markstos

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1. 481.▲
   by markstos 5y ago

   Tried it, got paywalled anyway. I was not logged into Facebook at the time, if that matters.
2. 482.▲
   by markstos 5y ago

   tl;dr: cheap hubs with ethernet failed, dedicated Apple ethernet adapter worked. Author still isn't sure exactly why.
3. 483.▲
   by markstos 5y ago

   Studies of identical twins with different upbringing has found that outcomes are like 70% genetic and 30% environment. Anecdotally, I grew up an environment with good parents and siblings with different genetic parents. One of us had been i
4. 484.▲
   by markstos 5y ago

   An anti-pattern is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern
5. 485.▲
   by markstos 5y ago

   I'll stick with `sub`: https://github.com/qrush/sub
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   by markstos 5y ago

   Can confirm. Lived on farm. Used to get bees in the mail.
7. 487.▲
   by markstos 5y ago

   I was interested to use Wayland for its more secure design. Also, X11 is considered abandonware by the maintainers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-... As long as I was getting started with a
8. 488.▲
   by markstos 5y ago

   Nearly all of my complaints about i3wm evaporated when I switched over to using Sway.
9. 489.▲
   by markstos 5y ago

   I remember around 1997 I was reading my raw web site logs and saw the Nokia 9000 user agent appear. I knew what it was but never saw one in person. I wondered what some rich person was doing reading my website, probably about skateboarding
10. 490.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    Three months ago I posted: "T-Mobile customer portal full of unnecessary trackers is a security risk". Commenters familiar with some of the trackers clarified some third parties could live record user sessions. https:/&#x2F
11. 491.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    I did this. Bought a Motorola RAZR on eBay, plugged into a FreeBSD box and called it a GSM modem. Since we were monitoring if the network was down among other things, the pages would go out through the "GSM modem" since the fiber
12. 492.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    I experience the same. Frequently run into "Top 10 reviews" that appear to be written without the author having having possessed the product and then link off to Amazon. Time wasters.
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    by markstos 5y ago

    Nothing says "Modern Operating System" like "New Java/COBOL Interoperability".
14. 494.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    It lends itself running on a mobile phone with an OtterBox case.
15. 495.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    Written principles can be useful for organizations as they can outlast any particular people that work there.
16. 496.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    At least having the principles published invites internal and external stakeholders to hold Amazon accountable to them.
17. 497.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    Software automating people out of jobs spares no one, even the people writing the software. If this improves developer efficiency by 10%, 10% fewer developers are required.
18. 498.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    So, pick a database, use DenoDB and then use the lowest-common-denominator feature set of all the databases it supports. There's a great parable from almost two decades ago. Movable Type was a popular open source blogging platform that
19. 499.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    We can hope that Microsoft will require _bing_nomap as their suffix, While Apple will be more privacy-minded and require _yesapplemaps to be added if you wish to opt-in. Opting out of Google while opting into MS and Apple scanning is left a
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    by markstos 5y ago

    The announcement could be clearer. Groups could already sign up to pay for Google Workspace, that doesn't change. Individuals could also sign up for Google Workplace group account that only a single person would use or use a lot of fea
21. 501.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    Same.
22. 502.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    Alacritty is obsoleted by Foot: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/n6kznh/yes_welcome_... https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
23. 503.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    Thanks for the input! So far the neighbor hasn't been reasonable at all, so I don't expect we'll get to do this the easy way.
24. 504.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    My family farm got a new neighbor, who noticed that he technically owns a sliver of land with the first 100 feet of our gravel driveway, nevermind that we've been using it for the past 50 years since our property was purchased. I don&#
25. 505.▲
    by markstos 5y ago

    And a cat.
26. 506.▲
    by markstos 6y ago

    Based on what I've read about the Mac M1, it's hard to notice.
27. 507.▲
    by markstos 6y ago

    Too bad Red Hat is going the opposite direction with their Toolbox container management project, sharing your entire home dir with every container but not explicitly documenting this: https://github.com/containers/toolb
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    by markstos 6y ago

    See also posts on intent vs impact: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intent%20vs%20impatct Impact matters.
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    by markstos 6y ago

    Notable that the two post authors sign it with " - Chrome", indicating I presume they are Chrome team members.
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    by markstos 6y ago

    "How do we memorialize the current moment when it's constantly disappearing?"