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by nexuist 6y ago
This actually used to be a common problem I would have on macOS, especially when docked to an external display. I wonder if these problems are connected somehow.
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The root user obviously counts as a user account, otherwise you would be prompted to make a new account on every startup if you hadn't made any other accounts. The reason why it thinks there are zero accounts in this instance is becaus
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> 'The people' are never going to gain access to networks of information systems, complicated weapons, training / support etc.. Who make up those networks if not people? Turncoats decide the fate of battles for a reason. T
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by nexuist 6y ago
While it is usually the assumption that only one side has access to some kind of groundbreaking technology in these dystopian futures, that is rarely the reality in actual conflicts. Consider the Arab Spring, largely held with cellphones mo
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by nexuist 6y ago
Security is always a matter of making things harder for the bad guys. Couldn't someone just bomb your safe, fly a plane into your house, send an ICBM at your car? Of course they could, but you reduce the probability that any random per
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> But if you disable location services, you cannot get your location at all. I think this is exactly what the average user would expect. In fact, users may not think location services have been disabled if apps are still able to show the
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by nexuist 6y ago
An infinite loop as you described however is not really an error condition; in fact this is the premise of the Halting Problem [1] which is not solvable as far as we know. There's no way for the media provider to know if the loop will
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by nexuist 6y ago
It should be noted that there are legitimate reasons for blocking screenshots; on corporate managed devices handling sensitive data e.g. files or PDFs for example. Obviously if the device is owned by the company then the company is well wit
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What are you talking about? You can easily disable location services on any Apple device.
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The code is public but the secrets are obviously not, and if they are ever put in the logs then that's a security issue. Even if the action isn't logging credentials directly, it may be logging privileged information (e.g. S3 buck
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by nexuist 6y ago
Why not use Electron? That's managed by Microsoft, not Google.
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My team does weekly Google Meet meetings along with WebEx. The biggest complaint I'd have is that Meet sacrifices functionality for cleanliness; everything useful is hidden behind some menu or popover, and you can only open one popover
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Probably around the rise of the SaaS-ification of everything, when it began to matter how quickly you could get users to jump through the hoops into paying for a subscription. Before, user conversion rates still mattered, but funding came f
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by nexuist 6y ago
As someone who shipped an app in Flutter on Android and iOS, there is practically 0 code re-usability between web and mobile. Regardless of platform, mobile apps feel the same - they both have navbars, tab bars, lists and table views, etc
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Yeah, the "not all" is what I was referring to. I should be able to do it for everything, not cherry-picked actions. My guess though, is that they've already got this working, they're just going to wait until iOS 15 to d
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by nexuist 6y ago
As another hardcore Shortcuts user, while it may be a scripting language the standard library is woefully inadequate. I have to use third party apps like Toolbox Pro to "fill in the blanks" and even then, there's things iOS j
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by nexuist 6y ago
Trash is never really trash - you can always do something with those resources, the only problem is that nobody wants to do something with it now . You can imagine it might actually be pretty profitable to buy landfills when you're, s
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> Risk of rockets failing The thing is, we transport nuclear waste over sea or air all the time, don't we? I believe the spent fuel is put into "casks" which is then loaded onto ships or jumbo jets and flown around the wor
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> How is that acceptable and this isn't? Because Microsoft can afford lawyers to fight this, and random GitHub projects can't. It's an intimidation tactic.
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> People use Google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives. The gall of saying this while simultaneously forcing millions of businesses to conform to their idea of what th
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by nexuist 6y ago
Is art not valuable? Is it not worth paying for? Obviously random emoji is not the Mona Lisa, but having pictures of your friends making funny poses or faces etc. certainly increases the value of a conversation. It's also completely op
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by nexuist 6y ago
This is the great irony, isn't it? You want to escape Discord, because it's centralized, so you jump to a decentralized service, whose user experience sucks, so you sign up for another centralized service, just so you can use the
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by nexuist 6y ago
My favorite is shift + alt + up/down arrow to move to the next unread channel. Works between servers too. Super easy way to knock out hundreds of unread messages at once.
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This is like saying that investing in asphalt is pointless when horses can walk on dirt or cobble. The fact of the matter is that building new public transport is monumentally expensive, but roads themselves already exist. Installing new se
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It's actually comical in a way that we possess the technology to build robots that can operate heavy machinery and practically interpret the world the same way we do, but we still have to worry about people holding up plastic signs. It
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Cameras lack depth perception, which the brain very cunningly provides for humans at no additional cost. Humans do get very clunky and slow when that depth perception is taken away. One example is night vision goggles which basically just p
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This day came and passed years ago. It's evident from their marketing that there is no attempt to discern fancy cruise control from "zomfg your car will drive you around in a year!!" Whether this is false advertising or even
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This isn't necessarily that strict of a regulation. They could require the sensor be on board but not actually regulate any of its usage. It could be a scenario like the Model 3's rear view mirror camera, where it wasn't used
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It is not just "some people are stupid", that is too small scale thinking. We are constantly assaulted by algorithms trained to manipulate people, trained off of millions of A/B tests and microinteractions, constantly being t
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I grew up in the early 2000s. I find it difficult to understand as well, but I think what happened is that emotional human contact was overrun by corporate/nation-state bots. Bots cannot be convinced that their positions are wrong; the

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