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by fmajid 8mo ago
Considering David Tolnay's indefensible treatment of JeanHeyd Meneide, I'm inclined to agree with Kling on the toxicity of the Rust community. Evangelical fervor does not excuse douchebaggery.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
The most obvious alternative would be Zig. I don't see any Swift adoption outside the Apple ecosystem.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
It's not that they are loving Rust, but they realized going all-in on Swift means becoming sharecroppers on massa Tim Apple's plantation.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Stool samples would be an improvement over the Augean stables that is Twitter.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Polygraphs are junk science. I wonder why they haven’t graduated to fMRI. Can’t be for lack of funds. My guess is the polygraph bureaucracy is what’s known in Washington as a self-licking ice cream cone.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
https://blog.majid.info/pdf/patent_ppv.pdf (in French, however) It's a micropayment proxy using network authentication, billing on your ISP bill, with a reload grace period to prevent double-billing. It was deploy
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Also worth reading, I. F. Stone’s “The Trial of Socrates” that sets the context. TL:DR Socrates was deeply involved with a group of Quisling aristocrats who briefly overthrew democracy with Sparta’s help. Athens’ withdrawal agreement with S
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by fmajid 8mo ago
Microtransactions are like paying $0.10 for an article.
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by fmajid 8mo ago
I have a patent on micropayments for the Web from 1996. 30 years later, the situation hasn't changed and Clay Shirky or Andrew Odlyzko's arguments around the mental cost of microtransactions remain valid. Besides subscriptions to
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by fmajid 9mo ago
Europe had a payment processor in Europay, the E in EMV (Europay-MasterCard-Visa), but stupidly allowed MasterCard to acquire it.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
I'd run the numbers and AWS and Amazon's ad business together accounted for 100% of Amazon's market cap. The e-commerce division is essentially worthless as far as Wall Street is concerned, other than a loss-leader inventory
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by fmajid 9mo ago
Puget is a specialist seller of high-end workstation, so their component choices are certainly a cut above what the average PC seller uses.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
France doesn't extradite its citizens, even absolute scumbags like Roman Polanski. Someone like Musk has lots of lawyers to gum up extradition proceedings, even if the US were inclined to go along. I doubt the US extradition treaty wou
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by fmajid 9mo ago
It's extremely flaky and unreliable, however: https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/file...
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by fmajid 9mo ago
Yes, just saw your post on Vorta. I myself am ditching Apple platforms due to creeping enshittification, but I doubt my wife will.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
Geary or Thunderbird are excellent mail clients.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
I use a self-hosted healthchecks.io watchdog timer instance to monitor jobs like these and alert if they don’t complete. Of course TimeMachine doesn’t have a way to signal successful completion, unlike, say, Carbon Copy Cloner. Given Apple
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by fmajid 9mo ago
I never trusted Time Machine, my primary line of defense is rsync to a server running ZFS with hourly snapshots, and weekly rotations of offsite drives. For bootable backups, Carbon Copy Cloner.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
Why? It still works for me.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
I did set up Joplin, and I also have Wiki,js.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
It's not 100% reproducible, but at least 50% of the time for me: https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/file...
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by fmajid 9mo ago
It's still work-in-progress: https://blog.majid.info/quit-apple/ You can copy-paste using LocalSend. Not as seamless, but it does work, including with Apple devices.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
It is extremely flaky on GrapheneOS, at least on my Pixel 8 Pro. Just typing Ctrl-D to exit will corrupt it, requiring a full reinstallation of the Debian VM
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by fmajid 9mo ago
The UK usually ties with Australia for the industrialized country vying to be the greatest enemy of the Internet.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
Leading to Jeff Atwood's memorable rant: https://blog.codinghorror.com/oh-you-wanted-awesome-edition/ "Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome."
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by fmajid 9mo ago
They need to fire Craig Federighi first, but of course that is Tim Cook's job, and he showed poor judgment in firing spiky but effective Scott Forstall to keep that hack Jony Ive. Ive is the one who appointed Alan Dye, an advertising d
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by fmajid 9mo ago
The UK under Gordon Brown foolishly sold off most of its gold reserves. If they had kept thrm, they would be worth £40B more today, or 10 times what it was sold for.
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by fmajid 9mo ago
It's probably too late. They should have heeded the wisdom of Charles de Gaulle: https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2024/10/05/why-france-repat...
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by fmajid 9mo ago
Counting Quotient Filters (CQF) and Mixed-Counters Quotient Filters (MQF) are more efficient than Bloom Filters, and can count, making them highly suited for applications like rate-limiting at scale. https://link.springer.com&#x2
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by fmajid 9mo ago
He explains she was in the Chief of Police's neighborhood with irate neighbors, so he clearly had leeway to expend all resources needed to get it done.

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