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by signal11 8y ago
Worth noting that historically the Windows console’s colours were pretty terrible for people used to Linux consoles. There’s a fix which works since late 2017, which is to run colortool[1]. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F
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by signal11 8y ago
I suspect they were just paraphrasing Zuckerberg's blog post[1]: > Encryption. People's private communications should be secure. End-to-end encryption prevents anyone -- including us -- from seeing what people share on our serv
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by signal11 8y ago
This isn't just conference-specific. I know people from cultures where long names are quite common. Just like Theodore contracts to Ted, there's a reasonably simple culture-specific way of shortening them, and most of them do shor
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by signal11 8y ago
For context, the Ranbaxy scandal the article refers to is covered very well by Fortune’s remarkable story “Dirty Medicine”[1]. The people behind Ranbaxy have since sold their stake to a Japanese firm and are now running a chain of hospitals
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by signal11 8y ago
Great point. For example here is an example of a fairly informed user struggling with security decisions foisted upon him: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1087352548846157827... Asking users to make infor
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by signal11 8y ago
Another example of how flexibility can hurt a platform, from the Android world, is Samsung's Knox, which creates a very Command and Control "IT-friendly" layer for work purposes on Android, and in doing so kills the platform&
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by signal11 8y ago
> However! My controversial opinion is that Google's use of the Java API wasn't for interoperability. This brings to mind something I heard from my legal friends in the early days of this case. Their position was that this wasn
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by signal11 8y ago
It's a little bit like Linux in the late 90s. Postgres is increasingly being used in financial services, for instance, because it's "good enough" -- many teams really don't need Oracle's or SQL Server's fe
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by signal11 8y ago
Ah, I mentioned it a little while ago in another comment thread. Microsoft bundled it with older versions of Office and Windows, and is included in their TrueType Font Pack[1] [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typogr
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by signal11 8y ago
Lucida Console isn't too bad either -- it's very legible at small font sizes. On some of my work and personal systems I also have Lucida Sans Typewriter[1] (IIRC it was bundled with Office), which is taller and subjectively slight
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by signal11 8y ago
Although Consolas is beautiful on Windows (and is one of my favourite monospace fonts), Inconsolata for me looks very good on Windows 10 (as I remember it didn't quite look as good on Windows 7). In fact, because the font is slightly t
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by signal11 8y ago
From the Reddit comment: > Vivaldi runs as a React app on top of Chromium, but to make that possible, they had to make changes to the way Chromium works (likely how it handles extensions). That’s really interesting — their UI is pretty f
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by signal11 8y ago
Interesting - I’ll try it out, quite curious to see how it compares with Vivaldi, which has an Opera-like UI with the Chromium engine.
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by signal11 8y ago
The force in London is pretty busy, by all accounts. This would definitely be one for the emergency number in smaller towns.
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by signal11 8y ago
Even before this, researchers have noticed that a few people generate a disproportionate number of noise complaints (both links from 2016): US: https://www.mercatus.org/publications/airport-noise-nimbyism UK: https:&#
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by signal11 8y ago
> constantly changing pseudonyms and emails This is a problem only for some people who are fortunate in life. For many other people — kids discovering the internet, persecuted minorities, dissidents, victims of domestic abuse, victims of
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by signal11 8y ago
Good point. Mozilla also received (still receives?) a substantial amount of money from Google, no doubt that achieves similar goals -- prop up a competitor -- although it also helps Google make their search engine the default for Firefox u
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by signal11 8y ago
It's not quite "pay", but Google have a notion of "points" to reward contributors, who they call local guides: https://support.google.com/local-guides/answer/6225851?hl=en Anecdotally it&#
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by signal11 8y ago
I just paid $5 for Start10. No more default Win10 Start menu, ever. Best $5 I ever spent. There are free options too, like Classic Shell.
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by signal11 8y ago
OOBE on Windows 10 has gone to the dogs. Live Tiles on the default Windows 10 Start Menu — especially if you buy an OEM laptop — look gaudy and distract you from the task at hand. I just wish Microsoft realised that this is making Apple’s s
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by signal11 8y ago
> Why would they have any interest in Linux on the desktop? Short answer: Chrome OS (also Android). Chrome OS is a Linux distribution being aggressively promoted by a large, well-funded competitor. It can already run Android apps (in rel
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by signal11 8y ago
> People would upload all their images without naming, tagging or organising them and the average quality of shot reduced I have a Flickr Pro account and upload my photos set to private. If I find a good shot I set that to public or frie
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by signal11 8y ago
> Pushing JavaScript everywhere increases the attack surface for every single user on the web. I understand where you're coming from, but most users browse the web with Javascript = on. Even as a NoScript user I have Google whitelis
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by signal11 8y ago
Ubuntu (Canonical) just stared looking more attractive as they were trying to be an independent commercially-supported Linux offering. Or, if you don’t like Canonical (and to be fair they do a lot less than Red Hat do), encouraging corporat
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by signal11 8y ago
Ironically a friend who just bought a small business is struggling to contact Facebook because the small business page of the business he bought is inaccessible and Facebook has made it near-impossible to speak to a human about anything, ev
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by signal11 8y ago
He was also famously interested in all sorts of trivia (such as types of London clays, and types of cigar ashes) because it helped him with his job. I think "neo-generalist" would be a good way to describe Holmes: https:/&#x
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by signal11 8y ago
I found Google+ circles time-consuming to maintain. Facebook actually had a better idea with Graph Search, which would have let me direct a post to “my friends from Boston”, or “friends of my friends who like hiking”. Sadly it probably was
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by signal11 8y ago
As Apple don’t have a market monopoly, antitrust provisions (similar to what Microsoft was hit with) won’t necessarily apply.
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by signal11 8y ago
This is a very good point. In particular kids wouldn’t be caught dead on a network their parents (and other elderly relatives) are on. I suspect Facebook knows this and will keep acquiring new platforms when they can.
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by signal11 8y ago
I use Facebook very occasionally, and when I do I use Firefox with containers enabled. Facebook and related sites get their own containers.

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