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by ptx 1y ago
All the Symbian devices used resistive touch screens, though, didn't they? E.g. the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. So the user experience was not quite the same as with capacitive touch.
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by ptx 1y ago
> Faking it long enough is making it. The repetition of behavior, not the sincerity of belief, is what shapes character. You become the kind of person who does the things you repeatedly do. OK, sure. And if you are faking it, the behav
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by ptx 1y ago
Why is it that the Mozilla Foundation was set up in such a way that it cannot fund the core browser development activity? Other foundations do fund software development for their respective projects, e.g. the FreeBSD Foundation [1] and the
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by ptx 1y ago
Only phones sold by carriers were controlled by carriers. You could easily (in Europe at least) buy an unlocked phone and put in a SIM from any carrier of your choice. You could then easily install (i.e. "sideload") Java apps from
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by ptx 1y ago
The web version is awful, absurdly cumbersome to navigate, difficult to search, confusingly structured, slow and just generally terrible. The native version was forced onto people's Windows machines and automatically configured to sync
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by ptx 1y ago
If you confine Windows to a VM without Internet access it won't be able to exfiltrate your data or install unexpected new features. I find this to be a much better user experience.
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by ptx 1y ago
Where are you getting these numbers? Python 3.11 on Debian is around 21 MB installed size (python3.11-minimal + libpython3.11-minimal + libpython3.11-stdlib), not counting common shared dependencies like libc, ncurses, liblzma, libsqlite3,
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by ptx 1y ago
You might want to mention this on the website as well, where it's definitely not clear. I also don't see how to navigate from the website to the introduction where it's explained.
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by ptx 1y ago
What about the content of the "conversations that bookend each chapter"? Are these real people giving their opinion that the second chapter is "fascinating" and that things "make sense" or is it AI-generated? I
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by ptx 1y ago
You could probably fix this, to some extent, by adding a sidebar to the instructions that 1) acknowledges that the procedure doesn't seem to make any sense, and 2) points out why the seemingly obvious fixes won't work. That's
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by ptx 1y ago
An alternative for those who want a native application and/or even less supply-chain risk is Zim [1], which uses GTK and is packaged by the major Linux distributions. [1] https://zim-wiki.org/
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by ptx 1y ago
NPM lock files seem to include hashes for integrity checking, so as long as you check the lock file into the VCS, what's the difference?
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by ptx 1y ago
If I recall correctly, Bada was already more locked down from the start, with app distribution only permitted with Samsung's approval. Otherwise I would have been interested in trying a Bada phone.
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by ptx 1y ago
Did you choose a KaiOS phone specifically because other current non-smart phones lack support for Bluetooth tethering (a.k.a. PAN profile)? As far as I can tell, all currently available models from all manufacturers are based on some Unisoc
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by ptx 1y ago
> since the 6.16 release [...] the highest severity bug was a repair bug Was the repair bug related to the repair feature that was added during the 6.16 feature freeze and triggered all this drama? The email doesn't say and I coul
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by ptx 1y ago
Android has a button in the quick settings bar to enable/disable the microphone, which helps with this (as long as you trust the OS itself). I keep it disabled most of the time.
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by ptx 1y ago
That's basically the same idea as WebAssembly, isn't it?
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by ptx 1y ago
The terms "opt-in" and "opt-out" indicate what the default is, so "... by default" is redundant. "Opt-in" means that you can opt (choose) to be in while the default is out . In this case, since t
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by ptx 1y ago
Isn't the situation essentially the opposite? We apparently can't have it in the standard just because Google don't want to maintain the specific implementation they have chosen for their browser.
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by ptx 1y ago
Could this be because of Amazon's "commingling" [1], where they throw products ordered from different stores all in one big pile, mixing the counterfeits with the real ones? [1] https://www.buffalo.edu/news&#x
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by ptx 1y ago
I always used "adb install" to install programs on my phone from my PC. I never heard of the "adb sideload" command, but my search results [1][2] indicate that the second command is for installing things from the recover
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by ptx 1y ago
The page about developer verification (announcement link 2 in the root post) says that there will be a separate type of account for "student and hobbyist developers". Why? What prevents students and hobbyists from using the regula
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by ptx 1y ago
If the intention of the videos is to cover the process of towing the cars in general, then there is no need to include specific personally identifiable information, so removing those details seems quite reasonable to me. Regardless of Youtu
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by ptx 1y ago
But browsers do send the Accept header, so you could default to RSS for requests from other clients (such as RSS readers).
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by ptx 1y ago
What about content negotiation [1] based on the Accept header? If the client indicates a preference for HTML you could send it the human-readable page and otherwise you send the RSS feed. Wouldn't that work? [1] https://http
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by ptx 1y ago
So what use cases are those? It seems to me that the limitations of this particular tool make it suitable only in cases where it doesn't matter if the result is wrong and dangerous as long as it's convincing. This seems to be excl
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by ptx 1y ago
The point seems to be that they're selling a product which (they say towards the end of the article) gives their customers "access to a precise analysis developed by our research team to detect IFUNC-based hooking, which is the sa
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by ptx 1y ago
Modern browsers already do this by default with server-rendered pages. No JS hacks needed. (And the browser UI correctly indicates that it's in a loading state while it's loading.)
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by ptx 1y ago
Apparently "foo(...)" is just the PHP syntax for a function reference, according to the "first-class callable" RFC [1] linked from the article. So where in Python you would say e.g. callbacks = [f, g] PHP requires
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by ptx 1y ago
Couldn't you build up a dictionary of keyword arguments instead and do all the validation in the __init__ method? E.g. kwargs = {} if is_full_moon() and wind_direction == EAST: kwargs["baz"] = 42 thing = Thing(

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