’t anymore, but no
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by beagle3 5y ago
I’ll counter with a question: do you tip when you buy a new laptop? At the grocery store when buying milk? If so, how much? If not, why not? As a customer, I want to know the real costs ahead of time. As an employee (last received tips some
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by beagle3 5y ago
Because one of those successful conspiracies was to brand the natural word “conspiracy” to imply craziness.
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by beagle3 5y ago
It is wrong if it doesn’t replicate; it might not be fraudulent. But it is not right. If it doesn’t replicate, it should be relegated to “less than observational” level evidence. Why would you believe that the assumed intervention had the c
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by beagle3 5y ago
That’s a strawman. Reproducibility does not require determinism. If you can’t find the parameters that make it reproducible, what value does it have in the first place?
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by beagle3 5y ago
FLTK is retained. It’s, from my experience, the sanest of all toolkits - much easier and simpler to use than almost any other, for 98% of tasks, and usually faster. Back in 1998(!) when I started using it, it was also the only flicker free
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by beagle3 5y ago
Iirc polar (getpolarized.io, I think) does that. I was going to test it, but their v2 dropped local storage in favor of cloud only, so I lost interest.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Regardless of whether it is effective or not, something weird is happening around it policy wise. E.g., in Israel, it is explicitly contra indicated for covid, and has in effect become a “dangerous drug” requiring a district doctor’s approv
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by beagle3 5y ago
Iirc Canada doesn’t actually have a private system, does it? Israel has an excellent, though very unpleasant, free public system; and also a parallel private system that’s as expensive as the US (but that has a very distinct use profile be
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by beagle3 5y ago
That may or may not be true. I am now in Israel, where I had much better outcomes than when I was in the US (with excellent insurance). Anecdotal, but I know many stories of Israelis who moved back to Israel with first diagnosis of a seriou
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by beagle3 5y ago
In Israel (9m pop), non of the banks available to the general public (Poalim, Leumi, Discount, Iggud/Mizrahi) will let you do anything other than a checking account and a saving account. Perhaps a loan but definitely no holdings; and s
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by beagle3 5y ago
Politics was always in everything. The internet happened, and now you can discuss things and get facts and opinions from sides you previously couldn’t, with not much more than a click.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Lobster isn’t a new language - it’s probably a decade old by now - although this GC system is relatively recent (3 years or so, I think) Nim switched to a similar GC system recently, arc/orc ; And iiuc, this is similar to rust’s borrow
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by beagle3 5y ago
It is awesome. I like it better. It only deduplicates though. Does not compress.
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by beagle3 5y ago
All of these stories were already ancient when this book was published 4 decades ago. So in that sense, it hasn’t aged at all. But it is also not true that it is only based on that. It also builds on then-contemporary research about schizop
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by beagle3 5y ago
Likely not ; they might be, by chance - but the exploits are often for bugs in places like media parsing libraries (e.g. jpeg decoder), which are not usually modified in those alternatives. Different compile settings might render an exploit
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by beagle3 5y ago
This is likely a good thread to ask: what’s a good way to get Telegram without an identifying phone number?

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