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by kalleboo 2y ago
I spoofed a slightly older User Agent... Oh, you’re rocking IE 4.01 in Tokyo? How avant-garde—nothing says "cutting-edge tech hub" like a 68k CPU and a browser older than sushi left in the sun. You clicked here from Hacker News, b
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by kalleboo 2y ago
This announcement applies to recordable discs[0] (BD-R, BD-RE, etc), not stamped ROM discs [0] The section of the website is "記録メディア"
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Another global comparison point - in Japan, 1 Gbps fiber is available pretty much nationwide (I just checked the address of my in-laws' rural ancestral home in the middle of the rice fields) 10 Gbps is available in increasingly smaller
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> I wonder if you can start a run on it in the rain (ie without using touch) You can use Siri to start a workout
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I live in Japan and am friends with foreign women who chose to live here, so I guess I have the opposite confirmation bias, but the people I know who gave birth here have been super happy with the help that mothers get here, getting to stay
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by kalleboo 2y ago
At the time, the idea of "Twitter as a protocol" was pretty hot during the flurry of third-party apps using the API both for posting and browsing; I remember implementing a "post a photo every day challenge" site using h
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by kalleboo 2y ago
The thing is that Elon Musk is not just some guy with an opinion. He's some guy who has an opinion and owns a major social media platform where he tweaks the algorithm to serve his own purposes, similar to what TikTok is being accused
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by kalleboo 2y ago
As far as I can recall, this has been their branding strategy: 1996: Rename everything to "MSN" including a news TV channel 2000: Rename everything ".NET" even if it's not a programming language 2005: Rename everyth
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Needs more MSN and Live in there somewhere
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by kalleboo 2y ago
At least I hope this drives the EU to ban the use of X in their territory for the same reasons as the TikTok ban in the US. The owner is part of the incoming regime, and has been explicit about wanting to influence European elections.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I remember in the Intel days, the Apple Thunderbolt 1 GbE adapter would have high CPU usage when you were transferring at the full 1 Gbps. I've had good luck with the Realtek 2.5 GbE adapters, no CPU usage issues. And these days even w
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by kalleboo 2y ago
It will depends on your USB ports. I use 2.5 GbE USB adapters and they work great... as long as they're in the right port. Half of the ports on my Thunderbolt dock are provided by a shaky ASMedia USB chipset and it drops or lags after
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by kalleboo 2y ago
The MPEG2 codec was also a paid download (I think it was also included with DVD Studio Pro)
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Why would they spend the money to deploy it on faster hardware when the new cloud-based system rewrite is just around the corner? It's just 3 months way, this time, for sure...
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I know of a large international retailer everyone here has heard of that had at least 3 aborted attempts to rewrite their 70's VAX-based warehouse management software stack (an internal attempt, an Indian outsource attempt and an SAP a
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by kalleboo 2y ago
The fact that they did J2ME multitasking on a feature phone better than Symbian S60 did multitasking of native apps, and did it before the iPhone got any form of multitasking at all always impressed me.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
One of the problems for Kodak was that selling people digital cameras was always going to be just a fraction of the profit of selling them film. Today, in 2025, Fujifilm makes more money from selling film (Instax instant photo film) than th
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Wouldn't that be regulating PC manufacturers/retailers rather than Microsoft? The things they're forcing Apple to allow, Microsoft already allows (installing third-party web browsers and App Stores, choosing default apps, etc
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I watch a YouTuber called bigclive who does hardware teardowns. Occasionally he'll tear down a single-use vape to show how you can harvest re-usable li-ion batteries from them. He can't use the word "vape", or the video
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I'm paying $30/mo for 10 Gbps in Japan, paying $100/mo for 400 Mbps sounds crazy. I get that the last mile infrastructure costs a lot to lay down especially in the U.S. with your crazy local politics, but once that pipe is th
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Vouchers don't work since the ISPs will just raise the price to take into account the increased purchasing power. Just adding the burden to the ISPs of offering service at a fixed price will let ISPs compete for who can do it the most
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Old OSes like MacOS 9 barely touch your disk with writes at all, they typically don't have any log files they're writing to, they barely use any virtual memory. These things are never going to see the terabytes of writes they&#x27
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Netflix funds and produces lots of local productions targeted at local markets, with zero eye towards the US market[0]. They still get international subtitles because that's cheap enough. If those shows turn out to have a more global a
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Is this a correct interpretation of the timeline? 1. Matt announces that he's going to effectively stop contributing to WordPress for now https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-spons... 2
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by kalleboo 2y ago
For 3G, instead of selling the spectrum the PTS in Sweden did a "beauty contest" and gave it away to the companies that promised the biggest buildout in the smallest amount of time. Sounded like a great idea, the money that would
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> it's simply not economical to cover them with fiber: you'll need thousands of kilometers of it to cover maybe a few thousand people Are these places covered by "POTS" copper telephone access?
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Every summary is an interpretation/editorialization. That's what happens when you have to pick out what is important or not. A poor summary of a text picks out and presents the unimportant bits.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
There is a small handful of clinics in Japan that do not accept the universal health insurance, such as specialist ones targeting English-speaking expats. Example: https://www.nmclinic.net/index.html#about
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I think the marketing is deliberately vague. The feature is called "intelligence" but it's literally not intelligent.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I occasionally rip Blu-rays (1080p, not 4K I hear those are more difficult) just using makemkv inside of Docker running directly on my Synology NAS, it's a piece of cake.

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