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by mrkpdl 6d ago
On the other hand, it feels great to no longer have a box of old cables...
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by mrkpdl 9d ago
Better article without paywall: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/austr...
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Australia to opt out of social media algorithms, Albanese confirms(smh.com.au)
16 points by mrkpdl 9d ago|9 comments
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by mrkpdl 17d ago
I think I agree with the premise of this. I miss when there were limits on our time with the web each day. I miss not being expected to be up to speed. I really miss magazines. Etc. Windows XP/Panther felt capable enough. If we could g
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by mrkpdl 18d ago
I think their point is that it’s amazing.
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by mrkpdl 1mo ago
Hmm that acronym is already taken...
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by mrkpdl 1mo ago
Yes! But beware the one computer in the second row that wrecks your disk, learned one by one, the hard way.
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by mrkpdl 1mo ago
Gorgeous! Keep going
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by mrkpdl 1mo ago
Based on what documentation?
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by mrkpdl 2mo ago
For me panther (10.3) was more than adequate as a daily driver for the time. Fantastic OS.
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by mrkpdl 2mo ago
Another underlying reason snow leopard is so fondly remembered is it was the final purely Mac version of Mac OS X. Starting with lion the focus shifted to bringing iOS-like features and design to Mac OS X. And it has never been Mac first si
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by mrkpdl 2mo ago
I think I’m missing something here, can someone share how this differs from the Claude usage that’s already included in the cursor subscription? Edit: never mind I think it’s so you can use the Claude CLI but with your cursor allowances… I
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by mrkpdl 2mo ago
and don't forget Windows 93! https://www.windows93.net
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by mrkpdl 2mo ago
This is wonderful. 30 seconds into trying the site and I’ve already found a couple of interesting books to read. The search I typed is ‘Stuff being made, how it was made, how history shaped its form’.
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by mrkpdl 2mo ago
I still miss flight control, seems wrong that such an important early iPhone OS game is just… gone.
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by mrkpdl 2mo ago
Lovely!
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by mrkpdl 3mo ago
> Isn't it great, then, that these glasses don't do that? As long as there’s a lens on them the perception remains. Ala panopticon. Particularly the idea that not knowing when you are being watched means you must assume you are
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by mrkpdl 3mo ago
> sold a few million camera glasses for pervs I think that’s a reasonable characterisation of what people think of these devices. Even if not strictly for perving it’s still seriously uncool to go around pointing a camera at people 100%
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by mrkpdl 3mo ago
I did quite a bit of work in VR about a decade ago. The VR vs AR delineation was a constant conversation back then too. In meetings, at the bar, and so on: “This VR sure isn’t great but just you wait, AR will be the good one”… But in realit
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by mrkpdl 3mo ago
Close enough
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by mrkpdl 3mo ago
A couple of useful things about it: - It is interesting to see how the models make trade offs, given people are asking ever more of them. - It is useful to look at a decision made by the model and say ‘ew yuck’ and think about what it means
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by mrkpdl 4mo ago
The iTunes movie store launched 20 years ago. It’s far from perfect but it is essentially steam for movies. Sadly it’s been de-emphasised over time. But it is still there and was pretty good for a while.
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by mrkpdl 4mo ago
Yeah that’s not how unions work in my country
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by mrkpdl 4mo ago
Look at the big picture. Most consumers work somewhere. Better working conditions across the board can only be good for consumers. Edit: and a note to say that comparing all unions to police unions isn’t a good faith/useful comparison.
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by mrkpdl 4mo ago
> How about going to work somewhere with better compensation and working conditions? Generally the reason there is a company that has better working conditions and compensation to go to is because of their union… so…
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by mrkpdl 5mo ago
You can download a full resolution pdf of the book at the original posts’s link, which is much better quality than the one on Wikimedia. I used safari’s built in translate feature to translate the page from Japanese to English, scroll down
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by mrkpdl 5mo ago
I’ve always doubted this take, if you look at the history of Apple software design you will see that they regularly pull visual ideas across from one platform to another just because they’re fond of them at the time. I think that this is li
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by mrkpdl 5mo ago
What a shame, I use a remarkable pro at work for all of my note taking and to help organise my days/weeks. I’m really fond of it, because of its minimal functionality. I think spatially and it’s just the right feature set to organise m
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by mrkpdl 5mo ago
It was a different time. Less nerdy people already had phones and iPods. And were already keen for better versions of those things. The Internet communicator part was more abstract, it wasn’t clear to a non-technical person why they would e
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by mrkpdl 5mo ago
I use it on an ultrawide at work, never really noticed it.

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