sfRattan

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by sfRattan 7mo ago
As an American, I think a better metric for outcomes of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq is: were we trading with the before the war and are we trading with them one generation after the war ? The same is even true of WWII, a more imp
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
For other left-handers out there, Pigma Micron pens from Sakura are outstanding. They aren't fountain pens, but their archival quick-dry ink doesn't smudge at all when writing with the left hand. They come in varying weights, and
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
I'd say most automatics give you less direct control over the engine. I always feel like I'm having to tease a gear shift out of the car when I'm driving an automatic. Until very recently, the typical car couldn't see th
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
Piracy of anything other than live streams of La Liga games... For those, Spain shuts down whole IP ranges and cripples the Internet at large while the game is live.
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
It's not: disable CH encryption because your network wants to spy on you. It is: disable CH encryption because the owner of this device, to whom we are leasing connectivity, has set the "isChild" flag for this device to tr
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
I'd say the solution here is to make child's device always connects back to the home network, and make sure the child's account on the device can't change network settings. We're almost there in terms of ease of use
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
I'm not imagining filtering based on the path. Even with https, hostname is visible before the handshake. And even when Encrypted Client Hello is widely implemented, it's also easy enough for network providers to drop any ECH pack
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
It's irksome that these laws and bills in multiple countries are trying to put limits on the general purpose computer. It's the wrong solution and arguably put forward in bad faith. If you want access control, the appropriate poi
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
You could probably just try this on a Steam Deck. SteamOS is just a custom atomic spin of Arch, with full KDE already installed (switch to Desktop mode), and the device is a touchscreen. I don't have mine in front of me at the moment,
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
There's also The Lost Regiment [1] series, about a Maine regiment from the American Civil War transported to an alien planet. They discover that medieval Russian peasants were previously transported there and now live as serfs/pe
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
> perceiving entirely new UIs I think this experience is now rare if you are computer-adept, though it was more common even just a few decades ago. But the first thing I do when I see a totally unfamiliar UI is stare at it for a bit unti
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
I'm with you on that intuitive feeling of perceiving the whole screen, but I suspect something is going on for us that is closely related to human sight: just like the eye is constantly moving to account for the optic nerve blindspot
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by sfRattan 7mo ago
Reminds me of Lest Darkness Fall [1], a 1939 novel about an archeology professor who is transported back in time to Rome under the Ostrogoths on the eve of Belisarius' invasion to reconquer Italy for the Eastern Roman Empire under Jus
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by sfRattan 8mo ago
> Unfortunately, for decades, free software fanatics have bullied inexperienced and eager programmers, who don't know any better into believing that an actual sustainable development model that respects their work is evil and that w
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by sfRattan 8mo ago
One part of me likes this solution for being faster and elegant, and I've bookmarked it to be able to recommend to friends. But another part of me is frustrated that so many everyday computer users have little-to-no awareness of basic
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by sfRattan 8mo ago
I'm stubborn enough to use Google Maps in my web browser (signed out) and then copy/paste the actual destination address into the app for turn-by-turn directions (e.g. CoMaps, OsmAnd). It's inconvenient, but it's also on
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by sfRattan 8mo ago
If you're willing to invest in a smartwatch principally as a secure payment appliance, tap-to-pay with Garmin Pay works when configured on Graphene OS, and most Garmin Smartwatches will happily stay in airplane mode for months once con
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by sfRattan 8mo ago
> I had a Pixel 6a with Graphene OS for a year before the phone started to glitch and eventually die. It ran pretty hot; sometimes it was hard to even hold the phone in my hands without burning myself. This sounds like your phone may hav
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by sfRattan 8mo ago
I take a number of steps to obscure my identity from advertising/surveillance networks and data brokers, and I know ultimately they'll still have profiles on me that are probably extensive. Don't give up! Even if failure to p
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by sfRattan 8mo ago
When a game shows an unskippable ad, the user is consciously aware of what is happening, as it is happening, and can close the program to stop watching the ad. It is in no sense comparable to what you describe. When a third party library bu
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by sfRattan 8mo ago
> Some are sourced from bandwidth sharing SDKs for games with user consent... The notion that most people installing a game meaningfully consent to unspecified ongoing uses of their Internet connection resold to undeclared third parties
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by sfRattan 9mo ago
The Apps in the home row on Apple TV will have fullscreen promotions when the home row is along the bottom of the screen. If you set your home row apps with care, the fullscreen previews will not be ads (i.e. Photos will do a slideshow of y
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by sfRattan 9mo ago
> ...tab hoarding is directly connected to exceedingly poor bookmark UX/UI in browsers. Despite being a core browser feature, it's barely improved in decades... I'm often a visual person, similar to what the twitter longpo
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
Very neat tool! I've looked into cutting foam for board game storage, but I don't love the 5mm or so thickness. For games with lots of different little bits and pieces, the many walls to divide many containers add up and take a su
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
It does seem like a lot of apps continue to function on GrapheneOS after the "Play Integrity" check fails (or at least after Graphene notifies the user that the Play Integrity API has been called). I suspect either: A) These apps
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
Control means ownership. Ownership means work. Until they've been burned by unspoken realities of not owning some piece of their own digital lives, most people will continue to prefer being tenants, rather than owners. Technology is on
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
MacOS isn't as locked down as iOS or Apple TV (yet) unless you publish via the Mac App Store, but a secondary factor is that Apple customers expect to pay to solve a problem without having to think about it. The good is that the above
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
With a bit of fiddling, Android TV can be as good as Apple TV in terms of privacy. Not out of the box, of course, but ADB can remove advertising/surveillance related APK files from most devices sold in big box stores and there are open
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
The conceptual frontier of a world of networked computers is uncharted, and we are in the well along into that dark frontier now. I don't think TV or magazines are a good point of comparison, nor anything from the analog world of yeste
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
>Ignorance is one thing, but maybe it could seem like negligence to others. In person I've found the difference to be usually very clear. It's why I distinguish between the sympathic attitude of "I don't know where to

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