chaos_a

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by chaos_a 1y ago
The old text to speech voices are still around in Sequoia. Some have been changed to a generic "my name is x". But most still make their fun little jokes. Found in the voice over utility app. Accessibility > Voice Over > Voi
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by chaos_a 1y ago
https://archive.is/CTEtQ
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Steve Jobs on Customer Experience over Tech [video](youtube.com)
3 points by chaos_a 2y ago|0 comments
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Restored 1908 Steam Engine [video](youtube.com)
5 points by chaos_a 3y ago|0 comments
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The Machine(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by chaos_a 3y ago|0 comments
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Dots, Color Halftone Hyperzooms [video](youtube.com)
3 points by chaos_a 3y ago|0 comments
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by chaos_a 3y ago
Cyxie just moved to the account TreKs
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by chaos_a 3y ago
it's just a crappy late april fools joke.
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The SL-100 Story(dms-100.net)
2 points by chaos_a 4y ago|0 comments
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by chaos_a 4y ago
Apple has done this since Steve Jobs returned to apple the late 90's, they cut down all of the unnecessary models and products lines that were causing this kind of confusion. They've kinda gone that way again with sticking the &qu
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Apollo Comms Recreating TV from the Moon(youtube.com)
1 points by chaos_a 4y ago|0 comments
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by chaos_a 4y ago
Same thing happened with the windows 11 file explorer icons. I can't tell which icon from a glance is cut, copy and paste since they all look visually the same.
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Magi SynthaVision Sampler (1974)(youtube.com)
1 points by chaos_a 4y ago|0 comments
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by chaos_a 4y ago
> but there are no VHS cassettes that can match the clarity of 1080p or higher. A rare VHS format from 2002 called D-VHS could do 1080p on VHS tapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY https://www.you
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by chaos_a 5y ago
Windows phone used to have this and it was called Continuum. Although it couldn't actually run proper desktop apps, only a few office apps made for it. The promo page for it is still up despite windows phone being dead for a few years
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by chaos_a 5y ago
youtube-dl is what makes most youtube music ripping sites function. Which are widely used by people who aren't paying for music streaming subscriptions. ex: https://github.com/Rudloff/alltube
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by chaos_a 5y ago
I've experienced multiple copies of Spotify on different machines getting forever stuck just showing a blank screen when opened. Although that's probably more Spotifys fault rather than the tools used to build it.
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Azure AD password reset page(s) looks like a phishing site(github.com)
10 points by chaos_a 5y ago|4 comments
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by chaos_a 5y ago
or how about mining on a xerox alto? http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xero... They are cheating by putting it near to a known hash to verify that it works, you can't earn anything off i
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by chaos_a 5y ago
> even has a loading screen Slightly unrelated, but this is one of this things that annoys me the most about using gmail. Inbox by Gmail used to load instantly, there's really no good reason at all for it to have a loading screen.
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by chaos_a 5y ago
It's a lot of small inconsistencies that add up. Like the wifi icon being the wrong size for the amount of spacing it has around it, and also the fact that it's unclear what it actually does without clicking on it. The spacing in
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by chaos_a 5y ago
Try right clicking anywhere. Almost everything has it's own fancy right click menu design for no good reason. Personally I don't find it annoying, but it's just silly that such a large company can't just stick to one des
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The Ident Zone – Television Graphics Through the Ages (2000)(meldrum.co.uk)
13 points by chaos_a 5y ago|0 comments
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by chaos_a 5y ago
> The web player would just not load subtitles every other video I had the opposite problem where it would not stop showing subtitles every time I opened a new video. I think it's reading a default provided by the video file and jus
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by chaos_a 5y ago
Google's biggest source of revenue is from web ads. They deliberately choose to not have extensions on the mobile version as it would mean that users could install ad block extensions, causing them to miss out on potential earnings fro
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The History of the Call Centre(callcentrehelper.com)
2 points by chaos_a 5y ago|0 comments
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by chaos_a 5y ago
where are you pulling this data from? It seems to be missing two of my subreddits like (/r/wellthatsucks & /r/unraid).
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by chaos_a 6y ago
This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
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by chaos_a 6y ago
This root period was mentioned on reddit a while ago because the domain "youtube.com." would fail to serve ads. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/gzr3cq/fyi_you_can_...
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by chaos_a 6y ago
> Did you mean MacOS? In macos I don't have to edit random .conf files in system/application directories just to make my wifi work correctly. The graphical UI is configurable enough that I rarely need to modify anything outside

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