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by kps 7mo ago
It's unfortunate that the US lawyers did not cite the reply given in Arkell v Pressdram.
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by kps 7mo ago
You mean ‘safe devices’ that don't let hostile actors know everything I'm doing, right?
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by kps 7mo ago
> Then we've got this questionable design that seems hard to make accessible I'm not a fan of ADA ambulance chasers on principle, but I wouldn't shed a tear see them be able to go after the bigcos that made this mess (e.g.
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by kps 7mo ago
> better fractional scaling X11 was resolution-agnostic from the start, but the ‘desktop Linux’ crowd were so focused on imitating Windows that they ignored Unix lessons and made fixed-resolution toolkits like Windows'.
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by kps 7mo ago
Fortunately it's easy to on MacOS to make a custom keyboard layout like that.
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by kps 7mo ago
U+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP
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by kps 7mo ago
Title should be: Wiz Waz
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by kps 7mo ago
Sure. If I select the word “Gift”, how much work does it need to decide whether it's English? How much more context does it need, and where does it get it? What if it guesses wrong and doesn't show the translation button?
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by kps 7mo ago
How would it know?
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by kps 7mo ago
> With today’s wide screens, a vertical menu bar at the side would perhaps make more sense than the usual one at the top, though, similar to vertical tabs. That's what NeXTSTEP did for application menus, along with right-click conte
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by kps 7mo ago
Intuitive equals familar — Jef Raskin https://doi.org/10.1145/182987.584629
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by kps 7mo ago
I too like to appear younger online.
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by kps 8mo ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming
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by kps 8mo ago
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for $29.95/month.
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by kps 8mo ago
No duty, only VAT. https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/84717050...
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by kps 8mo ago
The article describes events that were discovered in 2023.
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by kps 8mo ago
OK, I've started making notes on this at https://codeberg.org/datatravelandexperiments/semantic-termi... . Feel free to jump in, or volunteer to adopt the whole thing.
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by kps 8mo ago
Yes, since this morning, I've thought a little more and agree. (I just finished replying to another reply.) Anyone interested, ping me (address in profile) and encourage me to set up a repo to discuss and formulate a concrete proposal.
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by kps 8mo ago
After thinking about it a bit more, I think the specific details of that (i.e. inventing an extended colour mode) are not ideal. One alternative: Assign semantics to colour indexes above 256. Both of those have the disadvantage that they se
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by kps 8mo ago
That could be done with a few influential terminal emulators adopting a consensus extension to ISO8613-6, like this: ESC[38:99: ‹purpose› m for foreground, ESC[48:99: ‹purpose› m for background. e.g. Foreground Background Purpo
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by kps 8mo ago
They put : ; immediately after the digits because they were considered the least used of the major punctuation, so that they could be replaced by ‘digits’ 10 and 11 where desired. (I'm almost reluctant to to spoil the fun for the kids
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by kps 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard
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by kps 8mo ago
You misunderstand. Coming out as vampires is meant to improve their reputation.
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by kps 8mo ago
> by longstanding convention, that port 23/tcp is given to telnetd type login servers First thing I ever telnetted to was Melvyl, University of California's library catalogue, around 1985. This was “remote user access” (I was a
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by kps 8mo ago
The charitable assumption is that investors weren't aware it was a problem.
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by kps 8mo ago
Reddit and HN.
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by kps 8mo ago
/opt showed up as a place for packaged software, where each package (directory) has its own bin/, lib/, man/, and so on, to keep it self-contained rather than installing its files in the main hierarchy. ~/opt is jus
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by kps 8mo ago
Personally I use ~/opt/ /bin where ~/opt is a ‘one stop shop’ containing various things, including a symlink to ~/local and directories or symlinks for things that don't play well with others (e.g. cargo, go),
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by kps 8mo ago
Those are buckling spring. Beam springs are older and different.
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by kps 8mo ago
The other kind of drain opener.

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