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by mrweasel 1y ago
I do agree that email quickly becomes messy, even with mailing lists. It's really much the same issue Slack has, a lack of training. It's just assumed that people will know how to use both email and Slack, but we don't. For e
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by mrweasel 1y ago
KDE, Gnome and others obviously do provide stacking windows, but you do get the impression that writing a stacking window manager/compositor is just extremely hard to do with Wayland. Someone is maintaining a list of compositors[1] and
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Some of the bad actors, and Chrome, randomize extensions, but only their order. I think it's ja3n that started to sort the extensions, before doing the hashing. Blocking on source IP is tricky, because that frequently means blocking or
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Some times Apples approach to settings do seem to be best summarized by the old ILL WiLL Press Hunted Toaster video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyRCQp32p8&t=60s
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by mrweasel 1y ago
That is nice, so many companies don't stop to think how their product might be abused. Love to see that you've given it some thought. One think I might add: limit how many requests per second your clients can make. Even if they ca
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Yeah, I'm in my 40s, and I can barely operate any type of smart phone. UI and UX design is out the window, and people expect phone to do more and more. I'd argue that the current form fact simply isn't suitable for what we as
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by mrweasel 1y ago
I was told that I was stupid and simply "didn't get it" when I complained about System Settings. It sucks on the iPhone, it sucks on macOS. You can't find anything, and certainly not the settings you do want to change.
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by mrweasel 1y ago
> ChatGPT has more consumer trust than Google at this point That trust is gone the moment they start selling ad space. Where would they put the ads? In the answers? That would force more people to buy a subscription, just to avoid having
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by mrweasel 1y ago
How do you deal with abuse? We recently had to block all of Browserbase, because someone used their platform for AI training. Generally we're fine with scrapers, but we're not equipped to handle the amount of traffic that some of
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by mrweasel 1y ago
For AI I'm of the opinion that the best interface is no interface. AI is something to be baked into the functionality of software, quietly working in the back. It's not something the user actually interacts with. The chat interfac
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Perl was on my "want to learn" for 25 years. This year I finally had a project that really only could be in Perl, due to a library dependency, so I was kinda forced. It has been an fun and pleasant experience. I've done a few
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by mrweasel 1y ago
But no one is producing 286 chips anymore, that's part of the problem Boing has. The chips fail, because they are used and old. Or is someone besides Intel making them?
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Make you wonder how long management figured they can keep using ancient technology, just to avoid updating certifications.
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Is the MAX really using a 286 CPU? Why would they pick that for a plane launched in 2014. I get that it's based on the 737 Next Gen, but they just opted to not update the electronics?
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Didn't we already see this in like 15-20 years ago? Companies thought they could outsource project to India, the consulting companies put their best developers on design, prototyping, code samples, interviews, everything, once the cont
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by mrweasel 1y ago
My take away from trying to follow the discussion on the kernel mailing list was that the Bcachefs developer want to work in a certain way, that Linus does not think that fit in with the rest of the kernel (to put it mildly). Having Bcachef
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by mrweasel 1y ago
That's a really good point. If the problem is the scammers, and they buy ads, then why won't they let us report it?
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: &qu
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Do you have any sense as to why or when I'd pick the EUPL, rather than just going for the GPLv3?
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Switch to paintballs and shoot the cameras.
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Companies frequently moan about "re-training", but in my experience users of e.g. Word, or Excel don't need re-training, they need training. A large number of people how "Knows Word", can't use any of the featu
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by mrweasel 1y ago
I haven't tried it, so it might be more complicated than the documentation leads me to believe, but Mox looks promising: https://www.xmox.nl/
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by mrweasel 1y ago
I loved Usenet back in the day, but I sort of wonder why organisations keep their servers running. I struggle to find any active newsgroups these days. Weirdly enough spam still hits some of the groups.
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by mrweasel 1y ago
It's probably important to note that the AMD64 platform isn't what got Intel in it's current situation. After adopting AMD64 Intel once again dominated AMD and the Bulldozer/Piledrive/Excavator series of AMD process
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Denmark, there is no close Amazon warehouse, so shipping always suck. Not only is shipping times frequently a week or more, it's also overpriced and items are frequently less expensive from local online stores. Amazons only advantage i
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by mrweasel 1y ago
20% of websites uses CloudFlare(1, 2), even companies that use AWS, GCP and Azure have their services behind CloudFlare. 1) https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/cloudflare_2024_revie... 2) https:/&#x2
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Something that was pointed out to me the other day: Firefox can show you "important dates" in the address bar, but they've yanked RSS support. You now need a plugin to get the RSS feed link for a site. I miss the old web, but
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by mrweasel 1y ago
I still believe that CloudFlare means well, but that doesn't mean that I agree with the increased centralization. This isn't the fault of CloudFlare, they are just exploiting a business opportunity and as you say: At least they&#x
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Same day shipping was always the norm here. Order something before 14:00 - 16:00, depending on where the company was on the route for package pickups, and you'd have your package the next day. Amazon has normalized multi-day / wee
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by mrweasel 1y ago
I believe that Gecko is notoriously hard to maintain and integrate into other software. It's not something I've attempted myself so take it for what it is. It was one of the issues Servo was suppose to address. There is a few brow

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