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by runjake 1y ago
I have it installed and configured. I've never encountered another BitChat user. Caveat: I am in a rural area and minimally in a populated area.
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by runjake 1y ago
After a few weeks of learning curve, Arch and Hyprland. To install Arch, just use archinstall. To get a pretty decent Hyprland configuration going with excellent documentation, try Omarchy[1], but there are several other ready configuration
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by runjake 1y ago
Firefox's death is a leadership issue. It's still a solid browser and could be resuscitated, but you'd have to immediately remove the Mozilla leadership and change it's culture. My hope is that Firefox viably carries on
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by runjake 1y ago
Often times, rebranding happens after product groups are shuffled under different leadership. I don't think Microsoft has coherent product vision leadership at the top levels. It's important to remember this org chart, which is st
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by runjake 1y ago
Merlin ran 43folders.com[1]. That domain name was a reference to GTD's tickler files[2]. Merlin did not have anything to do with Lifehacker.com. Gina Trapani[4] founded Lifehacker[3]. But, Lifehacker often covered and was inspired by M
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by runjake 1y ago
During the whole Heaven’s Gate thing, I worked with a guy who was in the group and lived at the house but had “grown out” of the cult. The mass suicide happened and he was still deeply loyal to the group, the people, and even Marshall. We h
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by runjake 1y ago
It’s “Tilf” not TILF, and means Tiny Elf, per the docs. Why? What’s the problem with it?
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by runjake 1y ago
I think it depends on what the person does. I'm a knowledge worker, so this works for me. Other people may see little use in notes. A pool of well-structured notes and knowledge with an "AI technologies du jour" trained on it
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by runjake 1y ago
> Maybe they could update it with something that pokes fun at how much Windows spies on you by default. The issue there is that Apple collects just about as much telemetry on end users. I'm unsure how much data either give or sell
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by runjake 1y ago
I don't know -- maybe. I've released several tools, and for most of them, I've heard nothing from anyone. But 3 got somewhat popular in their niche and most of the inquiries and requests were from people who seemed to think t
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by runjake 1y ago
llms.txt for others who don't know: https://llmstxt.org/
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by runjake 1y ago
Mesh is the fad in the military right now, so I imagine this was designed with that in mind. On the other hand, the military likes its sensor data, so it's always going to go big. I worked on non-maritime stuff, so I'm not familia
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by runjake 1y ago
1. People have demonstrated they aren't really willing to pay enough for independent media, aside from one or two person shops. 2. The current media is incentivized to collect ad revenue. Currently, the best known scheme is to outrage
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by runjake 1y ago
The Skydweller is capable of carrying an ISR (Intelligence/Surveillance/Reconnaissance) equipment load, which is several times heavier than the Zephyr -- not to take away from the Zephyr's accomplishments ("on the should
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by runjake 1y ago
I usually give them to my kids. For clothing, hats, etc I dedicate them to painting/yard work/etc throwaway clothes. They're usually made of the cheapest fabrics anyway.
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by runjake 1y ago
Apple has three basic support categories: Supported, Vintage, & Obsolete. These are based on the last production dates of their respective products. It has been this way for a very long time. Supported = 0-5 years Vintage = 5-7 years Ob
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by runjake 1y ago
I don't know, but I don't want Apple exercising even more draconian control over what apps I have on my Apple devices. If I want to use an app with a horrendous security track record, I should be able to. See also: the plethora
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by runjake 1y ago
1. It’s Mastodon, with an o. 2. I don’t think Mastodon will be tangibly affected because it’s too niche and not corporate.
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by runjake 1y ago
Why does this run in a virtual machine (per the article) and not a container?
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by runjake 1y ago
uv is Apache/MIT licensed. If it gets enshittified, it's not going to just disappear and we'll have time to migrate to an alternative or a fork.
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by runjake 1y ago
I think they just got added in an update. They suddenly showed up on my devices yesterday (2025-07-23 US).
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by runjake 1y ago
I would venture to say that most people working in tech do not have a STEM degree. To answer your question: I got into computers and programming when I was 8 years old in the 1970s, and haven't stopped.
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by runjake 1y ago
- uv for environments, packaging, and dependencies. - ruff for linting and all the other stuff it does. - mypy for type hint checking - VS Code (although I'm playing with zed.dev too)
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by runjake 1y ago
AFAICT, it opens up a sidebar pain with a list of links for commonly used LLMs. Each link goes to the login page of each LLM. So I guess it's just a webpage in a sidebar pane?
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by runjake 1y ago
You don't need to learn Erlang first.
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by runjake 1y ago
Yes. And if OP needs a confidence decrement, we went through another off design with iOS 7 and macOS Yosemite, and it was rough for a few years until course corrections were made. This is a design that should have sat in a research lab and
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by runjake 1y ago
> I'm curious if having JS makes the code more approachable for potential contributors or extension authors. Yes, this was a primary reason[1]. 1. https://gjs.guide/about/
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by runjake 1y ago
Can you elaborate on this? Literal Windows UI artwork or Windows-like? I never knew about this and was a NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody/OS X user and spelunker. Tell me more!
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by runjake 1y ago
Trivia: I know of one very large shipping company that still uses OpenStep on NT 4 for a specific system. It is at least mostly airgapped, at least.
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by runjake 1y ago
If you’re at all interested in this topic, I strongly recommend you read Simon Willison’s blog at https://simonwillison.net/ He does all the legwork and boils it down into an easily-understandable manner. He’s also a user h

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