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by smush 7y ago
Thanks for correcting me on that. I learned something today!
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by smush 7y ago
Possibly. I started writing this comment and then ran out of insights to make, but the rough draft is posted below since I already typed it out and it's not utter drivel, if not that deep. Speaking as a layman, the MS corporate culture
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by smush 7y ago
> Why Google and not Apple? It took the various levels of government about 15 years to catch on that all was not well with Google. Apple will not skate by forever, but at the moment there are more egregious fish to fry.
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by smush 7y ago
> Did Apple ever offer a XMPP federated iMessage? EDIT -> They did NOT, see below comment by nvrspyx. Apparently they did, and removed it around Mojave-era or so...? I'm not familiar with Apple products, this statement is based o
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by smush 7y ago
While this is a far shorter list than Luther's 95 theses, I will post this here while I run to get popcorn to see just how Google gets out of this. Sample arguably anti-competitive actions Google has taken: 1. Turning off XMPP federati
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by smush 7y ago
I apparently fall into the latter tribe and feel the need to justify myself, so begin rant! There may need to be a fourth tribe? I write my programs to accomplish tasks for the user, but I use tribe A and tribe B languages to get there as t
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Google emerges as target of a new state attorneys general antitrust probe(washingtonpost.com)
7 points by smush 7y ago|0 comments
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by smush 7y ago
You are correct that the APK download at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.servalproj... is dead. However, you can still download it from https://f-droid.org/en/packages/o
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by smush 7y ago
Wow. This must be what it is like to be old. Tooltips are as old as the hills from my perspective, but they've been uncool for years, only BLOBs use 'em, too confusing for modern users, etc. I use 'em anyways. Suddenly someon
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by smush 7y ago
Open Note Scanner in F-Droid has been serving my (admittedly limited) needs instead.
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Microsoft Surface event in October could see the debut of 'Centaurus'(siliconangle.com)
2 points by smush 7y ago|0 comments
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by smush 7y ago
TL;DR: Please release this Microsoft, even though I am pretty sure you have too many cooks in the kitchen to get this out the door. I'll say it again (though it may not have been HN on which I first said this shrug ): Microsoft runs t
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by smush 7y ago
I've used them continuously since 2005. The dropdown menu is just fine to answer the question 'has Twin Dragons webcomic added another post yet'? or 'whats new in the liliputing.com world'? without any context swaps
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by smush 7y ago
> Also why would you use Waterfox. It's like Firefox ESR, with a few changed settings and much slower security updates. Waterfox preserves Live Bookmarks, doesn't do telemetry, was unaffected by expired certificate killing all
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by smush 7y ago
No offense intended or taken, you and are I are in complete agreement re: what software should be touching our data. I believe you when you say you've had problems performing file shares to arbitrary people, my comments were directed o
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by smush 7y ago
> In my perfect world browsers have RSS support built in and aggregators like Facebook would allow RSS feeds to be published in timelines. We had this too...Firefox Live Bookmarks, yanked away because their metrics said no one used them.
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by smush 7y ago
I have a lot of devices as well - syncthing can handle em all. 3x phones for photo upload, music sync, TWRP zips etc. 2x personal laptops 2x work devices + a personal VM 2x close friend party shares for easy linux iso sharing overnight And
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by smush 7y ago
While I agree Syncthing is about seamlessly syncing files with devices you own, not file sharing as such, it does a good 98% of what this program offers with a more open source background and is completely free. I share files, what, once a
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by smush 7y ago
I love the idea of Monica but I've had serious challenges getting it going in self-hosted land. I plan to keep trying though as the idea of a personal CRM is nearly irresistable. My most recent attempt a few weeks back (following the d
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by smush 7y ago
What are some other shortcomings of SQLite? I'm genuinely curious even though the below probably sounds like some text from the ~Rust~ Sqlite evangelism strike force. With the default settings which I semi-affectionately refer to as pa
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by smush 7y ago
Different strokes I suppose. I enjoy noticing the system tray spin on cue when I boot up a laptop or plug a phone in as it syncs over WLAN. It's quite a cool feeling seeing the automatic file sync through the air as if by magic, no sep
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by smush 7y ago
I agree. Add on a system tray icon like SyncTrayzor if you are on Windows and it feels totally native.
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by smush 7y ago
I wish it wasn't so expensive to have a switch next to your circuit-breaker that was labelled 'electric lines/natural gas/water' and depending on which selection would cut-off the home electricity from the others an
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by smush 7y ago
If you dare reveal your HN activity and ask him to comment, I'd love to read his first-hand account.
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by smush 7y ago
I've done some research into the serval mesh project and Briar and similar; I do wish most cell phones had some mesh networking installed by default. Something to enable granny to send a text message to me via piggybacking off other pe
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by smush 7y ago
I wish the agile manifesto had included a bullet point that said 'favor working code over comprehensive documentation%' % where working code != the code will work if all stars align and no invalid data is input and comprehensive d
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by smush 7y ago
The GPs comment has a link to a Vox article that indicates that "Lymerix-triggered arthritis" was never more than a hypothetical posed by some of the members of the FDA review board. No hard evidence of that condition exists. In a
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by smush 7y ago
I remember a few like Almond and one posted to HN a few months back that could change the color of some lights right in the local client session, no internet connection needed.
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by smush 7y ago
To answer your question, standalone desktop that can spit out a Library-of-congress-approved archive format like xml, sqlite, rtf etc. You could also take the NoteWiki idea which is a simple text control which auto-creates hyperlinks on cam
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Clever attack uses sqlite databases to hack other apps, malware servers(zdnet.com)
2 points by smush 7y ago|0 comments

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