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by markstos 6y ago
I use a bookmark service near daily. It's valuable when you have multiple machines and you prefer not to give Google all your bookmarks to sync through their servers.
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by markstos 6y ago
Consider Android is open source and people have been able to get root access on devices since the beginning. Still, it seems for overall security to have this program exist then not have a program at all.
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by markstos 6y ago
The author calls out Apple for the ecological implications for replacing faulty AirPods every few months, but accepts no responsibility for purchasing the AirPods himself-- the product is designed around an embedded battery that can't
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by markstos 6y ago
It's not either/or. They have long-spans AND allow re-use. Old PC laptops can have Linux installed to extend their life. Old Macs get scrapped.
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by markstos 6y ago
I prefer Vim for writing. Plenty of writers prefer text editors to word processors for writing. No need to be either/or. Fast AND useful is possible.
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by markstos 6y ago
Typing at 100 wpm is a character about every 120 ms. A 200 ms delay would be interoperable and a 30 ms delay would be a 25% penalty to see the characters appear.
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by markstos 6y ago
In the real world, when I type close to 100 wpm on keyhero.com, the highlighting of the current word can't even keep up with a human typist.
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by markstos 6y ago
Computers are also slow and sometimes getting slower, because real world applications are built with increasing layers of abstractions. while the hardware in the bottom layer is getting faster, the top layer is sometimes slower because the
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by markstos 6y ago
This happened to someone I know while they were traveling. Their ( http:// ) Wordpress site was taken over and filled with malware a few seconds later.
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by markstos 6y ago
Purism laptops include camera, mic and bluetooth physical kill switches. https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
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by markstos 6y ago
It's possible to have hardware kill switches that can't be compromised via software. Apple opts not to include them. Purism laptops include them. https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
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by markstos 6y ago
Important distinction. If your microphone is compromised, your web cam might be triggered to turn on just long enough to take a photo, or the camera could turn on only when the mic is quiet and there are indications the person is not engage
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by markstos 6y ago
Squatter's rights seems related, but different. With squatters rights, there is a law that says if they squat long enough, they can gain legal rights to the property. Squatters are amending the law through action, the law that gives th
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by markstos 6y ago
Finding a working dot matrix printer may be the most expensive part!
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by markstos 6y ago
Agreed. Meta-searchers have been tried many times. It's not clear how this will succeed where those failed.
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by markstos 6y ago
"Messages" by Matthew McKay. "Mindset" by Carol Dweck.
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by markstos 6y ago
The last three or four backpacking trips I've gone on, I found the OSM data wasn't completely accurate or complete. In each case I went in and fixed it based on other data sources like Strava Heatmap, primary source maps or firsth
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by markstos 6y ago
Impatient Programmers should be reading "Patience for Impatient People" or consider an alternate career.
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by markstos 6y ago
This may be good for security, but it is extra burden for small web developers and individuals. Big players will have cert renewals automated. It's possible and free for small players to use letsencrypt, that still takes some time to s
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by markstos 6y ago
The best phone for kids is your old phone.
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by markstos 6y ago
Apple IS trying do what they think the users are saying.
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by markstos 6y ago
In Jira if you type an autocomplete @name too fast it will show the right person selected in a list but autocomplete the wrong result.
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by markstos 6y ago
I'm all for trying simpler approaches and have written some tooling in bash myself, but at this point Python is pre-installed on many servers like bash is, a large benefit of Ansible is the VAST number of modules already written for An
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by markstos 6y ago
By the time the font size is large enough to approximate the normal site, the design is back to a single column on my monitor, but with worse spacing.
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by markstos 6y ago
Perl is alive!
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by markstos 6y ago
Searching for an issue was disorienting.
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by markstos 6y ago
Couldn't easily find the "releases" page.
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by markstos 6y ago
Apple would not need a different business plan. Apple currently has $192.8 billion cash on hand. If Apple took a smaller cut, they would simply have a few less billion dollars in the bank. Many, many individual developers and small business
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by markstos 6y ago
Yes, most of them.
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by markstos 6y ago
Police unions have considerable influence to block reform even when the elected politicians support it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapo... The efforts to "defund police&

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