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by sfRattan 10mo ago
I remain sympathetic to parents who don't know where to start in terms of understanding technology and computers. It is a big topic. But I am entirely unsympathetic to parents who throw up their hands and make no effort . At this poin
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
If you're planning on using the TV as a dumb display for another device, and are determined enough to physically remove a cellular modem, then the TV's own WiFi is not a useful thing either, even if integrated into the same chip.
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
Sync is the only feature you listed which is arguably a core feature, in that it makes sense to build into the browser to be able to sync as much of the browser's settings and data as possible for the user. Everything else --- Hello, P
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
I will say in favor of the ribbon: it still fully supports KeyTips (a.k.a tapping Alt and then a series of letters to navigate a software menu). So much Electron-based slop software out there doesn't support any sort of keyboard naviga
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
Pixels and SafetyNet are different than a console appliance (e.g. Xbox, Playstation) in that Google allows both unlocking and relocking the bootloader, without affecting the integrity of a Pixel's onboard cryptographic hardware and se
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by sfRattan 10mo ago
It was specifically the release of Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM) in 2012 that had people nervous that Microsoft wanted to lock Windows down long-term in the manner of iOS and Apple. Windows RT only ran code signed by Microsoft and only inst
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
>I think this specific instance is particularly interesting in that it allows the holder to dehumanise their opponent to an extent, and justify lack of discussion. That's a wild take and a wild leap. For my own part, I see the failu
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
It's a specific case of the false dilemma, sure. But, in life, when you meet enough AI evangelists, what was formally a logical fallacy becomes informally a useful, even necessary heuristic.
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
If you're writing in MS Word, LibreOffice, or most word processors, typing a word and then two dashes and then a word, without any spaces, like--this will generate an em dash automatically. I learned how to do it in Freshman English
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
Until the last few years, most features added to software I use haven't: ...had functionally nondeterminstic, unpredictable results in response to how I use them. ...written in long-form English text with confidence and no guarantee of
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
Yes, this is why we routinely fill council homes (or public project housing) with amnesiac butlers to rearrange the residents' possessions, and also with demons for, um, reasons. Completely reasonable things to do. How else would we re
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
I've added a room to your home. Sometimes, there's a butler in there who seems absentminded and can only remember things up to a few thousand words. He once stacked all your dishes in the refrigerator and dumped all the food into
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
For me, the link to just the releases returns an empty list at present: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases/
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
At this point, Play Protect will remove the apks with the old signature because the developer marked the old signature as compromised. The developer acted correctly and responsibly in doing so , and seems to be working out establishing a n
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
Announcement from the dev, in the project GitHub and Patreon: Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to release
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
Think more in terms of behavioral psychology rather than idealized market dynamics which require rational actors and easily accessible information. Each corporation wants to optimize their customers' behavior for efficient extraction o
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
The vendors who want you to just buy things in their app will treat any such exchange adversarially, and will ultimately always have the upper hand. They can respond with litigation, as Amazon already is against third-party LLM agents acces
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
This assumes the information is clear and consistent enough across time and distance for arbitrage to happen. Pricing in-app, per customer, changing per day would introduce too much unpredictability for most customers to attempt arbitrage.
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
I think "balkanized" is a better way to describe communities and users online. As in sorted and separated into non-overlapping algorithmic cul-de-sacs which mostly do not interact with each other and which are (often) hostile wh
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by sfRattan 11mo ago
There was a period I can recall, maybe 2010 to 2020 most prominently, when a subset of HN readers strongly preferred the mobile Wikipedia site, even on desktop, and would always use ".m" linking to Wikipedia articles in comments t
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by sfRattan 1y ago
> There are plenty of addons that I want to use occasionally that require full data access. I generally do trust them... Seconded, except I don't trust most add-ons and don't want to have to trust them. I want an easy way to la
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by sfRattan 1y ago
> To my tastes these days Gnome Shell and associated GTK3/4 apps (see Gnome Circle), plus Flathub, are easily the most consistent and pleasant desktop app experience around. I generally agree with this, with respect to the apps. The
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by sfRattan 1y ago
I can happily recommend that option from experience. I've used Walmart's "Onn" Google/Android TV boxes on both 1080p and 4K televisions. They work, and with Projectivity as the launcher you can pretty much rid yours
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by sfRattan 1y ago
> That the Gnome team has different priorities from other DEs, one of them being "keep the design consistent and sustainable," is completely valid and preferred by many users like myself. A new design metaphor can be "comp
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by sfRattan 1y ago
GNOME 3+ developers put themselves in the inevitable (and unenviable) position of defending every decision to death because they limited the user's ability to make many, many decisions that were possible in previous versions . There&#
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by sfRattan 1y ago
> The latter means side loading is still viable for apps from known developers. This way anyone who is known who may create malware and will not be free from prosecution Important corrections: This way anyone who is known to create malwa
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by sfRattan 1y ago
Likely coincidence. Myers-Briggs has no scientific validity and is the corporate equivalent of horoscopes in the newspaper . [1] When someone asks for your Myers-Briggs type, give them a zodiac sign. When someone asks for your zodiac sign,
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by sfRattan 1y ago
> Ultimately the GPL is about protecting users' rights at the expense of developers' rights. No. The GPL is about giving developers and users the same rights. Some developers want more rights than users, and engage in special
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by sfRattan 1y ago
> When the next version of redis comes with a more restrictive license, or if features are removed, I just stick to a previous one. Maybe I fork it myself if it's really important for me. Probably, we will be many doing so, we will
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by sfRattan 1y ago
You're welcome! :) > It's silly to be angry at a firm for wanting to be closed source, but if they start out pretending to be fully open source and community-motivated, while receiving lots of coding contributions, then suddenl

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