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by rollcat 2y ago
Subscribed ;)
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by rollcat 2y ago
I think I actually meant to reply to dreadlordbone's comment, where they implied image hotlinking - "it loads slower" because archive.org is not a CDN.
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Has WhatsApp ever had a security leak that we know about? I don't know of any, but I distrust anything Meta/FB/MZ does, out of principle. I have more trust in iMessage, but it's incredibly tightly tied to Apple&#x27
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by rollcat 2y ago
Please don't ever treat archive.org as a free CDN, they are a public library in need of your support, not free hosting for your side-project. There are enough free resources (e.g. Github Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare...) that are better s
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by rollcat 2y ago
Hey, sign me up. Outside the "necessary evil" trade-offs inherent to facilitating one-on-one meetups, I would really love a platform that treats people like people, not cattle to be milked for money.
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by rollcat 2y ago
Applies to all dating apps, really: just treat any info you put in your profile as 100% public, for anyone, worldwide. Location is easily faked, other filtering options are about as effective as a lone "do not enter" sign with n
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by rollcat 2y ago
Quick rant about websites that go into all the trouble of having an RSS feed but not linking to it in the <head>... I don't want to go hunting for the cute orange button, I want to copy and paste " https://exampl
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by rollcat 2y ago
I don't even like the word "hallucination", because it's an anthropomorphism, further suggesting/misleading into an impression that LLMs have anything to do with how a human would reason. Fancy autocomplete. Useful,
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by rollcat 2y ago
Someone already managed to downvote you, shame on them. Thank you for what you're doing.
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by rollcat 2y ago
As someone who's very pro-privacy, I'm about to bring the most cynical take I could think of: you could argue that the effective monopoly (well oligopoly, if you also consider FB a part of the problem) on acquiring / processi
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Tailscale’s Android and Linux clients are open-source All of their client code is open source, save for the bits required to ship to/comply with any app store requirements. The "Linux" client also builds and runs cleanly
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by rollcat 2y ago
Look into rump kernels; NetBSD is an interesting vehicle for research into virtualisation, micro VMs, also device drivers (the framework is said to be very elegant). I was also surprised to find out how simple it is to cross-compile the ker
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by rollcat 2y ago
Well, don't you find this situation quite sexist? I'm not a woman, but I know many who 1. refuse to carry a purse; 2. are deeply unsatisfied with trends in clothing such as small pockets (and no they can't just wear men'
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by rollcat 2y ago
Flagship iPhones are premium products. Many "regular users" don't see value in getting a $/€1k phone every couple of years - this is the entire point of this thread.
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by rollcat 2y ago
Accessibility also doesn't "sell". Apple used to care about making their products actually accessible. They already have all the money. What's the real excuse? Do they just not care?
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by rollcat 2y ago
> What is the benefit of a non-OLED screen [...]? Accessibility. https://rubenerd.com/the-iphone-14/
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by rollcat 2y ago
S6 user here, yeah sleep tracking can be dodgy. Good to know it's not a device issue. Also the OS keeps getting slightly more buggy/glitchy with every major release. I like it that I sometimes still get a new useful feature (sleep
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by rollcat 2y ago
> We’re at a point where regular users already have everything they need [...] We still don't have: - an iPhone SE1-sized device - USB-C on a "medium" (iPhone Mini)-sized device - Touch ID or non-OLED screen on a non-budge
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by rollcat 2y ago
Silly me, thanks!
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by rollcat 2y ago
I believe there's still a lot of potential for building niche / "human-scale" services/businesses, that don't inherently require the scalability of the cloud or complexity of k8s. Scaling vertically is always e
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by rollcat 2y ago
The justification and legal requirements are pretty clearly explained: https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html TL;DR: they have a company that legally employs every single co-author, to be able to sell you a Warranty of Title
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by rollcat 2y ago
I cannot find the article right now, but it was a wonderful piece on why a language like Rust is by design incompatible with the whole idea/process of making games. (I hope it rings a bell for someone who can find it.) It went somethin
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by rollcat 2y ago
Please link on how to contribute to Debian then: https://www.debian.org/devel/join/
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by rollcat 2y ago
> I'm actually surprised by the amount of changes in 'cat'. "'cat -v' considered harmful" is an ongoing meme, but there's truth to it. http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ cat(1) c
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by rollcat 2y ago
> maybe also: sqlite [...] SQLite won't accept contributions from outside the core team; joining the core team is an involved process, as they're taking extreme measures to ensure it will continue to be recognised as a work in
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by rollcat 2y ago
Good list. Sometimes the easiest way to contribute is to just donate some money, so that the existing maintainers can continue to focus on their work. OpenBSD is the "mothership" project for both OpenSSH and LibreSSL: https:&#x2F
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by rollcat 2y ago
Rolling with your metaphor, trackpoints, trackpads, trackballs, digitisers, or touchscreens are strongly preferred by many, as mice have usability tradeoffs & problems by design . Nobody here is arguing against code reuse (pointing dev
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by rollcat 2y ago
Second this, used this approach on a tiny CRUD app that was essentially a single form. The amount of support requests (approx. zero) throughout the campaign was absolutely worth it.
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by rollcat 2y ago
Well not on Mac, and I don't have anything with GNOME at hand. But that's besides the point: 1. it's not obvious (no other random part of the window can be used in the same way), 2. it's too many things in too little spa
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by rollcat 2y ago
No shame in needing accommodations even if you're not handicapped. Accessibility is about making the UI usable for everyone - that happens to include handicapped people (who often do require specific accommodations, such as reduced

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