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by cmsj 14y ago
No my beef is with my web browsers for allowing obnoxious things to happen. They take stands on things like blocking popups, why not clipboard interference and context menu blocking?
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by cmsj 14y ago
Just one more reason to abandon the extraordinary towering failure that is Firefox ;)
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by cmsj 14y ago
Allow me to show you a viable proposal for an alternative: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/apturl.8.ht...
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by cmsj 14y ago
To be fair, some of this is driven by real needs. People want fast boots, so you have to work tightly in parallel. That requires a clear and complex dependency graph. That requires significantly more than some symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/. Also
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by cmsj 14y ago
Of course that is always a risk, but with most FOSS software being maintained in public revision control systems, it's difficult to truly hide something. Even if you discard the security angle of wget | bash (which you would be a foolish ch
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by cmsj 14y ago
Changing the prefix still doesn't mean that each app is sandboxed. That is what the parent comment was talking about. You can't do rm -rf /usr/homebrew/$SOMEAPP/ and know that it is all gone.
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by cmsj 14y ago
Out of interest, does anyone know of a Mac utility which will intercept the default paste shortcut and pop up a confirmation of what is going to be pasted, with a really quick interface to the previous few items that were copied to the clip
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by cmsj 14y ago
I was expecting it to be done with Javascript, which is, afaik, how the horrible websites that tack a URL and a "this quote came from blah" attribution, work. I hate all of this stuff and it is greatly saddening that browser vendors are not
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by cmsj 14y ago
Out of interest, what is confusing? If you select text it always goes into the selection buffer. If you also press the clipboard copy shortcut (so, Ctrl-C most of the time, sometimes Ctrl-Shift-C in a terminal) the selection is copied into
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by cmsj 14y ago
It's interesting that we still look at platforms through the lens of Microsoft's Windows. That was a platform which achieved market dominance and generated huge revenues for its creators by way of significant licensing costs. They then also
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by cmsj 14y ago
Hover.com
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by cmsj 14y ago
Are we being a bit condescending by insinuating that points earned or facebook walls commented on, is not productive? I'm sure you cure cancer with every 5th keystroke of your best selling novels and crush awesome ruby code for breakfast. Y
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by cmsj 14y ago
Author likes dual monitors therefore tablets are a fad. This is nonsense. There will always be powernerds who want expensive keyboards and 15 million pixels of desktop. Tablets are not currently productive... for us Now watch ordinary peo
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by cmsj 14y ago
I would say you should own your own domain and only use services which can hang off your domain. That way you get the convenience of third party services, but any time you want/need to, you can shift to self-host without having to change y
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by cmsj 14y ago
Boing Boing generally is ridiculous because Cory Doctorow ;)
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by cmsj 14y ago
Indeed. This headline is entirely misleading. TM2 is being developed under the GPLv3, that means it is not only Open Source, but it is fully Free Software. The author (or indeed anyone else) may choose to sell binaries, but they cannot in
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by cmsj 14y ago
blogger complains about linkbait apple stories in a linkbait apple story :)
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by cmsj 14y ago
Yes and no, depending on how you define privacy. The accidental privacy of the past, is dead and gone. Secrecy is the new privacy.
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by cmsj 14y ago
Please do pledge! I really want to play the game and having a Mac port would be even sweeter!
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by cmsj 14y ago
Thinking about it, there is a possible way out if you don't have separate iTunes/iCloud accounts already. If you're not using the email address on the iCloud account with all your iTunes purchases, simply sign yourself up to a new one and m
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by cmsj 14y ago
Don't sign other peoples' device into your iCloud account. What you want is to have each person have their own iCloud account, but then do all the iTunes store purchases under a separate account. This is obviously tricky if you already have
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by cmsj 14y ago
There are also ways to convert an X11 compose configuration into Cocoa keyboard shortcuts. Google around. it's not a ton of fun, but it's very doable :)
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by cmsj 14y ago
The 17" isn't what I would call portable ;) The thing is a wall of metal!
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by cmsj 14y ago
$1700 is retina MacBook Pro territory!
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by cmsj 14y ago
Let's not forget that the first amendment isn't as absolute as some of these comments would suggest. Courts have placed limits on it. Also try threatening the life of your president, see how that works out for you!
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by cmsj 14y ago
What about if you walk around and peek under everyone's coat to see if they forgot to wear pants?
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by cmsj 14y ago
Is that still defensible if you go out of your way to brute force download as many as you can and you then distribute that list?
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by cmsj 14y ago
Steve Jobs said in his launch keynote in 2007 that they'd patented the heck out of things. Things this article suggests were innovating. So if they've innovated along the way and patented lots of it.... then this post is self-nullifying bul
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by cmsj 14y ago
In the video I see a private key coming from a Dropbox folder :( Missing. The. Point.
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by cmsj 14y ago
Welcome to the world where we are a vanishingly tiny minority. It's our fault, we told everyone that computers are amazing and they should buy one. They did and now we are outnumbered and not worth focussing much effort on.

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