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by gary_0 10mo ago
Douglas Adams was bang on about how comedically unhelpful advanced technology was going to be. Every ridiculously convoluted user interface and neurotic computer he thought up (or worse) is imminently going to be our daily life.
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by gary_0 10mo ago
I wonder if this move has anything to do with SATA SSDs being a common upgrade for older PCs, but those will just go in the trash now that Windows 10 is EOL and Windows 11 will refuse to run on most of them? (I assume only a small percentag
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by gary_0 10mo ago
I've been using lazygit [ https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit ] which is a friendly TUI that makes selecting which lines to commit relatively painless. As a heavy user of hunk-by-hunk or line-by-line commits, I
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by gary_0 10mo ago
I'm in a daylit room on a laptop screen in dark mode. Some of the text was literally invisible. If the site's owner is reading this, you should fix that.
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by gary_0 10mo ago
If it had Ethernet ports I'd be tempted to just use my own wifi router and put the ISP's Trojan horse in a Faraday cage. All ISP-controlled hardware should be treated as just another untrusted WAN hop.
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by gary_0 10mo ago
While I'm sure their finances are a bit more complicated than "they have infinite money", I find it hard to believe that people who can buy and sell small countries and ruin millions of lives with a few keystrokes are as powe
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by gary_0 10mo ago
Or you could patch the executable on disk or in memory, or probably some other hacks I'm not thinking of. I think he means that there's no Windows API or "proper" way to do it, not that it's literally impossible (it
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by gary_0 10mo ago
And AFAIK Brin & Page and Zuckerberg still maintain majority voting control over their companies. They could enforce any policy they wanted from on high, and the worst that would happen is the number next to their name would go down a b
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by gary_0 10mo ago
The nanny-state control freaks used "think of the children" so often over the years that it became a meme, and yet here we are. What a workhorse!
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by gary_0 10mo ago
This worldwide push for online ID verification is absolutely not in good faith, and I'm shocked at how few people on "Hacker" News are seeing it for what it is. Imagine going on 1990's or 2000's Usenet and telling
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by gary_0 10mo ago
On the contrary, I don't think end-user market forces are having any significant effect at all. There's currently boundless slack on that side as far as Microsoft is concerned. The only thing effecting the prices are the upcoming
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by gary_0 10mo ago
I mean, they kind of are? Obviously they can't set it to a million dollars a month, but where's the ceiling? Five hundred? A thousand? Who knows? And maybe they make it play a 30 second video ad once a day? They keep getting away
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by gary_0 10mo ago
They can set whatever price they want. Most customers have no choice but to pay; there is no competitor with anything approaching full compatibility or a similar feature set. Companies like Microsoft and Adobe have maintained a business sof
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by gary_0 10mo ago
Maybe it's a typo and it's 1.6W.
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by gary_0 10mo ago
MBAs got to make deals and lawyers got to file lawsuits. Everyone else got to give them money. God bless the bureaucracy.
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by gary_0 10mo ago
Yeah, that's the one! And hmm, it's interesting that there's more than one video out there going "look how fast old computers were from a user standpoint". They've really been boiling the frog when it comes to
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by gary_0 10mo ago
> Use Linux/KDE I do. It's not without its problems but currently it's the least bad solution.
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by gary_0 10mo ago
> Funnily enough, everything ran at about the same speed as it does now. Actually, where I was sitting on a decent PC with broadband Internet at the time, everything was much, much faster. I remember seeing a video on here where someone
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by gary_0 10mo ago
If you email hn@ycombinator.com they're usually quite responsive about banning obvious bot accounts.
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by gary_0 10mo ago
> a nice DE that would embrace regular people Then you want something that directly copies Windows. Gnome doesn't do that; it very much does its own thing, which confuses regular people who typically just want an unenshittified Wind
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by gary_0 10mo ago
I generously assume they simply considered a mechanism to grant permissions to be out of scope of the original spec, a merely horrific error and disastrous design flaw. If they were instead completely ignorant to the existence of screen rec
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by gary_0 10mo ago
While Wayland has kind of been a disaster I disagree with your premise. > 1. Security Linux (and Unix before it) has always had security mechanisms built in. File permissions, setuid bits, namespaces. Any old program shouldn't be ab
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by gary_0 11mo ago
> what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it 1. Security - Any program using X11 can read keystrokes, passwords, or the contents of any other window. Fixing this would break all existing X11 applications. 2. Performance -
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by gary_0 11mo ago
I think of anarchy as a theoretical end state, where power is perfectly distributed among each individual, but that this is less of an actually achievable condition and more of a direction to head in (and away from monarchy, where power is
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by gary_0 11mo ago
Interesting thought. "Nerds as advocates" is how Firefox rose to prominence, and later giving the nerds the finger contributed to its downfall, IMO.
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by gary_0 11mo ago
Another nice thing about the Pi is that you know for sure there won't be any major Linux issues; the official distro is tested for that hardware and that hardware alone. I'm assuming the same will apply for Linux on the Steam Mach
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by gary_0 11mo ago
Doesn't Linux make similar demands of the compiler, just not for bitfields? And I seem to recall Linus having some choice words for the C Standard's tendency over the years to expand the domain of undefined behavior. I don't
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by gary_0 11mo ago
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by gary_0 1y ago
The Internet no longer interprets censorship as damage and routes around it[0]. Instead, it is interpreted it as an opportunity to raise the barrier of entry for competitors, and embraced. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by gary_0 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/739/

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