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by starsinspace 9y ago
Yeah, and one of the most important features of IRC being "lightweight native client, integrating seamlessly with my environment". Somehow, these "modern" chat systems just can't do that.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Yes sure, an internet free of control and censorship is a nice fantasy. But look at today's internet. It's a giant surveillance machine. And that's not going away on its own, because collecting user data is such good business
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Could you point me to how Apple is tracking where I go?
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Even worse, Apple forces you to enable Siri if you want to enable CarPlay. That was such a let down, I was really looking forward to using CarPlay when I bought a new car. But for privacy reasons I don't want to enable Siri, so now I c
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by starsinspace 9y ago
It's funny, in discussions about webmail vs local email client, people often say "why would I want a local client anymore, webmail is all I need". Well... this is why you might want it. Your data under your control. Your ch
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Good software is when both kinds of users are pleased. As Alan Kay said "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.". But it's probably the hardest thing in UX design to make something that is simpl
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by starsinspace 9y ago
> but I also feel Mozilla has struck the balance between [...] My impression is that those who don't care about privacy have already switched to Chrome long ago, and see little reason to go back. And from those who do care, an incre
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Good question... I often wonder why Mozilla talks so much about privacy and user-rights, but then in reality does so little in Firefox to implement them by technical means. Why isn't their tracking-blocking the best among major browser
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by starsinspace 9y ago
The greatest innovation of the iPod was the bold move to make the earbuds white. This made the music player - usually tucked away in the pocket - a visible symbol of status and coolness. Together with a brilliant marketing campaign which ma
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Sad to hear this. Transmit for iOS is a fantastic app and a staple for my usage of iOS. Since Apple still hasn't implemented any sane ways to easily share files between iOS and PCs, Transmit is always there to allow a quick safe upload
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Weird how they specifically point out "free as in freedom", but then the real brain of this entire thing is a proprietary STM32F103 MCU.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
I used to have a paid subscription with some IPTV service which is kinda popular in this region of the world. Of course I knew that with internet-based video streams, they could track what and when I watch, but I naively assumed they wouldn
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Depends on the target audience. For example, Haiku most probably won't get around to implement KPTI any time soon. But then again, most people consider it more of a fun/hobby OS[0] anyway, so it wouldn't matter that much. [0]
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by starsinspace 9y ago
The idea of running untrusted code on your computer, and trying to isolate it, seems to be broken for now. I'd also be surprised if this is the last such hardware bug we hear of... As for Javascript: I use uMatrix in Firefox, with a de
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by starsinspace 9y ago
But isn't it a bit sad to send files to some cloud-storage or email server farm, probably half-way around the world, just to share between machines which are on the very same LAN?
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by starsinspace 9y ago
If a company has to constantly fire a lot of people - supposedly for not performing well enough - then the company might want to investigate why it's so bad at making people reach their potential. Note: a constantly looming threat of b
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by starsinspace 9y ago
How so? If the battery was easily replaceable, then I doubt there would be much outrage about this issue. But with the iPhone, device and battery are fused together and are thus seen as a single unit.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
There's absolutely no good reason why iPhone batteries are not easily user-replaceable. All the reasons usually given are weak excuses for an essentially consumer-hostile hardware design.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Here's an old article on it: https://web.archive.org/web/20080420193929/https://www.there... And another old document on it: https://www.jumpjet.info/Application-Software/BeOS&#
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by starsinspace 9y ago
A good option for people living in the EU is to register a .eu domain. For private individuals (like private non-commercial websites), the whois data is by default restricted to show an e-mail address only. (see section 2.4. in https:&#x2F
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by starsinspace 9y ago
There's Affinity Photo, which used to be Mac-only, but has now been available for Windows as well for a while: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Peer-to-peer was killed by the advent of home routers doing NAT, making arbitrary inbound connections impossible. Configuring port forwarding was generally too difficult for "normal users", the web-UIs offered by typical home rout
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by starsinspace 9y ago
The advent of NAT in home routers killed so many useful applications. Things like sending a file to someone in a peer-to-peer fashion, without middlemen, used to just work in the 90s. Then came NAT, and everything broke. I wonder if the c
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Which country is it that it's so bad? At least here in .de, there's plenty of other online retailers which are just as fast, or at least almost, and while the checkout sometimes has a step or two more than amazon, it's rarely
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Recently I spent an entire evening trying to get Gajim and ChatSecure work together with OMEMO and delivery of messages to multiple devices. I'm a technical person, but I failed, I got into all kinds of weird error modes, but ultimatel
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Well, in that way, there's no undocumented proprietary software either. The documentation is just in an even more technical language, called machine code.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Well, you could subscribe to their service. As a premium member you get stream links for plain high-bitrate MP3/AAC streams - no Flash, no DRM, not even a webbrowser required.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
I tried Gnome 3 a few years ago, when it had already matured somewhat and was curious how it turned out to be. First impression was good, looked pretty and seemed well-polished. However, I found the default font size too large for my taste.
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by starsinspace 9y ago
Gold also supports incremental linking [0], where it basically modifies the existing binary by only replacing the changed parts of it. I've never used it myself so I don't know how well it works, but you might want to look into it
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by starsinspace 9y ago
That's great! I had bought several of your books from O'Reilly -- I will head to your store directly then in the future.

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