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841.
by swiley 5y ago
There was a story just the other day about how Microsoft has been signing rootkits. The new "security measures" don't do crap for malware and just make legitimate uses of the machine (installing software that respects your fr
842.
by swiley 5y ago
But trust us to update your firmware over the internet anyway despite the fact that we've shipped backdoors before.
843.
by swiley 5y ago
I now see the irony of my comment.
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by swiley 5y ago
All code should be public always. Easiest solution to this.
845.
by swiley 5y ago
Introspection is very hard for anyone running the world. That's why revolutions happen and there isn't a single dynasty stretching back to ancient times.
846.
by swiley 5y ago
>Notification You can usually globaly turn it off and it's way less spammy than "Download our mobile app if you want to see the rest."
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by swiley 5y ago
It's the land that's expensive and the best way to use it is dense, concrete, apartment buildings.
848.
by swiley 5y ago
People wonder why I won't sign up for these Apps.
849.
by swiley 5y ago
At this point I feel like supporting Windows in any way is probably immoral.
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by swiley 5y ago
People say you miss out on things by not owning a smartphone but I think it's becoming increasingly clear that you really don't.
851.
by swiley 5y ago
There's nothing stopping you from continuing to route everything through one computer, since it's your address space you could even do NAT.
852.
by swiley 5y ago
I've never quite understood why there's no clandestine insulin market. You're working up GMO yeast metabolites, that's not exactly a new idea.
853.
by swiley 5y ago
You should always watch youtube in private mode so you don't get pigeonholed.
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by swiley 5y ago
(by last year I mean 2019.)
855.
by swiley 5y ago
We already have IPv6. The only things broken on the internet are smartphones and closed IoT firmware.
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by swiley 5y ago
>People being told to go back to work or face homelessness are going back to work. Shocking.
857.
by swiley 5y ago
You probably did what I did and mostly missed what was happening the past couple years by using duckduckgo the whole time. I formatted my phone at some point last year and the search engine reverted to google, it really was unusable but not
858.
by swiley 5y ago
Or just small experimental things. I can pay for jmp.chat with bitcoin, the dev doesn't have to deal with paypal and I don't have to worry about my credit card being stollen.
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by swiley 5y ago
Television screens do have sticky features, my rule applies there too.
860.
by swiley 5y ago
No repo link? Anki has theirs on the front page.
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by swiley 5y ago
My point is that every other website doesn't appear to have this problem, it's definitely one Google created.
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by swiley 5y ago
>4chan and members 4chan has no members?
863.
by swiley 5y ago
Having two CSS rules in a single selector is something you absolutely can do in vim. You can even chuck it in a one line style tag. IMO cumulative layout shift should be ranked down, it's extremely frustrating.
864.
by swiley 5y ago
The replacement they're whining about is "core web vitals" IE the metric you can view at[1]. This is what AMP should have been in the beginning and I was surprised they did something else, it made Google search unusable on mo
865.
by swiley 5y ago
Or just accept that user agents are robots acting on the user's behalf and build your stuff so that it can tolerate robots.
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by swiley 5y ago
>What works is restrictions. What works is not putting up walls between developers and power users. Linux has no such restrictions and bloated software isn't something I have to deal with on it (I have the option to if I wanted to,
867.
by swiley 5y ago
That's pretty odd, I doubt it has anything to do with the architecture and more to do with weather or not you're logged into a Google account. I don't have a google account and use a desktop Linux-based OS on my phone. I have
868.
by swiley 5y ago
It might appear that way but much of the cost of non-community-maintained software is hidden and people don't realize it until long after it becomes expensive to leave. Because of this I'm not sure I agree.
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by swiley 5y ago
It depends on the UI configuration. I run an overlapping desktop WM on mine and as long as the software doesn't need a second mouse button it's fine.
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by swiley 5y ago
>de facto toothless On YouTube, it appears to work just fine on other sites like GitHub.

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