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by yborg 3y ago
This is the future we are choosing. https://youtu.be/Cn8Pua5rhj4?si=tOro1MLaOE525Q2O
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by yborg 3y ago
I can just imagine what the polarized wall sockets in your house must look like.
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by yborg 3y ago
Yeah, it doesn't have any of the integrated apps or any of the tab features (stacking/tiling). It does have an ad/tracker blocker built in (vs. Safari). But I use Firefox on iOS because it supports sync and Firefox is my prim
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by yborg 3y ago
>Firefox is actively declining with 6% desktop It's been dying for at least a decade, and I'll put up my entire NFT stash and bet you it will be here long after Arc has been forgotten. Remember RockMelt? Yeah, nobody else does,
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by yborg 3y ago
Pons and Fleischmann also announced they were still searching for the real killer after their initial claims couldn't be replicated. As far as I know, they still are.
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by yborg 3y ago
You should be. HN buried Mastodon as a viable social media platform a year ago.
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by yborg 3y ago
Had the same reaction, really like the design but at least in the central US here I've never seen any in any context, even as waste around commercial establishments.
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by yborg 3y ago
This, as well as the fact that short form messaging has always been popular in Japan. Twitter also got an early foothold in Japan. The vivaldi.social instance also has a large Japanese contingent.
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by yborg 3y ago
Vivaldi.social has been live for almost a year already and is quite healthy. It also is integrated with Vivaldi's authenticated and has integration within the Vivaldi browser.
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by yborg 3y ago
>what the actual harm is in airlines being "quasi-banks" The word "air" in "airline" implies that the main purpose of the business is to move passengers and freight via aircraft. If the main purpose of the b
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by yborg 3y ago
Also didn't notice this. It's actually kind of impressive how they hard they went into breaking the "Don't Be Evil" typecasting.
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by yborg 3y ago
Respect your feelings, but I also consider this as motivation to make sure not to leave items in library books. I hold them up and page side down and fan the pages to make sure I didn't leave a bookmark in there. Of course, the physica
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by yborg 3y ago
>Buybacks come from net income (profit) Never confuse the textbook economics with the reality of individual incentives. Company management used the low interest rate environment of the recent past to borrow money that was then used in b
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by yborg 3y ago
When mechanized textile machinery was invented, the weavers that had jobs after their introduction were those that learned how to use them.
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by yborg 3y ago
The "Uncarrier" spiel died even before the shillmaster Legere left the company. Operationally they've always been a disaster, and then they acquired Sprint, whose super power was operational incompetence.
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by yborg 3y ago
And on macOS, Safari beats the pants off of Chrome by an even larger margin.
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by yborg 3y ago
It appears that Chrome still wins most of these. Even the touted Speedometer win has apparently been trumped by Chrome over the last couple of weeks. The competition doesn't stand still. Which is good, imagine if Firefox threw in the t
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by yborg 3y ago
Page completely unreadable in dark mode. Very Web 1.0 website, in the worst sense.
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by yborg 3y ago
This is a silly statement. The technology doesn't embody any 'elitism', back in the day there were many channels/networks with non-technical users. Back when Shoutcast was a thing, servers often had an associated IRC cha
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by yborg 3y ago
It's funny, still actively working in the tech space I usually don't really feel my age, but topics like this remind me that I've been around a long time. At one point I think you would have found most large *ix-using organiz
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by yborg 3y ago
In what way does this increase the security of my bank account? A criminal can use credentials it obtained via a hack, etc. using an approved platform to access my account. My own approved platform can be compromised by malware and used to
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by yborg 3y ago
Based on where the MAU counts are, by your criteria the Fediverse will be safe from spam forever. Which falls into your last point, it's essentially a set of private forums, that interconnect. It's kind of ironic that the idea of
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by yborg 3y ago
Mark is not in actual use, right? So no issues for Twixter. If Meta had been clever, and it's not like Elon hasn't been telegraphing this for at least six month, they would have launched Threads with that mark, cockblocking Elon f
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by yborg 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant I always enjoy the handwaving by nuclear enthusiasts. These are some of the most difficult engineering systems routinely built and operated by mankind, where a co
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by yborg 3y ago
A genus of non-photosynthetic algae. >The mechanisms by which algae are able to infect hosts and cause disease are currently unknown. If we ever found and wanted to colonize a near-Earthlike world with a native biosphere the undertaking
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by yborg 3y ago
I.e. he's nobly taking the fall for fraud committed by others that he knew nothing about in the lab he was paid a large amount of money to run and who attached his name to said papers he had nothing to do with. Even the spun version do
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by yborg 3y ago
It's more like saying stop carrying around the cassette boombox and corpses of your last 3 dogs in the back seats.
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by yborg 3y ago
It's a ~20 MB Docker image. In an age of 800 MB Electron instant messaging apps, I'd say it qualifies.
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by yborg 3y ago
>They need peering networks more than peering networks need them. Explain how a peer that is >100x the size of the Fediverse needs it at all.
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by yborg 3y ago
LockBit is Russian, they don't care about any of that, they are immune to external pressure as long as the current conflict is ongoing.

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