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by bsimpson 1y ago
Stealing is when you take something from him, and he no longer has the thing you took. Piracy is when you see something for free that everyone else paid money for. You watching doesn't prevent anyone else from watching. Piracy isn&#x2
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I was in film school in the 00s, when the media companies were in the news for trying to bankrupt the families of high schoolers to make a point that piracy is bad. This was the "you wouldn't download a car" era, when they t
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by bsimpson 1y ago
From what I recall reading, it was a matter of market definition. They defined the Android app market to be all devices that run Android, and then said Google monopolized it; whereas the iOS market is just devices made by Apple. I don&#x27
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by bsimpson 1y ago
For those who haven't clicked through the article, the "Bell Labs" in question is apparently the maker of literal mousetraps; not the legend in telecom innovation you're thinking of.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
FWIW, it's rendering white-on-white for me. Looks like it's missing unless you select-all.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Seems like this may be a casualty of HN's "use the original article title" policy. If you read below the update, this post was from July. So whoever posted presumably did to draw attention to them losing the battle, but that
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Admittedly I don't follow Grok or spend time on Twitter, but… That just looks like a regular Twitter profile to me.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
From a product POV, GitHub seems like a solved problem. It's been working well-enough with the current feature set for over a decade, with many companies building themselves on top of its stack. If they stagnate in MS bureaucracy but
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by bsimpson 1y ago
That's how The Verge is reporting it: # GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation ## GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team. https://www
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I'm shocked this attack works. I thought the last 15 years of browser dev were largely isolating domains from each other to prevent cross-site attacks, and introducing consent flows for little used and/or dangerous platform featur
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Incognito shares the session, so if you have Facebook and shady sites open in incognito at the same time, you've reintroduced this attack vector. If you want real isolation, user browser profiles.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
As I recall, SVG was Adobe attempting to supplant Flash by publishing an open standard. It didn't work at the time, so they just bought Macromedia.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
AMD APUs can run stock Linux. All those SteamOS handhelds are on AMD.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Ticketmaster did the same. They don't accept Google Voice numbers, yet my only number is Google Voice. The number tied to my SIM is an implementation detail that changes depending on where I am, but it's the only way I can get i
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by bsimpson 1y ago
For years (and way more recently than is appropriate), the financial institution Schwab would silently truncate your password to 8 characters. If your password was 123lookatme, you could type 123lookaLITERALLYANYTHING and it would succeed.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
This sounds a lot like Steam, where the name on your profile page is a vanity string that you can change whenever you want, but the actual username in their system is an unrelated (and immutable) ID.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I think this is the talk I was referring to: https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g?si=8OfCdRmS2kmGjIbx
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by bsimpson 1y ago
As I recall, GitHub popularized (maybe even invented) the pull request. That's what enabled open source to take off - being able to send patches to (or even fork) other projects with minimal friction.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Look into toybox. It's a tiny reimplementation of GNU coreutils that ships in Android. The author was on the core team for another project in that space (I think busybox). He saw first hand how copyleft sounds good but ends up being l
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I haven't open sourced anything in a while, but at Google it's historically been pretty easy so long as you let Google put itself as the copyright holder and aren't in any legal minefields (e.g. emulators). You can actually
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by bsimpson 1y ago
People always joked that Incognito Mode is for porn, but I use it for search. I don't want to be in a group of people, someone asks me to look up how old some celebrity is, and then information about that person gets pushed to me by al
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I've wondered about that too. Feels like there's a risk to be stuck in some flavor of 2025 indefinitely, if the incentive to produce new content is eroded by the rise of LLMs.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I also graduated in 2008. Starting my adult life with the markets in freefall made it hard to get in the habit of investing. All through school, people told me "most people don't start investing until their 30s, and end up in a w
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by bsimpson 1y ago
As a fellow thirtysomething with plenty to say on this topic, I found your comment more interesting and more resonant than the article.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Switzerland has the most pristine roads of anywhere I've ever ridden. They also have a bonkers amount of road construction.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Wellbeing doesn't have a price tag. There's no amount of money someone could pay you to make up for your daughter dying early or your son becoming disabled. However, $329M sounds like an imaginary amount of money in a liability c
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by bsimpson 1y ago
ChromeOS Flex lets you install ChromeOS on hardware that wasn't blessed for it at the factory. I wonder if schools could install it over the top of Windows SE to save that hardware from becoming waste.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The other part that's missing in the US is infrastructure. It's taken a generation for acoustic bike lanes to be standard infrastructure in the US, and they've mostly been an exhaust valve. I spent the 2010s bike commuting i
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Mobile wasn't packaged for NixOS. I am curious why/if Valve hasn't used it for SteamOS's desktop mode though.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Both impressively and disappointingly, that seems to be literally one guy in Germany. https://gitlab.gnome.org/verdre/gnome-shell-mobile relevant https://xkcd.com/2347/

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