hoherd

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by hoherd 6d ago
I recently blocked youtube.com on my home network so that my whole family could take a break from it. It broke my work e-mail login, because gmail sends you through youtube.com in order to set login cookies.
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by hoherd 7d ago
I am not who you asked, but lately it has been really frustrating for me that macOS locks portions of the filesystem when the screen is locked, which breaks rsync backups because they cannot read those files. I have been unable to find a wa
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by hoherd 7d ago
The first time I held an iPhone 5, I thought it was a demo device. It was too light to actually be the real device. That was such a great phone.
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by hoherd 7d ago
Have you ever connected an iPad to an external display, mouse, and keyboard? I agree with you that laptop sales would continue, but I bet they would decline. Apple could do the MS Surface much better than MS did.
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by hoherd 7d ago
Lots of computers have external keyboards, mice, and displays. Why not a powerful computer like the iPhone? Who cares if it's small? Lots of SBCs are small and are quite useful. This one even has a built in UPS.
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by hoherd 7d ago
So true. Whether people need them or not, people will spend the money to buy them.
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by hoherd 8d ago
It's comical how close to the telescreen this whole thing is. > The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
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by hoherd 8d ago
In the current season of LLM driven security research, this is even more important. There are a LOT of EOL devices sitting there unpatched, vulnerable to the growing number of vulnerabilities. We can either stick our heads in the sand, we c
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by hoherd 23d ago
Oh thank heavens, computing hardware that the AI companies will not buy all of the supply of.
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by hoherd 1mo ago
That is an orthogonal problem: popularity. What you're describing happens to proprietary software too. I have a bunch of OSS software that almost nobody cares about and I don't get bothered. The difference seems pedantic, but I be
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by hoherd 1mo ago
Her opening set for Github Universe 2020 that used Sonic Pi is still so great. https://youtu.be/LaKT3pli5EQ
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by hoherd 1mo ago
I have been playing Cyberpunk 2077, and recently I did a side-quest where you can do something that violates an agreement, and when you reveal what you learned during that violation, you can extort somebody. The dialogue option when you ext
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by hoherd 1mo ago
I got so much networking experience from hosting lan parties with quake and q3. Crimping cables. Installing 10 mbps pci card in people's computers, running dedicated servers with mods and map cycles. Good times...
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by hoherd 1mo ago
But the answer to bad science is good science.
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by hoherd 2mo ago
This podcast about the history of zaibatsu, hardware, and software comes to mind. https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-forgotten-mistake-that-k... > Software was not viewed so much as a product, but more like a service,
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by hoherd 2mo ago
Even with a pseudonym, I worry that spy agencies with AI will have enough information to discover with high confidence who I really am, and that things I said online thinking I was anonymous will come back to bite me in the real world. As s
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by hoherd 2mo ago
You actually can define custom functions as named templates, but they're definitely not pretty, and would almost certainly push you towards the "just allow us to write code using a normal programming language" side of the arg
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by hoherd 2mo ago
My way of giving my kids access to music without screens was to buy a battery powered mp3 playing radio, then fill an SD card with music and pop it into the player. I put a mix of kids songs, classic songs, and things I enjoy that I'd
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by hoherd 2mo ago
lemmings.exe also had an immediate quit without warning on the esc key, iirc.
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by hoherd 2mo ago
One of my favorite UX stories is about my first Mac, a 12" g4 mbp. One of the best things about it was that I could open the lid and it would immediately be awake and ready to use. I would use it, do what I needed to do, then close it
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by hoherd 2mo ago
I was recently raving about how NYC's metro payment system OMNI doesn't require an app, so you can use whatever contactless payment device you already have to get around NYC. That characteristic makes it so easy to just slide into
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by hoherd 2mo ago
Oh dang, you're right. Mac OS X was my first Mac OS, but it looks like the Drop Box concept existed long before OS X. Here's a reference from 1991 titled "AppleShare Drop Box: Access for System 6 and 7 Clients" https:&#
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by hoherd 2mo ago
I thought it was a reference to the Mac OS X `~/Public/Drop Box` directory, which was a write-only place for people to send files to your user, which has been around since the first OS X beta came out in 2000.
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by hoherd 2mo ago
Yeah, I forgot to mention that the pay-to-play even applies to multiplayer within your own LAN. I just verified that nothing had changed since I last played: you are unable to join LAN games unless you buy a monthly xbox pass. Complete BS.
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by hoherd 2mo ago
Yeah, "think of the children" is a rhetorical technique but also a logical fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
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by hoherd 2mo ago
Another thing that is crazy to me (and maybe this is a premonition) is that if you play MS games online on Xbox, you have to have a subscription, but if you play on other platforms you can play for free. They are literally punishing their o
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by hoherd 2mo ago
Chaining a switch off the gateway is the best way to do it anyway. If you do that, then when you reboot your gateway, your lan devices do not lose their physical link and can continue talking to each other.
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by hoherd 3mo ago
It sounds interesting, and surely there would be some awesome things that would come from it, but on the other hand, MS could use this to take control of linux APIs through their "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy, so it would
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by hoherd 3mo ago
Adobe did this with their perpetually licensed software. If you install Lightroom 6 today, the face detection and maps features do not work because they didn't pay for perpetual licenses for the libraries they used.
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by hoherd 3mo ago
Before electronic POS systems accounted for this, we'd just split the bill evenly. I didn't like that solution either though because it rewarded people who ordered expensive food or lots of food, and that was never me. I even quit

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