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by jchw 1y ago
You can, it just won't be the Bluesky App View, so it's not really Bluesky. It's not like the fediverse where the instances own the URLs of the posts: they go through app views and there's a canonical URL to a Bluesky po
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by jchw 1y ago
In case of Bluesky, there will also only ever be a single instance of the App View. As far as I am aware though in practice there's really only the official relay or indexing services either.
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by jchw 1y ago
I think this compares AT proto PDSes to Fediverse instances. In many ways this actually underplays just how grossly centralized AT proto currently is, since some of the components are 100% centralized still. (Whereas Fediverse instances, al
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by jchw 1y ago
> Although I think the ZFS + Linux situation is mostly Linux religiosity gone wild, I think the Linux Kernel just doesn't want to be potentially in violation of Oracle's copyrights. That really doesn't seem that unreasonab
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by jchw 1y ago
No, I don't, which shouldn't be very surprising since I didn't claim people were switching en masse.
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by jchw 1y ago
I just recently grabbed an old Supermicro chassis off eBay and have been getting things slowly set up recently. So long Synology, and thanks for all the fish. (I'm just going to run a stock Linux distro rather than anything particularl
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by jchw 1y ago
People really are trying to switch to Linux right now, but it won't really matter if it doesn't stick, and spoiler alert, for most people it probably won't stick as a daily driver. Still, it's an interesting sort of un
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by jchw 1y ago
Fully understand the issues with this approach: my skepticism has been expressed in former HN comments. However, the issue is that in practice it already seems like this approach has yielded something closer to daily-driver maturity, which
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by jchw 1y ago
The PinePhone Pro just wasn't a very good product. There was frankly unnecessary drama regarding the bootloader of all things, which was a bad start. The specs were obviously a bad value compared to any mass-produced phone, though it
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by jchw 1y ago
When it comes to interpersonal drama, the "Shoot first, ask questions later" style of reporting is terrible. However, for consumer advocacy it's basically the opposite, especially because in most cases it's easy for comp
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by jchw 1y ago
I believe it was getfirefox.com, which I remember primarily from adding banners to websites I ran back in the day. I forgot who previously owned firefox.com but I recall them adding a link to getfirefox.com on it back in the day.
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by jchw 1y ago
For as long as I've been on Hacker News (2015?) there has been an obvious Apple bias. I don't really think that has changed that much. I always thought a lot of developers who were big Apple fans would fall off as Apple started pu
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by jchw 1y ago
You certainly can build slow apps with React, it doesn't make building slow things that hard. But honestly, React primitives (component mounting/unmounting, rendering, virtual DOM diffing, etc.) just aren't that slow/i
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by jchw 1y ago
I think the bigger issue is that even the "cloud" stuff seems pretty stupid. Meanwhile while I wouldn't really trust any of these companies very much in actuality, it's not like nobody else is doing "edge" AI:
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by jchw 1y ago
Personally I assert that if you're already running a model to classify pixels on the screen to try to aim, passing through mouse movements from another mouse in addition isn't really a big deal.
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by jchw 1y ago
> While in no ways perfect, Apple's walled garden gets rid of a huge amount of the enshittification found on other platforms, and makes it so that downloading a random app is relatively safe and unlikely to nuke your phone, steal yo
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by jchw 1y ago
This whole situation is frustrating. Even if there were eight or twelve companies all competing fairly, I'm not sure it would matter: if Apple's approach makes hand-over-fist more money, even though it is much worse for consumers
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by jchw 1y ago
> Counter example to what? Why should they not be able to run both a relatively open ecosystem and a mostly closed one? > I don’t think Apple is arguing that it is impossible to allow more open ways to install apps on iPhones. I think
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by jchw 1y ago
Even though that's true, the fact that pixelbot/colorbot type aimbots are still popular shows that they are perfectly effective. In fact, if you really want to remain undetected for long periods of time, "wallhack" sty
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by jchw 1y ago
> If that was viable, they would have started with Arduino before trying DMA attacks. I'm not describing something theoretical. I didn't use it for cheating, but I have in fact used an RP2040 to emulate an HID mouse and tried t
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by jchw 1y ago
> The reason they need “a method” to move the mouse is because Vanguard already outright rejects input from your non-primary peripheral device, and the reason I’m not disclosing that method here is because this is not a tutorial on faste
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by jchw 1y ago
Yes, I use nixos-hardware. Definitely useful. > to provide an anecdotal counter-example, the Asus Zephyrus, Flow and ProArt lines run pretty well on Linux provided you replace the Realtek WiFi. I should be very clear here: what I'm
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by jchw 1y ago
For old laptops it's significantly less bad, but definitely old. 5+ years old is usually a good start, though these days it may be better if it's even older. The most significant issues: - Peripherals simply don't work at al
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by jchw 1y ago
I absolutely love the direction KDE Plasma Wayland session is headed; I think it looks great, it definitely runs great, and it really is just packed with features. I do have some personal KDE gripes I'd like to work on, mainly just i
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by jchw 1y ago
At the very least, Western Digital and Seagate both simply do direct sales on their websites: https://www.westerndigital.com/products https://www.seagate.com/products/shop/
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Totally understand that and pretty much agree, the main problem I have is that the local businesses I liked to support are basically all gone. Not sure what to do now.
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by jchw 1y ago
> Honest question: after all the reports of co-mingled inventory, plain fakes etc. being sold by Amazon - for years i might add - do you really consider Amazon being a reliable source for anything that is not some unimportant trinket? No
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by jchw 1y ago
In general I am afraid to buy storage devices except directly from the vendor at the moment. I've heard that there's also lots of fraudulent HDDs being sold with botched SMART data, even on Amazon, even marked as "New",
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by jchw 1y ago
If you are running an immutable system like Bazzite it is significantly harder to get yourself into an unbootable state by accident, since if your system-wide change does actually break the machine, you can just boot into an older one. NixO
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Definitely contextually dependent: things like news articles are probably the gold standard for machine translation, but creative works and particularly dense reading material like novels seem like they will remain a tougher nut to crack fo

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