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by mbirth 4d ago
Twitter has the “Following” tab that only shows stuff from the accounts you’re following. Facebook has something similar, just a bit more hidden. But IMHO the bigger problem is that people became less social in general. I remember those fea
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by mbirth 4d ago
Also: something something every village had their idiot, now they form (online) villages
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by mbirth 10d ago
At a former workplace where most stuff was done in PHP, some colleagues used whitespace very liberally. Like, indentation was just a random amount of whitespace, every line slightly different. Sometimes 2 or more spaces between keywords, et
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by mbirth 11d ago
For most CLI/TUI tools, TerminalTrove has a short video showing the tool in operation: https://terminaltrove.com/lazygit/ And yes, a proper homepage should have this, too. It’s just that the link in the OP isn’t t
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by mbirth 13d ago
KeePassXC has a merge feature for this scenario. Apps like Strongbox (macOS/iOS) merge automatically while saving. And I believe there are more apps doing this.
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by mbirth 16d ago
I wonder whether Delphi/Lazarus would be better suited for a native GUI on each platform. But you’d have to compile your app for each separately.
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by mbirth 16d ago
Fun fact: macOS hex editor "Hex Fiend" uses Tcl for its templating language: https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/tree/master/templates
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by mbirth 17d ago
In that situation I’d rather use sshfs and whatever editor I’m fancying the most for the job.
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by mbirth 17d ago
I've simply blocked whole ASNs for Meta, Google, AWS, etc.
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by mbirth 17d ago
Similar to how people running an open SMTP are complicit in promoting spam, I see people running a wild public proxy as complicit in this malicious scraping activity. And similar to how most people running mail daemons are using blackhole l
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by mbirth 17d ago
Many thanks! I've just submitted the first batch of 3000 (daily limit) IP addresses.
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by mbirth 17d ago
I’d love a service like spamcop.net where I could submit my access_log and they lookup the abuse addresses and file abuse reports in my name. Maybe if people’s Internet access gets suspended they’ll think about installing random apps that w
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by mbirth 17d ago
If these were actual legitimate bots using a known user-agent and coming from the same subnet so you could throttle their requests it would be fine. But I’m seeing requests coming in from random IP addresses from all over the world using ra
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by mbirth 19d ago
You know, there was a time when people actually paid to have their content hosted online. You read that right. Instead of trying to make money with a website, people PAID money to have a website.
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by mbirth 20d ago
Every good editor can make these “invisible” characters visible.
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by mbirth 26d ago
It will be the equivalent of that Excel =COPILOT(“sum the numbers above”) meme.
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by mbirth 1mo ago
I was looking forward to a new version of the macOS CD/DVD burning software.
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by mbirth 1mo ago
No, from the conversations I overheard these people have never heard of those 1-litre bag rules for flights in the EU. So, they clearly haven't even looked at all those posters.
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by mbirth 1mo ago
Doesn’t work. I was in a queue at SXF airport once. Everybody in the queue passed at least 5 whiteboard-sized posters explaining in detail that you need a 1 litre bag and what’s supposed to go in there. Also, what things you need to present
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by mbirth 1mo ago
Notifications can carry metadata like specific alert sounds or priorities. High priorities will even break through silence modes of your phone. And you get a nice client with icons for each notification source, can filter by them, etc.
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by mbirth 1mo ago
No, you can set it for each appointment individually.
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by mbirth 1mo ago
I'm fully locked into Apple Watches as I'm using these features regularly. Not sure whether that counts as a power user. - Time - Notifications (also: dismissing a notification on the watch also removes it from the phone) - Smart
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by mbirth 1mo ago
> It would also be nice to have a configurable transportation choice for the time to leave notice. If you set a location, you can tap on “Travel Time” and select whether you want to go by car, public transport, bicycle, or walk.
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by mbirth 1mo ago
Someone is a fan of SIEMENS SIMATIC PLCs, it seems.
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by mbirth 2mo ago
But JSON doesn’t allow you to run it through an XSLT and get a normal webpage out of it, does it?
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by mbirth 2mo ago
I’m waiting for the Gemini people to (re-)discover HTML 3.2 or 4.0. Maybe this then becomes a slightly bigger movement as all current browsers should support it and there are plenty much smaller/more efficient browsers available from b
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by mbirth 2mo ago
> German law gives businesses unusually broad grounds to challenge online reviews as defamatory. Unlike defamation standards in many other jurisdictions, which typically require proof of deliberate falsehood, German law includes provisio
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by mbirth 2mo ago
More like the EU and Germany’s version of the Digital Services Act. Google is just adhering to German law.
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by mbirth 2mo ago
I've had my Fenix 5 Plus swapped once during warranty because of this. And the replacement's contacts started to corrode again when I sold the watch. It might not happen to all models, but some are very prone to it. Just have a lo
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by mbirth 2mo ago
Also ask any serious Garmin watch user about their charging/data contacts. They start to rot away after 1-2 years of being exposed to sweat.

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