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by pmontra 3d ago
Sometimes it is handy when doing something like ASCII art or drawing ASCII diagrams. Imagine editing a much more complex variant of this ---- | AB | ---- Finally, Shift-INS pastes from clipboard on Linux. A keypress saved compa
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by pmontra 3d ago
I agree that "privacy is not the currency Google deals with." However when I run an adblocker and Blockada on Android, when I use alternatives to the YouTube app (and Google is technologically fighting them) when I don't log
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by pmontra 4d ago
I thought it was enough to add please and thank you to every prompt.
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by pmontra 4d ago
It's two totally different matters. I won't be first, second or third in the AI race. I'm not even participating in that race. I don't care who wins. However my private data are mine and I do care about them. It's G
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by pmontra 4d ago
I'm willing to pay time or money to avoid ads, not to be spied and harassed by companies making me offers to buy something that almost certainly I don't want to buy. Those companies should pay me a percent of what I make them save
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by pmontra 5d ago
Emacs does it. I don't remember which package I'm using and my laptop is out of reach now, but it leverages LSP. However my point is that I never used that functionality in the last months. I discovered today that M-. doesn't
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by pmontra 5d ago
Claude in a terminal is becoming more and more my IDE. I use emacs to do some edits or to look at some files, but orders of magnitude less than when I wrote all the code. Syntax highlighting? Yes, for readability. Completion? I noticed toda
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by pmontra 5d ago
Can you clone or sync hardware keys? Maybe they don't fail as much as computers do but they can be lost or stolen like the keys that we use to open (dumb) doors. My non hardware key is a keypass file that I update only on my laptop and
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by pmontra 5d ago
What if the old Mac is dead, stolen, lost? Those are the scenarios in which one recovers on a new machine from a backup.
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by pmontra 5d ago
Maybe a browser extension could inject JS in a tab to redefine all the WebGPU API into a noop.
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by pmontra 5d ago
Yeah, but what is a medium? Every material is basically empty space with an atom here and there. So there is not a hard boundary for a particle to instantaneously slow down from speed of light in the air to speed of light in water. Some of
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by pmontra 5d ago
Yes, I kind of discovered that in a dream, in which I extinguished a fire by teleporting away oxygen. It worked, until I stopped teleporting. The oxygen came back and the fire started again. When I eventually woke up I thought about it and
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by pmontra 6d ago
Thanks
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by pmontra 6d ago
The back button works at its best when it closes an app and it restores the one that opened the previous one. There could be no in app back button to do that. However the back button used to be an always available hardware button or a touch
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by pmontra 7d ago
Too bad that it does not seem to work on mobile. I did not find any way to move around (add arrow buttons? Are we supposed to move around?) and if I double tap I change the direction in which I am looking but not very predictably. Maybe my
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by pmontra 7d ago
Not really. That keyboard adds up size and weight and it will be used very little. Furthermore I would be tapping on it with two fingers now instead of sliding my thumb on my screen, which is faster. What I miss is a compact and light phone
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by pmontra 7d ago
This company https://nexphone.com/ has been doing something like that since 2016 but of course in a different way, by attaching the phone to a laptop shell or more simply to a USB hub.
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by pmontra 7d ago
I did that a few times with a 10 inches Samsung tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard, using the DeX UI. It had Linux on DeX with some Ubuntu version. 16.04? I can't think about a good way to do it with a phone screen, unless you know that y
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by pmontra 7d ago
I also want a small phone. I was happy with a Sony Xperia X Compact which is one inch shorter than my current Samsung A40, which is shorter and lighter than almost everything else.
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by pmontra 10d ago
What if this is true mid or long term but by not participating to the AI race one gets poor or killed in the short term? The only way out would be that all parties agree to stop. There are previous examples (e.g. nuclear proliferation treat
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by pmontra 10d ago
That did not work well enough for Kim Dotcom.
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by pmontra 11d ago
Same thing in Firefox on Android but I used uBO element picker to select the header and nuke it. There is a link to the home page on the HTML below it and links in the footer. There is little to gain from that sticky header and much to lose
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by pmontra 11d ago
I confirm that. Then I opened the page in Chrome on Android and it scrolls nicely there too. So maybe they broke only desktop browsers.
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by pmontra 11d ago
I noticed > The modes are the load-bearing piece: Why do people write like LLMs? Maybe they delegate all the work to a LLM and don't have the time or the will to edit the copy. How about telling another LLMs to replace at least the
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by pmontra 12d ago
By the way that is exactly what humans do when playing with white in high stone handicap games. They place their stones all around the board, start little fights everywhere and wait for the weaker player to misread or misevaluate something.
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by pmontra 14d ago
We were hand writing PostScript code that drew pelicans at job interviews in the 90s, then they sent it to a printer a stored the page in a file drawer /s
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by pmontra 14d ago
Of course you can tar the original tar.gz files in one pass without extracting anything. You keep the boundaries between the source tar.gz but maybe that's not important. You probably won't gzip the output because there is very li
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by pmontra 14d ago
That thing exists in Italy too. Primary residence is exempt, you pay on the other houses or parts of them (heirs, etc)
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by pmontra 14d ago
I guess that it can be rented or built upon. It's easy to imagine renting a field to a farmer but money is money, so why not letting somebody else build flats over one's land?

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