mrweasel

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by mrweasel 5d ago
Even with the lack of competition, shouldn't you have at least some pride on the product your offering? That's really what gets me every time, the fact that many companies actually don't really care about their product and cl
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by mrweasel 5d ago
I feel like they stopped doing that, but there was definitively ads for other movies and shows because some movies on Disney+, but I haven't seen it in a while. It was pretty badly done, because you'd get confused and assume you&#
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by mrweasel 5d ago
Other than for the fun of it and the possible identification of obscure bugs, is running NetBSD on an Amiga actually useful? I love that they still support it, but once you've installed it, what would you do with NetBSD on an Amiga.
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by mrweasel 6d ago
For things that actually matters to me, I use systemd timers, Prometheus and alert on failed services, but I do get that this might be a bit much for many setups.
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by mrweasel 6d ago
If you need/want a dashboard it's kinda cool. There's a lot of other options that will do something similar, but not via SSH. Crontab can email you directly, no need for a service. You could also just use systemd timers and d
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by mrweasel 6d ago
That is probably on of the most confusing things about English. What do you mean "sounds like a vowel"? All vowels sound like vowels, what else would they sound like? While we're at the subject, why is Y not a vowel (except w
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by mrweasel 8d ago
Didn't Outlook.com famously rolled out passkeys with no recovery option and no option to sign in using username and password once enrolled. So if you lost your trusted device, you couldn't sign in, nor could Microsoft send you an
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by mrweasel 8d ago
But the problem is that you can't really backup passkeys and because people are frankly frequent tricked into using them, they have no good recovery options. I know plenty of people who only have a phone, no other devices. They don&#x2
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by mrweasel 8d ago
Yes, but I don't want to run some form of Android, or have easily available apps. The apps are the distraction, so I would want the browser and the app store removed and only be able to load app via USB or a SD card.
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by mrweasel 8d ago
That really illustrates the issue to me. Personally I don't need it to run GrapheneOS, but I do need a parking app, internet sharing, a TOTP app and MobilePay, others will need different application. Creating a minimal phone is almost
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by mrweasel 8d ago
I feel old now.
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by mrweasel 9d ago
Performance would probably be the same regardless of where you run the CPU.
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by mrweasel 9d ago
Not mentioning the architecture is rather strange. Being Fujitsu I'd expect SPARC, but apparently not. Maybe we're reaching a point where some circles either don't care or just defaults to ARM? Obviously they can just ignore
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by mrweasel 10d ago
We use spur.us which provides us with information on IPs they believe is running proxies. It's a nice service, in terms of pricing it's completely reasonable, for our use case. I can't imagine how much work goes into compilin
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by mrweasel 10d ago
> Shouldn't the solution be to gate bulk access for automated services for a price? The problem is that many of the people who are scraping this data doesn't want to pay. These are organisations who would rather not clone your
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by mrweasel 10d ago
Anti-virus, maybe, the ISP definitively needs to step up and just shut off people internet when large amounts of bot traffic is detected. IPv6 is going to do nothing, because right now you're getting scrapped/attacked/DDoS&#x
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by mrweasel 10d ago
Generally speaking I feel like detecting the bots might be a lost cause. For someone like the Internet Archive I don't know how to deal with it, for smaller sites, cache everything, static pages whenever possible. Sadly I see rate-limi
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by mrweasel 10d ago
There's definitively something weird marketing bullshit going on. I have a few books in an old print and a new print. The new print have larger letter and insane margins and line separation. The larger letters are great, if your eyes a
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by mrweasel 10d ago
This is probably entirely fixable, but I don't do particularly well in modern homes. When we looked for a house, we specifically didn't want one built after 2000 (or there about). The indoor climate in many modern homes, and hotel
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by mrweasel 11d ago
Java, .Net and maybe C/C++ For .Net at least SOAP support is built in, just standard .Net, no libraries required, just ask Visual Studio to load the WSDL and it will handle the rest. I haven't used it myself, but a former colleagu
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by mrweasel 11d ago
That seems like a Go problem. I don't exactly love SOAP and WSDL, but it was the default choice for Java and .Net 10 - 15 years ago in enterprise applications. Given the complexity, rewriting it a few years late, just to switch from a
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by mrweasel 12d ago
Wouldn't web brutalism be using the browsers "native" component, as in don't style <input> elements?
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by mrweasel 12d ago
Is that basically: We'd be making money, if we didn't have to build the product?
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by mrweasel 12d ago
Same, it might conflicts a little with the desire to have a single application, but I want a native application for each platform which uses native UI and libraries. There's no reason a messaging app should be more than e.g. 40MB.
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by mrweasel 12d ago
I'm always confused when someone uses GDR, because to me East Germany is DDR, so GDR must be West Germany, which is it not. West Germany didn't like using BRD (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) and almost no one ever used the English ve
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by mrweasel 12d ago
It's still "only" 10-15% of Googles total revenue and less than 10% of it's profits. It's not nothing, but it's also not nearly as important as the dodgy ads business. https://fortune.com/2026&#
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by mrweasel 12d ago
Probably a question of who Google thinks you're attempting to defraud. If Google believes that they'll lose money, they might act more swiftly, compared to the cases when a user on a random website lose $20, but Google still gets
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by mrweasel 12d ago
I've mentioned this hundreds of time in various context and forums: I do not believe that there's sufficient quality ad content to keep companies like Google or Meta running at their current levels. It doesn't make sense to m
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by mrweasel 13d ago
Unsure about your reference, but is your argument: Someone else is doing it, so I should be allowed to as well. That's basically the western companies complaining that they can't compete with China because Chinese companies are al
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by mrweasel 13d ago
While it has now be retired, I was also partial to the "Theo" mode in mg for insults. https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/checkout/src/usr.bin/mg/Attic/the...

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