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by kevincox 2y ago
Yeah, I feel the same way. For a small set of features that work fairly reliably it is great. Almost all of my use is: 1. Set $thing timer for $time 2. Add $thing to my grocery list. 3. Weather 4. Convert $amount to $unit. And it is pretty
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by kevincox 2y ago
It effectively died a long time before that.
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by kevincox 2y ago
Yes, but if you are really picky you will want your background pattern to align nicely with your typeface. Sure, you can carefully try to ensure that each character is a multiple of some fixed unit and set your stripe size based on that. Th
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by kevincox 2y ago
No, because the device they are accessing needs to be specifically built for this use case. So you would need to give the user a malicious device then use a malicious webpage. The attack scenario isn't impossible, but is far less then
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by kevincox 2y ago
Keep in mind that this is survivorship bias. The vast majority of DNA from this period has lots. Sure, there is tons that exists but we haven't found but without a doubt almost all of it has been lost. This is DNA that happened to be t
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by kevincox 2y ago
Yeah, if someone I trust makes a recommendation I would much rather follow the link and get the right one than risk getting some scam. I hate when people say "I recommend Bubble App" and I need to search for it, I'm always wo
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by kevincox 2y ago
> Paying $5/month for more content, but from _just one creator_, always feels at best like a worse deal The problem is that only a tiny number of users are actually going to sign up anyways, so you need to extract more value from th
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by kevincox 2y ago
I think this is different then what the article is talking about. It isn't against adding actual features. But in many devices (most microwaves, air fryers, the Ninja Creami) they are just presets. And sometimes you can't even man
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Avoid the Nightmare Bicycle(geoffreylitt.com)
8 points by kevincox 2y ago|4 comments
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Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit(icode4.coffee)
274 points by kevincox 2y ago|107 comments
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by kevincox 2y ago
I do this semi-frequently. I'll seed a funny screenshot or short clip to friends. It's free marketing for the show. They should really build short-clip sharing into their apps.
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by kevincox 2y ago
> Censorship of free advertising is against the economic interest of rightsholders This was literally the first time I saw this "feature". I was watching something on Netflix and wanted to share a screenshot with someone. I rea
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by kevincox 2y ago
I also use it almost exclusively, but sites that don't support it (or more often that just don't test against it and have various broken features) are becoming more common. As the market share shrinks this will become more and mor
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by kevincox 2y ago
But that ignores the reality. Chrome is implementing new (often privacy harmful) features and because the Chrome market share is high enough websites depend on them. Then the average user has to pick Chrome because "Firefox is broken&q
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by kevincox 2y ago
No, any concurrent modifications would cause problems. The main difficulty with sync is conflict resolution and none of Syncthing's solutions work well for the things that Firefox syncs.
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by kevincox 2y ago
The perfect opportunity to attract more market share, but instead they are shooting themselves in the foot at exactly the wrong time.
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by kevincox 2y ago
This isn't the end of uBlock Origin. Just the end of it on Chromium-based browsers. If you are a power-user you may well benefit from using Firefox where uBlock Origin has always claimed to work best. By switching you will also be remo
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by kevincox 2y ago
Yes, Linux has a systemcall to do this for any filesystem with reflink support (and it is safe and atomic). You need a "driver" program to identify duplicates but there are a handful out there. I've used https://gi
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by kevincox 2y ago
My bigger concern is that what percentage of people will realize when delegating subdomains that having a leading underscore is a security vulnerability?
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by kevincox 2y ago
I wouldn't primarily base my OS choice based on the theme. There is so much more about an OS that is more important. But that doesn't mean that I can't like the look of the other OS.
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by kevincox 2y ago
I used to enjoy the weekly feed with 1 random post. I would use my feed reader's "full text" functionality to pull in the content. It was a good way to drip-feed new authors into my feed and I could subscribe to the ones I li
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by kevincox 2y ago
It does look like the main article isn't actually cached by Cloudflare. But most of the assets are. So it is definitely helping but not taking the entire load.
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by kevincox 2y ago
IMHO at some point it makes sense to start requiring the internet, it makes a lot of things easier. But when we do that we need to ensure that everyone is supported. For example ensuring that people have ready internet access at public libr
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by kevincox 2y ago
This is exactly what I do. There is a great shop a few minutes away and I can order fairly low volumes at great quality. Anything worth printing is worth getting done on their printer which is better quality and the the volume I print likel
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by kevincox 2y ago
Apple can push firmware updates to the HSM just like the device. So if they really wanted they could add an operation that extracted the keys (likely by encrypting them to a key that lives in Apple's cloud).
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by kevincox 2y ago
How easy is it to know what works when the network is down before purchasing? Do you expect everyone to take down their wifi after purchase to test and return if it doesn't work? Maybe there should be a mandatory information sheet such
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by kevincox 2y ago
> Time will tell if that burden is sustainable. Most likely this burden will also change over time. Early in the experiment it makes sense to put most of the burden on the experimenters and avoid it from "infecting" the whole
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by kevincox 2y ago
This seems like tough choices to make. I see a lot of concerns. 1. The Matrix Foundation wants to promote communities to encourage adoption. 2. Matrix needs tools for moderating communities, even if the Matrix Foundation doesn't run co
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by kevincox 2y ago
For the second time... And they still don't support many features... And there is lack of compatibility for things like video calling so transitioning to them is infeasible for lots of people. This sort of seems like the sort of UX iss
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by kevincox 2y ago
It is actually a reaction to websites doing stupid things to try and prevent password auto-fill. The sites are fighting against security in a misguided attempt to improve security, so the browser vendors added a bunch of heuristics to try a

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