tomxor

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by tomxor 4y ago
Running Linux or BSD would be the only possible way for me. But beyond this Apple are the strings for me, as I've mentioned in sibling responses I do not wish to fund the company in any way. 2nd hand unfortunately also funds them ind
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by tomxor 4y ago
Thank you, this made me laugh IRL :D
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by tomxor 4y ago
Hmm, i was reading it as the opposite, (that they found it useful specifically because they were able to avoid Mac OS and the Apple ecosystem). Context: There are some Linux users who want to use the hardware (so they can enjoy the M1/
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by tomxor 4y ago
I'm happy for you, and that would also be pragmatic for me being a Linux user, but my annoying idealistic conscience refuses to fund Apple's activities.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I agree that M1/M2 Macs are good, but I implore everyone to not get sucked into and stuck into the Apple ecosystem. So much this. Every time I hear something good about the M1/M2 it's interesting but it's like &quot
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by tomxor 4y ago
> It's not unusual to hear a UK expat in Australia say they left the place because they could not stand the depressing weather. Note that by definition that is a biased set. Some people's concept of fun is limited to high inte
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by tomxor 4y ago
> If all you have (for both worldview & skills) is a hammer... Yup, it's a fishing expedition: > arguing that the helmet Molly wore was defective Really the bike and the helmet? what else is to blame, the hill? They may or
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by tomxor 4y ago
I'm talking about the author of the article not the victims.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> They were "investigating" the issue and assured the project will not be suspended. In my experience, and from everything I have read of others, Google's customer support is mostly a facade - Google will have given them a
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by tomxor 4y ago
>> I don't see how this could grow 100x. This only means it's not large enough to be investible, that's not necessarily a problem and doesn't mean it's an inherently "bad" idea. Small ideas can net t
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Mark and his wife gave no thought to the tech giants that made this quick capture and exchange of digital data possible Well... here we are, normal people don't think it's possible to transfer an image over the internet witho
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by tomxor 4y ago
> it seems impossible to speak about sexuality-related topics without ideological bias Yup, I find in many otherwise rational people all reasoning faculties seem to evaporate when trying to have an unbiased conversation about this area t
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by tomxor 4y ago
It's not a vote if there is practically only one option.
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by tomxor 4y ago
It's not standard, I've only ever seen it on a Mac UK keyboard. According to Wikipedia the section symbol is only a physical key on a few keyboards: Mac UK, ISO Switzerland and ISO Sweden [0] Most standard ISO keyboards don't
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by tomxor 4y ago
> 99% chance the people complaining about labor conditions are doing so on a made in China phone. 99% of everyone has a phone made in China, does this mean it's not possible to complain about the state of the world we live in?
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by tomxor 4y ago
> if late in the process a new feature needs to be added! Pretty much forget about it This is a feature of the physical process... can you imagine how annoying it would be if the dial for your aircon or volume control kept changing it&#x
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by tomxor 4y ago
It's far worse, back then stuff just rendered a bit weird and looked crappy but for the most part would still actually work (outside of corporate intranets jscript and other M$ only tech was not as widespread on the open web ). The dif
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by tomxor 4y ago
In light of the recent surge in scraped content trumping original content on Google search, this is so true... people who scrape your site do not care about your preferences in a txt file.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I suspect that people using popular browsers would never even notice that varying the Accept-Encoding header had no effect, and that is why the CDNs believe that this is OK. I feel like this is a trend for pretty much everything on the
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by tomxor 4y ago
Tried Mandrill/Mailchimp transactional email earlier this year and it was trash, we already had an established marketing account and they insta banned me for sending a single test email to myself before we even started using it. They f
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by tomxor 4y ago
Latest comment is very telling at the level of apologism that goes on in Apple's userbase: > Aug 15, 2022 3:01 PM in response to Iau88 > Isn't this what happens when you shut any laptop when an object is sitting on the keyb
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by tomxor 4y ago
What's more surprising to me is that they haven't yet deleted the thread. This has happened many times in the past (customers complaining about widespread defects on Apple's support forum) and Apple usually deletes the thread
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Lots of people reject it just because it’s weird (#1) or because they don’t understand the argument (#3). > But they feel like they aren’t “supposed” to reject it for those reasons, so they give a misleading impression that they rej
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by tomxor 4y ago
> you never know when the mac will break because of something that was your fault You have been gaslit by Apple. You know when it's your fault... but with Apple, you can never be sure.
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by tomxor 4y ago
That's fair, but I'd ask yourself: of those 200 how many are important enough to warrant a strong password? and of those how many are important and frequently used enough to need to be independent of email based authentication? Pe
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by tomxor 4y ago
> credit to Apple to achieving this, and I don't mean this ironically. They must be doing something right to gather such a following Credit in a disgusting kind of way yes. A skill you can only admire abstractly. This kind of thing
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by tomxor 4y ago
esbuild is so awesome... my steps towards web dev sanity are 1. Switch everything to esbuild, remove 10k dependency security nightmare, bloatfest and slugishness of pretty much every other node based build system / bundler. 2. Switch t
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by tomxor 4y ago
Because they are significantly more memorable than pw made from individually random chars without significantly reducing their strength. I have a handful of diceware passwords for important accounts i need to remember, and find that pretty
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Using a password manager without a master password is way more secure than not using a password manager at all. I disagree, diceware AND hardware security keys, is stronger, no password manager needed at all. However I agree the articl
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by tomxor 4y ago
Whoosh

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