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by jabbany 4y ago
I wonder if the tools are also vetted for security. IIRC there was some supply chain attack that had to do with similar no-signup tools injecting SEO scam code ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27427330 )
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by jabbany 4y ago
Hmm, I'm looking for a Keybase replacement but one of the main reasons I use Keybase is their native apps that let you mount the cloud storage as a FUSE or FUSE-like (Dokan) native storage device. This is great for distributing encrypt
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by jabbany 4y ago
Not saying more expensive things don't last longer, just that usually it is not proportional to the price difference (and that's fine). If you really want to compare, if I got a similar spec-ed MacBook to what I need, I'd hav
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by jabbany 4y ago
Actually they don't at all. I have a few older tablets that have plastic screens and touch works just fine (not great, but good enough). The main benefit of glass is just that it looks nicer (clearer) and maintains the flatness of the
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by jabbany 4y ago
Yeah, I have a friend who has a nice fancy carbon fibre bike meanwhile I just have a random no-name brand because it does everything I need it to do for commuting and I don't care that it weighs several kilograms more...
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by jabbany 4y ago
Actually it really isn't. The more expensive something is the higher the ongoing costs to maintain it. It's the same case with cars where more expensive ones are also more costly to maintain and fix. When people buy a more luxury
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by jabbany 4y ago
Actually most budget laptops still use plastic screens... It's only the high end models where things become glass. It almost makes sense, since if you're buying an expensive laptop, you're probably OK with higher cost of own
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by jabbany 4y ago
Actually, windshield glass is designed to prefer cracking (and holding together) instead of shattering into chunks when it breaks like the side windows. Relevant video about this design: https://youtu.be/aAsUG-jbLlM?t=131 C
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by jabbany 4y ago
The second thing could be easy to deal with though, just make data sharing be a consent based process. You can opt in to auto-filing by allowing data sharing with the IRS. People who appreciate the convenience can opt in and those who don&#
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by jabbany 4y ago
If it's that complicated and they are doing audits anyways, can't they just automatically apply EITC without relying on people to figure out this stuff and how to claim it?
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by jabbany 4y ago
> The EU solution is, of course, to turn a technical problem into a legal problem. As a regulatory body, what else can they do...? In fact, I actually see this as a good thing. You should think of regulation as an abstraction, an interfa
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by jabbany 4y ago
It's fine to debate what exact policy is the best, but it's not productive to just dismiss all regulation as bad because some are inconvenient. FWIW, the only reason cookie banners are annoying is because the sites intentionally m
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by jabbany 4y ago
I find it interesting how many HN'ers now don't think consumer protection is a good thing. (Actually, in hindsight it isn't that surprising. Tech companies only make the money they do because of the lack of consumer protectio
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by jabbany 4y ago
Maybe someone could make a tool to generate such a diff automatically.
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by jabbany 4y ago
Ahh yes the rich history of exploitative company towns :)
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by jabbany 4y ago
> sleek and generic > Hong Kong Idk, but I would not call Hong Kong sleek and generic... If anything it's kind of the opposite.
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by jabbany 4y ago
Yeah, this kind of split-level design was super common in the PNW and 1980s isn't even particularly old when it comes to housing (plenty of houses in the Seattle metro area that are from the '20s...). Like here's a random lis
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by jabbany 4y ago
Also given the state of global warming... Something still coastal but further up north could prove to be quite desirable in the future climate-wise...
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by jabbany 4y ago
Interesting. Would love to visit some day, possibly during a trip to northern BC. One thought I had after looking at the pictures is that... it really doesn't look that old/historic. I live in the PNW right now and a lot of the ho
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by jabbany 4y ago
Modern Linux DEs have an arguably worse version by not only having traditional `/etc` for some types of configurations but _also_ having a "registry" that's really similar to the Windows one for GUI apps... (re: gconf fo
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by jabbany 4y ago
Was about to say this. The netbook (and in extension UMPC) niche never really died. It was a niche a decade ago and it's still a niche today. One thing I will say is that, these tiny devices never fail to seem magical to the general pu
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by jabbany 4y ago
I mean they really weren't that bad back in the day, though I would say they're probably the antithesis of something like an iPad. I had a Lenovo S10 netbook (Atom N270, WinXP, 1G RAM, 160G HDD) that I used from high school to the
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by jabbany 4y ago
Probably not. Certainly not a true cold boot. Anytime Windows does big "reboot-required" updates, the fast boot thing doesn't apply anymore and it can take considerably longer due to the forced cold boot.
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by jabbany 4y ago
This +1. I have a similar setup and it definitely takes upwards of 20s for a cold boot. Though like mentioned above, I don't really do cold boots that often and my average uptime is about a 20 days (mostly rebooting to apply updates).
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by jabbany 4y ago
The author compiled the Python interpreter as an Actually Portable Executable (APE) file. APE files (usually using a `.com` extension) are single executable files that can be run natively on many major operating systems. Kind of a "pol
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by jabbany 4y ago
> and enabled it Did they though...? If they did you'd think there'd be documentation of that provided as a part of the service. The problem with this is that there is no direct comparable parallel. Physical removal is not allo
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by jabbany 4y ago
> The main reason it isn't illegal is the people who have been in charge of the Federal government are too old to understand computers. But this is a self-resolving problem. Eventually the older generation will just... you know... d
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by jabbany 4y ago
IIRC some (?) of their lower capacity cars come out of the factory with higher capacity batteries + a software lock and you can pay to enable the extra capacity ($4500 according to this post apparently). So, the dead mass is there even in b
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Hah. If only corporations were that nice lol.
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To be fair most, residential ISPs I've used do only advertise something like "up to X Mbps" [ https://imgur.com/a/Qvp8i61 ] and some will have asterisks that further lead to documentation about things like

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