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Urbit: A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century(urbit.org)
2 points by bleachedsleet 5y ago|0 comments
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Oh good, more out of touch drivel on the front page of HN so people can gently reminisce about the good ol’ days. This article is absurd, from premise to conclusion, and it took me a moment to realize it’s not a satire of itself. 1. Dropbox
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
This is a feature of HN which seems to be increasingly populated by an older crowd that enjoys pining for an imagined golden age of technology. I’m in the same boat: I love plain text, RSS, and Vim as much as the next guy, but the trend of
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
> there's no regulation, auditing or government backed guarantees / insurance on the exchanges. I consider this a feature, not a bug.
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
I worked for a time at an Apple Authorized repair shop and watches are not repaired. They’re inspected for warrantable damage, sent to Apple, inspected again for other warrantable damage on the internals, then replaced if authorized. You’re
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Could you explain why you think the fundamental concept is egregiously flawed?
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
This argument is as tired and old as the curmudgeonly people that make it. >With a technology that is extremely damaging to the entire planet for no reason… Not all blockchains are based on PoW. If you actually read even a brief summary
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Craft Extensions Developer Platform(craft-developer-portal.webflow.io)
1 points by bleachedsleet 5y ago|0 comments
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
One is Chrome, one is Webkit, and the third is completely custom. I do agree with your point below that unless the rendering engine is built from scratch, then the cost of the browser is still being subsidized, just higher up the chain. Nee
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
I’m currently beta testing two paid browsers and I’m about to be trying a third. We are seeing a bit of a golden age for software right now where it seems a certain subset of the population has become not only comfortable paying for it, but
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Sounds like a good idea for a DAO honestly
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New features to help you organize, find, and do more with your digital content(blog.dropbox.com)
2 points by bleachedsleet 5y ago|0 comments
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Calvinists would like a word ;)
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Or maybe they weren’t and you’re just making an appeal to antiquity out of misplaced nostalgia and recollections about some amorphous Golden Age that never quite existed as you remember.
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Also, if you do use biometrics and ever find yourself in a sticky situation most modern operating systems have built in features to quickly disable them on demand. iOS, for example, allows you to quickly disable Face/Touch ID by holdin
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
This is like saying Z$ should make every fiat speculator or holder very nervous. Crypto is huge. You can be involved without coming anywhere near USDT.
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
> And what's with all the flat design, we need skeumorphism and warmth back in industrial and UI design. I’d be interested to know your general age group. I have a theory that skeumorphism is a cross-generational design trend that s
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
I’m under 30 and certainly wouldn’t relegate L0pht to a mere footnote in history.
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Language cheapens itself when spoken cheaply. Abusing over the top terminology on minute areas of controversy will ultimately lesson the impact of your outrage when something actually bad comes along. Someone browsing healthcare plans avail
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
https://browser.kagi.com Not affiliated, but perhaps give them a try? There’s some immensely interesting projects in the space coming out these days.
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
If I tell you the sky is green the best way to refute that to your audience is to ignore me entirely as a person and instead tell people to go outside and look up: Show them some evidence and factually refute my claim. You don’t say “this m
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
GoT is explicitly mentioned and is used to make the author’s point.
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We built a custom Rust library for Capture(dropbox.tech)
2 points by bleachedsleet 5y ago|0 comments
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Freenet can be run through Tor using Onioncat as a virtual network. [0] [0] https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2016/08/18/using-freenet-over-tor....
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
It will be over, but it’s not over yet. Your link says that it will both take a while for it to come to market and also be more expensive to produce…an expense that will likely be balked at by the airlines until forced to use it at which po
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
Oh boy, wait until you learn it’s not just Chicago where they deploy this crap [1] [1] https://www.shotspotter.com/cities/
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
FaceTime is coming to the web https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22522889/apple-facetime-an...
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by bleachedsleet 5y ago
> The problem isn't that you need an alternative to PayPal, you need an alternative to Visa and MasterCard. Isn’t that exactly what crypto is?
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OnlyFans to prohibit sexually explicit content beginning in October(theverge.com)
2 points by bleachedsleet 5y ago|1 comments
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Volt: A tiny native desktop client for Slack, Discord, and more(volt-app.com)
17 points by bleachedsleet 5y ago|5 comments

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