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by bisby 7y ago
If I bought a DVD and Disney bursts into my house and takes it, "Did you not already watch the movie? Was it not enjoyable?" is not an excuse. No one would assume as much. I would very much expect my money back. And if they push o
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by bisby 7y ago
I would assume it is just a regular website with some backend for federated discovery. I don't read many blogs but I would assume having tags or a "more like this" that search across the fediverse could be useful? Are those t
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by bisby 7y ago
I believe once you follow someone, you become federated with their instance. and you potentially receive all content from that instance... I think? there are also admin controls for managing moderation and federation.
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by bisby 7y ago
There is a concept of a federated timeline, which does get synced to your local instance. If you follow someone on a remote instance, that instance feeds content into your instance so it can be loaded.
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by bisby 8y ago
> The person who manufactured the device shouldn't since they didn't use the device to break the law. The issue at hand is that if the manufacturer is the one who turns on the device, then yes, it is 100% them breaking the law
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by bisby 8y ago
Is that natural instinct or societal training? If we start using non-female voices for voice assistants, maybe we can train people that a voice doesn't have to be female to be helpful. Otherwise if we use female voices because society
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by bisby 8y ago
Last night watching the launch I said to my friend: If I worked at SpaceX I would be second-guessing everything I'd ever done every time there was a launch. "Did I finish that weld good enough?" "Yes, we checked it 1000
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by bisby 8y ago
Perhaps it's not going to block Steam because they have an escape path. They were leaning heavily into UWP right around the time Steam for Linux became a big thing.
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by bisby 8y ago
I imagine the stance is that Linux is meant to be a backup plan to Microsoft closing things down. WSL keeps you locked in with Microsoft. It has the benefits of easing someone into Linux so they can migrate to Linux full time. But it doesn&
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by bisby 8y ago
I was reading through the Handbrake changelog and noticed it mentioned changes to how blurays are handled on linux... So I tried to rip a bluray and it worked. Hopefully I can survive without MakeMKV now.
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by bisby 8y ago
I did this by moving across the country. Anytime I get a call that is "local" to my phone number, I know it is not for me. (sometimes spam, sometimes misdial, never someone I know (I have all their numbers in my phone already)). A
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by bisby 8y ago
According to the SpaceX stream, it was a combination of satellite weight, high orbit, and inclination change (tilting the orbit)
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by bisby 8y ago
I was running an on-prem jira. But I felt like I was doing something completely wrong because it was so unbearably slow. I was slightly embarrassed that it was on me that this was running so slow. Our team grew to the point where we needed
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by bisby 8y ago
It's less about "why would I use ansible?" and more about "why wouldn't I use docker?" That heavily depends on if this is a "learn new tech" thing or not. Some people view setting up a blog as a chall
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by bisby 8y ago
From what I'm reading "considering how good Wine was getting" was because valve was paying devs to work on it. Also, it's nice because basically they've given this all back to the open source community, so it doubly
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by bisby 8y ago
If you give me a black box of code, and I can't tell the difference, I don't care what is in the box. The primary things to be concerned about are A) support (which sounds like valve is covering themselves, not that they are notor
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by bisby 8y ago
The top reasons I've seen indie devs mention for doing linux support are either "I write the code on linux, so it makes sense to have the game work there" or "I do it because it's the right thing to do to make my pa
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by bisby 8y ago
The dev commented on reddit that once he got Nier into a working state, Valve contacted him.
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by bisby 8y ago
Only 1321 fps? Compatibility layers always add such a terrible performance hit.
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by bisby 8y ago
I mean we pre-render our text before it hits the browser. So if you have JS disabled, you still get text. Also, HN has a completely different userbase than most websites. The biggest complaint about Android in the early days was "it ha
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by bisby 8y ago
3) not all readers just want plain text and there are JS based features that actually appeal to readers. Things like backgrounded next page loading may not seem appealing to you, but stuff like that does fall into the category of "peop
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by bisby 8y ago
I mean, if this was a one in a million chance of happening, and there have been billions of conversations happening near devices like these, I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often. If you have an echo and it kicks on unexpe
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by bisby 8y ago
I need to have slack and a few other apps when I'm on call... well, i dont REALLY. all the on call apps we use have SMS/phone fallbacks, but having some native tools for handling these things is definitely a lot more convenient. B
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by bisby 8y ago
Not offering the refund at all is the a great opportunity to never have the chance with the customer to begin with. If you view it as a "return", there are plenty of studies that show that having a more open return policy is just
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by bisby 8y ago
Matrix/Riot have been what I've been wanting for a long time. My biggest issue at the moment is that communications is an intrinsically social thing. Getting friends and family to swap when there are all these minor polish issues
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by bisby 8y ago
That is exactly what I would do. The issue arises when some semi-technical person reads this blog and their response is: "it's like .com or .org, but it has some stuff in there to make it more secure, and it's managed by Goog
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by bisby 8y ago
The downside I found to parcellite is that it doesn't handle images at all. Instead I've been stuck using xfce4-clipman, even though I've actually wanted to switch to parcellite so I can have a less DE specific solution.
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by bisby 8y ago
When grandparents start seeing .app urls, they are going to be naturally wary. And they might even avoid clicking them. Then someone is going to ask about them to someone who is only partially tech savvy. And that someone will tell them tha
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by bisby 8y ago
Because telling my grandma ".app urls are safer because Google" is like saying "here's a loaded handgun, but the safety is on, go nuts!" actually that's a bad example because even then my grandma knows to be ca
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by bisby 9y ago
there's a huge difference between anonymity when someone is looking for you and anonymity in general. As you've mentioned, if someone wants to track you through Tor, that's still potentially possible. But that's a comple

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