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taladar

@ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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  • problem remains that there is no consistent design distro to distro

    You might have had a point if you wrote that back in the days before phone UIs and Windows versions and websites all completely redesigning their UIs every 5 minutes but this is clearly nonsense at this point.

    Can you imagine your grandparents trying to use Linux and then looking stuff up on their own and then doing something wrong because they don’t know what distro they’re on? Nightmare.

    No, actually the actual nightmare is them using Windows and asking me about it on the phone and me having to talk them through mouse clicks in an unfamiliar GUI instead of just telling them which command to enter in the terminal like I would on a sane OS like Linux.

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  • True but not quite for the reason you probably quoted it. The computer is merely a force multiplier for the human stupidity.

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  • The real problem with the search bar is that Microsoft chose to make it language dependent, so you will need to know entirely different search terms to navigate e.g. a German Windows install's settings that way than an English one.

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  • You are looking at this the wrong way. Nobody needs to compete with Windows and Mac, particularly volunteers do not want to be free support for people too lazy to learn the slightest thing for themselves and asking all the questions already covered prominently in the documentation again and again. Why would anyone optimize to get those people to Linux in their projects?

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  • Not to mention that the terminal is just so much more efficient for a tutorial than that whole 20 screenshots with circles where to click nonsense. 20 screenshots you will have to redo when the GUI designer inevitably decides to do a "redesign" because they are bored and want to justify their existence.

  • The Fitbit Sense line is cooked because it was too good for Google

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  • cfw?

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  • It feels like Microsoft is really going all in on this AI trend. Probably because they are well aware that they missed/were late to every major trend since the 90s (e.g. the Internet, music players, smart phones, gaming consoles,...) and they don't have that much to lose any more with Windows' inferiority becoming more and more apparent. So they are probably going for the high risk, high reward strategy where they will either lose the desktop OS market completely (in the likely case AI turns out to be just a regular hype cycle) or win big by being early (in the unlikely case that AI turns out to be much better than it looks like right now AND having expertise with this will help with better versions of this once they show up).

  • U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly

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  • Mozilla stubbornly refuses to allow people to donate to Firefox specifically (as opposed to Firefox and their other random projects they pull out of the hat every other quarter or so to be used for any of them at their discretion). I would have set up a monthly donation to Firefox long ago if only they allowed donations just to Firefox. I have read many others complain about the same issue over the years.

  • What Happened To WWW.?

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  • Yeah, but in many, many more words than necessary to be honest.

  • What Happened To WWW.?

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  • Originally there also wasn't any name-based virtual hosting, especially in SSL/TLS-based services like HTTPS so you needed one IP per name if you wanted to host multiple websites.

    And part of the disappearance of www. now is probably that strange decision by Chrome to hide it.

  • What Happened To WWW.?

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  • Ideally you want to do one or the other unless you really like the redirect loop error page in your browser.

  • What Happened To WWW.?

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  • Originally the idea was that you would have a domain and then have a host under that domain for each service (e.g. mail.example.net, ftp.example.net, www.example.net,...). Of course eventually the web was used by a lot more people this directly than any other service so the main domain was also configured to point at the web server and then people added a redirect either in one direction (add www.) or the other (remove www.) on the first request.

  • People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

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  • What does any of this have to do with network effects? Network effects are the effects that lead to everyone using the same tech or product just because others are using it too. That might be useful with something like a system of measurement but in our modern technology society that actually causes a lot of harm because it turns systems into quasi-monopolies just because "everyone else is using it".

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  • a bear minimum.

    I always felt that was too much of a burden to put on people, carrying multiple bears everywhere they go to meet bear minimums.

  • Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop

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  • Well, obviously there are still bugs in hardware drivers on Linux, the point was more that those bugs are not any more common than on any other OS and that Linux probably supports more hardware than some of the Windows operating system versions now.

    Apple level of hardware support is hard for Linux because Apple provides that by limiting supported hardware to a tiny, tiny subset of available hardware they produce themselves.

  • Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

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  • To me tablets feel like the most useless devices ever invented. Too large to carry around with you but just as stupidly limited as a phone compared to a real computer where you can actually automate some of your tasks and type on a decent keyboard and have a decent sized screen that doesn't ruin your wrists with the weight of holding it up.

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • I never liked the "don't believe anything you read on the internet" line, it focuses too much on the internet without considering that you shouldn't believe anything you read or hear elsewhere either, especially on divisive topics like politics.

    You should evaluate information you receive from any source with critical thinking, consider how easy it is to make false claims (e.g. probably much harder for a single source if someone claims that the US president has been assassinated than if someone claims their local bus was late that one unspecified day at their unspecified location), who benefits from convincing you of the truth of a statement, is the statement consistent with other things you know about the world,...

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • If they were personalized wouldn't that mean they shouldn't really receive that many upvotes other than maybe from the person they were personalized for?

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • Mainly I didn't really expect that since the old methods of propaganda before AI use worked so well for the US conservatives' self-destructive agenda that it didn't seem necessary.