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by lstamour 1y ago
I might be wrong on this, but I vaguely recall that on macOS back when you could commonly option-click to reveal advanced options, if you held option when clicking a sort it would change how it sorted from alphabetical to lexical or vice ve
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by lstamour 1y ago
It’s crazy that Sonos used to* have local wifi mesh networking and they decided “the cloud is better”. * technically still does, but they tried to switch before they backpedaled
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by lstamour 1y ago
Meant to say “to deliver the same experience as Visual Voicemail” but accidentally posted it from my pocket before I could finish writing it out.
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by lstamour 1y ago
And the ability to undo deleting voicemails. And record voicemails client side using AI transcription to deliver thnesss
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by lstamour 1y ago
Unfiltered web browsers might be harder to come by these days than when I was growing up, but they still exist. I remember finding out by accident that certain restricted apps would pull up help pages, and from there I could click a link th
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by lstamour 1y ago
I agree with most of this post, except the part where you could actually do it. I’ll be the first to admit that I was not in server rooms back then but I’ve heard from those who were. The biggest advantage Amazon had, for many years, over t
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by lstamour 1y ago
Edit: I just noticed the list of supported countries (in my link below) includes Canada but excludes the French-speaking province of Quebec. It seems a bit spiteful to go so far as to ensure a service can be legally delivered in such a long
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by lstamour 1y ago
Good points. And it probably isn’t formaldehyde. The only thing I’ll add is that formaldehyde can inhibit or kill bacteria. And I also recently learned the hard way that limonene or other terpenes (from fruits or cleaning products or air fr
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by lstamour 1y ago
Electronics and tightly sealed houses, both of which the Amish might avoid, together allow for a lot more formaldehyde build up indoors. My pet theory (with no proven evidence except my own two eyes, as someone possibly affected by formalde
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by lstamour 1y ago
Isn’t it possible though, that if a role is gender stereotyped or if senior managers are a particular gender, that those of the other gender might need to prove themselves more to get the same job? That managers tend to hire people who appe
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by lstamour 1y ago
Or perhaps formaldehyde release from hair spray and other chemicals partly due to the heat of the hair dryer, but also released because of the agitation and wind. Technically I think perfume, sweat and trace amounts of smoking residue, incl
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by lstamour 1y ago
Can’t speak to this exact circumstance, but more generally: The ONT translates the SFP+ networking to fibre optic, but the modem is still somewhat necessary for logins if you use PPPoE as a wrapper for example. In telecom fibre optic, it of
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by lstamour 1y ago
I vaguely remember that being the start of the browser prompts to set your current browser as the default. It was so hard to just configure that they had to build a way to set it within the browser. You saw that again in more modern times w
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by lstamour 2y ago
While there might be incompatibilities with GPL and the App Store due to Apple’s insistence that developers must accept Apple’s terms to run Xcode and apps on developer devices, LGPL and other open source licenses are generally compatible w
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by lstamour 2y ago
Yeah. I've seen some split between low vs high doses, where the first two doses cost less than the rest - a cynical take is that they want to make it cheaper to get started knowing they will get you hooked possibly for life, or at leas
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by lstamour 2y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if they picked who would be included based on which drugs should be relatively price flexible yet cost a lot. I've noticed that ozempic/wegovy prices have dropped in many markets recently, even price c
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by lstamour 2y ago
Well, there is this: https://clienttest.ssllabs.com:8443/ssltest/viewMyClient.htm... But you’d have to test your own clients. One imagines though that with enough clients connecting to your site you’ll end up seeing ev
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by lstamour 2y ago
Except it's not actually true. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/clients.html highlights that many clients support standard SSL features without having to update to fix bugs. How much SSL you choose to allow and wha
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by lstamour 2y ago
Define the objective metric that you would use to assess a candidate's work ethic or reputation credit score. Would LinkedIn issue it, as if it were a popularity contest? And come to think of it, actually, credit scores can be gamed. I
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by lstamour 2y ago
Haven't looked into this too deeply but there is a difference between delaying a response (requests get stuck in the tarpit) vs providing a useless but valid response. This approach always provides a response, so it uses more resources
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by lstamour 2y ago
In this day and age that seems increasingly like a solved problem to most end users, often a client-side issue or using a very old method of generating a PDF? Modern PDF supports font embedding of various kinds (legality is left as an exerc
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by lstamour 2y ago
It can vary by implementation need. Can you send a time-limited secret as a login link to someone's email as a replacement to entering or managing passwords? Can you use PassKeys? Or a simple username and password? (Password storage an
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by lstamour 2y ago
PassKeys are definitely the future, they aren't just device-specific, they can be synced also. https://www.corbado.com/blog/nist-passkeys talks about this, though I'll admit I haven't read anything on th
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by lstamour 2y ago
For browserless, I was referring to a 2019 article that I could have sworn was newer than that, on the need for OAuth 2.1 that also covers how they added OAuth for Native Apps (Code Flow) and basically a QR code version for TVs: https:&#x2
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by lstamour 2y ago
Signal can be a bit weaker on the watch up here in Canada but is otherwise adequate. The problem with Apple Watch cellular when not using an iPhone to forward data is (1) battery life on LTE is terrible compared to data over Bluetooth, usin
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by lstamour 2y ago
It's fair to say that with OAuth the resource owner can choose to display a consent screen or not. For example, when consent is granted already, it can be skipped if the resource owner does not need it. Likewise, Google Workspace and o
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by lstamour 2y ago
Hot take: that sounds more like a critique of modern AI assistants. My Google Assistant used to be predictable. Progress isn't always progress.
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by lstamour 2y ago
That's not where I thought this was going. I tried using DDG and Kagi and went back to Google. Google had more relevant, fresher results than DDG, and Kagi didn't have the same integration with Google Maps and often a smaller set
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by lstamour 2y ago
Google Maps is quite the moat. I suspect they'll need to find a way to license the data, e.g. via API. Apple has not (yet) been as successful at building out a database of local places with reliable hours of operations, reviews, etc.
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by lstamour 2y ago
> (Neither I nor anyone in my immediate family are overweight, by the way, so don't ignore my rant by assuming I'm being bitter about personal experience.) If you haven't been living with extra weight for a decade, you wou

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