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by efreak 6mo ago
I agree that push connections should be disabled. Maybe it can prompt you the first time you try to subscribe to one as to whether you're like to turn them on; this would annoy me personally, but also not break features by default.
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by efreak 6mo ago
Approximately 10-15 years ago I used an early Android app that synced contacts across multiple (local) accounts and deduplicated and merged them. It had Internet permission for some reason; on asking the developer why a dedicated contact ma
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by efreak 6mo ago
I tried out portmaster recently. Coming from rethinkdns on Android, I was far from impressed; it looks featured, but it's much harder to use. Opensnitch looks better but doesn't have the nice features to drill down connections (
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by efreak 6mo ago
Would be very nice if the wait-list included pricing, given that it's apparently here enough to have a sign-in link.
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by efreak 6mo ago
Better can be relative, too. If your app is native (desktop or not) and now efficient with ram than your website is, I'll download it and use that instead. My mother's computer has 16gb RAM and was ooming due to outlook and Goog
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by efreak 6mo ago
Medium is not one of the largest content providers anywhere, in any form that I'm aware of. There's no users sharing and reposting (arguably one of the drivers of network effects in modern social networking), no PSA, no apps or th
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by efreak 6mo ago
> opens up your network to attack and/or compromise, you're massively increasing the attack surface, and a compromise of one of those components leaves the attacker sat on your edge router, at which point your entire network is
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by efreak 7mo ago
Presumably you need to pay raycast once for a setup operation while you need to pay constantly for copilot. Why wouldn't you advertise for someone who makes you more money at the same time as advertising for yourself?
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by efreak 7mo ago
The governments are both pretty terrible, but China has been far more violent to it's own citizens in recent times than the US has. The recent non-citizen hunts and unwise involvement in foreign affairs notwithstanding, the US doesn&#x
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by efreak 7mo ago
My "new" computer is a laptop with an 8th-gen i5 and 8 gb ram salvaged from the Windows 11-incompatibility heap (actually 3 of them, so I have 16gb in it). I installed Kubuntu on it and it runs extremely well. I can even install W
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by efreak 7mo ago
China does these things to their own citizens, so really only better for those out of range.
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by efreak 7mo ago
Depending on your hardware (SBC), FTP can also be several times faster than SFTP for transferring files over a LAN. Though I'll admit to having used other protocols like torrents for large files that had bad transfers or other issues (
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by efreak 7mo ago
You can do the reverse, too. Hook up a dial-up modem to your PC and you can send and receive faxes on it. The software is built-in, though you'll probably want to configure it not to receive faxes automatically on your landline unles
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by efreak 7mo ago
When you stop moderating input, that's when someone builds a fuse filesystem on top of it. We had those for discord (dsfs), twitterfs, redditfs, yt-media-storage, etc. It's also when someone starts using it to distribute malware,
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by efreak 7mo ago
The problem isn't finding people who will publicly criticize child abuse and government corruption. The problem is finding people who actually will do something about those specific problems and not find some way to enrich themselves (
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by efreak 7mo ago
If you give your kid a lighter and they proceed to set their clothing on fire, it's not zippo's fault. If you send them to watch TV and they switch to pay-per-view, it's not the TV manufacturer's fault, nor is it the net
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by efreak 7mo ago
Transition of power (peaceful or not) is not a necessary component of democracy. Nor are leaders (elected or not), representation, or power structures such as centralization of power. Pure democracy is also incredibly inefficient at scale.
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by efreak 7mo ago
This is how I mostly use my Windows PC: remote access from my Android tablet via ssh and rdp. My gripe is entirely different: Microsoft has turned to crap. RDP: Every time a native notification pops up, I get disconnected (usually the notif
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by efreak 7mo ago
Where do you see this? It doesn't appear to be in the website (if it's in the video, I didn't watch it but it's not in the subtitle file)
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by efreak 7mo ago
I could be wrong, but I believe businesses are generally required to serve the public if they're open to the public, and they can only refuse to serve you for limited reasons such as being disruptive or offensive. I don't think
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by efreak 7mo ago
I use cargo-binstall, which supports quick install and a couple other methodsfor downloading binaries for rust packages
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by efreak 7mo ago
Some of it isn't them being dumb, it's them being stubborn. My dad has been using computers since the 80s and used probably every Microsoft OS from DOS to 11. Give him a Linux PC and he could probably fumble his way around. Try to
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by efreak 7mo ago
I prefer termimg, which supports whatever method your terminal does for images and falls back to block characters for a lower resolution preview if your terminal has no graphics support. Use this and it works the same in whatever terminal y
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by efreak 7mo ago
Lineageos support depends on volunteers. If no volunteers have the device and nobody donated one to someone willing to do the work, then it doesn't happen.
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by efreak 8mo ago
So are cellphones and game consoles general computing devices? What about servers? Raspberry pi?
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by efreak 8mo ago
German pancake is mentioned in the comments (I don't think it was when you posted)
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by efreak 8mo ago
Unfortunately if you don't start out using that, then your email address is already spread across the web. And back when I was looking at gitlab/bitbucket/etc for feature comparison, each forge used their own domain and coul
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by efreak 8mo ago
I think the electric ones need to be replaced eventually too, not not nearly as often.
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by efreak 8mo ago
I would guess that the median American can count the number of times they've ever been to a hotel on their fingers. Possibly even the average American.
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by efreak 8mo ago
> It's detailed in the article... I had to go back and re read the article. This blog has a rather generic design on mobile, with one big glaring flaw: in the middle of the article there's a picture (I didn't look at this,

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