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by lmz 4d ago
Surely that's swimming pool fees or subscription ? I can't imagine having your own pool is cheaper than a gym subscription.
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by lmz 4d ago
No. Unless the hardware had Linux stickers on it.
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by lmz 5d ago
The point is that browsers have been made and funded by BigCo, and treated as app delivery platforms at least for the last 20 years. Netscape, Microsoft, Apple, Google (for Mozilla and then Chrome). The last non BigCo mainstream(?) browser
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by lmz 6d ago
The application delivery thing was done as far back as Netscape threatening to relegate Windows to "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" so Web-whatever is simply another step in that direction. Like I said, if you purists wan
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by lmz 6d ago
The BigCos are the reason you have that browser in the first place. If you don't like it, you know where to download ... links or something.
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by lmz 7d ago
Android devs have always had to handle different screen sizes. Not the case for iPhone devs e.g. I have a game "Ridiculous Fishing" (from 2013) which is a mess layout-wise on my iPhone because it seemingly hardcoded some pixel val
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by lmz 8d ago
Well the actual pages from that time are mostly gone and that was what I could find with some examples and explanatory text.
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by lmz 8d ago
MS(IE) had ActiveScript, of which VBS was just one implementation (although it was the bundled one that always existed). People have built integrations for stuff like Tcl, Python, or Perl, making them available to the browser. Example: htt
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by lmz 9d ago
> most businesses globally don't work in idiotic and often amoral mode of 'move fast and break things' Not sure what business you are in but the non tech industries (corporate IT, in house apps) have not, in general, been
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by lmz 9d ago
> Even DOS didn't really have libraries, you had peripherals mapped to memory at certain addresses, and a set of interrupts, and that was it. Did I just dream up loading a mouse driver and MSCDEX in DOS?
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by lmz 10d ago
There are always complaints on here about how Google is only paying $X for vulns. One advantage of decentralized digital money is that its bug bounties are self funding and the payout amount researcher-controlled.
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by lmz 10d ago
Because it's assumed that it's for desktop. The first iPhone demo had (if I recall correctly) the browser zoom into the NYT website. Which can work well. I'd rather this than what I often see nowadays: sites with fixed width
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by lmz 11d ago
"capability, reliability or robustness" has nothing to do with ease.
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by lmz 14d ago
We are debating the attempt to restrict supply here as a counterargument to "everyone wants to share their skill", not the success or failure of such attempts.
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by lmz 14d ago
> For instance, iirc, shipping the phone primarily with a non-Google alternative ROM means you won't get any play services on them, even if you want to have a secondary version with a standard Google ROM. Is this wrong? Sure they ha
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by lmz 14d ago
Google must allow them to install Play Services.
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by lmz 15d ago
Google don't even process the donations do they? It is a link to an external donation page.
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by lmz 15d ago
How do you explain guilds restricting supply then? (The most common example is Physicians).
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by lmz 17d ago
Sure, and the humans and their phones are fair collateral damage in that worldview.
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by lmz 17d ago
It's funny how some people say "AI bad, datacenters waste energy" then other people say "AI bad, going to make humans and their phones waste energy".
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by lmz 17d ago
Restricting the availability of the condoms restricts them for everyone.
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by lmz 17d ago
BSD kqueue, Solaris ports.
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by lmz 18d ago
The article mentions that the Python handler is run outside of the C handler context and so is not subject to the C safety restrictions. It will not crash since the interpreter only calls the Python handler when it is safe. It will howeve
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by lmz 18d ago
Any alternative non US, Europe wide card network? I suppose you could use Mir, or UnionPay.
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by lmz 18d ago
Won't help if they sanction you and cut you off from SWIFT (or the card networks) so it just depends on the degree of the governance issues here.
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by lmz 19d ago
Surely by being a bank, you are already exposed to that.
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by lmz 19d ago
Obviously the answer is to get a square phone. One of those foldables?
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by lmz 20d ago
This is a tortured analogy. Yes it's even better if they don't do crime and yet inherit the money as that would allow them to claim they have clean hands, like the developed world is doing now. ("Colonialism? Massive resource
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by lmz 20d ago
Voluntary service is great but when you get invaded you're not going to send the H1B visa holder to the frontlines, are you?
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by lmz 20d ago
Not even American. Just visited once for a few weeks. The answer is generic, in recent times you can compare how Ukraine or Russia can conscript their own citizens but probably not foreign workers who just work there.

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