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by markstos 5d ago
I have a small drawer of cables. If cable+1 doesn't fit, I have too many cables.
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by markstos 9d ago
The history of Chrome and Safari traces back to KTML, the renderer for Konqueror, a niche browser on Linux with so little market share there weren't real conversations about it ever seriously competing with Firefox or IE. Then somethin
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by markstos 17d ago
A distro should be secure-by-default. Omarchy’s design here was insecure by default while the docs have the impression that Docker might be running rootless. Pairing insecure defaults with docs that claim better security is bad.
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by markstos 21d ago
Apparently the Omarchy plugin ecosystem is also a free for all like the Arch AUR, except the audience includes people who are new to Linux and less likely to understand the risks.
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by markstos 22d ago
I went from `vi` to `vim` to `neovim` to a spiritual successor `helix`, and here's Emacs at release 31 still the dominant fork of the emacs family of editors. Impressive.
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by markstos 22d ago
I see that my old M1 Mac Mini with 16 GB memory and 1 TB drive has held value over time, selling for $600 to $700. A new Mac Mini with that much ram and storage costs about double now.
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by markstos 1mo ago
I wonder how much they tested on non-English languages with fewer synonyms.
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by markstos 1mo ago
To be fair: a year ago the editor was in the center and the AI chat was in the sidebar-- Cursor. Here they've moved the AI chat to the center and code editor has been pushed to the side.
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by markstos 1mo ago
Right, the value is not so clear of having multiple people wade through lengthy LLM responses. Part of the value that a human in the loop adds is figuring out what's correct and important in the response and passing on a more polished
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by markstos 1mo ago
Perhaps more broadly AI will hollow out "middle intelligence". We could end up with a gulf between those who use AI for cognitive inquiry vs passive delegation. Those who accelerate learning by asking "help me understand this
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by markstos 1mo ago
Zuck's "I believe everyone should have access to superintelligence" quote echoes back to Meta's "Internet.org" effort to provide Facebook for "free" in emerging markets: https://en.wikiped
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by markstos 1mo ago
Where I can learn more about the genetic need of people of Sámi heritage to eat animal food? When I tried to search for the details, I found only that it was a traditionally meat heavy diet.
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by markstos 1mo ago
Link?
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by markstos 1mo ago
Animal agriculture is a key driver of climate change: https://sentientmedia.org/how-does-livestock-affect-climate-... Along with the high price, that's one more reason to not buy it.
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by markstos 1mo ago
For certain amount of fast growth: yes. Then there's continued "growth-hacking" and enshittification to keep fast revenue growing after the pain point has been solved with dark patterns and questionable tactics. Why? Because
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by markstos 2mo ago
From this I learned LLMs are complex and compute-intensive.
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by markstos 2mo ago
I found some kind weather sensor like this in a creek in a sealed clear film canister-sized container. I took it home and looked up the part number. Looks like it was probably part of a network of sensors monitoring the forest health, but s
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by markstos 2mo ago
What's planned for upcoming versions of Thunderbird are in public roadmaps: https://roadmaps.thunderbird.net/en-US/
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by markstos 2mo ago
Polymarket is currently taking bets on whether Snailman appears in the DC or Marvel universe first.
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by markstos 2mo ago
The book Sentient is not about AI but abount the most amazing physical senses some other animals have. The theme of the scientific findings is that while humans excel with none of our physical sensors, we do very well across the board in
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by markstos 2mo ago
I co-maintain a popular Linux launcher, Fuzzel, on Codeberg. We have no shortage of contributors despite not being on Github and the quality of contributors there is fairly high. In the past there were performance problems, but it's wo
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by markstos 2mo ago
Kobo e-readers can connect directly to library e-book stores and download many titles directly for free from libraries.
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by markstos 3mo ago
I looked at Stow and Chezmoi and also have stuck with YADM. The exact reason is that YADM is so simple and intuitive because it's basically Git-for-dotfiles with so little to learn. Yet it also manages to support alternate and template
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by markstos 3mo ago
Google described Manifest V2 as significant tech debt with new bugs still found there. Either they are lying or it's a non-trivial feature set to continue to support. So will be interesting to see how many other browsers actually do ke
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by markstos 3mo ago
"This will also impact other Chromium-based browsers... Neowin points out that Microsoft Edge and Opera are likely to follow suit." This is story about browser Chromium browser monoculture and Google's influence over it.
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by markstos 3mo ago
The median would be interesting than the mean, as you can be hollowing out the middle, leaving more low-wage workers and a few very highly paid ones and the "average" still looks good.
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by markstos 3mo ago
Flock is being rejected in a number of cities, thanks to citizens.
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by markstos 3mo ago
The idea that most people can’t afford a $2,000 phone?
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by markstos 3mo ago
"Please do a bunch of work to support a folding phone model only a few people will be able to afford"
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by markstos 3mo ago
No Population Growth in My Backyard -- NPGIMBY.

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