markstos

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by markstos 4mo ago
"Please do a bunch of work to support a folding phone model only a few people will be able to afford"
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by markstos 4mo ago
No Population Growth in My Backyard -- NPGIMBY.
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by markstos 4mo ago
Voroni is useful for spatial analysis when you want to assign points to a nearest /something/ like airplane positions to the nearest airport. I used for intersection crash analysis to make sure each crash was assigned to at most i
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by markstos 4mo ago
Besides bankruptcy there is also shutting a business down, in which case are no new owners. Lavabit and Silent Circle being examples of businesses that shutdown rather than comply with laws they didn't like.
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by markstos 4mo ago
And how you would craft a law to prevent a company from forming sub-companies for specific games to isolate risk? Or make it illegal for a company to go bankrupt? Creating sub-companies is common business practice that even small businesses
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by markstos 6mo ago
Summary: author is a fan of the new sizes="auto" and loading="lazy" browser features.
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by markstos 6mo ago
Also, at a moment when "AI" appears in practically all tech marketing, in this environmental impact report they manage to not mention at all the impact of their ChatGPT integration or their plans for an upgraded Siri.
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by markstos 6mo ago
Fairphone. https://www.fairphone.com/fairbuds
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by markstos 6mo ago
From the company that popularized completely unrepairable earbuds with non-replaceable batteries.
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by markstos 6mo ago
On a couple of different Ghost sites I maintain, I got suspicious sign-ups from travel-related domains that require email verification. I suspect they might have used OpenClaw to accomplish the email verification step (no evidence) and were
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by markstos 6mo ago
It appears Cloudflare is responding to a legal requirement to implement this IP blocking. https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflar...
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by markstos 6mo ago
That's apparently mostly from Google to be the default search engine in Firefox. Diversifying their income streams is a good move. The MZLA company that makes Thunderbird is also working on improving self-funding by launching a Thunder
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by markstos 6mo ago
Also need a split keyboard so a cat can sleep in between the halves.
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by markstos 7mo ago
Frustrating that FedRAMP is both a pain to get compliant with and also apparently is not a strong signal of actual security.
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by markstos 7mo ago
How is the original author making out in the new arrangement?
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by markstos 7mo ago
X already owned it.
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by markstos 7mo ago
But will there be a browser plugin?
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by markstos 7mo ago
Press release touts "built with the environment mind", but is silent on repairability. Also this week: Lenovo's new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability showing that even popular modules of mainstream manufacturers ca
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by markstos 7mo ago
And then the year after this is released, will they sell you new mainboards with the rest of the laptop, so you can upgrade just the parts that need updating?
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by markstos 7mo ago
That's a great phone for runners who need to carry their phone. Smaller, lighter, pocket friendly.
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by markstos 7mo ago
My "smart" gas stove can be turned on over the internet (if I allow it to connect)—perfect appliance to put an LLM in charge of.
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by markstos 7mo ago
The examples seem to suggest it would be chatting with your home automation in natural language.
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by markstos 7mo ago
So Flock helped solve a case nearly every day of the year?
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by markstos 8mo ago
Ha. The question now is whether the ML industry will change directions or if the momentum of Python is a runaway train. I can't guess. Perl was once the "800-pound gorilla" of web development, but that chapter has long been c
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by markstos 8mo ago
Sometimes the "right tool for the job" philosophy leads to breaking down a larger problem into two small problems, each which has a different "right tool". Choosing a single tool that tries to solve every single problem
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by markstos 8mo ago
Is this part of a web server or some other system where you could end up spawning N python processes instead of 1 at a time?
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by markstos 8mo ago
To better understand the feedback, see another example that was posted recently, about "Brownie Mary": https://urbanists.social/@raineyday@beige.party/115793532206... It's an inspirational true story and
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by markstos 8mo ago
Ah yes, one of those novelty reversible cups.
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by markstos 8mo ago
It has a particular style I’ve seen lately using more short confident sentences as professional writers do. But it lacks the professional writer’s sense of when to add an anecdote and when to leave out a detail. And it is this juxtaposition
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by markstos 8mo ago
If only there were a viable third option besides Apple and the world's largest advertising company.

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