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by philsnow 8mo ago
> The forced changeover from coal gas to natural gas is largely credited with a reduction of suicide by 40% after it was done. The mechanism of that reduction very well could be reducing the level of depression in the populace and thus s
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by philsnow 8mo ago
> Google Talk and Facebook Messenger were XMPP all the way through and worked with vanilla XMPP clients I remember this, it was great to connect to absolutely every chat platform with bitlbee and pretend that all my chats were just DMs o
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by philsnow 8mo ago
This is a great explanation; Prosody/ejabberd seem to kind of be "everything to everybody" but because they are so general it's hard to know if they're a good fit for any one particular purpose. Snikket seems to ju
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by philsnow 8mo ago
It doesn't seem to request location in a modern-enough way on safari on ios. It just seems to think that it can't get the location and suggests that I go open the Maps app.
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by philsnow 8mo ago
They said upthread that they had blocked 17.0.0.0/8 ("Apple"), but maybe there are teams inside Apple that are somehow operating services outside of Apple's /8 in the name of Velocity? I kind of doubt it, though, b
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by philsnow 8mo ago
The author might not be malicious, but from going through some of the audio packs, they're really not quality-checking PRs. For instance, sc_medic/sounds/WhereDoesItHurt.mp3 sounds like two-and-a-half sounds stuck together
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by philsnow 8mo ago
The HSMs that Signal and Apple are using are on-device though. Yes you still have to trust Signal / Apple to not exfil your key matter once decrypted by the HSM, but I submit that that is materially better than having the HSMs be host
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by philsnow 8mo ago
What is "Google Messages"? I can't count the number of articles people have written over time about how many first-party messaging apps Google themselves have put out (and then put down), not to mention what messaging apps g
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by philsnow 8mo ago
> dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots everywhere for work This has got to be the "todo list app" for people who aren't app devs; mine [0] is for MacOS + launchd + hammerspoon and I use Shottr for annotati
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by philsnow 8mo ago
What do you mean by "without a brain"? There are multiple examples in the literature of people leading perfectly ordinary lives whilst unknowingly having no more than 5% of the typical amount of brain matter (typically because of
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by philsnow 8mo ago
From the linked article: > For the first time, users can use Precision Finding on Apple Watch Series 9 or later, or Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later, to find their AirTag, bringing a powerful experience to the wrist.
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by philsnow 9mo ago
Please please tell me it's pronounced "yoink" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh1hmmLLzw
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by philsnow 9mo ago
> One niceish thing about WebDAV/CalDAV is it's pretty set in stone for now. I don't know if you've ever heard "Latin is a dead language"; many people think that statement is a somewhat negative-sentiment on
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by philsnow 9mo ago
> There was also a feature that allowed method lookup by putting in the inputs and expected outputs (I still haven't seen anything like this). Do you mean like hoogle [0]? Or does what you're talking about operate on values ra
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by philsnow 9mo ago
The ios gmail app does the same thing, but why? I would assume the app could just transparently relay the click through its already-open grpc channel to google's servers, and it would be faster for them and (more importantly) for me.
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by philsnow 9mo ago
One thing that is really useful about the distinction is that almost necessarily, there are different scales involved. Ultima VI was the first of its (mainline, not 'online' or 'underworld') series to not really have the
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by philsnow 10mo ago
Do you mean that files produced with "wide" tabs might have hard newlines embedded more readily in longer lines? Or that maybe people writing with "narrow" tabs might be comfortable writing 6-deep if/else trees tha
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by philsnow 10mo ago
Is the reason there isn't a perfect show/movie-to-meme site with All the features and All the shows, that such a site would attract notice from rightsholders and then implode from fending off spurious legal complaints?
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by philsnow 10mo ago
> a strategy-less map I only really played ut2k4 not 99, but in the 2k4 Face map there was a "ledge" (I don't know the term, like a stray polygon edge or something) out of sight on one side where you could fake like you ha
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by philsnow 10mo ago
Sounds a lot like emacs, there's a core written in C etc but the overwhelming majority of the bits that make it an editor are in a scripting layer that you can change at runtime (and indeed there's hardly any reason to use emacs i
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by philsnow 10mo ago
Hadn't heard of it before.. > Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where nope, not my cup of tea, but thanks for the "if you like this you might like this" rec :)
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by philsnow 10mo ago
Red chip supply problems in your factory are usually caused by insufficient plastic bars, which is usually caused by oil production backing up because you're not consuming your heavy oil and/or petroleum fast enough. Crack heavy o
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by philsnow 10mo ago
I've got ~5k+ tabs, and I've also seen basically zero crashes in the last decade. I'm on Macos, not very many extensions though one of them is Sidebery (and before that Tree Style Tabs) which seems to slow things down quite
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by philsnow 10mo ago
Some browsers (and web servers, proxies, and other things) treat "example.com" and "example.com." differently for various things, like the default limit of per-domain parallel connections. See for instance https:/
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by philsnow 11mo ago
> if you don't balance security theory with operational practice, critical business functions can fail i.e. people will circumvent the secure-but-onerous path. (I don't think they can be faulted for trying to get their work do
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by philsnow 11mo ago
Also (unrelated to my knowledge): https://olduse.net/
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by philsnow 11mo ago
Firefox is particularly good at having lots of tabs open and not using tons of memory. $ ~/dev/mozlz4-tool/target/release/mozlz4-tool \ "$(find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefo
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by philsnow 11mo ago
> and then WhatsApp starts to send ads in push-notifications that you can't turn off *that you can't filter . Every time an app begs me to enable notifications, I give it the side-eye because I immediately assume it's goi
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by philsnow 11mo ago
They just released 0.12 today or yesterday (5 years to the day), which is probably a reason the project is on HN.
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by philsnow 11mo ago
Nethavk is much much too baroque, a confusion of ideas and one-turn unavoidable deaths (well, avoidable if you know the secret handshake)[0]. It's like a cupcake recipe that has 40 ingredients and is dripping with extra stuff on top.

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