gattilorenz

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by gattilorenz 1mo ago
> "EU" is too broad of a term to describe cultural/social/political norms such as public toilets This calls for Slavoj Žižek's reflections on toilets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs
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by gattilorenz 2mo ago
Also “ethnocentric”. But as usual, we first need to have a shared definition of fascism. If we use Eco’s Ur-fascism, many aspects are there (the moral and cultural decadence of the West, which is both too strong and too weak)
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by gattilorenz 2mo ago
Maxell cassette players are not cassette players from back in the day, but cheap stuff like everything else: https://youtu.be/6XyaBls8jyg?is=Lrgqe23yWlelBvl-
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by gattilorenz 2mo ago
The Asus 1000H served me well for my whole bachelor, and also became my first hackintosh with the glorious 10.6.8, iDeneb flavor (i even bought a new wifi card natively supported by Mac OS X for that). I still have it, it still holds a char
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by gattilorenz 2mo ago
According to the Dutch railway maintainer, it's not needed there, and the effect is not really proven: https://www.prorail.nl/veelgestelde-vragen/zomer/waarom-zijn... Same for the Swiss, according to the nat
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by gattilorenz 2mo ago
Tbh this was somewhat underwhelming… I expected using a microcontroller+motor to replace the mechanisms of a regular cassette mechanism, or some other uses of modern tech for the cassette. Instead, it’s just… a tape recorder connected, in a
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by gattilorenz 2mo ago
Can’t you use notarized AltStore to install AltStore original, and from there install Firefox? I did that earlier today in EU. I just wish they had a different name now for AltStore Original… telling them apart from the icon is basically im
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by gattilorenz 4mo ago
I didn't know tank have regular problems with starting, especially in cold weather, regardless of whether the choke is open or not :)
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by gattilorenz 4mo ago
I was thinking that it’s been a while since I saw those file names… but I guess your username checks out :)
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by gattilorenz 4mo ago
Not the submission title, just the automatically revised submission title. Pretty sure I submitted it with the proper casing/spacing
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Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9(github.com)
130 points by gattilorenz 4mo ago|41 comments
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by gattilorenz 4mo ago
I don’t know, I remember them being great from a HW point of view (I had an iPAQ 514 and it was mindblowing even without touch and just a tiny screen), but UX wise… I now have another iPAQ with a stylus and touchscreen, and I’m grateful bac
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by gattilorenz 5mo ago
If I had to take a guess, I would say he heard it in a lecture by Prof. Alessandro Barbero, same as I did :) But I think the source is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_vulgari_eloquentia In the Italian Wiki page,
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by gattilorenz 5mo ago
It’s not just “touched by the LLM” — it’s literally transformed. /s I have the same feeling, I skipped reading any paragraph that starts with “not X, Y”. It’s possible the author has so little proficiency in English that without LLMs t
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by gattilorenz 6mo ago
YES PLEASE! AI's rigor in terms of evaluation of ML systems has been only barely improving in the past 15 years. Thanks for the concrete recommendations; unfortunately, most of these will fall flat, because nobody teaches how to do the
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by gattilorenz 6mo ago
Yep, started coding iOS apps on an EeePC 1000H on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and XCode 3.1.something. While the updates would break things, it was not more complicated than a Linux of the mid 90s to set up, especially with “hackintosh distros” lik
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by gattilorenz 6mo ago
The evidence being…
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by gattilorenz 6mo ago
Luigi Mangione, the guy who shot an health insurance company CEOs in 2024
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by gattilorenz 6mo ago
Wow, you still need to even ask questions.
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by gattilorenz 6mo ago
To you people who moved email to a different provider… how did you do that, practically? Email signature, reply from another address and hope your contacts pick it up, or something else? How well did it work? I have been a user of gmail si
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by gattilorenz 7mo ago
Look up Visual Basic for Dos for a surprisingly good TUI editor!
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by gattilorenz 7mo ago
So… the moment the Interface Designer in XCode can identify the app only has a single button at the center of a window, the window should be a circle? :)
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by gattilorenz 7mo ago
No, Windows NT until 4.0 had the same interface design as Windows 3.x (although there existed a semi-official SP/addon to give NT 3.5 the Chicago interface, making it quite similar to 95), and NT 4.0 came later than 95
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by gattilorenz 7mo ago
I picked something that can be rooted and made cloud-free with Valetudo for the same reason
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by gattilorenz 7mo ago
I mean, I’m sure there _are_ drive adapters without CHS support; in my sample size of 1, a cheap no-name adapter bought from Amazon a few years ago, it works just fine (I’m assuming the very early IDE drive I used didn’t use LBA, but I don
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by gattilorenz 7mo ago
I don’t know, I have a cheap Chinese USB adapter and it read a 40 Mb hard drive from a 286 laptop just fine, so… plus larger (hundreds of MBs) disks too.
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by gattilorenz 7mo ago
But only if you run Tiger or newer :)
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by gattilorenz 8mo ago
MuLinux was also a floppy-based “live” distro, with optional floppy disks for X11, programming languages, etc.
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by gattilorenz 8mo ago
Veeeeery slow charger :) But yeah, at some point we should also consider the tradeoff between convenience and battery life. Batteries can be replaced, having to charge twice a day is a PITA for me.
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by gattilorenz 8mo ago
It’s the same principle of a safe-cracking robot, but for regular keys. Smart! But… does it do commentary like “one is binding”, and does it try twice to see if it was a fluke? :)

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