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by ptrl600 8mo ago
Websites with poor SEO practice are often more trustworthy.
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by ptrl600 8mo ago
Friction hopefully means "you have to plug in a USB cable" and not "you have to associate your phone with a particular Google account, then go through a process with Google's customer service to approve your phone for si
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by ptrl600 9mo ago
Captured? To do what with?
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by ptrl600 10mo ago
Because it puts the history of the article behind a lock I wonder if there are any privileged Wikipedia accounts who have defected and are doing a sci-hub thing.
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by ptrl600 10mo ago
I wonder if that "fake permissions" Android sandboxing thing from like a decade ago still works. The right to lie to apps should be part of the new tech Magna Carta
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by ptrl600 10mo ago
The Python library "enaml", which is kind of wrapper around QT, has a constraint-based layout engine: I think it's successful, I made a fairly complicated GUI and it didn't have any performance issues. Of course I was on
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by ptrl600 10mo ago
I had a laptop in the mid 00s which made a strange buzzing sound when scrolling a document in Adobe Reader, and in no other context.
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by ptrl600 10mo ago
Low kolmogorov complexity equals suspicious
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
This is wordier than just "as const", what advantage does it give? (I am a newbie and genuinely don't know) edit: perhaps the advantage only comes into play for mutable values, where you want a narrower type than default, but
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
In the situation that the personnel and legal code of the government depend very little on the outcome of elections in practice, would you say that the incentives for a government would be rather different?
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
It's a trivial exercise to get plaintext copies of Apocalypse Culture, Anarchist's Cookbook etc. and "spin" them using old-school SEO textual manipulation methods to create infinite variants of basically any offensive co
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
Yeah it was superb for the layman. If there's ever a project for an alternative OSS Flash authoring tool, something intended to be as accessible as Flash 5 or so, I'd love to contribute somehow
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
If it doesn't require a Google account and just means jumping through a bunch of hoops the first time , maybe requiring a USB cable, OK. If it does require a Google account, or won't let you give permission to F-Droid to install
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
The vast majority of my open-source contributions have been for completely selfish reason, namely: I want X feature/fix, and don't want to maintain a fork (or, if applicable, do wild monkey-patching). It just happens organically,
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
I misphrased my query; I already run my own mail server and am using a unique e-mail address for every service. I'm wondering if there's a provider with a common domain name shared between lots of users that still allows such a la
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
Are there any email services which allow basically unlimited aliases with long, random names? I'm using my own domain right now, but that can only uncover who has leaked my data; does not provide additional privacy.
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
The point is it's good to complain
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
OK, no _moral_ right. They could probably stick a clause in there about the vacuum eating my pets for nourishment, but...
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
Usually the LLMs let me investigate whatever I want, if I qualify that I run everything by a professional afterwards (it can't tell yet if I'm lying).
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
Admittedly it's possible I've been bamboozled
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
Well until this stuff comes out I'll keep using smuggled FDA-unapproved Novamin toothpaste. Atonement for my neglect
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by ptrl600 11mo ago
Will I be allowed to add keys to verify developers over ADB?
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by ptrl600 1y ago
If users are drawn to the "tree of the knowledge of adb install" then your first assumption should be that the menu in the walled garden is unsatisfactory, not the designs of a serpent.
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by ptrl600 1y ago
Nah it's really not that bad.
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by ptrl600 1y ago
Yes, if you bother with the rigmarole of escaping walled garden then you should be expected to navigate 20-30 permissions, which is in practice all that's necessary. If users without that level of technical skill are pressured into mak
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by ptrl600 1y ago
Sure I do. I sandbox what I want when I want.
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by ptrl600 1y ago
With macOS you run "sudo spctl --master disable", and then you can run whatever you want without sending PII to Apple. Is that the case with the new Android stuff?
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by ptrl600 1y ago
Mandatory googleloading.
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by ptrl600 1y ago
I'd be fine if it was just any old code "it" downloads. The problem is that it's any old code "I" download too.
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by ptrl600 1y ago
Presumably you just need to turn it off once, right?

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