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by captn3m0 2y ago
The podcast/article: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ John Gruber has a nice tldr: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/24/zitron-google-s...
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by captn3m0 2y ago
My favourite was Crunchbang, which was a rolling distro based on Debian Sid iirc, but it was retired a while ago. Current favourite is Arch or Endeavour depending on whether you count Endeavour as a separate OS. Does Steam OS 3 count? They
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by captn3m0 2y ago
this should count as false advertising.
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by captn3m0 2y ago
I use Tofu on iOS and it nicely migrated my tokens from a iPhone SE to a 13 Mini. It does not do iCloud backups, so it was a straight device to device transfer.
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The Abandoned Scranton Lace Factory – Abandoned America(abandonedamerica.us)
3 points by captn3m0 2y ago|0 comments
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by captn3m0 2y ago
This is one of the reasons I like CC. Even the most restrictive Creative Commons license, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 explicitly allows format changes as they are not considered a derivative. For everything else, I just write scripts that generate eboo
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by captn3m0 2y ago
I’ve been using https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos , which converts each language list to an Issue on GitHub which you can subscribe to. And while GitHub doesn’t have RSS feeds for issues, there’s a bunch
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by captn3m0 2y ago
GitHub has trending repos published at https://github.com/trending Which are categorised by their main programming language. Since GitHub doesn’t publish RSS feeds, this is a third-party RSS feed for the same.
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by captn3m0 2y ago
https://www.suse.com/lifecycle#suse-linux-enterprise-server-... is yet to be updated, but it does mention SP7 LTSS ending in 2031 (the article claims SP6 LTSS ending in 2038, which would be quite contradictory). Maybe we wi
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by captn3m0 2y ago
https://whichjdk.com/ is an excellent resource that guides users to the various JDK builds from different parties, and which one to pick. Specifically, their recommendations for various Oracle builds are to stay away.
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by captn3m0 2y ago
I learned recently that Apple shreds old devices instead of selling them to keep the price of old-iPhones artificially inflated by limiting supply. https://www.ifixit.com/News/94386/the-truth-about-apples-fre...
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by captn3m0 2y ago
You can set per-app Accessibility settings as well, but sadly Color Filter is a global configuration.
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by captn3m0 2y ago
TIL OBEX is older than Bluetooth.
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by captn3m0 2y ago
Felix is an Arch Linux Developer: https://archlinux.org/people/developers/ so this has a decent chance of fulfilling the “merge back to Arch” plan. I wish this was a thing for ARM as well (ArchLinux ARM is a great
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by captn3m0 2y ago
I’ve been wanting to make a similar indicator for the work I do at endoflife.date. IMO, a realistic upgradability metric would be linked to the “hardness of the upgrade to a supported version”, which is much harder to answer and quite con
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by captn3m0 2y ago
An extension like Feed Preview also works well: https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee...
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OpenSSL Releases Distribution Changes(openssl.org)
4 points by captn3m0 2y ago|1 comments
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by captn3m0 2y ago
Wasn’t there a TLS extension in draft for verifiable archiving (like DKIM for HTTPS responses). Can’t seem to find it now, but that could help with supporting an authenticated link-preview that doesn’t amplify on reach other servers.
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by captn3m0 2y ago
Wait, if this is AOSP powered, don’t they have to publish the kernel sources under GPL?
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by captn3m0 2y ago
> In both cases, she used sophisticated tradecraft that sought to leave no trace in databases accessible to European authorities. For instance, she booked her trips and bought her plane tickets using her Czech passport, registering only
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by captn3m0 2y ago
R53 is great but doesn’t support a lot of the newer TLDs.
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Gukesh and Tan Zhongyi Are Officially the World Championship Challengers(lichess.org)
5 points by captn3m0 3y ago|0 comments
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by captn3m0 3y ago
Another way out for Apple is to limit iOS upgrades to newer phones, forcing device upgrades on customers. I really hope they don’t go down this path.
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by captn3m0 3y ago
A new Mini with under-display TouchID
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by captn3m0 3y ago
pg applying the change and failing to persist it (in case of a write failure) is the acceptable behaviour probably? Write failures leading to alter failures would count as a surprise. But after disabling alter system, you can use permissio
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by captn3m0 3y ago
Using the repo prefix allows them to put the same auth on uploads. So if you don’t have access to a repo, you can’t access files uploaded in its issues either.
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by captn3m0 3y ago
Being a non-profit is a huge advantage to Signal as they are not beholden to profits or shareholders. A messaging app that is used by millions worldwide, is a very juicy target for profit making via advertising otherwise. Meredith (Signal p
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by captn3m0 3y ago
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/israel-government... > When asked if the companies could shut down services, attorney Zviel Ganz of the legal department at the Finance Ministry said such scenarios ha
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by captn3m0 3y ago
Israel also has an anti-protest clause in the contract, to keep Google in the contract in face of any protests or demonstrations.
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by captn3m0 3y ago
Older devices can keep working without additional features and get the latest iOS still. I think there were several phones that got upgraded to the latest iOS without Siri for eg.

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