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by kalleboo 2y ago
From the outside it looks to me like Apple started reinvesting in Safari in 2023 (starting with adding support for notifications for PWAs) when the EU started getting serious about regulating the App Store monopoly, and they see investment
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Republicans have long been opposed to showing prices with sales tax built in (like in many other countries) because they want people to be conscious of how much they are paying in tax. But for tariffs? No no we can't let people see THO
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Enter stage: XSLT
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Before they introduced the non-chrono timeline the main complaint about Facebook was "I don't care about seeing what my cousin ate for lunch", and from that perspective it almost makes sense.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
That German app is not available in the App Store in my country (and I presume in any country other than Germany), so I would also be forced to go to eBay for stamps
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I think those networks never figured out how to make money off of it. Without the tracking (and piles of VC cash) that modern social media got, the ads were not worth enough. Microsoft and AOL just saw them as cost centers so when the mobil
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by kalleboo 2y ago
https://archive.md/9bR95
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Even Synology's "proprietary" RAID is just Linux mdadm, and they have instructions on their website on how to mount it under Linux. One of the reasons I preferred Synology in the first place was their openness about stuff lik
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by kalleboo 2y ago
An example of such a line is in Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ore_Line > From Riksgränsen on the national border to the Port of Narvik, the trains use only a fifth of the power they regenerate. The regen
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by kalleboo 2y ago
One of my credit cards has no web functionality at all, you can only interact with it through an app. This impacts me since it means my accounting software can't log into it and fetch data.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
It depends on how you get into the signup flow - if you just try to sign up for the App Store it requires a payment method, but if you try to install a free app, it will have the option for not entering a payment method. Shitty, anti-consum
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I thought the memory effect was basically a myth? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I pay $35/mo for 10 Gbps in Japan https://www.speedtest.net/result/d/707868117.png
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> Would make more sense to shit-can the program and just hand them cash Is there anywhere else in the world that has a similar program to SNAP that micro-manages what kind of things people can buy? Everywhere else I'm familiar wit
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Any business outside the EU can register for the EU One Stop Shop scheme and charge the VAT directly and avoid fees. Many small time US sellers probably just don’t want to bother, but big platforms like AliExpress centralize it https:&#x2F
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> The EU should do what does best: make things boring Exactly, the absolute best thing the EU could do right now is project stability
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by kalleboo 2y ago
He didn't even know that the EU had put in tariffs until a journalist asked him at the press conference after he announced the pause.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> the first, experimental window compositors for X11 showed up around 2006 Although Apple already started using compositing in 2002 with Quartz Extreme in Mac OS X 10.2, which also had X11 support.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
This is true for Apple's "ProRAW" that you get if you choose RAW in the iOS camera app. Third party camera apps like Photon can shoot actual RAW raw though, the hardware and OS APIs do support it.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Yeah I phrased it poorly, all Macs didn't have it as standard but what I meant to say is they started releasing Macs that had it as standard. The low-cost Macs like the LC didn't have it, but The PowerMac 6100 very much did have E
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by kalleboo 2y ago
1990 might be a bit early but from 1991 Apple started putting Ethernet in their Macs as standard edit: I phrased this poorly, all Macs didn't have it as standard but what I meant to say is they started releasing Macs that had it as sta
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by kalleboo 2y ago
What's crazy is that MkLinux was actually Linux-on-Mach, not just a baremetal PowerPC Linux. The work they did to port Mach to PowerPC for MkLinux was then reused in the port of NeXTSTEP Mach to PowerPC. Everything was very intertwined
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Energy is probably a big one, Europe is importing a lot of LNG and oil from the US after Russia got sanctioned.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> When have you seen a book or mag with 1/3 margins? Magazines almost always have their text in thin columns, because long lines are difficult to follow. Books are also typically 1/3th the width of a typical computer screen f
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by kalleboo 2y ago
The question now is, what kind of tariff negotiations will be acceptable to Trump? Is it the numbers he used to justify the tariffs? The article we're commenting on shows Trump has always seen that any trade deficit at all is unaccepta
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by kalleboo 2y ago
The thing is, Woz already wrote floating point routines which were included in the Apple II ROMs themselves that you could call with PEEK/POKE. They just were never integrated into the BASIC language itself! http://retro.han
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by kalleboo 2y ago
LinusTechTips recently did a video on their revenue sources: 55% from merch, 21% from video sponsors, 12% from YouTube AdSense, 7% from their own video platform, and only 3% from affiliate links. I guess for creators with a much smaller mer
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> So these tech tubers were only really upset that Honey was stealing from /them/, they don't give a fuck about their viewers. Ironically, this is the reason LinusTechTips never did an expose video on this back when they
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by kalleboo 2y ago
The difference is that public broadcasters like NHK, BBC etc are usually set up to be nominally independent from the government, usually through a license fee enforced separate from taxes.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
It's basically the same thing as the premise behind "The Twitter Files", isn't it? Someone in government sees rule-breaking content, reports it through back channels.

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