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by shadowfacts 6y ago
"Excited delirium" is a pseudo-scientific term used by police to justify their use of excessive force: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/chokehold-police-exci...
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by shadowfacts 6y ago
In a similar vein, I have a shell script (fish, in my case) that combines these to let me quickly modify the contents of the clipboard: function pbedit set tmpfile (mktemp /tmp/pbedit.XXXXX) pbpaste > $tmpfile
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by shadowfacts 6y ago
In addition to pressing space to move the selected region, you can also press: - Option, to move all four corners symmetrically around the region's center - Shift, to constrain expansion to a single axis - Option + Shift, to move the e
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by shadowfacts 6y ago
The trackpad on the Magic Keyboard doesn't have a hinge at the back, there's a single button under the center and a lever that runs under the sides which actuates the button and makes the physical click movement: https:/&#x2
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by shadowfacts 7y ago
https://shadowfacts.net/ I mostly write about iOS and web programming. It's mostly static using a custom generator with some dynamic parts to support leaving comments with ActivityPub, which is explained in more detail
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by shadowfacts 7y ago
I'm writing my own personal RSS aggregator, and one of the things I did for it was writing a spec for a service-agnostic API for RSS aggregators with the goal of being the bare minimum necessary to sync feeds and items: https:/&#
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by shadowfacts 7y ago
NetNewsWire is capable of importing OPML files with folders. Worked for me when I imported from Feedly. If it doesn't work for you, I'd report a bug. I'm sure having a migration path from old versions of NNW is something Bren
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by shadowfacts 7y ago
Anecdotally with Firefox on macOS, Gmail is by far the worst offender. Switching inboxes/labels takes several seconds in FF and is near instant in Chrome. Scrolling performance in FF is also much worse.
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by shadowfacts 7y ago
If you install Linux, it's not exactly a "simplified desktop experience".
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
I think you mean Itch.io: https://kitfoxgames.itch.io/dwarf-fortress
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
Maybe it checks the placeholder for 'name'
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
We can't know for certain that they never will, but right now, I have more faith in the open-source community than an adtech company.
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
Reader mode (and the ability to enable it by default [0]) are built-in features—and ones that are used quite frequently by other apps. Downloading and displaying content from websites in general (not a specific site(s) that you have permiss
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
Or even just SFSafariViewController set to automatically enter reader mode. Then you're not downloading/displaying content from other sites, but you're still keeping users within your app.
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
Dan Luu's blog is almost there, but personally I'd prefer if there was just a tiny bit of CSS that capped the width of the text. With full width paragraphs, it's not the most pleasant to read.
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
I think this would fit rather nicely into Apple News. Get all your news in one place and optionally set up a monthly subscription that gets split proportionally between the publications you read.
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
Yes: https://www.reddit.com/r/DesktopDetective/
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
I’m on an iPhone X, and when the animation is visible the scrolling performance is awful, seems like ~10 FPS.
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
You can upgrade to 32 on the 15" models: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MR932...
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
The key line: > We decline to extend Smith and Miller to cover these novel circumstances. Given the unique nature of cell phone location records, the fact that the information is held by a third party does not by itself overcome the
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
This is the paper referenced in the README: http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~lin.3021/file/NDSS18a.pdf
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
How could you do a web version of iMessages without losing end-to-end encryption?
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
Not by a long shot they don't. In Q1 2018, Apple made nine times more money from iPhones than it did from Macs [1]. [1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q1_FY18_Data_Summary.pdf
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
Similar, but targeted more at desktop widgets is Ubersicht [0]. It provides a transparent, desktop-level browser window that lets you load and display widgets that get their input from CLI commands. [0]: http://tracesof.net/
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
He’s not blaming the inputs. He’s simply saying that some inputs can produce incorrect outputs. He’s not saying the incorrect outputs are the _fault_ of the inputs. He goes on to explain where the blame actually lies, in floating point prec
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
The Eclipse compiler is natively supported in IDEA: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/java-compiler.html#javac...
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
I believe Eclipse has it's own Java compiler, so it was probably a compiler feature.
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by shadowfacts 8y ago
Even on the demo page[0], there's noticeable lag when typing. I have to delete the vast majority of the content for it to feel about as responsive as Google Docs, which still feels far slower than Sublime Text or anything native. For r
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by shadowfacts 9y ago
Because that's the URL the cache is for: https://1.1.1.1/
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by shadowfacts 9y ago
The website at 1.1.1.1 isn't running, but the DNS service seems to be operating.

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