eropple

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by eropple 3y ago
As I have said elsewhere, this is the compromise position. The extreme position is "there is no option for pasteboard access at all and all pasteboard interactions must happen through OS-provided, fully disintermediated controls.&quo
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by eropple 3y ago
> and hope something more ethical comes out of the more distributed market power & natural competition. ...and keep a watchful eye and a litigious gun pointed at them lest they reconstitute.
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by eropple 3y ago
Totally, but what do you do with mobile devices that needs it? I use iOS with iPads and iPhones, so buying Affinity (which works great on an iPad with a Pencil but also has software for quick edits on a phone) makes a lot of sense to me. Th
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by eropple 3y ago
We do disagree. But one of us is describing, and one of us is depending, and that skews things a little, doesn't it? Upton Sinclair had a line about this. What value, in a sane system, does selling advertising that targets people who &
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by eropple 3y ago
> _My_ flow, was the same flow shared by anyone else who used Firebase Dynamic Links, Adjust Links, and many others. I'm not alone in this. No, you're not. And that's good. It's a bad pattern! It's a bad patte
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by eropple 3y ago
The obvious answer is "don't." I just looked, and I've spent $250 on mobile apps this year. They are all mobile applications that do useful things for me, be it improvements to HomeKit or media creation tools--Affinity h
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by eropple 3y ago
It absolutely does, and I'm sure your boss doesn't like to hear it, but falling out of your flow is a pretty small price to pay for somebody else not being able to scrape Grandma's credit card off the pasteboard. I want m
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by eropple 3y ago
It's been a while, so correct me if I'm wrong, but a "Share -> Copy" action doesn't require permissions, does it? That's the conventional way to do this in Apple's own apps and a user should be able to
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by eropple 3y ago
> Right but I feel like in your argument there is an implicit assumption that the only way to get ChatGPT etc. to understand say a global climate system is by omitting false information entirely. Why can't an LLM extract a signal
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by eropple 3y ago
Moralism! In art! Heaven forfend. How dare that art have a message , right? Never in history, not once, before the Woke Tens and, I guess, the Woker Twenties did somebody have an opinion and encode it in allegory. It is a purely novel phen
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by eropple 3y ago
It was a tool of political influence before he killed it and the journalists who would cover and amplify political figures left because it is no longer interesting. But, then again, "woke mind virus"--the cope, it's real.
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by eropple 3y ago
Unless you have information I do not, you have no idea the content of those requests. But given the list of countries that Twitter refused demands from, I am willing to guess that no, it's not all requests aimed at your ideological bre
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by eropple 3y ago
> free of any kind of mass surveillance or advertising And most of the functionality people want out of the web. It's a neat project, but it's not responsive to the problem at hand. By design. And that's fine. But it r
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by eropple 3y ago
Sure but like, Twitter's userbase is now a toxic asset . Starting there seems worse than starting fresh because you can't get rid of the baggage but advertisers also don't want to spend money on them.
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by eropple 3y ago
Right. It's not "free speech absolutism" to let a dictator push you around with what speech your very principled platform puts on, is it? Twitter used to fight those, as I mentioned. And won a lot of them. Again: what of Mu
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by eropple 3y ago
> Changing behaviour is very hard. You'd have to get people to install new apps, get use to new workflows etc and humans are creatures of habit so this is very hard. I think this is pretty optimistic thinking. "Oh no, I can&#
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by eropple 3y ago
"Free speech!" Meanwhile, Twitter's former management would have at least put up a fight when Erdogan wanted things taken down. And we know this because they did, regularly, with regards to requests from governments around
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by eropple 3y ago
"Royalty". Right. Now you have impersonation accounts of everybody under the sun selling you shitcoins and convincing low-information people that they're real because they paid eight bucks. This is the angry-for-the-weirdest-
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by eropple 3y ago
> I've been wanted a way to forbid people to DM me for a long time. Thanks Elon! Then you should have been happy in like, 2018? when they added that. You could restrict DMs to people you followed for a long time. The only thing Mu
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by eropple 3y ago
Didn't that just park your account until you changed it? I don't remember seeing anything about it deleting your account , and I can't find it now.
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by eropple 3y ago
This is really interesting; I of course know of salt retrieval via evaporation but I don't have a strong understanding of steam capture for pressure. How big a tower are we talking about for the steam volume necessary to turn a reaso
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by eropple 3y ago
> Making college free regardless of academic preparation (the article does not mention any) is a bad idea. Where does it say that acceptance is guaranteed?
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by eropple 3y ago
It does, however, create a pipelining problem: there's very little reason for someone who wants to become a professor to stick through literal decades of adjunct hell to maybe get a tenure-track position when somebody decides they&#x
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by eropple 3y ago
Ethereum weirdos' attempt to financialize the universe at everyone's detriment is a lot ruder, thanks.
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by eropple 3y ago
Cool, what's the actual traffic to them? How many of those aren't the owner? How many of those aren't bots? (Flip those last two questions as you'd like; I wasn't sure which would be more illuminating.)
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by eropple 3y ago
Movable Type was pretty great, but it also cost money. The open-source era of MT was brief and after its primary period of relevance.
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by eropple 3y ago
This is a level or two below where my knowledge of the browser trails off, so I'll ask generally: how would this interact with things like the WebKit Content Blocker API?
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by eropple 3y ago
Nobody can take it from you. Nobody would, either, because they are valueless and nobody uses them. "Use an .onion" is genuinely better advice. (I wouldn't do that either, but an .onion at least has a reason to exist.)
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by eropple 3y ago
This was, 2012 and we were hitting read and write limits regionally. It was not a wise plan. It did, however, run. Technically.
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by eropple 3y ago
I was working for a pretty big early AWS customer--one that had realized that for the low low price of all your money you could make DynamoDB scale to some truly massive numbers--and one time when we were having trouble around noon Eastern,

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