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by mikl 7y ago
Apple’s “Pro”-products are certainly moving upwards in price. Despite being a pretty wealthy software engineer, I find myself less and less willing to pay for the Pro upgrade. I don’t use iPhone or iPad enough to really enjoy the benefits o
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by mikl 7y ago
There’s many more benefits. The ability to go (mostly) when you want, directly from one small local airfield to another, possibly significantly closer to your destination, a lot less security theater, a lot less waiting (waiting to board, w
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by mikl 7y ago
Generally it’s not too difficult to get someone to unlock the Mac before returning it. The upside of the activation lock is amazing. I remember how it was before, I had several friends who had their phones stolen - some were even mugged for
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by mikl 7y ago
Ugh, so is this was they’ve been doing with our donations, building some massive behemoth that burns $100M a year on who-knows-what? Their financial statements say very little about what they’re doing with it, but it is an exorbitant amount
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by mikl 7y ago
Kinda make that whole restructuring dance they did when creating Alphabet pointless. The CEO of Google is once again in charge of all the things.
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by mikl 7y ago
I was never a fan of their pseudo-markdown (it’s so close, but the minor deviations are annoying ), but it’s a great to have it back instead of that other train-wreck of an editor. At least you can now edit text without regularly wanting s
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by mikl 7y ago
> Jessie Frazelle, Bryan Cantrill, and Steve Tuck Are we supposed to know who those people are? I’m sure they are great guys, but trying to trade on your name kinda requires you to be well known first. I’ll be interested to read it once
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by mikl 7y ago
I think it’s pretty clear that Google would have gone through with Dragonfly if it wasn’t for the protests against it, both from the public and Google employees. In other words, their refraining from Dragonfly wasn’t because of moral courag
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by mikl 7y ago
> Google was trying to comply with the law. Google was trying to gain the Chinese market by implementing political censorship. And once they knelt and swore allegiance to the Chinese regime, every other totalitarian regime around the wor
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by mikl 7y ago
> CLITZ browser Rather unfortunate typo, that.
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by mikl 7y ago
Split the search from Adsense. Allow the search company to only sell ads on its own properties so they can’t reestablish ad-hegemony. For good measure, ban them from making their own browser.
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by mikl 7y ago
> I was around during the “search wars”, and what’s usually forgotten is that well, they were by far the best behaved as a corporate entity. They were well behaved when they had competition to worry about. Once they effectively achieved
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by mikl 7y ago
There is lots of advertisement you can do without making misleading (or even downright false) claims. Not that advertising mobile games or g-fuel is great, but you’re at least not pushing (dangerously) false claims on people and imperiling
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by mikl 7y ago
Or bypassing firewalls and IP restrictions.
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by mikl 7y ago
Yeah, why would someone ever consider their moral responsibilities and credibility before endorsing a product they do not understand the technical details of?
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by mikl 7y ago
Or bypassing firewalls and IP restrictions. But yeah, if you’re doing something illegal, obviously don’t use a home VPN, duh.
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by mikl 7y ago
I already did ;)
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by mikl 7y ago
Tooting my own horn a little, I recently wrote a short guide on setting up a home VPN, it’s working great for my needs: https://mikkel.hoegh.org/2019/11/01/home-vpn-server-wireguar... :)
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by mikl 7y ago
No smoking gun, sure, but some very suspicious traffic patterns. How is NordVPN getting traffic routed through so many different ISPs who generally only serve residential customers? Hard to imagine that so many ISPs are agreeing to help Nor
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by mikl 7y ago
Seriously creepy stuff. I hate how VPNs are being shilled by e-celebs these days as a privacy improvement. It’s just using a different middleman. One middleman might be better than another, but if you have a good ISP already, there’s no pri
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by mikl 7y ago
Funny how it’s always private spending that’s being targeted by the people who want us to become poorer to save the environment. And yes, becoming poorer is what giving up on GDP growth means for most of us, since the population is growing.
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by mikl 7y ago
True, but Half-Life Alyx is not one such game. I do see a niche for simulator-type games, like a driving/flying sims where you get put in a simulation-rig to make it feel like you’re driving/flying. Like the four-player Daytona ga
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by mikl 7y ago
Not denying they exist. Just doubting that they’ll be a common, widespread phenomenon. The competition from home gaming systems is hard to overcome.
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by mikl 7y ago
I doubt it. VRcades will have to compete with people being able to play regular video games from their homes. Not only will playing from home be a lot cheaper, it’s also a lot more convenient. Unless VR becomes a lot more compelling, I don’
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by mikl 7y ago
Hope they’ll make a non-VR version at some point. Much as I enjoyed previous Half-Life games, I don’t want to buy a VR-rig. They’re obviously hoping that a Half-Life game will be enough to get gamers to adopt VR, but I don’t see a lot of pe
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by mikl 7y ago
Slack is quickly becoming the kind of enterprise software I hate having to use. If you’re on multiple Slacks, as is becoming increasingly common these days (I have 23 Slack accounts, five of which I’m logged in to on a daily basis), the UX
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by mikl 7y ago
There’s some very deep rabbit holes you can dive into, if you want to be 100% sure your vegan-burger never had any contact with any animal products. Essentially, restaurants would need a completely separate kitchen to prepare the vegan meal
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by mikl 7y ago
Ok, maybe I’ve seen too many movies, but I had the impression that at least for some crimes (misdemeanors?) the victim can opt to not "press charges"?
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by mikl 7y ago
I don’t know all the details of the Swedish system, but governments over here are generally much more centralised than you’re used to from the U.S. Prosecutors are generally not independent, but work for some arm of the justice ministry and
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by mikl 7y ago
In most European countries, the state prosecutor decides who to charge with a crime, regardless what purported victims think. It might be a bit foreign, but it does help with some cases, like partner violence, where the victim might not wan

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