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by fmajid 1y ago
M4 is amazing hardware held up by a sub-par OS. One of the biggest bottlenecks when compiling software on a Mac is notarization, where every executable you compile causes a HTTP call to Apple. In addition to being a privacy nightmare, this
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iOS development is still mostly local which is why most of the iOS developers at my previous Big Tech employer got Mac Studios as compiler machines in addition to their MacBook Pros. This requires director approval but is a formality. I rea
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The article is talking about the UK's RIPA and demanding backdoors into encryption. My comment was not in response to anyone else's, and I never mentioned OSA, although that is also problematic as a censorship vector. As an aside,
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by fmajid 1y ago
I realize the OP was using rugs as a metaphor, but they are works of art, just as much as samurai swords would be for Japan. Rugs were prized in nomadic and semi-nomadic cultures like Iran, where all your valuables had to be mobile. Traditi
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The real target: journalists, activists and whistleblowers
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For fast access
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Switzerland is a very rich country. But UK infrastructure construction is significantly more expensive than its European peers like France, which is just as budget-constrained as the UK is.
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The numbering as Category 1 does suggest that is the first and foremost purpose of the Act.
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Much easier would be to have all apps treat C-S-C as copy and C-S-V as paste like the terminal does. In Chrome this starts the inspector. I changed jobs and went from a Mac to Linux and muscle memory keeps tripping me.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2002/09/murray-n-rothbard/unders...
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My company's DNS provider doesn't even have an API so I delegated to a subdomain, hosted it on PowerDNS, and used Lego to automate the ACME.
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You're right, I had asked my HP specialist to confirm that it was ECC, and he had said yes, but when I prompted him again on the distinction between link ECC (protects data in motion) vs true on-die ECC (protects data at rest in RAM, m
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by fmajid 1y ago
Printing is also better. Windows NT's architecture is perfectly fine and in some respects superior to Unix, but Microsoft has made subsequent compromises that reduced stability.
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Same here. Also moving from iOS to GrapheneOS (writing this on a GrapheneOS Pixel Tab instead of my usual iPad Pro).
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The term accountability sink was originally intended to describe how bureaucracies cover their asses from customers, regulators and employees, but certainly not from the company owners.
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Critical distance is probably what you are alluding to. Naked Capitalism had a good take on the impact of AI on McKinsey: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/08/wall-street-journal-...
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by fmajid 1y ago
Haven't received it yet, but of course I will install Linux on it.
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When I was in high school in France, where they teach British English, we were taught try and is the grammatically correct form.
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by fmajid 1y ago
I cancelled my Framework Desktop order and ordered a HP Z2 Mini G1a instead, the goal being to replace my Mac Studio as I've had it with Apple's arrogance and lousy software quality. The HP is much smaller, has ECC RAM and 10G Eth
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by fmajid 1y ago
I worked on telco billing systems in my youth. One terrifying statistic is that fully 2/3 of such projects failed completely, which is why most telcos still ran on hoary mainframe BSS that were older than the programmers responsible fo
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by fmajid 1y ago
I don’t know if the allegations against Jon Pretty were valid or not, but those who piled on against him can’t escape accountability for mob behavior (assuming Pretty was innocent) if it becomes embarrassing. At most they can say “I support
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by fmajid 1y ago
The best pistachios in the world are grown in the volcanic soil of Bronte, in Sicily, Italy. Hopefully this research will help bring those characteristics to more commercial cultivars.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Funny, Google just announced the Linux Terminal now supports graphical Linux apps. It's closer to WSL2 than a regular app, implementing a fully vrtualized environment. https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-term
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by fmajid 1y ago
To be frank, I tried the cross-page fade transition on my Hugo static site, hosted on AWS ClousFront, and I couldn't see the difference. It's probably only relevant if your site is bloated to begin with.
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The good thing about this proposal is that GPS coordinates include altitude, so you could use them to correct for gravitational time dilation due to General Relativity.
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The offset changes twice a year in many countries due to the misbegotten Daylight Saving Time. What's worse, governments can and do change the dates of the transition so you need something like the Olson (RIP) database to do retroactiv
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by fmajid 1y ago
Yes, Vanadium (or any browser based on the system WebView) is going ot be up to date and as secure as it gets on a mobile OS. I only mentioned NFC because you mentioned Google Pay.
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You won't get the full set of security measures (those require newer Google Tensor chipsets with ARM Memory Tagging Extensions, so Pixel 8 and later), but it's still going to be far more secure than any Android or even iPhone. Reg
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According to Terence Eden, Curve Pay allows NFC payments, at least in the UK
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Aegis: TOTP 2FA code manager SuperCards: stores shop loyalty card barcodes KeePassDX: password manager ReadEra: eBook reader Magic Earth: another maps app Vivaldi: power-user's browser JuiceSSH: SSH client Termux: like running a Linux

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