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by meibo 5y ago
To what is a VPN a solution? It prevents IP tracking, but that's it. The rest of what is described here still works.
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by meibo 5y ago
I don't understand. Just please make a good UI toolkit for your desktop OS and stick to it. Wasn't the point of the new settings app to use UWP/XAML? .NET MAUI is Xamarin Forms with a new name so devs don't get whiplash,
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by meibo 5y ago
If you need to run software/servers with any kind of data consistency/reliability on OS X this is definitely something you should be aware of and will be a footgun if you're used to Linux. Macs in datacentres are becoming inc
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by meibo 5y ago
Permissions for third party apps are pretty much identical to iOS now. People are always brigading these HN posts with useless snark because they think that Apple respects them.
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by meibo 5y ago
It wasn't that much more expensive and I knew that it was going to be such a pain that I was happy to do it once and future-proof. Probably won't max it out in my lifetime, but it's nice to have options.
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by meibo 5y ago
Same here, house was built around 1900 and they really never intended you to run anything more than power... Basically impossible to get anything else through without tearing up the flooring/wall, and the rooms are askew too. Damaged a
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by meibo 5y ago
I've had good experiences with "error codes". In our case, we came up with a way to assign unique codes to standard library exceptions for the language we use(.NET), custom codes for our own exceptions, and mask that with a n
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by meibo 5y ago
Yeah, it's really powered by favors, in my experience. This doesn't have to be an inherently bad thing in small communities, as it gets things done, but it's obviously unfair to outsiders.
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by meibo 5y ago
There are well moderated/curated PeerTube instances, just like there are well moderated Mastodon and Matrix instances. You just have to look for them, which is a big problem for a video site(no virality, smaller audience).
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by meibo 5y ago
Windows NT is historically made up of several subsystems that use this naming scheme, so they decided to go with it again.
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by meibo 5y ago
How did this happen? A tech/code affine teacher with contacts? The schools in my district in Germany can't even manage to set up reliable wired internet, and the few rooms with projectors all are stocked with Apple TVs to ensure t
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by meibo 5y ago
Modern computing architectures tend to be very similar. They use a process called high level emulation(HLE) where API calls to the emulated kernel, subsystems, graphics driver are basically "translated" to the host system, which a
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by meibo 5y ago
I had to deal with a family member not being able to get a place in the hospital this week, even though they would have otherwise(covid unrelated) - taking care of them at home is nearly impossible. No one cares until it affects them.
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by meibo 5y ago
Anyone though that advent of code was unusually hard this year, especially at the start? Nothing unsolvable, but I usually do these with my SO and they got stuck on the second day, wherein we usually get to day 10 or so. Felt like it picked
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by meibo 5y ago
Safari is hell nowadays, bad UX, not compliant with web standards - not just whatever API Google comes up this year, but basic CSS that's common and works in every other browser. At my last web dev gig, we had to go and get Apple hardw
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by meibo 5y ago
A lot of RFID door openers also just use mechanical relays to power the locking mechanism, which can be triggered from outside with a strong magnet. In the end it probably depends on what your threat model is. To keep out thieves, most of t
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by meibo 5y ago
HCaptcha is the absolute worst, their captchas are consistently harder, the datasets are impossible to decipher and the failure rate is much higher, even if I'm sure that I chose the right options. My parents had no chance last time th
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by meibo 5y ago
Transferring repos creates a redirect from the original location. Your userbase would be able to get to the new location automatically and remotes would still work.
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by meibo 5y ago
BitDefender is one of the bigger scams out there. I wholly believe that they operate based on a "blacklist everything first" policy, because that lets them tout their 99,99% detection rate. I run a big open source project and the
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by meibo 5y ago
I don't think it would. I'd like to believe leadership in companies that exploit their workers know exactly what they're doing, grilling burgers for a day won't change that. It might help in e.g. startups, but I think it
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by meibo 5y ago
I imagine that it's inherently easier to create a fake voice that's convincing over a grainy phone line, than it is to make a convincing deep fake video. Maybe big tech orgs(including Adobe) don't want to risk the liability&#
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by meibo 5y ago
Discord hides all NSFW servers on iOS now by default. They're just gone - you need to open it on a PC and enable a setting to get them to show up. At least they give you the choice.
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by meibo 5y ago
Have not had to deal with spam on my personal Gmail address in the 10 years I've been using it, and I'm having the same experience running a big Workspace organization. Their spam/fishing detection is making my job a lot easi
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by meibo 5y ago
Is this what McDonald's has to charge in New York and Seattle to be lucrative, or is it what they want to/can charge and can now excuse with "our workers are being paid living wages"?
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by meibo 5y ago
Note: this refers to the global Steam service/community - Valve still offers Steam China with a very limited/censored selection of mostly-Valve games, adhering to local child protection laws. Most Chinese Steam users have historic
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Steam has been banned in China(thegamer.com)
380 points by meibo 5y ago|486 comments
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by meibo 5y ago
I've had enough close calls with people playing with their radio/hvac that I'd rather have everyone pull over to set up Bluetooth than end up in a ditch somewhere
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by meibo 5y ago
The Deck certainly is, it's sold out into 2023. People want PC games on the go, Valve provides it in a now common form factor, at a reasonable price, with a trusted name.
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by meibo 5y ago
I actually wasn't aware of it being open source at all, thanks. It's not mentioned anywhere on their page, gives me a bit more confidence :)
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by meibo 5y ago
I used to recommend https://insomnia.rest/ as it was a free, sleek alternative... Alas it's been bought by Kong and enterprise'd up the same way. Not as bad yet, but can't be long.

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