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by thombles 5y ago
It could be a geographical thing but my experience of ICQ and MSN was almost entirely 1:1 chat. It was a calmer way to be - no onlookers to impress, and first-class support for signalling that you’re not at your computer right now so maybe
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by thombles 5y ago
> github seems to almost go out of its way to prevent you from thinking about PRs as if they were patches Those who take care to write meaningful per-commit descriptions are actively punished by the eager collapsing. Either reviewers hav
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by thombles 5y ago
Additionally, the notification email links to "View it on GitHub" don't reliably cause the relevant parts of the page to expand so you end up wading through a huge PR expanding things at random until you find the message.
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by thombles 5y ago
Anyone who’s used Apple 2FA on a Mac would be familiar with this - you can take the code from the same computer you’re using to log on to the Apple service.
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by thombles 5y ago
It's funny you invoke PowerPoint - MS FrontPage was exactly this tool and it worked reasonably well, as did iWeb. Publishing WYSIWYG websites from the desktop was given up in the 00s, and now we have Squarespace and Facebook Pages.
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Another Myth Busted(os2museum.com)
2 points by thombles 5y ago|0 comments
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by thombles 5y ago
(author here) I like the thinking but I have never once seen a MSFT rep reply directly to a comment on Feedback Hub. Not once. You're lucky if the submission-level response makes sense. I don't think it explains this case.
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by thombles 5y ago
(author here) IMO KDE is the most authentic expression of Windows XP-era UI productivity that exists today. Their dedication to user-configurable settings is an absolute blessing.
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by thombles 5y ago
(author here) Each "button" on the taskbar shows as a label the name of the document. This is the key differentiator that makes W10- so convenient - they don't look the same because they have text showing exactly what you&#x2
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Private Web Browsing in 2022(thomask.sdf.org)
3 points by thombles 5y ago|0 comments
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Where's the Interpreter? (CVE-2021-30853)(objective-see.com)
3 points by thombles 5y ago|0 comments
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by thombles 5y ago
What’s the attack vector and required user action(s) here? Since Xcode projects allow arbitrary scripting I wouldn’t assume the presence of log4j makes anything _worse_.
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by thombles 5y ago
While a lamentable situation, this has been addressed to a considerable degree and it's not all that bad. For example Matrix has its Push Gateway API ( https://matrix.org/docs/spec/push_gateway/r0.1.1#id4
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by thombles 5y ago
They used to, in Australia at least. I can't remember if it came with my iBook G4 or one of the Intels soon afterward, but out of the box I got both a two-prong stub that attaches directly to the brick and a ~1.5m cable that goes to a
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by thombles 5y ago
Hah most PCs I used of that era would have complained about a non-bootable disk being in drive A: :)
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by thombles 5y ago
Indeed, we are falling behind in various important areas like dental care and elective surgery waiting lists, but if you have cancer or appendicitis or some other emergency you get good care with minimal out-of-pocket expenses. When COVID h
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by thombles 5y ago
> Otherwise I think it lacks structure and can't be harvested automatically easily Indeed, it depends on the language and your goals - I had a very high success rate plucking out Russian grammatical tables from English Wiktionary wi
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by thombles 5y ago
> We argue that privacy enhancement technologies, albeit highly advisable, might not be strictly necessary, in front of the recent push of operators to enforce privacy via organizational measures. The cynic in me says this is true - not
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by thombles 5y ago
In its defence, this is just a guy posting some observations and a quick book review on his blog, which is awesome. I don't think it was intended as a TikTok analysis for the HN crowd.
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New PetitPotam attack allows take over of Windows domains(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by thombles 5y ago|0 comments
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by thombles 5y ago
> Wetness can definitely screw up a paper map This is why map shops have a laminator. It's always worth the extra. > if it's currently snowing or raining I'd much rather be using a phone than actual paper I wouldn'
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by thombles 5y ago
Great choice of outer hardware. My old E63 was the last phone I had where I could legitimately touch type, and I still miss it.
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Trusting Everybody(thomask.sdf.org)
2 points by thombles 5y ago|0 comments
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by thombles 5y ago
These "This Study Will Collect" and "How We Protect You" sections are really good. It probably wouldn't convince me personally to sign up, but it's as comprehensive as I would expect. It's a shame that the
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by thombles 5y ago
Whoever wrote this piece is way too close to... whatever it is Mozilla is doing here. There seems to be an assumption that users will be gleeful to throw their data at legitimate researchers from legitimate institutions doing legitimate wor
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by thombles 5y ago
Fantastic news. The OSM data is unrivalled for bushwalking tracks. While I am prepared to navigate without technology, I rarely have to because a phone with GPS and offline data gets me back so on track so efficiently.
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by thombles 5y ago
I'm glad we have an industry standard for fingernail size at least.
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by thombles 5y ago
Incidentally, if you have a business registered for GST in Australia you have to submit a quarterly activity statement. The tax office website had bizarre authentication requirements but the browser plugin was at least cross-platform. They
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by thombles 5y ago
> I've never understood this assumption that focusing on one thing must necessarily always be to the detriment of another. The Earth is a zero-sum game, possibly the most real example that exists. Every gallon of oil, every mineral
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by thombles 6y ago
Sounds a lot like the nomadic identities in Hubzilla and the Zot protocol. https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project https://zotlabs.org/help/en/developer/zot_protocol#What_

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