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by gord288 10d ago
Going back a few years, they open source’d their media streaming server, DSS: https://github.com/macosforge/dss
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by gord288 2mo ago
As I recall, there were plenty of legitimate user gripes when the very first iteration of Snow Leopard (10.6.0) was released. But by the time of the very last point-release (10.6.11?), the OS was rock-solid. It was only after all the initia
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by gord288 2mo ago
False dichotomy. The books could have been digitized WITHOUT being destroyed. There’s no reason to assume that digital ebooks/documents will be accessible or readable to anyone in say 75 years. A physical book will be just as accessibl
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by gord288 3mo ago
It aired on TV in some European countries, because at the time the actual series had not been picked up there. So for who-knows-how-many people, the alternate pilot was the only version of Twin Peaks they were ever aware of.
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by gord288 3mo ago
Reminds me of the alternate, feature-length version of the Twin Peaks pilot, created in case the series was not picked up, in which they continue the storyline set up in the first hour, and resolve the murder mystery by the end. Widely avai
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by gord288 4mo ago
Extrajudicial executions are never justified. They are normally referred to as “murders”.
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by gord288 4mo ago
>overzealous lynching did I believe sometimes cross the line Very magnanimous of you to acknowledge that.
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by gord288 4mo ago
None of your three examples are actions that are willingly (either actively or passively) carried out collectively by people in society.
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by gord288 4mo ago
Supposed “exceptions” for the life of the mother are largely ineffective in practice. By design. https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/23/all-abortion-...
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by gord288 1y ago
I remember on my old DOS/Win3.11 machine, I imposed some order on things by only installing “minor” applications to C:\BIN, and larger programs to C:\APPS. Wanted as few top-level folders as possible. Took a bit of effort sometimes, bu
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by gord288 4y ago
Awkwardly worded and delivered, but it seems his observation was that Black residents were disproportionately negatively affected by Katrina. A perfectly valid point. I am by no means a defender of Blitzer--his interviews and his framing of
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by gord288 5y ago
Okay so until such time as this higher-orbit asteroid detection network is in place, let's have a moratorium on these Starlink things.
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by gord288 5y ago
Surely you mean the Samsung/HTC/Motorola/Nokia/etc./etc. of the car world... https://dontholditwrong.tumblr.com
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by gord288 5y ago
Possibly this is the "Automatically rearrange Spaces..." setting in the Mission Control prefPane?
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by gord288 5y ago
> I was blown by that feature Is the feature Premium? Or only available in free mode? Just wondering...
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by gord288 5y ago
The channel has now been reinstated. Source: https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1409608525601443840
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by gord288 5y ago
Some kind of Braille markings, or similar, really should be a standard part of the spec.
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by gord288 5y ago
Tile just announced they’re partnering with Amazon so that Tile devices will participate in their ‘Sidewalk’ network. This will help them compete with the network of Apple’s billion+ ‘Find My’ devices. https://macdailynews.com&#x
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by gord288 5y ago
Just a few days ago, Apple issued a security update (iOS 12.5.3) for the iPhone 5s, a phone that first came out in Sept. 2013. Not bad huh?
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by gord288 6y ago
Zuck has nothing but contempt for Facebook users. The classic Zuck quote, "They trust me — dumb fucks" still applies. https://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-us...
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by gord288 6y ago
> (Ever notice that when Facebook wants to reach the most people, and the most important people, it uses newspapers, rather than its own platform?) They do this when they want to get the attention of legislators, or the gatekeepers/
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by gord288 6y ago
(It’s Cmd-O, or Cmd-down-arrow.) Hitting “enter” to open a file makes it too easy to do it accidentally. What if I didn’t mean to start up a huge app like a pro video editor or something, which takes five-ten seconds to start up? Cmd-down-a
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by gord288 6y ago
Yes I feel your pain in that one. There’s a way to turn this off in the settings... one of the first things I do with any new Windows setup. Another major peeve of mine: Windows lets you drag a window so that its top edge goes outside the b
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by gord288 6y ago
This should be entertaining. Cry more, Zuck.
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by gord288 6y ago
Don’t you think that the main reason Canada et al recognized Guaidó, was precisely because he was the Americans’ favoured choice? You’re really not making the point you think you are making.
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by gord288 6y ago
Products/services are typically priced according to what the market can bear. If advertising costs become cheaper for a given company, for whatever reason, who's to say this decreased expense is going to be passed down to consumer
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by gord288 6y ago
I think a lot of folks have been traumatized by their experiences with iTunes, and its default settings. I don't know if this is still the case, but at one time installing iTunes on Windows meant that some or all of the user's def
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by gord288 6y ago
If it's anything like the transition from PowerPC architecture to Intel, you'll be able to see this information by selecting the app package in the Finder, and invoking the "Get Info" window (cmd-I) or palette (option-cm
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by gord288 6y ago
No, "Universal" apps in this context means these apps can run in Mac OS, either on an Intel Mac or on an Apple Silicon (ARM) Mac. Nothing at all to do with iOS, iPadOS, Windows or Linux.
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by gord288 6y ago
And the chief of police responsible for these abuses is now the federal Minister for Public Safety. Good times.

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