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by xp84 5mo ago
> 1 senator… Oh, please, that’s not true. But yeah, you need 60 seats there in order to just ram things through. Right now Democrats don’t even have a plurality of the voting public so it’s not surprising that they are completely powerle
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by xp84 5mo ago
I’m a usual booster of AI (others have accused me of being completely in the bag for the clankers) and even I agree fully. These yahoos would clearly give Claude the nuclear launch codes or enough access to copy its full model into the wild
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by xp84 5mo ago
They added a second right-click menu in Explorer now. IDK if this is Windows 11 or if 10 had this. When you right-click a file, you get a shorter menu with a larger font. But it might not have the option you want -- you have to click &quo
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by xp84 5mo ago
This rings true to me. Mac when I got started on it in the 00s was really dependent on everything to do with creative - Photoshop, publishing, etc. It kept that for a decade or more, and added a ton of the software developers market in the
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by xp84 5mo ago
Problem is, Apple are slowly turning the Mac OS into the iPad. You can't run software you compiled unless you jump through hoops to code sign it. That's today. In the future, it'll probably require Apple's developer subs
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by xp84 5mo ago
Accurate enough. Those platforms are more secure. But given that many players have a liability-related interest in making sure everyone uses Secure Platforms: - Many important things that are needed or at least highly useful for daily life
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by xp84 5mo ago
OK, but it's easy to retroactively declare the "late entry" into smartphones as a galaxy-brain move, to let all those suckers at BlackBerry, Microsoft, Handspring, Nokia, etc. beta-test all the ideas and formfactors, then swo
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by xp84 5mo ago
You mean the one that accepts a $20,000,000,000 check from Google every year to support and further entrench their power? The one that has a 20% smartphone marketshare worldwide? The one that has agreed to buy a white-labelled Gemini to hel
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by xp84 5mo ago
Working now
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by xp84 5mo ago
Gmail has three main features that matter (to me at least) -- and they are huge, very important features. And as much as I don't like this fact, using their official web or mobile clients are the only way to get them: 1. Accurate, dete
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by xp84 5mo ago
> "nobody left there with enough courage to stop them" I'd add it's also that there's nobody left to compete with them, either. They own the only desktop browser that matters, and basically the entire concept of
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by xp84 5mo ago
Let's not pretend that fact is anything but a happy accident, though. The only reason AI has been practically scrubbed from their website is to try to make us forget the time they preannounced fantastically brilliant AI capabilities an
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by xp84 5mo ago
Do you suppose they are running the messages through any LLM? I don't know. I would guess it's too much volume to run all mail through a "good" model, but no idea whether it would be feasible to run mail through the kind
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by xp84 5mo ago
> I think the permissions model for desktop and laptop computers is way too permissive to begin with Well, if you feel that way, they do make platforms that sound like a better fit: iPad, iOS, even Android kinda fits that mold. I would c
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by xp84 5mo ago
> 'let this website notify you' feature is an antipattern and yet another example of browser overreach. Yes and no. Prompting for it modally the way they do now is for sure wild, but for some webapps (e.g. Slack) it makes plen
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by xp84 5mo ago
Which pop-up do you mean?
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by xp84 5mo ago
I would like to take this moment to rage against Apple for shipping that package installer, literally 25 years ago, and never once having apparently even considered a native, out of the box way to uninstall programs that were installed that
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by xp84 5mo ago
All the permissions are treated the same way though. Microphone access. Screen sharing access. etc. Yes, all could be used to spy on you in evil ways, but the replacement of a straightforward "Want to grant this app the following permi
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by xp84 5mo ago
The current guy didn't ever once show a sign he cared about anything but 'Number Go Up'[1] so I don't see how anyone could be worse for those of us who care about the actual product than he was. [1] to be clear, I stipul
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by xp84 5mo ago
It's every action on Mac and iOS that does this, and it has been increasing in intrusiveness for a decade. I can't be sure why they do it, but it comes off as though their visual designers are immature, thinking we want to see the
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by xp84 5mo ago
> If they approve, the settings open, then the user has to find the specific little toggle and enable it. Another security prompt then done. Why isn’t this at most 2 prompts? Answer: Because modern-day Apple has subscribed to a particula
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by xp84 5mo ago
Very interesting. I found it odd that when I happened to open IG yesterday, I was prompted to log in, and my password didn't work. I asked it to send me a link to my email and got in that way, and didn't have time to look into it
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by xp84 5mo ago
This is very worrying to me, since I have a three-letter IG account and I already get daily recovery emails triggered by unknown actors. They have this system which after some number of these you'll also get a second link like "yo
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by xp84 5mo ago
This take seems particularly crackpot. If gun manufacturers can't be sued for product liability when used to fire bullets into people, it's rich to say that the manufacturer of a chatbot can be found liable when it mindlessly says
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by xp84 5mo ago
I made a footnote "[1]" and forgot to write the explanation. [1] By this, I meant, if UBI just results in inflation that makes the total cost of basic survival go up by approximately $UBI_AMOUNT, we have completely failed and UB
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by xp84 5mo ago
Correction: "So 30% of the voting population is Team Blue Hat, and 30% is Team Red Hat." should have said "of the voting-eligible population"
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by xp84 5mo ago
If I'm reading the article right, they are saying that macOS is giving the scare warning on it - this implies that DOSBox is an x86_64 binary and not ARM native. If true, that implies development is on life support at best, since any a
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by xp84 5mo ago
Comment is spot on, though I'd like to point out: > because for ~50% of the population it's become a team sport / religion situation It's kinda even worse. We can only have two parties because of FPTP, and turnout is
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by xp84 5mo ago
My first time wading into web development was hopping into the source of the MSN.com homepage circa 2000 to see how their DHTML menu rollovers worked, and then stealing it. It was mostly CSS, but to support some browsers they had JS assist
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by xp84 5mo ago
Literally nothing you posted changes the fact that bogus supplements are constantly marketed with carefully-worded health claims (not "disease"! We didn't say "treat"! We didn't say "disease"! These p

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