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by firecall 3y ago
IT departments seem to have decided that standard low-dpi 1080p monitors are perfectly fine, forever. It’s all so punitive. Same with office furniture and facilities. Australian offices suck in my experience, and it seems it’s a global phen
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by firecall 3y ago
I wouldn’t willingly trade working for myself, from my home office. But you do what you gotta do! The horror of offices terrifies me though! I’ve suffered full nervous breakdowns from having to endure the cage of bleak grey offices, the tor
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by firecall 3y ago
I had to search up what a Tail Event Startup was :-) TIL a new term :-)
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by firecall 3y ago
Have you considered Tailscale or DIY Wireguard?
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by firecall 3y ago
The system works!
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by firecall 3y ago
Hot take: Tesla would be better off without Musk dragging them down at this point.
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by firecall 3y ago
Having zero knowledge, I'm curious: Would a Solar Flare wrap around the earth? Or are Solar Flares so massive they would envelop the earth, like dunking a globe in cosmic lava? Or do they go on long enough that the earth would rotate a
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by firecall 3y ago
It really is one of those sub-optimal designs that you dont really think about, until you do think about it, and then it makes no sense! At one point Apple did make one keyboard with the CTRL key in the correct place! The CAPSLOCK key is, f
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by firecall 3y ago
Argh! It was so useful for when a client deleted or changed a page in their CMS and had no recovery position or backup! And by Client I mean Me most of the time LOL
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by firecall 3y ago
I’m thinking they mean physical Passbooks. With pages that show hand written transactions and current balance. I’m genuinely amazed these are even still a thing at all! I remember them from the 1980s in the UK!
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by firecall 3y ago
Right now, for me, it’s fancy Auto Complete at best. I get a Free subscription to it by using my kids EDU email accounts. Which is handy :) But I absolutely would not pay for it. I recall the last time I tried using the chat feature to do s
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by firecall 3y ago
Exactly! I was about to come up with a similar analogy. The horrific example is Auto Makers charging each time you drive or take a passenger in your car. Or how about charging to use a Sofa every time a customer sits on it because you licen
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by firecall 3y ago
Worth noting that the CCP takes a different approach to compliance enforcement. We cannot assume that over the next century that US companies will dominate globally. We have to find a way to get US companies to enrich our Capitalist Democra
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by firecall 3y ago
I heard Cory Doctorrow speak on the Pivot podcast about that! Labels were investors in Spotify….. So to boost profits for IPO they had incentives to reduce payouts to artists… Or something like that. It all sounded very corrupt!
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by firecall 3y ago
Interesting that they’ve attributed a quote to Phil Schiller! Rolling out the big guns! I’m guessing this has significantly rattled Apple’s cage. > “The changes we’re announcing today comply with the Digital Markets Act’s requirements in
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by firecall 3y ago
Not an on device solution, but generally for that sort of thing id use an SMS messaging service; ClickSend or Twilio for instance. Can’t speak to the specifics of what you want to do WRT Telegram. But as a programmer, it’s not something I’d
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by firecall 3y ago
Wasn’t there something linked on HN the other day that pointed out what nonsense the Blue Zones are? No validate scientific evidence, blue zones are areas with bad record keeping and no birth certificates etc…
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by firecall 3y ago
App Passwords have always worked fine for us, and have done for years!
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by firecall 3y ago
Me too! I have a few scripts and dev environments that use App Passwords to send email via Gmail SMTP!
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by firecall 3y ago
And also no Synching with a subscription! When I already have access to the iCloud ecosystem, and Notes is excellent across iOS and macOS, I have never really seen much point in trying to use Obsidian. But then maybe I'm missing the po
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by firecall 3y ago
So I tried to paste it into Copilot / Bing Chat: Hello, this is Bing. I’m sorry, but I cannot paste this post into ChatGPT 4. This post contains some hidden characters that are not visible to the human eye, but can be detected by a com
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by firecall 3y ago
Interesting! I have similar issues. Did you have an MRI? I have had a couple of MRIs. Still suffering and managing. Surgery being a last resort as it’s improving slowly and mostly stabilised.
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by firecall 3y ago
Thanks for the links and info!
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by firecall 3y ago
Gotcha! Well…. Before modems, we used to drive to peoples houses and literally swap floppy disks of software and files! There would be meetups. I was just a kid, but my Dad used to network with other computer owning parents and friends! So
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by firecall 3y ago
There is a famously extensive and popular Reddit thread about this! Which I'm sure someone will link to :-)
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by firecall 3y ago
People really need to watch the TikTok video before commenting! :-)
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by firecall 3y ago
I 100% agree with the spirit of the article! As an X-Gen, I remember as a kid the first computer I ever saw was a ZX-80! You could do 'stuff' with those early computers, and Basic was great and all, but the early days of the Web r
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by firecall 3y ago
People used to email each links to cool websites! And there were services like Hotline! And bookmarks. You bookmarked everything!
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by firecall 3y ago
Yes, I have the IKEA STARKVIND Table and 100% agree with that. I hate fan noise! Even in my computers. As I get older the more I'm irritated by fan noise. I cant run the IKEA on anything by the first setting without wearing noise cance
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by firecall 3y ago
Of course it’s BS! Apples lawyers are just trying to shake the foundations of the case by pointing out any inaccuracies that they can. Standard practice I would guess, and not really news worthy in and of itself :-)

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