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by edeion 6y ago
I can only guess that people sending messages to my cancelled WhatsApp account saw only one tick. That's still meaningless to less skilled users and there's no way to tell if the user has gone forever or if they're just offli
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by edeion 6y ago
I can confirm my mother has no idea what these ticks mean. She can't make the difference between WhatsApp and iMessage either. At the time I left, I told her so and she kept wondering why I was not getting some of her messages (the one
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by edeion 6y ago
Having different apps is probably a step forward indeed. But (as far as I understand) just having WhatsApp installed on my phone allows them to keep an eye on my contact list. That sounds quite despicable to me.
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by edeion 6y ago
My experience is similar. I want to add that when I left WhatsApp (~2y ago) I deleted my account. WhatsApp kept accepting messages on my behalf. People didn't know I wasn't getting their messages. I'm surprised I don't s
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The Conserving Computer-Based Art Initiative(guggenheim.org)
1 points by edeion 6y ago|0 comments
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by edeion 6y ago
Well, Lockwise is 100% open source, isn't it? I'm not sure there are tools for extracting the data easily, though. This may be your point and I'd agree on that. But I've been using Lockwise for years (and the previous cl
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by edeion 6y ago
I'll just take the occasion to reference the works of W. Brian Arthur and Paul A. David on path dependence, increasing returns and lock-in where they model the situations where technological artifacts come to dominance, often not out o
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Second-Climacs: Version 2 of the Climacs text editor(github.com)
2 points by edeion 6y ago|0 comments
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by edeion 6y ago
Would you share the plans you have in store to help them cope better with our society?
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by edeion 6y ago
I sympathize to your comment... But at the same time I'm likely to be in the crowd of the unknowings. Could you suggest examples or a way to get an idea how fast computers can be. I've recently been amazed when cracking an old cry
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by edeion 6y ago
I should also take advantage of the occasion to mention that I find it a pity that we don't use keyboard keys as 101 complementary buttons for the mouse/trackpad :D
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by edeion 6y ago
It's like upvoting is not enough, here. I've witnessed that some users love their Macbooks' Touchbars, at the same time I'm surprised so few users recourse to these extremely low tech tricks. Just like the camera cover t
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by edeion 6y ago
"Let's devise a way to purposefully burn the LED in such a way that current can go through." We have to keep in mind that not everything has to be by accident :) I have no idea how likely it is to be possible, though, you&#x2
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by edeion 6y ago
Yes, I think the parent is a /metajoke/ as you call it :) However, there are 3 threads around that miss the original author is poking fun there. I'd like to stress the structure of these 3 paragraphs: The first is that, [
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by edeion 6y ago
There's still quite a range of "dumb" phones available. A concern of mine is always: can I sync it to my computer. As far as my research went, you don't get that, at least with entry level phones from Nokia (105/106
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by edeion 6y ago
My beloved E6 had its flaws. It was a pain to sync, the syncs were not serviceable, but at least it was syncing to my computer, not to the cloud. On this one, Symbian Anna felt better than Symbian Belle and it would have been a pain to reve
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by edeion 6y ago
Even though it's sort of an aside, I'm glad someone mentions Psion. I'd love to check whether their keyboards are on par with the legend. I wonder how many others relate, at the global scale :)
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by edeion 6y ago
Why can't we just have two address bars? One for general "end" user that's optimized to help them against phishing and all, another one that's just the bare plain old URL? The toolbars are customizable, why not just
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by edeion 6y ago
This is a duplicate from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042207 The top comment there has many interesting links to other monuments that have been similarly captured.
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by edeion 6y ago
I'm surprised this doesn't get up-voted. The tool automates very nicely my shell command writing process: pipe one step at a time and check the incremental results by using head to get a sample. Looks cool to me!
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by edeion 6y ago
I actually thought it was sort of a pun playing with the fact it could be understood as Early Bird or Early Board. And that sounds pretty neat to my non native English :D
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by edeion 6y ago
I was about to ask about dmoz.org. But apparently it's dead. We could probably do something with bookmark sharing à la Delicious. Good dead things for a better future.
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by edeion 6y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Emscripten. Unfortunately I have no experience with it but I get that you could write a native app and also get it to work in browser with this. I also get there could be a performance penalty but hey...
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by edeion 6y ago
The first thing that comes to my mind is: Are you joking? But I wonder to myself: what does he call blurry fonts. Anti-aliased fonts, of course. But I've never seen them as blurry and I guess most other people don't, otherwise we&
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by edeion 6y ago
Please, let's bring back sharewares instead of this mess. Unplausible, I guess. Impossible, I'll hear. Whatever.
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by edeion 6y ago
If you'll pardon a naive question: would that be the end of hackintoshes?
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by edeion 7y ago
I've also seen DDG improve over the years but there are still cases where I can't find some obvious things I'm looking for. Unfortunately I can't provide an example. Sorry. In that case I fallback to Google which is usua
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by edeion 7y ago
Thank you for the link, the mapping of sub-topics looks interesting and promising. Reminds me of HotBot circa 1995.
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by edeion 7y ago
Not a proper BSOD but there's an evocation. Have you tried "crazy" in the Terminal? You'll go for a 3 min ride of music with funky animation starting with a BSOD sprite. (It's probably the same as Start > Program
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by edeion 7y ago
Given how hard it can be for me to focus when the web is just one click away, these dedicated tools are such a boon. Plus the hacker touch of these programming languages has something lovely. (I don't get what's so funny with the

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