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by thombles 3y ago
I intentionally picked a DECT audio-only monitor on a shelf of high-tech gizmos. Secure, local, doesn't reward the monkey-brain need to "just check in" like video would, and works without configuration in a different building
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by thombles 4y ago
For language, I can vouch for both Clozemaster and Lingvist as very polished tools that put the spaced repetition front-and-centre unlike Duolingo.
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by thombles 4y ago
I bought my child an old Celeron running Windows 98SE, about 7 years in advance of when they’ll be ready for it. They’ll get the experience of playing with Paint, installing software from CDs, digital encyclopaedias, Commander Keen, all tha
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The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge(thomask.sdf.org)
506 points by thombles 4y ago|377 comments
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by thombles 4y ago
It's hopefully obvious that I don't submit this link for its news at face value, but I do find it remarkable. Absolutely remarkable.
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Why Microsoft 365 is teaming up with OREO THINS to give you a break(microsoft.com)
4 points by thombles 4y ago|8 comments
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by thombles 4y ago
> AFAICT a reference counting scheme must be able to nullify all references to an object when it's deallocated, so deallocations can become arbitrarily expensive The idea of reference-counted object is that by the time it's dea
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by thombles 4y ago
To my knowledge this is the only wrong crate I've ever installed due to my own error. It's... not a good feeling to read this message, even though the author turned out to be doing me a favour. :)
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by thombles 4y ago
If you're extremely patient you can do it manually :) > telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
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by thombles 4y ago
(Ditto developer here) Yes most definitely! We are rolling out a feature called Ditto Bus which lets you open reliable or lossy streams for arbitrary data flows between between your device and another in the mesh. Each stream flows over any
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by thombles 4y ago
s0ix is fine so long as it actually activates. The problem is that in some default configurations it doesn't and you end up using a poorer sleep. On my 9305 it was a matter of changing a storage setting in the BIOS and afterwards it wa
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by thombles 4y ago
RE: the N/A in ripgrep dependencies specifically, it's a little clearer on my machine (newer version of cargo-license maybe?). Slightly complicated but still above board https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs
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by thombles 4y ago
Remarkable - I remember that key preventing the loading of extensions on startup back on System 7. It's cool that the intent of it has lasted so long.
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by thombles 4y ago
Encryption is one of the stated goals, which is illegal for packet radio in most jurisdictions. Also requiring a licence to transmit (no matter how easy/cheap it is to obtain) is a barrier to adoption that must be considered.
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by thombles 4y ago
The closest equivalents I’ve found on other platforms are Akregator (Linux/KDE) and QuiteRSS (Win).
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by thombles 4y ago
> invest in a personal blog hosted on your own domain. It appears that's how the problem arose in the first place.
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by thombles 4y ago
I've been thinking about this recently and have a few tentative conclusions. - My government (.au) runs almost entirely on the MS cloud/productivity stack, as do most large businesses. This is the stuff that's going to get re
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Microsoft Edge Secure Network hands all browsing activity to Cloudflare(thomask.sdf.org)
7 points by thombles 4y ago|0 comments
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by thombles 4y ago
Would it count as “fancy” to find out whether header names are case sensitive? Plenty of useful things in there.
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by thombles 4y ago
My point isn't the age result that I mentioned. (I believe their claim that it's bogus.) It's that the instruction to click "as randomly as possible" is ambiguous so at best they're measuring an average of the
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by thombles 4y ago
I understood my task as convincing another _human_ that it was randomly generated. Since N was low for each of the tasks, I was deliberate about sometimes having repeated values, and not ensuring that every option was picked an equal number
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by thombles 4y ago
For anyone interested in the multiuser aspect, the main "sdf" NetBSD host has 73 logins at the moment, "faeroes" has 46, and there are a handful of other systems on the network for interactive use like norge, the Linux M
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Obfuscated obfuscation(blog.lexfo.fr)
26 points by thombles 5y ago|0 comments
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by thombles 5y ago
The Alt-Tab image is amusing but I will point out that Windows is doing its own innovations here - by default it now cycles through the 5 most recently used Edge tabs alongside your actual windows. On the bright side it can be turned off.
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by thombles 5y ago
"Concern troll" is another popular one.
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by thombles 5y ago
As far as Confluence competitors go, in the vicinity of 2010 there was a lovely MediaWiki fork called DekiWiki (later MindTouch Core). It was easy to set up and use, fast, WYSIWYG editing, attachments. Unfortunately Mindtouch (the company)
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by thombles 5y ago
For years I’ve had it as a custom SMS/iMessage tone on my phone in the hopes of sparking a conversation with fellow early internetters. Nobody has ever paid the slightest attention but it still makes me jump sometimes. :)
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by thombles 5y ago
I posted an update to that article just the other day - it's a (new?) policy that feedback will be retained for at most 15 months. FBH can be safely disregarded as a waste of time.
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by thombles 5y ago
As far as I can see everything in the article applies in W11 Professional. It will be interesting, though, to see what happens when more big enterprises start piloting their upgrades to W11. The taskbar changes alone could cause mutinies in
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by thombles 5y ago
They already slip promoted links into the “quick links” in Edge - the UI that any normal user would think was just their frequently-visited sites on the New Tab page - unless you turn it off under advanced customisations. It makes no differ

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