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by thimabi 2y ago
It seems too good to be true. Surely they are offering up to $1,000 trade-in for iPhones beginning with the iPhone 12, right?
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Review: ReMarkable Paper Pro writing tablet feels almost like paper, for a price(arstechnica.com)
1 points by thimabi 2y ago|0 comments
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by thimabi 2y ago
I wonder too, but suing is expensive and demands some time that we don’t have. Yet we did notify the cybercrime team at the police department, so maybe they will do something about it.
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by thimabi 2y ago
Recently, my grandmother got herself scammed when trying to pay her bills, because she clicked a Google search ad for a fraudulent website posing as the local gas company. She lost some money and, of course, some of her personal data as wel
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by thimabi 2y ago
On iOS, you can also long press the period button, then select the ellipsis in the pop up menu for accented characters and diacritics.
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by thimabi 2y ago
Or maybe there’s a “Who Is Looking for Love?” coming up on Ask HN, much like the job threads :)
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by thimabi 2y ago
Considering that the opportunity cost for not switching jurisdictions seems to be no longer being in that particular business, any obstacles along the way seem minor in comparison.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I stand corrected. I failed to account for the fact that e-ink displays are pretty expensive, and those with color capabilities are much more.
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by thimabi 2y ago
That truly depends on the jurisdiction. International treaties are not generally above a country’s constitution, and there are several countries where the right to education and to access literary works might take precedence over copyright.
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by thimabi 2y ago
At this point, the Internet Archive should consider simply moving to another jurisdiction. Decisions like this are a shame, because they hinder a proper way to deal with piracy. Physical libraries compete with book sales too, but of course
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by thimabi 2y ago
I concur. For a device of that price, size, and considering the reading and note-taking use case, only 229 ppi is abysmal. Why cut corners in a key part of the product?
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by thimabi 2y ago
What is the message that the dot tried to convey?
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by thimabi 2y ago
There is little authoritarianism in the decision to block access to X. Brazilian law, properly drafted and passed by two independent legislative chambers, dictates several important things: - foreign companies that operate in Brazil must ha
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by thimabi 2y ago
That has little grounding on Brazilian law, because Starlink is not wholly owned by Musk. If it were the case, the Court could have blocked and seized Starlink’s assets, as long as there were adequate reasons for doing so. But, as it stands
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Brazil Threatens to Ban Elon Musk's X(nytimes.com)
5 points by thimabi 2y ago|2 comments
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by thimabi 2y ago
Not something I’ve seen recently, but Carrd’s landing page is stuck in my mind as a great example of a landing page. It’s beautiful, to the point, and provides immediate access to a demo, without the need to create an account. You can see f
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by thimabi 2y ago
Airline ticketing systems are pretty outdated at this point, but they continue to be used for lack of a widespread alternative.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I don’t see now pages this way. For me, they have always been about having a personal space in the midst of an increasingly commercial web, where few things are under our control. While I don’t have a now page myself, I do appreciate the ef
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by thimabi 2y ago
I keep a root folder (VS Code workspace) and within it several folders, nested or not, with Markdown files. Anything that is not Markdown goes into “_assets” directories. I’ve got certain scripts that iterate these folders and merge the not
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by thimabi 2y ago
Besides other differences, Bear Blog does not offer a self-hosted solution such as WriteFreely.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I mostly write Markdown notes in VS Code. With the help of some Bash scripts, Pandoc and Calibre, they are converted into PDFs, ebooks and websites. When I need, I use Git to sync the notes between different devices. I chose this method bec
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by thimabi 2y ago
The reason is that non-compliance can lead to much harsher penalties than that fine, such as banning Meta from doing any kind of data processing in Brazil. Surely Meta does not want to lose access to one of its biggest markets.
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by thimabi 2y ago
Perhaps they make more than that just by using the tooling internally and creating/maintaining other stuff with it — that’s a major competitive advantage
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by thimabi 2y ago
Hey, thank you for this. I routinely use the cnrtl.fr website, but will use your version henceforth. Very well made! One suggestion is letting the search match conjugated verbs, plurals, feminine words and other variations. I don’t know how
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by thimabi 2y ago
Oh, well, many apps will have a hard time competing with “Apple Intelligence” features. Why bother downloading a third-party app if some feature you want is included by default in the OS? Better yet, no more dealing with overpriced subscrip
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by thimabi 2y ago
I am not so sure of that. Apple does seem like the kind of company that would create an entirely new SKU just for improving margins in a certain product. It all helps differentiating the iPad models.
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by thimabi 2y ago
It should be interesting to see if they actually sold iPads with less GPU cores than the specs say, or if the downgrade is just for a new SKU.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I’d love to help universal basic education become true. There are some people who are extremely qualified and specialized in their fields, but many more would really benefit from additional formal education. Even tech literacy is taken for
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by thimabi 2y ago
DupeGuru is quite good at finding near duplicates, you should check it out
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Are you sure you’ve talked to their support team? Most queries are automatically redirected to their LLM bots, and I suspect even their customer service reps use their models to answer to support tickets.

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