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by RunSet 3y ago
I wish there was some way to entirely disable the macOS music player when it is not in use. I am referring in particular to the visual element outlined in the red rectangle in the image below. https://i.imgur.com/6uOjflM.jpg
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by RunSet 3y ago
https://i.imgur.com/RfFM4cr.jpg
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by RunSet 3y ago
> However, for real desktop tools that utilize the operating system's bells and whistles, which truly make an app a desktop app—like Sublime—I'd never use an alternative in the browser. I such cases I would also never favor an
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by RunSet 3y ago
> a touchscreen is never going to be a keyboard, but that doesn't mean things couldn't be better ... they growled, struggling to pierce the sow's earlobe.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Still: • relies on a centralized authentication server • bans third party clients • requires a phone number to create an account despite no longer supporting SMS • marketing "Perfect Forward Secrecy" AKA "Forward Secrecy&quot
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by RunSet 3y ago
Not to say I subscribe to the notion of intellectual property, but I would expect military secrets to be treated differently than trade secrets for purposes of IP. Perhaps that is an American cultural tradition that China is unlikely to res
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by RunSet 3y ago
Supposing the alternative is a world run by the Federal Reserve, I suggest you audit each one carefully and make your choice.
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by RunSet 3y ago
This is going into my file of counter-arguments for when others adopt the posture of: "Without draconian legal fictions to the tune of intellectual property, all artists would cease creating entirely out of sheer greed."
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I wish there was legislation in place that sets legal standard sizes; Those extracting profit from deceptive packaging would do better to extract a moral lesson from the provenance of the baker's dozen. https://en.wikip
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by RunSet 3y ago
In bygone days, I would say: "In the future, all games will be Quake." But it was easier for my audience to hear a joke than the truth.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Dimensional analysis is a method of evaluation invented by physicists to help mathematicians discern apples and oranges from pure numbers.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Agreed. https://old.reddit.com/r/LokiList/comments/s0a0w6/why_i_made... Also: > we took pairs of bad matches (actual 30% match) and told them they were exceptionally good for each other (displaying a
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I am part of numerous programming discords and I just see no issue with them being on discord Has Discord ever asked you to provide and confirm your phone number to continue using it?
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by RunSet 3y ago
Buying it for libre dollars and free cents.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> So accustomed to exploitative corporate gaslighting, we're forgetting the basics of civilization, like, what are ownership rights? ... > Stallman was right: if you erode the norm that you control your own software, you lose the
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by RunSet 3y ago
This looks like it might do. https://routinehub.co/shortcut/7284/
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by RunSet 3y ago
Plenty of practically mint human bodies just sitting around waiting to be repurposed. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9816703
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by RunSet 3y ago
Friendly suggestion to peruse Jetbrain's third-party data-sharing agreement while considering what information of a user, even in theory, it might forbid them to share with anyone they wish for any reason they please. https:/&#x2
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by RunSet 3y ago
Google's approach with Chrome was to pay shareware developers to bundle it in the installer and expect users wouldn't opt-out.
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by RunSet 3y ago
https://retroshare.cc/
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by RunSet 3y ago
> This is still an issue in 2023. Because its remaining an issue enables "value extraction". Magic wormhole would work if people knew about it but somehow software that promotes itself by honest word-of-mouth has difficulty c
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by RunSet 3y ago
> Apple, which exclusively produces for their own lineup, and has inarguably the best-performing chips by far in raw performance and power efficiency to a tune they're outperforming Intel Also limited in terms of running Linux on it
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by RunSet 3y ago
Also Juno and Netzero giving internet access for watching ads.
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by RunSet 3y ago
"WebSerial" appears to me just another baby step in Chome's quest to become an OS. What is the justification for making everyone's browser able to "read from and write to serial devices"? https://d
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by RunSet 3y ago
Out of the box Tree Style Tabs is not very good, due to decisions made by Firefox that are beyond the control of Tree Style Tabs's developer. Enabling the desired behavior likely requires quite a few steps beyond just installing the ex
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by RunSet 3y ago
> There is a trend right now for startups to push everything to Discord, including all support. Which in many cases is, effectively: "To read the FAQ just provide your phone number to verify your newly-created Discord account even t
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by RunSet 3y ago
But however will you scale to 14 billion users when, one morning, waking up from anxious dreams, you discover that in bed you have been changed into a monstrous verminous 'berg?
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by RunSet 3y ago
I often wonder whether if, rather than writing about how yet-to-be-invented machines ought to treat people, Asimov might have really been writing about how human beings ought to treat one another. Asimov said his robot stories were motiva
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by RunSet 3y ago
I don't expect the lone grocery shopper will be able to weigh the externalized costs of a cheap, delicious banana so accurately as a regulator. The trick is keeping the banana merchant from turning the regulator into a shareholder of B
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by RunSet 3y ago
Let's test that theory: It's this one. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521

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