tommorris

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by tommorris 9y ago
Because I'm using my desktop for eight hours a day. I have media keys. I need to use the audio functionality on my computer (for phone calls/video calls etc.) Also, because my laptop has a much more usable interface (keyboard and
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by tommorris 9y ago
If you think about it as "bookmarking" - no, don't care. Bookmarking usually implies a manual, fragile process. Being half way through on iOS, then being able to continue listening exactly at the same point on MacOS - yes. Th
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by tommorris 9y ago
> Surely there must be something in between Facebook and Jekyll/Hugo. There's an effort to try and build some standards for open web sharing at indieweb.org - cross-post comments, syndication to existing social networks. A few
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by tommorris 9y ago
Also, payment is very culturally specific. In Brazil, Uber required drivers to accept cash payment having seen that it was successful in other countries like India. Suddenly carjackers realised that Uber cars were basically cash machines on
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by tommorris 9y ago
The Apple Design Awards are a thing. They just announced some 2017 ones recently. https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/ Of course the point stands. Shareholders don't exactly care whether you win design
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by tommorris 9y ago
> And why would any site use the same URIs for API endpoints and frontend/view navigation places? Because they are the same underlying thing...
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by tommorris 9y ago
Bitcoin doesn't solve the problem, because you then still need to solve the "how do you convince people to buy the Bitcoins when they can just use a credit/debit card" (you can get pre-paid MasterCards in convenience sto
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Data watchdog looks at whether No 10 covered up Uber correspondence(theguardian.com)
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by tommorris 10y ago
At one point, I heard Apple used to require you to fax a certified copy of legal documents relating to your company in order to open an App Store developer account. Also, fax is still used for a lot of financial and legal stuff generally, e
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by tommorris 10y ago
Sure, that is a potential issue with the argument. But the broader argument is that you can't make crypto go away by wishing. You can't unpublish bcrypt, libsodium, OTR, Signal Protocol, and you certainly can't unpublish the
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by tommorris 10y ago
ISIS have already built their own chat application, allegedly, and distribute the APK privately. If the government ban e2e crypto in apps like WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram, expect to see more such apps from groups who politicians can&
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by tommorris 10y ago
> What kind of democracy is that? A poorly educated one. But still a democracy.
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by tommorris 10y ago
MediaWiki's original parser is a nasty pile of PHP and regex, but there's a new officially supported parser you can use called Parsoid. It's used extensively in production on Wikimedia sites and basically does MediaWiki wikit
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by tommorris 10y ago
> Why build complicated native applications when a thinly wrapped SPA in Electron will be indistinguishable to the customer? I just fired up Atom and various vim versions. Atom uses 225.8 MB of RAM without any documents open. MacVim uses
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by tommorris 10y ago
Things are a lot better now that you can do OSA scripting in JavaScript. I have a few OSA-JS scripts that are in my crontab. If I had to write AS rather than JS, I wouldn't bother.
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by tommorris 10y ago
I expect adding yet more lines of code will reduce vulnerabilities.
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by tommorris 10y ago
TextMate had (has?) a "Copy as RTF" format which I used to use to copy code into slides. But, yes, more editors doing this is handy.
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by tommorris 10y ago
For Wikipedia, if you aren't logged in (with an editor's account etc.) you are hitting a cache most of the time. And it isn't so much for the bandwidth saving, more the saving in CPU time in rendering the page up from the Wik
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by tommorris 10y ago
That's just in the US though. There's a whole world out there that is not the United States. The British Medical Association certainly claims to be a trade union. https://www.bma.org.uk/about-us/bma-as-a-trade
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by tommorris 10y ago
> There is something called the Ballmer Peak Wait, we're citing XKCD comics now as if they are peer-reviewed scientific journals?
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by tommorris 10y ago
I'm not sure it does make onboarding trivial. How do I join WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram with an iPad or iPod Touch? A laptop? A handheld gaming console like a PlayStation Vita? I can't sign up for any of these services with
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by tommorris 10y ago
> Better to move sensitive conversations to things like Signal, WhatsApp, or Wire Just download an app that requires you to register with your phone number and then hand out your phone number to anyone you want to chat to. I mean, all th
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by tommorris 10y ago
Then you need to switch to Dutch mode...
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by tommorris 10y ago
I've spoken to American friends about the Mail. They mostly read it for the celebrity/gossip stories rather than relying on it for serious news. MailOnline is far less political and far more celebrity and gossip driven than the pr
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by tommorris 10y ago
Long podcast interview with Simon Tam that's well worth listening to if you are interested in IP law - http://openargs.com/oa33-interview-slants/
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by tommorris 10y ago
There's so much magical tech bullshit thinking embedded in "if people aren't donating via PayPal, switching to Bitcoin is going to make them donate even though Bitcoin is a lot fucking harder to use than PayPal".
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by tommorris 10y ago
Well, to be fair, as the spec notes, you can already fingerprint on speed by timing how long an AJAX call takes. Also, "on a shit home DSL connection" doesn't really distinguish me from millions of other UK residents.
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by tommorris 10y ago
There is a proposed API for that. https://wicg.github.io/netinfo/ And like most such APIs, it has been kicked around for a long time and it has only been adopted by Chromium on Android, ChromeOS and iOS. It'd be g
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by tommorris 10y ago
I'd suggest supplementing Russell's History. Russell is an engaging writer but he does have some pretty strong biases. Understand that Russell's history was written when he was short of time and money, having just been banned
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by tommorris 10y ago
Meta-virtue signalling: signalling that you are smarter and better informed by everyone else by dismissing anything anybody else does, however well intentioned, as mere virtue signalling.

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