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by dspillett 2mo ago
Unfortunately there isn't as much money to be made¹² serving people who just want a stable host for basic repos. The money comes from the paid accounts, and those do tend to want the extra features - even if the end users don't
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> To be fair, before the acquisition, GitHub was super stable Having been through a couple of acquisitions (as a cog in the machine being acquired, not a founder or purchaser or such), the last one at the end of 2025, and seen others a
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by dspillett 2mo ago
Ignoring the possibility of plain ol' management incompetence, when things are changing as fast as they are the problem becomes one of lead time. Hiring competent people does not happen at the click of a finger, nor in the current clim
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by dspillett 2mo ago
To careless , not too stupid, at least in most cases. The same can be said wrt people being too careless to have their car/bike/etc. Or powertools. In any of those cases, just try take them away and see how that goes…
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> Every possible product name is carefully checked to avoid undesirable meanings in other languages This procedure does not always work: https://adland.tv/whats-name-case-2351-ikeas-gutvik-bunk-bed
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by dspillett 2mo ago
It sets its stall out quite honestly at the outset, pointing out that the comparisons even though math based are subjective in what they choose to measure, but one thing to remember when looking at the colouring of animals and plants is typ
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by dspillett 2mo ago
Unfortunately “are you sure?” checks simply don't work, too many people are trained to just click yes/OK to close the message and get back to what they were trying to do.
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> he posted the correct consise definition earlier in this thread As a question, not a statement of knowledge, when if they'd read that “too long” paragraph they could have stated the point confidently. And while that description,
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by dspillett 2mo ago
If that is too long, you have an attention span problem. That is your issue to deal with, not ours. Or from another angle, how would you say it more concisely? Preferably without using AI to summarise.
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by dspillett 2mo ago
That I shall have to purloin.
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by dspillett 2mo ago
Me calling someone uncool would be rather hypocritical in afraid! I've done some interesting things, cool even, but that doesn't necessarily make conversation with me interesting/cool! I'll go with letting them know I fi
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> that it's not universally offensive and reviling to post an AI-generated response to another person There has even been an advert extoling the behaviour (I forget which phone OS brand it was for, which is a shame as I might like
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> If he gave you that flier, would you scoff and trash it talking about how you can't be bothered to read it if he didn't write it? Or would you look it over? Depends on his countenance and how good a mood I'm feeling in
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by dspillett 2mo ago
That effort didn't last long. I think this is the first I've heard about it since inception, the repo (assuming this is the right one, https://github.com/joshgiesbrecht/Glimpse , it was the only GIMP related
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by dspillett 2mo ago
Oh that certainly did the trick for home users, but I was having to deal with IE6 for our clients (at least one of them was IE6 only ), as were people I knew working in or otherwise supporting other corporate environments, for several year
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> I get unsolvable recaptchas all the time, especially on cloudflare pages Repeated problems with cf and similar like this seem to be more common for users behind CGNAT (most mobile users for example). Presumably all the other hosts sh
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by dspillett 2mo ago
The final death of IE6 was because corporates finally stopped using it⁰ and the reason for that had nothing to do with sites/apps refusing to work. If we'd said "we don't support IE6" they'd either say "th
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> They're supposed to get FTTH to my house soon but I have no idea how that is going to be affected by outages. That would depend on the source of the outage and if your power has single points of failure in common with the comms
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> you should be able to name an expert in these skills There are certainly local “finding information online” experts in many families and social groups. > and how do we know they are an expert They are the ones who get mentioned
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> just like using Google is not a skill I beg to differ. It is a simple skill that a great many have, but that doesn't make it “not a skill” - there are certainly many that don't have it, or don't want to practise it. Th
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> but it would seem people hate their own voice? Hell yes. And the other bits of me hate me and each other. Being alone with my own thoughts can be a dangerous situation.
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> It’s very difficult to intentionally find time to be bored. I have headphones present constantly for the opposite reason. When doing tasks that fail to provide interest (housework, some work tasks) the external stimulus stops me dist
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by dspillett 2mo ago
If I go as far as using that much compute (or paid “tokens”) to block the tracking and adverts, I think I'm better off just leaving the platform entirely!
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by dspillett 2mo ago
Back end of GenX here, I remember our first landline being installed. I hate the phone, always have. Video calls are certainly no better. I'm an "in person or in writing" person, hence I have trouble with the modem remote wor
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by dspillett 2mo ago
For a lot of people these days actually calling is for emergencies or other time sensitive comms. Even sending a text is seen that way by some, who have no notifications enabled for other messaging apps & similar but do allow their devi
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by dspillett 2mo ago
That is not all necessarily from this hack though. The wallet could be the destination for other scams too.
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by dspillett 2mo ago
Also, they still do the stalky part. Even if the paid service does remove the manifestation of ads on that site/service, chances are the tracking still happens so they can immediately target if you stop paying (instead of resuming coll
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> I am significantly less tolerant of ads than average people seem to be. I don't have a problem with ads entirely, as long as they aren't egregious (things popping up or otherwise moving around while I'm reading, flashy
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by dspillett 2mo ago
This is to an extent why facebook can make the ads harder to block, they control the ad infrastructure (or at least some of it) as well as the app infrastructure. For many sites that is not the case, running adtech infrastructure is not eve
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by dspillett 2mo ago
> I vividly remember IE and many hacks to have css elements properly working in it… These days the most limiting factor is probably people on phones running out-of-date Android with an ancient browser version. If you aren't caring

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