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by rafram 6mo ago
Eh. I mean, the government will do what the government will do with the software it buys. We've just seen that with Anthropic. The US government wouldn't give contracts to Palantir if it seemed like its ideology didn't line u
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by rafram 6mo ago
I think this should've been two separate blog posts.
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by rafram 6mo ago
Yes, that’s a bunch of bluster about database software.
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by rafram 6mo ago
Palantir develops database software.
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by rafram 6mo ago
The father out from the center of the galaxy they look, the younger the stars are.
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by rafram 6mo ago
Check that you’re running the latest version.
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by rafram 6mo ago
This has not been my experience. I’ve never taken them up on any of those offers, and none of them are still visible in Settings on any of my devices.
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by rafram 6mo ago
Lots of bodega cats are allowed to go out on the street. They usually don't wander far. Cats know where home is.
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by rafram 6mo ago
> Show up like a human. Ironic advice considering that this post seems to be fully AI-generated, and the whole thing is an ad for some vibe-coded dead man's switch subscription.
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by rafram 6mo ago
Go read what Gruber says about Trump on his social media, or even on the very blog you were just on. Safe to say he isn’t a fan. I think what he’s saying is that Cook has been quite effective at stroking Trump’s ego enough that the admin le
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by rafram 6mo ago
> Would Git have been significantly better if it had collected telemetry Yes, probably. Git is seriously hard to use beyond basic tasks. It has a byzantine array of commands, and the "porcelain" feels a lot closer to "plum
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by rafram 6mo ago
License what? The concept of a hidden object search? The only stylistic similarity here is the viewing angle. Where’s Waldo comics are flat, brightly colored line drawings that look nothing like this at all.
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by rafram 6mo ago
Image Playground isn’t a service, it’s a free local image generation model. But I’ll grant you that the News+ thing is kind of annoying. I wouldn’t call it a nag, though - it shows in the Settings anpp after you buy a new device that includ
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by rafram 6mo ago
Yes - they're already on my computer, so any full-disk backup service will back them up by default. There's an option to purge them from disk and download from iCloud on demand, but you don't need to use it: https:/&#x2
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by rafram 6mo ago
No, and as far as I know, they don't say. But a lot of their not-direct-from-OSM map data comes from TomTom, which also ingests OSM. There's a lot of OSM in Apple Maps, as there is in most other non-Googly mapping apps.
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by rafram 6mo ago
macOS seriously never nags you about services. Service nags aren't classy. You can credibly accuse Apple of plenty of things, but having a lack of class isn't one.
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by rafram 6mo ago
It's really not, though. You don't even need an Apple account to set up a Mac. I pay $3/month to Apple in exchange for full-quality backups of decades of photos, but I could easily stop doing that, or switch to another provid
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by rafram 6mo ago
> He is new in post as a trading standards manager at Bolton Council in Greater Manchester but worked for 10 years on a tobacco enforcement team at nearby Rochdale Council. Props to this Vice reporter (in 2022) for snagging an interview
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by rafram 6mo ago
If alcohol is what gives you "a life worth living," that's extremely concerning.
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by rafram 6mo ago
Apple Maps uses OSM data in many countries.
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by rafram 6mo ago
I completely disagree. Obviously people individually want to smoke - nicotine makes them feel good! - and there's a good chance they would vote to preserve that "right," but smoking is bad for society and we would unambiguous
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by rafram 6mo ago
File hosting is an extremely messy business. I don't see any DMCA/abuse reporting mechanism on the site. You need those, and as you scale up, you're also going to need full-time staff whose only job is to wade through uploads
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by rafram 6mo ago
Contrast was bad in the first couple bets, but now it’s very similar to iOS 18.
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by rafram 6mo ago
Guess what people were saying in 2003…
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by rafram 6mo ago
On macOS, I think I've installed device drivers exactly once in the last decade, and they were for a weird printer.
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by rafram 6mo ago
It’s pretty hard to read on a phone, and the prose, particularly in the bullet points, has that annoying LLM-y trait of focusing way too much on implementation details ("Bunny CDN"!) rather than telling me a single reason why I&#x
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by rafram 6mo ago
Sure, if your design decisions are completely one-sided and transactional. In my experience, though, being able to comment and collaborate in Figma is important, as is being able to go find specific icons and components on my own.
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by rafram 6mo ago
A very large portion of the non-design users are using it to reference/implement the designs created by their designer colleagues. They’re not going anywhere.
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by rafram 6mo ago
You’re describing a system where taxpayers foot the bill for data breaches.
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by rafram 6mo ago
This kind of response went out of fashion after Enron. Burning an entire company to the ground (in that case Arthur Andersen) and putting thousands out of work because of the misdeeds of a few - even if they were due to companywide culture

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