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_underfl0w_··on Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
I have no horse in this race, but generally speaking you should really refrain from teaching propaganda trolls how to be less obvious. Letting them out _themselves_ simplifies life for everyone else.
_underfl0w_··on Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
Which, unfortunately, would only further reinforce their narrative and confirmation bias.
_underfl0w_··on I tried the first no-kill, lab-grown chicken burger
I thought those numbers sounded a little exaggerated and hand-wavey too. I highly doubt this takes into account things like emissions from vehicles used to transport the meats, for example.
_underfl0w_··on CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs
Thanks for mentioning this! It looks super interesting, but I hadn't heard of it before.
_underfl0w_··on CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs
Maybe I'm suffering from similar syndrome, but I'm under 30 in human Earth years. However, I very much agree with you and would take it a step further to say that programmatically opening the browser with the help flag is also very unwelcome (I'm looking at you, git >.> )
_underfl0w_··on Self-host your fonts for better performance
Not OP but it may have to do with how granular the control is - that's my reason anyway. uMatrix breaks down different types of elements into a literal matrix/grid by party, site, and element type (i.e. 1st or 3rd party, current site or e.g. js.stripe.com, cookies vs images vs scripts vs frames etc.) so you can, say, only allow cookies from the current site but block them from gstatic.com, block the javascript from analytics.cloudflare.com, and choose to allow embedded frames from hcaptcha.com, all by clicking cells in the grid.
_underfl0w_··on Self-host your fonts for better performance
From TFA:

> Since Chrome v86, released October 2020, cross-site resources like fonts can’t be shared on the same CDN anymore. This is due to the partitioned browser cache

_underfl0w_··on Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
The OSI reference "Layer 8 issue" is a new one to me. That's a good one!
_underfl0w_··on Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
Shortcut: Build a hackintosh, then stick it in an Apple case. Profit.
_underfl0w_··on A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
While not an app that itself provides supplemental data, I can recommend the app StreetComplete (not affiliated - just a happy user) if you like OSM. It "game-ifies" the process of correcting and adding to OSM data by presenting little challenges and questions about nearby objects - e.g. "What is this building called?" or "Is there an ACME Corp. in this shopping center?"
_underfl0w_··on No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19
That's still a possibility, though "rushing" can be somewhat subjective. By strictly adhering to the scientific method/process, we can hope to eliminate uncertainty in this regard. Unfortunately... as the parent points out, that requires cooperation between geographically dispersed parties (some of whom may have priorities emphasizing social norms such as "saving face")
_underfl0w_··on No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19
Equivalent to: "I've personally never seen it, therefore it does not exist, despite documented proof to the contrary."
_underfl0w_··on Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
"Merchandizing, where the real money from the movie is made."

  I recently passed through the town of Weed, California and bought a tie-dye hoodie from a gas station with the town name on it. Didn't need the hoodie, but they sold them so I bought one for the novelty. Voilà! Business angle.
_underfl0w_··on A look at Chang’e 5 telemetry
SDRs transmitters/transceivers are cheap. Seems like the primary issue would be making your transmitted signal strong enough to actually reach the moon or nearby spacecraft. I'm sure e.g. SpaceX could do a fair bit of meddling if they were feeling so malicious (or unwittingly compromised) though.
_underfl0w_··on Due to a problem with AWS, many "smart" vacuums or doorbells will stop working
This actually sounds like the perfect middle ground.
_underfl0w_··on Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
Not sure about the downvotes either. Your comment doesn't read as being any more "spammy" than similar comments hocking self-made projects on HN as alternatives to existing things. This fits my use case - having a team lead that can code and speak fine but has difficulty writing intelligible sentences in English. Sounds useful for e.g. slightly-less distracting pair programming too.
_underfl0w_··on We can do better than DuckDuckGo
> People would actually use apple search.

Of course they would - it would be set as the default search on their iPhones with no clear-cut way to change it. You know, "security". The users don't know what's best for them, etc. as Apple seems to think.

_underfl0w_··on ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
To add to the sibling comment, there are multiple background images you can use when taking notes on the rM. Apparently you can customize them (from my research - haven't received my rM2 yet TBH) so you could likely drop in a grid image to use as a background.
_underfl0w_··on ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
Yes. AFAIUI (haven't received mine yet) it's not required in the first place. You could likely unlink your account from the device though, if you already signed up. You can even edit the hosts file on the device to just block connections.
_underfl0w_··on ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
Oh wow! I'm in a similar boat - type a million MPH but have to take care to avoid scribbling chickenscratch when I write. I preordered the rM2 (not yet shipped) but was pretty worried about how it would fare against the formidable foe of my illegible hieroglyphs. This side-by-side has given me hope. Thank you for sharing!
_underfl0w_··on Laser-Guided Lightning May Help Prevent Wildfires
I'm not the only one imagining the danger in misuse of this technology, right? This seems like figurative deity-level power in handheld form if I understand it right. The type that could direct a lightning bolt to hit your neighbor's fancy new electric car, or a nation state could use to target nuclear or power grid infrastructure. I'm sure the accuracy isn't 100% and requires an existing electrical storm but... still.
_underfl0w_··on PinePhone – KDE Community edition
I think you might be confusing the Linux distribution with the desktop environment. "Plasma" and "Plasma Mobile" are examples of the latter, while "Ubuntu" is the former. One can switch desktop environments with a Linux distribution to customize its look and feel - e.g. if I install Ubuntu on my PC, I can choose Plasma (KDE's offering), Gnome, or XFCE to be my desktop environment. OTOH, I could also choose to install Arch Linux - a different distribution - and still choose between those same options (or more, I only listed 3) for a desktop environment to customize it.
_underfl0w_··on PinePhone – KDE Community edition
To add to my sibling comment's remark about SafetyNet, you miiiight be able to make something happen with Magisk or some other form of SafetyNet spoofing but that's a very deep rabbit hole. Also potentially a legal gray area. The sort of configuration that no dev of anything involved would be willing to support! Still, all hope might not be lost. YMMV.
_underfl0w_··on A visual comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur
...until you add in the path bar, multiple tabs, etc. It only looks minimal with the minimum amount of UI features enabled. IMHO it looked way more cluttered than the current version with anything besides the basic, minimal set of things happening.
_underfl0w_··on macOS Big Sur
Genuine question because our tab handling strategies seem to differ - how frequently do you return to a given tab? Do you keep them for reference in some way, or is it more out of concern of having to navigate back over again?
_underfl0w_··on macOS Big Sur
> Why, Why WHY can't we just have tabs:// ?

That's actually a nifty feature idea, but it seems like it could be easily abused with a little client-side JS for the sake of fingerprinting or analytics, unless it's treated similarly to chrome:// urls. You could probably whip up your own small browser extension to provide a simple formatted list of tabs, though.

_underfl0w_··on RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
Couldn't those ignored lawyers invoke the power of the court somehow? E.g. a subpoena or similar? IA(clearly)NAL.
_underfl0w_··on Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting
Termux:API is available on F-Droid. Maybe the functionality exists in that version?
_underfl0w_··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
This is a very underrated workaround. I had no idea this was used.
_underfl0w_··on Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
Just wanted to add another compliment for KDE (specifically Plasma). I've been using KDE Neon as my daily driver for a few months now and it's amazing. Connects to my android device to share notifications and clipboard content, is heavily customizable and themeable, the whole OS feels very snappy and uniform in terms of UI/UX, and installing alongside Win10 and macOS in a hackintosh setup with full LUKS disk encryption was a snap through the installer GUI. Absolute 10 out of 10.
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