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biscuitechon They All Use It

> It's really interesting how some people seem to take skepticism, disinterest, disappointment, apathy about AI almost personally.

It's a bit like NTFs a few years ago. It's a cult, and they're all in.

biscuitechon Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account

Would you rather have no choice?

I get the sentiment, but it's nice to finally have lawmakers and regulators standing for what's right - for once.

biscuitechon Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird

Bring me back to outlook desktop 2016 please

biscuitechon I'm done with dashboards, and likely you should be too

> Toss the results in a report the contributors can access with links to supporting dashboards, then watch your data platform costs drop, contributor productivity increase, and customer retention get longer.

So the answer is to use a dashboard.

biscuitechon Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service

Doesn't mean anything, honestly. Strava is also donation based if you think hard enough.

biscuitechon X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked

According to the analysis of Reuters, it's worth around 8 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musks-x-is-black-...

biscuitechon Losing subscribers, Disney+ starts fighting password sharing, too

Piracy is looking more and more tempting.

biscuitechon Empathy in open source: be gentle with each other

I absolutely loved this article. We could all learn from being more empathetic towards each other. I'm going to use the tools mentioned in the article to improve my relationships with my colleagues.

biscuitechon Windows Subsystem for Linux September 2023 update

Is this why the WindowsApp/Ubuntu folder was hitting upwards 70Gbs recently?

I never really paid attention to the size of the VHD, and assumed that I had somehow generated gigabytes of dist and node_modules.

biscuitechon UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill

I hate that you're right. It doesn't apply exclusively to the UK

biscuitechon Threads users down by more than a half

Because if the site isn't making money, it's not sustainable. Unless musk wants to run it from his pocket money.

biscuitechon Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)

I think Royal and Desjardins charges

biscuitechon Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)

Same, until I went to the US where nothing is standardized and somehow there's private companies worth billions that cover this precise use case. It's actually mind blowing.

The single banking system of Canada is a massive win in this regards

biscuitechon GitHub Introduces Passkey Support

I don't think passkeys are for password manager users, but rather people who are tech illiterate. The problem we're seeing now is that passkeys are confusing as hell for non tech people, the target audience. A period of transition is bound to happen.

biscuitechon Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding

Doesn't open collective already do this though? You can fund specific goals iirc.

biscuitechon KeePassXC pull request to add basic support for WebAuthn

The repo was committed to, yes, but not the linked PR. The linked PR hasn't been updated since December of last year.