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by mrmanner 7d ago
which they have to be anyway, to support normal iphones and maybe ipads and in many cases a cackle of Android phones too. (but I still think this is brilliant design)
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by mrmanner 21d ago
In this day and age it makes sense to amend Tim's statement to "canonical urls don't change". And cool web sites have a canonical URL for most pages. That way we a) don't lose track of relevant content but b) can ha
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by mrmanner 2mo ago
Came here to say this. I've no idea what the app does, I presume that is because I'm old. And that doesn't matter. It's cool to make apps in any case!
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by mrmanner 2mo ago
Trains AND solar power. Awesome.
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by mrmanner 4mo ago
I had the same thought at first, but in context I think the quoted text refers to business relationships. Which makes all the difference.
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by mrmanner 6mo ago
I noticed how they've marked the features that only Chrome supports (e.g. installation) but not the feature that only Firefox supports (orientation). (tbh I don't know if the list is simply Chrome-centric or if there's a good
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by mrmanner 6mo ago
I mean technically a flash drive could be "a secure environment walled-off from the internet"
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by mrmanner 7mo ago
Maybe I just haven’t discovered the track changes feature in word processors enough, but I find it lacking: no explicit grouping of changes (the git commit), no clear timeline of changes, no tagging / naming of versions etc. Not saying
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by mrmanner 1y ago
> On the government endpoint, which returns X that the platform uses as "evidence" for you being an adult, yes, that's tied to your identity, as the certificate/whatever is tied to your identity. In this scenario the
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by mrmanner 1y ago
https://www.icehotel.com/ :D
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by mrmanner 1y ago
> they do not prevent them falling into that river in the first place The article explains pretty well how the devices prevent cows from falling into the river: > Solar-powered GPS devices emit a high-pitched sound as the animal moves
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Leeks and Leaks(daniel.haxx.se)
123 points by mrmanner 1y ago|17 comments
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by mrmanner 2y ago
The carbon dioxide is captured and stored, the actual carbon isn't returned to whatever form it was before burning. So theoretically it _can_ work (but, as it turns out, it still doesn't make sense).
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by mrmanner 2y ago
> As a more prolific blog writer at the time I also liked that their bot would include number of people who were subscribed to my blog in their User Agent. Something I generally appreciate with Google: The level of craftsmanship and the
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by mrmanner 2y ago
> yeah but we don't have time to analyse this for years and years while upping our power consumption this is 100 % true. we also don’t have time to debate the morality and necessity of each specific activity for years. if AI energy
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by mrmanner 2y ago
well except they allegedly asked said allegedly inexperienced developer to develop the thing for them, for free
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by mrmanner 2y ago
> at the expense of the parent's other employees rather at the expense of the business owners, which may well be the parent themselves? (ok fine the other employees could have equity in the business, but other than that)
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by mrmanner 2y ago
Not related to Instant, but saw that the backend is available on their Github: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/tree/main/server
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by mrmanner 2y ago
Maybe pose it as a question to the user, rather than an error message: “This message has been deleted from the server. Do you want to: - discard it permanently - store this version on the server - save as a file to your computer”
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by mrmanner 2y ago
It has ceased to be
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by mrmanner 2y ago
You need to actually send them the API key, so not really.
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by mrmanner 2y ago
> The thing is, the law/code only matters if it is enforced. I have little faith this will be enforced enough to be a deterrent But the same would be true whether roaming is legal or not?
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by mrmanner 2y ago
It's actually quite funny that the freedom to roam in large parts of Europe predates the USA by several hundred years and is universally accepted by landowners, yet it's talked about as if it's some sort of unprincipled anoma
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by mrmanner 2y ago
To use an analogy: In the US there are fair use exemptions to intellectual property rights. That doesn't mean there's no such thing as intellectual property, or that it's meaningless. The right to roam in some other countries
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by mrmanner 2y ago
I believe you are right to some extent, but also overestimating how strong and important the specific principles you're observing are to most people. Some of us have stronger principles, yes. But more of us have _different_ principles.
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by mrmanner 2y ago
”The goal is to increase security, privacy (…)”
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by mrmanner 2y ago
Also autofill is just broken by some sites and app login screens, so users are used to looking at and typing their passwords every now and then.
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by mrmanner 2y ago
The category of speech most in need of free speech protection is "unlawful but fine".
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by mrmanner 3y ago
The dominant market position of someone who has last/mile cables to every household in an area is much stickier and more absolute than the dominant position of any social networking site. Even if it’s hard to stop using e.g. Facebook,
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by mrmanner 3y ago
“ In exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.” They’re not nece

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