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by jerhewet 7mo ago
Steve Gibson, Gibson Research. https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm Just scroll down the page and look at the size of the completely self-contained executable programs. THIS is what Win32 is capable of. Something we alway
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by jerhewet 7mo ago
Hmm. I guess I'm living the good life with all of the Firefox configuration changes I've made over the years. I have six right-click menu items and four buttons (page back, page forward, reload, and bookmark): Save Page As, Select
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tarrifs(finance.yahoo.com)
7 points by jerhewet 8mo ago|1 comments
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by jerhewet 9mo ago
[insert light bulb going on over my head] This hadn't occurred to me. I think you're right. This could get very interesting over the next couple of years...
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Apple turning to Intel for future iPhone chips, analyst reaffirms(9to5mac.com)
10 points by jerhewet 9mo ago|2 comments
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by jerhewet 9mo ago
https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
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by jerhewet 10mo ago
See: I.C.E.
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by jerhewet 10mo ago
At least the headline makes sense to me. > Most technical problems are people problems Certainly explains Microsoft Teams and Windows 11. [note there is no /s -- it's 100% a people problem, because the wrong people are steering
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by jerhewet 11mo ago
> JShit doesn't belong anywhere Or, as I prefer to call it, Kiddiescript.
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by jerhewet 11mo ago
> C# has way to many features, it feels bloated Could not agree more. Too many -- WAY too many -- "features" from Javascript and functional languages have been jammed into C#, and the language has suffered for it. Every time I
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by jerhewet 1y ago
about:config, type ".ml." in the search (no quote marks), set everything to false / zero / blank. I don't want anything even vaguely related to spicy autocomplete on any of my machines, and I go to great lengths to
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by jerhewet 1y ago
https://archive.is/dbCBf
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Everything is fake on Silicon Valley's hottest new social network(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by jerhewet 1y ago|2 comments
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White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders(politico.com)
13 points by jerhewet 1y ago|0 comments
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by jerhewet 1y ago
AI is "put Elmer's glue on your pizza so the ingredients won't slide off". AI is "three B's in blueberry". Garbage in, garbage out. Which will always be the case when your AI is scraping stuff off of rando
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by jerhewet 1y ago
Congrats on being a parrot in the "oh noes, taken over by bots!" securitah echo chamber. W7 is just fine. Daily driver on multiple machines, never been "taken over" or turned into a crypto miner or a hub for a bot networ
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by jerhewet 1y ago
Reader mode. Don't leave home without it.
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by jerhewet 1y ago
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin, but I'm also routing everything through AdGuard Home on an RPi5 (my router points to the RPi for DNS), and it's been an eye-opening experience. Just checked AGH, and it's blocking 49.56% of my
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by jerhewet 1y ago
Home Depot. They never test against Firefox, so most of their pages are a dumpster fire.
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The Hamburger Menu Is No Longer a Hamburger Menu(datagubbe.se)
3 points by jerhewet 1y ago|4 comments
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by jerhewet 1y ago
Wood-working magazines. I subscribed _because_ of the advertising. I can't afford Fesstools, but that doesn't mean I don't love seeing / reading their ads. I dropped my very long time subscription to Maximum Computing wh
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by jerhewet 1y ago
Please ... just give me back my BIOS.
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by jerhewet 1y ago
The stupid, it burns.
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by jerhewet 2y ago
https://archive.is/9qvq1
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Muggy city keeps cool with minimal AC(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by jerhewet 2y ago|1 comments
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by jerhewet 2y ago
eM Client. The best one I've found so far. https://www.emclient.com/download
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Why Vibe Coding Makes Me Want to Throw Up(kushcreates.com)
7 points by jerhewet 2y ago|3 comments
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Ludic's Guide to Getting Software Engineering Jobs(ludic.mataroa.blog)
6 points by jerhewet 2y ago|0 comments
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by jerhewet 2y ago
MusicBee https://www.getmusicbee.com/ Very (very) longtime user, with just under 10K albums I can peruse. Took me a while to tweak everything in the UI to my tastes, but now I can't imagine using anything else to liste
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by jerhewet 2y ago
There is no M2 version of Visual Studio. The version of Visual Studio 2022 I installed was x64. I have some other x64 software installed as well (Notepad++, AWS CLI, git, etc.) and all of them work just fine under the ARM version of Windows

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