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by krrrh 3y ago
Microsoft barely got a slap on the wrist from the DoJ in the end. Market competition from Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome, along with industry and cultural support for browser standards, was the ultimate remedy, and that would have happe
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by krrrh 3y ago
“DOS ain’t done til Lotus won’t run” Whether that was ever fully policy at Microsoft, people sure believed it was. 1995 was also around the time MS was pursing its embrace-extend-extinguish strategy to the internet with internet explorer.
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by krrrh 3y ago
The hacker spirit uses Signal. Promoting WhatsApp over the more open community-supported alternative is worse than gloating over Beeper.
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by krrrh 3y ago
Counterpoint: it’s totally embarrassing that the US public had to learn about the serious issues of myocarditis amongst young men and blood clots from J&J from Israeli and European public health, and that it took several months, and ar
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by krrrh 3y ago
Sarno doesn’t claim that soft tissue injuries are never real. Stuff like golfers/tennis elbow usually manifests with a clear overuse cause from strain in exercise. But this sort of thing where people experience debilitating pain from…
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by krrrh 3y ago
See my comment above about using chocolate as a bridge to deal with caffeine withdrawal. For me the brain fog and headaches always made it hard to transition to getting off caffeine, but chocolate is a good methadone for a week. https:&#x2
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by krrrh 3y ago
The Bose sleepbuds were helpful for me in masking snoring sounds. I found conventional earbuds too uncomfortable the way they seal, while these make up for the lack of perfect seal with white noise. Looks like the product has been recently
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by krrrh 3y ago
Just a note that lavender oil is estrogenic and topical use has been associated with precocious puberty or gynocomastia in children. Small doses in adults may not be a huge issue, but I would not use it as a sleep aid for kids. https:&#x2F
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by krrrh 3y ago
Without reading this paper but having read a bunch of this research in the past, it’s definitely inconclusive due to poor quality data. The people who don’t consume caffeine category too often includes those with major health issues that pr
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by krrrh 3y ago
Low dose nicotine gum does help, but it’s pretty habit forming. I’m not convinced it’s worse than taking daily ADHD medication or caffeine though. Aerobic exercise (preferably outdoors) is the one thing that works with mostly positive side
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by krrrh 3y ago
For anyone reading this and wanting to get off caffeine, but finding it difficult because of withdrawal symptoms like headaches, here’s a trick that makes it easier. If you’re drinking a morning coffee you’ll be getting 100-200mg of caffein
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by krrrh 3y ago
At least a year ago when I was playing around with TikTok live it was amazing how much of it was machinists, lumberjacks, or assembly line workers live-streaming their entire shifts. Some of the most interesting content on the platform.
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by krrrh 3y ago
The artist Nicole Ondre makes striking ceramic sculptures based on knot theory. https://www.nicoleondre.com/heatwork-tanya-leighton-2023 https://www.nicoleondre.com/primes Full disclosure, she is also my wi
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by krrrh 3y ago
I think you’re right, but I’d rephrase it as Apple focusing on what can be a great experience right now (viewing any iPad or macOS app spatially, a massive improvement over using either platform currently) vs highlighting what can only be a
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by krrrh 3y ago
I for one welcome the decentralized internet that Elon is ushering in. Things were better when we had small disparate forums where people could develop their perspectives in community. As long as people are members of multiple communities w
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by krrrh 3y ago
I don’t live in a red state but I was raised in the most socially conservative area of Canada and I do have a number of religious and evangelical friends though I was raised atheist. Granted I do now live in the gayest neighbourhood in Cana
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by krrrh 3y ago
Her interview on the Psychoactice podcast was really good if you want more than this article delivers. Primarily she’s getting closer to a more appropriate definition of what a psychedelic is, with the more common modern usage including ket
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by krrrh 3y ago
If you query Wikipedia or Google for an hour on a topic you know about there’s much less of a chance you’ll get inaccurate information than with ChatGPT where it’s almost a given. Assuming people get some basic training it won’t be hard to
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by krrrh 3y ago
> Status quo is active oppression everywhere all the time of certain groups In America in the year 2023, this is a wild statement that amounts to a matter of faith. There is no sensible way to prove or disprove it with evidence, except t
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by krrrh 4y ago
As another former a.r.s. and a.c.t. denizen this is spot on. Good summary!
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by krrrh 4y ago
For those of us with winter to deal with the better approach might turn out to be judicious use of UV tanning beds.
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by krrrh 4y ago
Good points but it’s worth clarifying that this is not what the Citizens United decision said. It clarified that the state couldn’t decide that the political speech of some corporations (Hillary the Movie produced by Citizens United) was il
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by krrrh 4y ago
No worries, I’ve made this suggestion to a lot of people but no one has followed through with it afaik, not even me. I do find that https://freedom.to/ is one of the few things that has worked for me. It’s more difficult to
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by krrrh 4y ago
What you’re asking for has been available for years. The answer is to swallow your pride and have a friend set up parental controls on your phone and safeguard the password from you.
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by krrrh 4y ago
The one that’s driven me crazy lately is when Siri tells me through my AirPods that I left something beind. It always pronounces the “St.” in the address as “saint” instead of “street”, and I can’t understand how it would do this by acciden
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by krrrh 4y ago
> On MacOS, if I want to completely terminate a program, I have to right click on its icon in the dock and then select quit. Cmd-Q ? Or even better cmd- tab-q-tab-q. Who has time to find the corners of a half dozen windows with a trackpa
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by krrrh 4y ago
Chrome for iOS switching to Blink from WebKit will have next to zero effect on Safari’s share of iOS browsing.
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by krrrh 4y ago
You really shouldn't be doing a significant amount of your business with people who don't trust you and who you don't trust. Blockchain advocates really underestimate how much of functioning economies simply work because of t
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by krrrh 4y ago
Next year will surely be the year of the Linux desktop.
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by krrrh 4y ago
He didn’t say anything about not revisiting those events personally or with other vets, he said by with “people who weren’t there”. Give a guy a break for choosing to not sit his kids down to hear all the gory details.

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