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by rrix2 7y ago
'cept for the Linux Journal editors and writers
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> If the priorities of its developers keep shifting, it doesn't matter (Qt from the old Qt widgets to the new declarative ones). This happened nearly a decade ago.
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You can, today, walk in to a Best buy and buy a Windows 10 machine with 64 or 128gib mmc. You can buy them in most US department stores and people do buy them.
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Most of Uber's early virality came from local teams being forced to innovate to survive. Ice Cream, Eats, Pool, Puppies, rentals all came from those folks who're now being laid off
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It's a constant issue for people who run software like offlineimap across multiple machines: https://www.offlineimap.org/doc/FAQ.html#what-is-the-uid-val...
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> Even in countries which pride themselves on free speech. Where else have you seen this?
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Cool, so make it drivable via policy files like e.g. client cert pinning in Chrome. Industry has solved these problems, making excuses for fixing it is not good at this point.
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It bothers me that people weren't more upset about this part.
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That seems like an OS daemon specific to the built in webcam. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/fix-no-connected-camera-error-on... > When you run a program that uses your Mac's webcam, OS X will launch a background
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by rrix2 7y ago
(I just looked and saw that I didn't finish that sentence: since mobipocket was primarily a PalmOS application at its peak.)
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There's another layer to the format onion, even. The .mobi file, without DRM, is a PalmOS resource collection file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC_(Palm_OS) since mobipocket
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> There're issues with current state of online advertising, but when was last time humanity said "improving this would be a great business, but you know what - we don't want it to be better"? When you externalize cost
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But do they need to?
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Digitizing the grid also opens up efficiency gains which we sorely need. Smart water heaters which run when we have daytime solar surplus, etc.
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More colloquially/informally, a "500 year event" is something which has historically once every 500 years.
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Maybe give this a try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-wi... (source, i haven't looked: https://github.com/blackhole89/multi-account-containers )
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It's interesting to think about how these sorts of niche sites which have a narrow enough demographic to have valuable ad space are more or less being entirely eaten alive by networks with incredibly wide demographics. The centralized
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> Firefox has a built-in feature called "Google Safe Browsing" which collates every URL you visit and sends bulk reports to Google. This feature is only disable-able via the "here be dragons" about:config area. Is thi
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Not just ad blocking extensions though. Being able to run Dark Reader and Stylus on my phone is great. I appreciate it a lot, thanks
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I have been saying "I can't wait" to mainline tablet support for nearly a decade but that ecosystem is so nonstandard and fast moving that not a single distro can keep up.
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Most of those aren't built around the paradigm if putting individual web sites on your launcher presented alongside native applications
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Having to log in twice to Pocket was annoying, for example. The Android app couldn't even log in using the browser's session if I recall, since it presents the Firefox oauth in an Android web view
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These also sound like the sort of problems that could be solved without a global sales ban, people seem to really like the Hand of the Market for stuff like this when it's not down nationalist lines.
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> I was referring specifically to Twitter -- it's been a while since I checked, but doesn't Twitter require an email address for every account on signup? I see, I misunderstood. it does not require an email address on signup, t
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> literally everyone on the platform has an email address. This may be true in nations that have had ubiquitous internet access, but in many quickly-growing markets this is not true.
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YouTube for Kids is a separate application that is specifically geared towards <10 years of age. It’s not ambiguous.
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We almost got away with a real race last weekend ...
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This is the cause of many mongodb and redis woes as well.
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Which bank implements OAuth?
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How is homebrew installed?

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