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by mikl 5y ago
This reads more as an argument against dithering. Sure, it saves bandwidth, but all the images in the post look awful. If I saw pictures like these on a professional website, I’d assume the people behind it were incompetent. If you really w
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by mikl 5y ago
I understand that Apple is pissed at Epic, but this is just petty spite. They are a big megacorp now, the need to abandon the habit of thinking themselves the underdog. It’s unbecoming.
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by mikl 5y ago
All these complaints are true, and there’s many similar ones. Firefox (née Mozilla) is a terribly mismanaged company. Instead of focusing on their core business, making a great browser, they keep launching weird also-ran side projects that
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by mikl 5y ago
I guess we might as well just call it Socialistpunk then.
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by mikl 5y ago
When talking about the world, one of 8 billion people, 0.5% is a massive figure.
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by mikl 5y ago
I guess there isn’t much Protonmail can do if the prosecutor shows up with an ~Interpol~ Europol warrant. I wonder what this “activist” did to earn himself Europol attention. At least before the world went insane, that would only happen for
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by mikl 5y ago
The source for Erlang/OTP is 71.6% Erlang: https://github.com/erlang/otp - but yes, some of the lowest-level parts are written in C. As for universality, not sure where you’re getting that. No one’s saying you sho
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by mikl 5y ago
The whole reason this (and Docker Desktop) are used is that Docker and K8s does not run natively on macOS and Windows. If you’re using Linux already, most of this stuff is as useful as nipples on a breastplate. You could theoretically run a
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by mikl 5y ago
> There isn't a "Yes allow" prompt, it pops up a list and you have to select something specific. And once hackers figure out a device they can use for attacks, they’ll tell the user some nonsense reason why they need to al
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by mikl 5y ago
While this is certainly evidence of something changing, simple urbanization is one thing you’d have to correct for when evaluating this data. The urban heat island phenomenon is well documented, and since all Japanese cities have parks wi
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by mikl 5y ago
It exists, but its market share is negligible. According to StatCounter, Firefox has a market share of 0.5% on mobile: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world... Even on desktop, Firefox is sl
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by mikl 5y ago
Thanks to all the creepy adtech and malware on the net, webUSB/webBT would be a terrible thing to add to the browser. I understand that it would enable many good things, but the world’s just too full of assholes to trust random web app
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by mikl 5y ago
If we’re talking about mobile browsers, Mozilla functionally doesn’t exist. That space is just Safari vs. Chrome(ium). And Apple are not obliged to have 100% feature parity with Chrome.
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by mikl 5y ago
I understand your desire to build a web app with Bluetooth access, but there’s just too many scummy adtech/malware assholes out there that would use WebBluetooth as another way to do their nasty deeds. It cannot be done in a safe fashi
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by mikl 5y ago
For readers, this blog post is crap and clickbaity sentationalism. As the article itself admits in the end, Safari is a great browser. It just falls short in a few key areas that really upsets the author. I’ve been a web developer for neigh
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by mikl 5y ago
> Is there a more complex queuing service? No. There’s only SQS. Yes there is: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/
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by mikl 5y ago
Node-RED sounds eerily like the infamous Code Red virus. Not great marketing.
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by mikl 5y ago
It’s not really surprising that organised criminals are trying to get around the anti-theft measures (although crazy to hear that you know that many who’ve had their phones stolen). But as you can imagine, running such social engineering sc
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by mikl 5y ago
Even the stupid thief will learn, once he tries to fence a stolen device and gets little-to-nothing for his efforts.
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by mikl 5y ago
Sure, how about https://www.lifewire.com/security-settings-iphone-thieves-ha... There’s more to be found on this new-fangled internet search engine called Google. You should try it: https://www.google.com/
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by mikl 5y ago
I think rendering stolen devices useless is also on the feature list. iPhone theft has become super rare, because a stolen device is neigh-impossible to activate and thus has little to no resale value.
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by mikl 5y ago
While there are perils, there are also benefits. Organised theft of iPhones basically stopped being a problem because features like these makes the device a mostly useless brick once it’s marked in Apple’s systems as stolen. I like the idea
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by mikl 5y ago
That’s an extremely pedantic interpretation of the word video. The game isn’t designed to be playable on a screen with regular control input. It’s a video game the same way a full flight simulator is. Technically true, but it requires speci
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by mikl 5y ago
Not saying it’s not a game. It’s just not a video game. “Video” is a thing you can project on a flat screen. VR games is a separate category, imo.
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by mikl 5y ago
“Video” is a thing you can project on a flat screen. VR games is a separate category, imo. And no, I don’t own a VR setup.
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by mikl 5y ago
Alyx is a VR game, not a video game in my book.
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by mikl 5y ago
Typo in the title. It’s “Steam Deck”, not “Steam Desk”. Interesting that Valve is diving deeper into hardware. Remember when they still made video games? Remember when there was still a hope they would some day release Half-Life 3?
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by mikl 5y ago
Ah yeah, try to educate millions of end-users about the new name, change the file extensions on 15 years worth of files, update reams of documentation, libraries and applications. Does that sound even remotely feasible? I think not. For bet
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by mikl 5y ago
Renaming it would defeat the purpose of standardisation. Instead of unifying the language, it would create confusion among users who know what Markdown is but do not know “CommonMark” or vice versa. And no, I do not think it fair or reasona
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by mikl 5y ago
Gruber did the exact opposite than stepping down. Even now, he insists on controlling the name “Markdown”, despite having abandoned the project over 15 years ago. It would be a bit like Tim Berners-Lee trying to police how people use “WWW”

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