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MaxMatti··on My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated
I agree with most of what you're saying but some java applets were quite big, just not for everyone. RuneScape is the first that comes to mind, some websites that had lots of flash games also had quite a few java applet games, although I don't remember their names. There was also a google-earth-like program that ran in an applet, although I don't remember its name.
MaxMatti··on Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
And risk having to go to court over whether it really is unfit? That's not something they should decide, that's something that regulators should have stopped before the car was even put on the market in the first place.
MaxMatti··on Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI
As long as they actually look at it which I don't expect them to, especially after revision 15 of a multi-page document.
MaxMatti··on Will AI obliterate the rule of law?
It's actually the other way around. It's high enough to not be economically viable for anybody.
MaxMatti··on CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
Not only that but too much might also cause you to have to dump fuel in order for the plane to be able to land.
MaxMatti··on Why construction projects always go over budget
Yes but you can do all that before tearing open the street or sidewalk
MaxMatti··on Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified
Have you tried oh-my-zsh? It's what got me to install zsh on all my servers, even at work. Just run their setup script, let it change your default shell and set your preferred theme in the config.
MaxMatti··on Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely
Why would you take your work laptop home if you're not allowed to work from home?
MaxMatti··on Secretive: Store SSH Keys in the Secure Enclave
Wouldn't that mean that I can login with any two keys? So instead of laptop+yubikey I could login with the keys from two laptops? Or from two yubikeys?
MaxMatti··on A tale of Phobos – How we almost cracked a ransomware using CUDA
Not sure if you could run that on vast.ai but they do offer more granular pricing, so that might be the better option.
MaxMatti··on Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them
I've also had this issue multiple times where ChatGPT provides a flawed answer, is able to identify the flaw when asked but "corrects" it in such a way that the original answer is not changed. I've tried this for code it wrote, for comments on my code and for summaries of texts that I provided.
MaxMatti··on Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey
What's amo?
MaxMatti··on Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT
I have thought about doing that, would you mind sharing your starting prompt so that I can get some ideas?
MaxMatti··on The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
So there's no further cleanup needed? Or are you still looking, just in a different repo?
MaxMatti··on [dead]
They need therapy because they let the broken hiring practices get to them.
MaxMatti··on Debunking common myths about the Autobahn
Blaming the safe driving of Germans on the danger of the Autobahn just baffles me. The driving style of Germans has everything to do with the process of obtaining a driving license in Germany as well as the strict (and properly enforced) traffic laws and harsh fines - most violations will get you points towards losing your license and in some extreme cases you might even be barred from obtaining a new driving license after losing yours. All that creates an environment where driving is viewed as an activity that requires a lot of attention and farsightedness. Being able to drive fast on the Autobahn has nothing to do with it simply because this driving style not only applies to the Autobahn but also to cities and smaller country roads.
MaxMatti··on A few tech startup CEOs in my country had started saying Elon's methods are fine
Happened lots of times to me in the last year, perhaps the issues that were present in my region are now also present in yours.
MaxMatti··on Map of the Internet
Looks like it just takes the category with he highest share of a block to label that block when you zoom out.
MaxMatti··on Employee gift ideas that make people feel bad
I always see gifts as recommendations. You don't need to have expertise to know about something that is more valuable than expected and that the person would not have bought for themselves. And the best gifts that I (or others around me) have received are things that turned out better than expected.
MaxMatti··on Illegal host, electric shocks, slugs, leaks and no support – How Airbnb failed
Or just have a lower fine that increases exponentially every time it occurs. That would make it easier for small companies to compete which would otherwise just have to go bankrupt on the first violation.
MaxMatti··on An unexpected revival of Firefox OS
Probably because of the g in the subdomain, kind of makes it feel like "live g[oogle]"
MaxMatti··on The Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System
Those who said that do not know the torrent protocol which is why the onion project even had to issue a statement on why using torrents over Tor is not secure.

https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-id...

MaxMatti··on Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1
I'm using namespaced-openvpn to restrict transmission to one network and you could limit the amount of concurrently active files to one, effectively downloading them sequentially. Or do you want to download each file sequentially?
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