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by grishka 1y ago
Disabling third-party cookies also gets rid of lots of potential abuse vectors with negligible impact on useful functionality.
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by grishka 1y ago
Why would anyone want the non-lite version?
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by grishka 1y ago
No need to wonder, just end up in an old building with thick brick walls that are only penetrated by a weak 2G signal and try to load something on your phone.
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by grishka 1y ago
I'm sure HN is perfectly usable over dial-up as well.
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by grishka 1y ago
IIRC in that case you can exit the station and re-enter through the correct entrance for free. > In all the other subway systems I used, you pay your fare and you are free to roam the whole station and reach any track I've also seen
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by grishka 1y ago
I was in NYC in 2014 and had no trouble navigating the subway either. The only weird thing to me was that trains belonging to several different lines would sometimes stop at the same platform, but you get used to it quickly. Speaking of p
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by grishka 1y ago
Apple also uses some kind of UTF-16 internally, afaik
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by grishka 1y ago
And most mainstream GUI toolkits are, as well. It can be said that UTF-16 is the de-facto standard in-memory representation of unicode strings, even though some runtimes (Rust) prefer UTF-8.
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by grishka 1y ago
Yeah a stargate must be something that gives the humanity new superpowers, like exploring other planets in distant parts of the galaxy, not yet another AI slop factory.
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by grishka 1y ago
A physicist is just atoms studying other atoms.
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by grishka 1y ago
The government does care somewhat and does some token gestures, at least because Russia is a WTO member. The people mostly don't care.
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by grishka 1y ago
For a self-hosted VPN, you'll need to use a protocol that is specifically designed to be resilient to censorship. VLESS, for example. Things like WireGuard and OpenVPN are very easily detected.
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by grishka 1y ago
This is how it worked out in Russia. First, around 10 years ago, they adopted very limited laws that required ISPs to block websites. Things like drugs and suicide, with the classic rationale "won't someone please think of the chi
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by grishka 1y ago
The industry is in a rather sorry state right now though. We can, and should, do better.
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by grishka 1y ago
Because software is a tool. It serves the user and only the user, and no one else. Ideally, a device I own should never act in anyone else's interests.
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by grishka 1y ago
Non-USB-shaped older Thunderbolt, down to version 1, can do this too, iirc. But you do need the expensive and somewhat rare cable.
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by grishka 1y ago
Them living on a farm is the only explanation I can come up with.
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by grishka 1y ago
Or reflections. It is very noticeable and very weird.
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by grishka 1y ago
My hypothesis is that it's just the continuation of the development program that starts with conception. It just turns self-destructive at some point, because natural selection didn't do anything about that because when humans wer
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by grishka 1y ago
MacOS uses decimal units to display file sizes and it kinda drives me nuts.
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by grishka 1y ago
Wouldn't it be rather awkward to set up a redundant RAID array on one of those though? Which is something you definitely want on a server that stores backups. I know you can obviously connect as many hard drives as you want to a Raspbe
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by grishka 1y ago
There are different kinds of self-hosting. Sure, you can own your server and have it at home. It must be nice to have enough space at home to dedicate some to a server room (servers are noisy btw). But many people live in small apartments
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by grishka 1y ago
On desktop I have one of those one-click JS toggle extensions, so the moment I see any attempts to interfere with me reading the goddamn article, that website gets its privilege of client-side interactivity revoked due to abuse. Some annoye
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by grishka 1y ago
It can't be made entirely illegal so IMO a better way would be to remove or restrict the APIs that fingerprinting scripts abuse. Make browsers hypertext viewers again!
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by grishka 1y ago
> Again, I think what people see as "getting rid of desktop design patterns" in macOS is mostly aesthetic. Have you seen the settings in the new Xcode? This iPad-ass crap keeps infesting various apps. Overall, the current Apple
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by grishka 1y ago
All desktop OSes are getting rid of desktop design patterns in favor of touch ones for some stupid reason. At least for Windows it can be explained by the fact that Microsoft is very desperate about putting touchscreens into everything that
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by grishka 1y ago
The right way is to design your dialogs such that they fit into the minimum screen resolution that the OS runs at. Some of the Windows ones are optimized for 640x480 because that's what the basic VGA driver runs at. If I remember corre
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by grishka 1y ago
> It's obvious iOS will become the desktop OS in the next 5 years or so Again, who asked for this?
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by grishka 1y ago
Huh??? Have you actually tried talking to non-tech people? Customers hate software updates. Especially the kind that change the design for no reason and/or break their established muscle memory by rearranging the UI layout. And third
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by grishka 1y ago
> What is happening here is Apple is unifying their product lines. Who asked for this? What do the end users have to gain from this? So far, I've seen the macOS design steadily regress for no good reason whatsoever. The new settings

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