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by kirb 19d ago
On displaying control characters, as of now, at least VSCode and Sublime Text do show them clearly. VSCode uses Unicode control pictures “␄” with a red background, while Sublime shows plain-text “<EOT>” in grey. You can also copy-past
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by kirb 2mo ago
It’s hard to trust StatCounter, or anyone presenting web traffic stats at this point, after they showed a large spike in Windows 7 users for a few months, before it suddenly disappeared. (Even better: the blogs reporting on it with a made-u
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by kirb 2mo ago
`which claude && touch CLAUDE.md` is feature detection, not telemetry/analytics.
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by kirb 2mo ago
My eyes rolled almost out of my skull when this current stunt first got published, as I’m sure yours and a lot of other people’s did, but it did still happen as far as we know, and HN shouldn’t be editorialising a post title to say the oppo
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by kirb 2mo ago
I’ve been using GitHub with TOTP since they added it in 2013, and other non-SMS methods since then. No phone number on my account.
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by kirb 5mo ago
These features are enabled by default, and in the case of iOS/macOS, desktop Chrome, probably also Copilot+ PCs, download 4 - 7 GB local models without properly explaining this to users. This doesn’t confirm any demand because if you j
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by kirb 5mo ago
The official statement from Apple (emailed to developers 10 days ago) is that macOS 27 is the “final release to support Rosetta”, so the title is a bit off. They also say: > Please note that Rosetta functionality for older, unmaintained
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by kirb 9mo ago
To my knowledge, PayPal does not hold funds “forever”. They penalise the account holder by locking it away for 180 days. At that point, they can withdraw the balance to a bank account. I have multiple friends and clients who had this happen
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by kirb 9mo ago
Legacy Update is my project, appreciate the thoughts. I’ll look at both. OpenCollective would be a great idea going forward for better transparency, as much as it requires more paperwork. I do consolidate most of the expenses with my other
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by kirb 9mo ago
Thanks for spreading the word John, it means a lot. In my teen years I discovered PortableApps and would read through the forum threads, fascinated by the ways the community tricked apps into being portable. Another incredible resource, and
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by kirb 9mo ago
It’s hard to teach people it’s worth their time to double-check these things of course, but I try to show a chain of trust: 1. Files come from Wayback Machine, which is trusted to serve legitimate snapshots 2. There is a sha1 and size liste
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by kirb 9mo ago
Our data for 2020 comes from this. (The remainder comes from other snapshots on Wayback Machine from various times)
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by kirb 9mo ago
> Then, how could native apps have much better performance on the same hardware, on both Android and iOS? Web engines were honestly not great back then. WebKit was ok but JavaScriptCore was very slow, and of course that’s what iOS, Andro
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by kirb 11mo ago
Note: A Microsoft account isn’t required to download free apps from the Store, it works fully without extra prompts on a local account. (I like that it works this way, because it means you can install Firefox on a fresh install of Windows w
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by kirb 1y ago
No - one dev evangelist accidentally diverged from the marketing language for Windows 10, and now his words in a conference talk nobody previously cared about are being used as “proof” Microsoft lied. It’s like if Bob from accounting accide
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by kirb 1y ago
Note: This appears to be a fork of Sam Henri Gold’s recent lid-angle sensor project, with the wav file changed. The readme does give credit, though the license has been changed from Apache to MIT for some reason. Original: https:/&#x2
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by kirb 1y ago
On the Pro tier, it’s a fixed monthly price with fixed quota per 5 hour window. That said, every time I’ve tried it, it’s spent ages writing code that barely works, where it keeps writing over-engineered workarounds to obvious errors. Event
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by kirb 1y ago
That’s indeed what it is. It sends an automatic email to the List-Unsubscribe address, which if implemented correctly per the spec/regulations, authorises an immediate unsubscribe. More secure too because your email address is confirme
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by kirb 1y ago
Don’t do this on a repository with 35+ years of history! That’s all valuable information you want to keep.
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by kirb 1y ago
There are some strange passages in this, such as here where it suddenly decides to bring up the man page and how to exit man: > There's an NFS app for macOS called NFS Manager from Germany's Marcel Bresink. > On pre-15.5 Mac
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by kirb 1y ago
I was calling out the $1,000 specifically because that’s what the poster above me mentioned, and I remember that coming up very often back when his CEO stint happened. But, yes, not the only donation he’s made. And I’m sure Mozilla is furio
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by kirb 1y ago
The arc of him resigning from Mozilla and founding Brave definitely is context that needs to be mentioned. Personally, I feel $1,000 isn’t much to be donating, especially as he would have been decently wealthy going from Netscape pre-IPO an
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by kirb 2y ago
It’s not creators’ fault the platform does this. YouTube just isn’t going away anytime soon, whether we like that or not, so it makes plenty of sense to spend a bit and give those creators a little bit more revenue from my view. It also fee
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by kirb 2y ago
Any idea why there hasn’t been much if any enforcement from the FTC and co about the sketchy VPN review blogs? Seems like especially Lina Khan’s FTC would be interested to find a way, because giving the impression of an independent review a
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by kirb 2y ago
The “USB-C invented by Apple” legend was even presented as fact on Wikipedia for a good while. Someone fixed it a few months ago. The source, of course, was Gruber and some “little birdies”. Ironically, the referenced 9to5mac article goes o
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by kirb 2y ago
Is that not the point of a README? This one seems very reasonable, and a few sponsor ads seems fine for a very actively maintained free passion project.
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by kirb 4y ago
"Lemonade?" "Please!" Indeed, I knew it was an important resource many people would need, but also that I had to make clear that getting fully patched up on XP or 7 is of course nowhere near the same as running a current
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by kirb 4y ago
I feel YouTube is on the up and up in terms of high quality content, but the site is terrible at surfacing that content, because the ones that play the algorithm will always win the game of getting their content in front of more eyeballs. T
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by kirb 5y ago
Just as a sidenote on the Reddit point, you can force old Reddit from your settings after you log in. That setting seems to stick even if you log out/your session times out, and you can go back to new Reddit with new.reddit.com.
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by kirb 5y ago
Not caring at time of purchase doesn’t mean they don’t grumble and curse the brand later on after an experience where the phone breaks and the options are limited to a costly manufacturer repair. I consider myself an iPhone person, my curre

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