Slackwise

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by Slackwise 2mo ago
I was trying to say, nobody should be using Passkeys via browsers because they all fail to secure them. You need a password manager of some sort. But this is also true of passwords. My ultimate point was, passwords are a burden because unle
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by Slackwise 2mo ago
I recently logged into my CVS.com account after not touching it for years, and I couldn't find the password reset..... turns out they no longer use passwords at all; only Passkeys and tokens via email/SMS. Aside from email account
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by Slackwise 4mo ago
If you asked an "agent" to make something for you, you yourself did not create it. By definition. Whether it's AI or a person. You contributed only a piece. It's no longer yours. This is why any piece of art/music h
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by Slackwise 4mo ago
When smartphones took over computing and landed in everyone's pockets, and the shareholders realized they have access to every single eyeball on Earth, and so the squeezing of tech for profit began. The big watershed moment for me was
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by Slackwise 5mo ago
This is not a safety filter. The owner/author is explicitly geolocation IP blocking UK users: https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-n...
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by Slackwise 2y ago
> Your life isn’t tied to a company Health insurance isn't tied to a company? Your ability to survive and feed your family isn't tied to your company? Lack of opportunities in the job market? Lack of equal salary/benefits
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by Slackwise 2y ago
> Glad to see more exploration in this space. I mean.... ParEdit [1] and ParInfer [2] have been around for a long time now. Structural editing is basically ancient. Lispers have been doing this for a long while, `slurp`ing and `barf`ing
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by Slackwise 2y ago
The actual statement in the video is: > ...because this is a frontend like LLVM or GCC that compiles instead of bytecode, uh, to Python AST, um, so this Lisp compiles entirely to Python @ https://youtu.be/1vui-LupKJI?t=10
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by Slackwise 2y ago
> because it is fast and keyboard-driven How is it faster to press `*` than `Ctrl-I` in any other rich text editor? > The idea that it is meant to be seen is no more than a personal preference. Actually, the entire philosophy of Markd
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by Slackwise 3y ago
> Is Tableau dead? Yes, Salesforce consumes companies whole. Just like they did with Heroku and others.
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by Slackwise 3y ago
Since it's all just Guile Scheme, a full programming language, you can extend it in any way you want, and use the Scheme libraries you want, doing whatever network access you please.
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by Slackwise 3y ago
> An old employer used this instead of Docker for managing build distribution. Can the Guix stuff be used the same way? Yes, and , Guix is actually a "meta" package manager that understands other packages like Python PIPs and
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Chromecast Google TV now has full-screen auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads(androidauthority.com)
64 points by Slackwise 3y ago|36 comments
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by Slackwise 3y ago
Looks like Google is pushing or at least trialing full-screen, non-media-content, loud advertisements on their "Google TV" branded products. While this is for Chromecasts, it is possible it's coming to regular Google TV next.
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by Slackwise 3y ago
I use PWAs extensively and Firefox decided they won't bother to implement them, so that's going to be a no from me. Rather than wanting the web platform to be first class, they really want it to languish as a second-class citize
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by Slackwise 3y ago
They're in a GitHub repo, so I just use that since GH renders Markdown. I could probably use Obsidian/Logseq mobile if I wanted to. (Again, because it's Markdown... which is about universal now.) And like, it's Markdown.
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by Slackwise 3y ago
No mention of Foam? https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ Fine, I uhh, I'll speak for it. Foam is to VSCode, what Org (and Org-Roam) are to Emacs. As a former org-roam user, I ended up preferring it because my end go
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by Slackwise 3y ago
I prefer this turtabalist trip-hop version that samples it: https://youtu.be/LOypHvuSDIo It's just chill and sets the mood.
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by Slackwise 3y ago
Uhh, no, not really; quite the opposite in fact. Under Eric Schmidt they were engineer-driven, during the golden era of the 2000s. Nowadays they're MBA driven, which is why they had 4 different messaging apps from different product man
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by Slackwise 3y ago
> These are people who invested and created long-term value for shareholders https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5-lDJWCUAAwfya?format=jpg
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by Slackwise 3y ago
Like in iCal format? You can get that here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/9t07jqib63if4kecnd...
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by Slackwise 3y ago
Thanks! Fixed.
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by Slackwise 3y ago
There's also a button in the bottom-right that people seem to always miss. They should put it up top.
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by Slackwise 3y ago
I celebrate this and other geeky events, and maintain a public calendar of them: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=9t07jqib6...
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by Slackwise 3y ago
Of all the places to publish a talk that criticizes big walled garden platforms....
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by Slackwise 3y ago
Thanks, and I agree! I was there for the talk and Julia was absolutely electric. When Alex Miller introduced her, he said he wanted someone who makes him happy when they're on stage, and he was right to have chosen Julia!
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“Making Hard Things Easy” by Julia Evans (Strange Loop 2023)(youtube.com)
49 points by Slackwise 3y ago|4 comments
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by Slackwise 3y ago
Wow, the Warthunder forum arguments are getting way out of hand
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by Slackwise 3y ago
> I have to question any article that claims task manager items are "randomly moving around." "Randomly" is colloquially used to mean "chaotically" in a lot of contexts, and the chaotic they mean is "un
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by Slackwise 3y ago
So, why not a steno keyboard instead? While DVORAK may only be a 5% improvement over QWERTY, a steno keyboard is vastly superior in typing speed and ergonomics, as it's used by courtroom stenographers keeping up with recording speech

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