hayleox

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by hayleox 11mo ago
Yep same; have had Linux on my laptop for a decade plus, but finally switched my desktop over a few years ago, and I have no regrets. The real magic is that I no longer feel the need to do any research before buying a game; it usually just
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by hayleox 11mo ago
Obviously terrible seeing the US government harm its own international standing for no real gain, but if it results in Europe developing viable alternatives to American big tech services, that'd be fantastic.
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by hayleox 1y ago
Ah, nothing like trying to save the logo from such a website, then discovering the image you saved is partially cut-off and includes the navbar behind it instead having a transparent background.
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by hayleox 1y ago
Well imagine they had to do a go-around on that landing. Go-arounds are extremely normal and might be done for a million reasons; your speed is wrong, your descent rate is wrong, your positioning is wrong, there's bad wind, there'
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by hayleox 1y ago
Another day, another IT company learning the hard way about the public suffix list, or well-known URIs, or some other well-documented-but-niche security technology. I love that IT is a field where there's no required formal education t
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by hayleox 1y ago
Neat! One of those tools that I would never have thought to look for, but I'm sure I'll be glad I have.
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by hayleox 1y ago
Not quite what you're talking about but this Apple doc page has always amused me: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelco... I have to assume that there exists some language where that re
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by hayleox 1y ago
Sometimes I really feel like this is a cultural problem rather than a maintenance problem. Visiting Japan was really eye-opening for me. They have almost no trash cans in public places, but they also have far less litter; it's just a c
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by hayleox 1y ago
I think the idea is that they operate as a black box and work in mysterious ways, not that it's mysterious how they became a monopoly.
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by hayleox 1y ago
If repair shops can buy the $130 calibration machine, presumably the super spy in this story (who for some reason couldn't steal the data while they were replacing the lid sensor, nor can they steal the data when the laptop's in u
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by hayleox 1y ago
Anna's Archive includes all of libgen and a lot more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
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by hayleox 1y ago
Fortune tellers typically tell you extremely vague things that are designed to trick you into interpreting them favorably; you hear what you want to hear. "Someone new will come into your life soon" or "Something exciting wil
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by hayleox 1y ago
The AI summaries in Google aren't presented as wild hallucinations; they show up in an authoritative looking box as an answer to the query you just typed. The New York Times wouldn't be able to get out of libel suits by adding a t
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by hayleox 1y ago
I mean, doesn't everybody just google the thing they want and click the first result? I don't think I've heard of people just guessing "<some brand name>.com" since back in the days before the browser address
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by hayleox 1y ago
"Discoverable", I agree with you on; that should have been "public". And there probably should have been an "are you sure?" pop-up the first time you do this, explaining in a little bit more depth. But "we
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by hayleox 1y ago
Liberation Sans is indeed great, but I'm so intrigued: how did you end up preferring a libre font but a proprietary word processor?
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by hayleox 1y ago
It's wild how easy this was. I feel like we're really in the wild west era of security with these AI tools -- reminds me of early Web 2.0 days, like when "samy is my hero" hit and Myspace didn't even have a security
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by hayleox 1y ago
Damn, I would really like to try this; iOS-only is a bummer.
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by hayleox 1y ago
I used to work at a company that requested a lot of documents from municipal governments. We found random people's SSNs on more than one occasion.
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by hayleox 1y ago
So many of them look weird. The aesthetic seems to be soft, clay-like icons but then there will be lots of weirdly detailed or sharp parts. And there's so many weird specific design choices that a human artist would not make. Why is th
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by hayleox 1y ago
I'm sure they could, but to what end? It'd be a bunch of work to find them all, and they could never really be sure they didn't miss one. Meanwhile the cost of just serving that old logo forever is basically nothing.
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by hayleox 1y ago
I was recently editing the Wikipedia page for Google Bookmarks (2005-2021). I wanted to add a logo to the page, but I was having a lot of trouble finding a high-quality copy of the logo anywhere. Eventually I figured out that Google's
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by hayleox 1y ago
Google Reader used Google accounts for authentication, so an exploit in Reader could potentially be compromising to your entire Google account. This very article gives an example of that; Looker Studio was used to reveal the name on any acc
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by hayleox 1y ago
One time at my old job I was trying to load the printer, and I said something like "Oh shoot, these are oversized sheets; I need the 8.5x11." My coworker looked at me like I was crazy. "The what?" "The normal printe
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by hayleox 2y ago
I have no issue with Apple inventing a new, superior connector; I applaud them for it. My issue is with them making it a closed proprietary standard with authentication chips to lock out unapproved third-party vendors. They could have just
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by hayleox 2y ago
Yeah, Automattic and Matt Mullenweg have completely lost the benefit of the doubt for me after their bad behavior dealing with the Tumblr community. https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-transphobia-matt-mullenw...
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by hayleox 2y ago
The source code has zero business value to Google at this point – they have another smartwatch OS and there's never gonna be a business case for a company of Google's scale to revive a niche product like this. Releasing means gett
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by hayleox 2y ago
From the essay: "Consumers have emphatically rejected brands that ventured too far into wokeness. The Bud Light brand may have been permanently damaged by it." What Bud Light did was hire an influencer to promote their product in
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by hayleox 2y ago
> The photo was taken about coordinates 50.29092467073664, 4.893099128823844 near modern Wallonia, Belgium on the Meuse River. Great writeup, but I did have a little chuckle reading "it was taken about near here", followed by c
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by hayleox 2y ago
Yeah, I saw. I was just explaining that it's not just some BS; there are very good reasons why they couldn't put together a well-tested reliable solution with a 36-hour deadline.

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