grishka

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by grishka 2y ago
It's a speaker system. It plays sound. Why could it possibly have AI, tracking, or ad delivery?
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by grishka 2y ago
Biology, and by extension medicine, only started to look like engineering in the last ~50 years because it requires serious advancements from many other fields of science. As in, you can't discover cells if you haven't invented a
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by grishka 2y ago
That's why I'm talking about a replacement motherboard for an existing consumer-grade printer (though not necessarily an inkjet one, I don't get it why people keep buying inkjet printers when they don't intend to print
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by grishka 2y ago
Relatedly, I remember reading that it's unrealistic to build an open-source 2D printer because of how much research and very specific manufacturing that requires. But, what if someone designs an open-source replacement motherboard for
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by grishka 2y ago
I mean I know how to use a unix system through the terminal, it's a basic skill for a software engineer, but I'm not enjoying any of that . Most CLI software is ridiculously user-hostile too. Oh you don't remember whether it
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by grishka 2y ago
Unironically, the world be better off if the "advancement" in the space of web browsers comes to an end. This ever-expanding scope of what a web browser is "supposed" to do and be is good for no one. When it's finit
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by grishka 2y ago
Now I'm curious about how this worked in my city where we most definitely didn't have anything digital to our phone system at the time. As in, you had to use pulse dialing, and sometimes, rarely, your calls would glitch such that
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by grishka 2y ago
But GUIs show you all available options without having to read the docs. They only change when you install updates. You can simply not install updates that you don't like.
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by grishka 2y ago
I don't care what "best practices" are. Seemingly everyone sticks to these, yet here we are discussing that software quality everywhere throughout the industry has taken a dip. > Except those technologies are now deprecate
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by grishka 2y ago
Linux makes you use the terminal and read manuals and edit configs to accomplish the most basic tasks. At least neither Windows nor macOS need that. Linux is fine for servers, but I can't fathom using that on my actual computer.
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by grishka 2y ago
All of these modern "declarative" frameworks seem to be optimized for hello world kinds of apps. Jetpack Compose, too. And SwiftUI is just being too smart sometimes: https://tonsky.me/blog/swiftui/ Not s
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by grishka 2y ago
Even crazier is that someone made an adapter that converts the TPM header found on some modern motherboards into an ISA slot because apparently that has all the necessary bus lines exposed. So that, you know, you could plug a sound blaster
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by grishka 2y ago
> VGA was dying Funny to read that in 2025 when all new PC GPUs still provide some form of VGA backwards compatibility with no plans to remove it.
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by grishka 2y ago
ICQ worked more like SMS. You could send a message to someone who's offline. It would get stored on the server and delivered when they come online.
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by grishka 2y ago
Maybe, but somehow it didn't matter very much back then. I remember using private chats mostly as an addition to calls, i.e. when I wanted to send someone a link or a file I was talking about. If I wanted to just send a message to some
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by grishka 2y ago
> I believe Skype originally functioned using some kind of p2p network. It did! It was some impressively cool tech too. At the time, at least in my country, some ISPs would disable your internet access when you didn't pay, but the L
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by grishka 2y ago
This particular problem will still exist for a fediverse server. You follow 10k people? Nice, now you're getting ddos'd by their activities. Though, most fediverse servers being monolithic applications definitely helps.
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by grishka 2y ago
You mean modern cars aren't designed to be easily serviceable?
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by grishka 2y ago
Shouldn't the first of those patents start expiring soon?
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by grishka 2y ago
So remove that? Or disconnect the antenna from the modem?
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by grishka 2y ago
What if you don't connect your car to the internet in the first place?
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by grishka 2y ago
They don't on phones because there they are hidden away and you have to know about them. I've seen relatives' phones with hundreds of tabs open simply because they had no idea mobile browsers do that by default. But on desk
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by grishka 2y ago
> And if you still doubt me, remember: The two most popular operating systems in the world, iOS and Android, do not have windows. You have to keep mobile and desktop OSes separate. Mobile OSes are for use on-the-go and mainly focus on co
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by grishka 2y ago
The fact that it doesn't take advantage of the multi-window nature of desktop systems. Everything happens in one single large window — like on an iPad. In particular, my issue with modern IM app UIs is that the chat switcher is merge
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by grishka 2y ago
Tabbed chat windows are a newer invention than the 90s. Late-00s messaging apps all had the same, rather convenient, arrangement: a tall window with the contact/conversation list, and a tabbed window with your current conversations. Th
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by grishka 2y ago
It surprises me that they copied the suboptimal tablet-like UI layout of the official client. It's gotta be an MDI app with each chat in a separate window :)
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by grishka 2y ago
> How many of you all are running bare metal hooked right up to the internet? I do. Many people I know do. In my risk model, DDoS is something purely theoretical. Yes it can happen, but you have to seriously upset someone for it to mayb
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by grishka 2y ago
That's a bad advice. Firstly, Google is known to ban developer accounts "by association". They will easily ban all of your copies all at once. Secondly, apps are identified by globally unique package IDs. If one account has c
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by grishka 2y ago
Apparently it is slopiness in the form of an undocumented API contract breakage. https://github.com/lpar/RedPill/issues/8 (the screensaver I use) https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/10&#
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by grishka 2y ago
No, it's my personal laptop and the screensaver is definitely native (ARM). It's probably just Apple being sloppy again.

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