digi_owl

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   by digi_owl 8y ago

   True. I suspect there are ways to introduce hashes to Gobo, if one were so inclined. But so far nobody has.
2. 392.▲
   by digi_owl 8y ago

   Sadly i have seen far too many devs go "you are holding it wrong"...
3. 393.▲
   by digi_owl 8y ago

   There are been several attempts at introducing a new build system, but they have been all shot down over introducing dependencies.
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   by digi_owl 8y ago

   A quick FYI, Gobolinux operates much the same way. 1. Binary packages are simply compressed archives (tarballs) of the relevant branch in the /Programs tree. 2. branches do not have to actually live inside the /Programs tree. Ther
5. 395.▲
   by digi_owl 8y ago

   Google's ongoing approach is to remove the human from the loop. And more and more human facing projects seems to follow suit.
6. 396.▲
   by digi_owl 8y ago

   Frankly i don't get why it even exists. Best i can tell it simply slaps a UI on top of already existing, free standing, emulators.
7. 397.▲
   by digi_owl 8y ago

   Funny thing is the current trends in UI is actually being pushed by people claiming it is more friendly and "intuitive"...
8. 398.▲
   by digi_owl 8y ago

   Windows PocketPC comes to mind...
9. 399.▲
   by digi_owl 8y ago

   It can be toggled with more recent updates in the personalization settings, under color.
10. 400.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AfFaGwFNIg Seems to be one guy that takes CRT emulation seriously...
11. 401.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    Thing is that bluetooth kinda clash with the unix /dev concept. Because each pairing is effectively a new device in /dev, and doing anything with bluetooth require that one cross the user/root divide multiple times.
12. 402.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    Seems to yet again only caring about the lower 3-4 layers of the stack, leaving the vendors to squabble over how devices are to find each other (if this is even meant as a p2p thing, and not just a continuation of repeaters).
13. 403.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    And you still have to hope the two devices have a sane protocol between them to layer on top of the wifi...
14. 404.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    the biggest value of Bluetooth, to me as a user, are the profiles. This means that there are baked in standard ways for devices to communicate. Damn it, back in the day i had a Nokia N800 going online via a SE featurephone, while listening
15. 405.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    Or just let this hype driven company finally die so we can get on with things...
16. 406.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    I seem to recall that the new class of carriers being built use flywheels to store up the energy used to drive the catapult.
17. 407.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    The more news i read from _sec, the more they remind me of the cracking groups of the micro era...
18. 408.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    And something we witnessed during the Arab Spring.
19. 409.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    Across time the vast majority of crime seems to originate with hunger and other desperate situations.
20. 410.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
21. 411.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    Thing us that our easiest way to pay online are credit cards. But credit cards suck for the kind of small payments the web warrants. Also, what is the chance that we would pay and get shown ads anyways? For me it is not ads, full stop, that
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    by digi_owl 8y ago

    My understanding is that man/info is meant more as a reference and less like a first time users guide.
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    by digi_owl 8y ago

    A few years back i looked into some European tech news to counterbalance all the hype from the valley. What i recall finding was that European tech focused more on helping the sick and elderly (or at least that was what got coverage). Thing
24. 414.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    And i have seen programmers that when they do so, declare users to be drooling idiots best confined to a padded cell...
25. 415.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    Reminds me that some time back HN linked an article showing that floppies (the 3.5" type, not the 5.25" kind) were still used in Norway to distribute data to doctors. Thing that came up in the comments were that said doctors were
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    by digi_owl 8y ago

    I seem to recall reading about something similar regarding field testing of new gear for soldiers. The generals and sales goons would come up with all kinds of "would it not be useful if they had XYZ on their helmet". but once giv
27. 417.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    The UI looked very much like a cross between a spreadsheet and a music sequencer.
28. 418.▲
    by digi_owl 8y ago

    Because UX people are often completely lost in the fog of their own "brilliance". Just observe the new task switcher on the Android P preview. Where before you hit a button (either on-screen on fixed depending on the OEM design) a
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    by digi_owl 8y ago

    I would not say they are immune, simply that they have the "metabolism" of sloths. In other words, a small team of volunteers rather than a big group of full time developers working for a big name corporation.
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    by digi_owl 8y ago

    Extensions are a fig leaf towards power users in the hopes that they will be distracted long enough that they forget to complain between releases.