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by bithaze 6mo ago
Android Debug Bridge, a CLI for connecting to Android devices: https://developer.android.com/tools/adb
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by bithaze 11mo ago
> Why even have a status page if it is not going to be accurate in real time? The funny thing is reddit's status page used to have real-time graphs of things like error rate, comment backlog, visits, etc. Not with any numbers on the
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by bithaze 1y ago
There's a ctrl+open shortcut, if I remember correctly, which may be what the parent comment is referring to.
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by bithaze 2y ago
They're not linking to a change in wording? The "Does Firefox sell your personal data?" question was deleted entirely. Unless the parent comment or link was edited at some point, maybe.
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by bithaze 2y ago
The blog post talks about DNS glue records, but are they really relevant to the issue if the domain is suspended? A suspended domain is a suspended domain, regardless of whether it's using vanity nameservers.
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by bithaze 2y ago
I keep the module index[0] in my bookmarks bar and that's also been pretty easy to search and read. [0] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/index_mo...
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by bithaze 2y ago
There have also been (possibly AI-generated) comments that are simply rephrasing prior comments or even comments on the same post and piggybacking onto an already upvoted comment. It's not as common as the straight copy and paste comme
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by bithaze 2y ago
A small typo I noticed - "Case-sensitive: 53^5 = 62,259,690,411,360" should be to the eighth power, not the fifth.
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by bithaze 3y ago
> What is Reddit's involvement other than their website being used for this communication? I think that's it, which is why reddit is referred to as non-party in the motion.
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by bithaze 3y ago
It's a domain registered yesterday and an account registered an hour ago expressly to post the website, so the barrier to entry isn't particularly high.
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by bithaze 3y ago
It's a marketing blog for a service that relies on storing files locally, so that sounds about right. The HN username also matches the blog's author, so it does feel like they're posting exclusively for self-promotion.
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by bithaze 3y ago
Assistive Access is new in iOS 17 and might also be helpful for simplifying the UI: https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-...
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by bithaze 3y ago
Flexential PDX02, according to the outages mailing list[0]. [0] https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2023-November/0149...
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by bithaze 3y ago
In the distant past, I self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS, accessed it from a web browser and an Android phone, and liked it. I didn't have any problems with it but just never got around to setting it up again when I migrated VMs. Now, I'v
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by bithaze 3y ago
Reminds me of Mac-assed Mac apps[1]: > Mac apps that are unapologetically _Mac_ apps. They’re platform-specific and they’re not trying to wow us with all their custom not-Mac-like UI (which often isn’t very accessible). I wonder if there
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by bithaze 3y ago
More discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37635939
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by bithaze 3y ago
It's searching titles, not lyrics.
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by bithaze 3y ago
I've been wanting to spend more time trying out Strongbox[1], personally. It's only available for Apple (macOS, iOS, and iPadOS) devices, which rules out the 1% of the time I use an oddball Linux or Windows desktop, but it's
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by bithaze 3y ago
And another thread from a couple hours ago that links directly to Evernote's blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36650656
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by bithaze 3y ago
> It's not okay to have to jailbreak the thing to make it usable. I guess we'll have to tell millions of users that their iPhones are all unusable, then. Imagine the shock!
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by bithaze 3y ago
I'm not sure if this is the "apt page" they're referring to, but there's https://packages.ubuntu.com/ for Ubuntu. It's helpful for searching package versions across releases, especially if I do
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by bithaze 3y ago
> worrying signs have been growing there as well Care to elaborate?
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by bithaze 3y ago
I think, in general, you can always file a chargeback if you're prepared for the possibility of losing access to your account and data.
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by bithaze 3y ago
It's going to be even more regular, average, and safe when they block NSFW subreddits in the API.
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by bithaze 3y ago
Semi-frequently, I see outages that go unreported on the status page. They used to have error rate and backlog depth graphs on their status page too so it was obvious (in a good, transparent way) when they were having issues even if a human
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by bithaze 3y ago
The two bugs were also closed as duplicates of each other, which feels a little sloppy.
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by bithaze 3y ago
FastScripts[1] might be worth a look. I've been meaning to check it out myself though so I can't offer any personal experience with it. [1] https://redsweater.com/fastscripts/
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by bithaze 4y ago
On mobile, at least, Dropbox inserts their own interstitial page to download the app instead of immediately displaying the file, which may be what the parent comment is referring to. At a quick glance it might look like a login wall since y
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by bithaze 4y ago
Hashtags aren't like user accounts, no - they're strings that are part of a tweet. In theory, a separate data structure shouldn't be needed since you can just search the full text of tweets, but in practice, I don't know
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by bithaze 4y ago
> Check in a few days to see if I'm right Or, you know, to see if they change it in response to the article or the discussion here.

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