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I terminated the shell process and immediately got hit with Windows 95 nostalgia. This is great.

This is definitely a paid ad. Check out the company cited in the post. It's a VC funded attempt to extend/embrace/extinguish the current tooling. [0]

https://astral.sh/about

Totally agree, the options that iOS gives you to attempt to control spam are basically either pathetic or non-existent. I get tons of spam calls from one country, presumably doing a "missed call" scam trying to get me to call back and pay crazy rates. I don't see any reason why implementing a "block everything from country code x" feature would not be completely trivial, and it would instantly solve the problem. Yet my stupid smartphone can't do it.

Did you start to notice things getting worse around the new year when they added Brave to their search results? That was the turning point for me, I was a huge advocate but then quality went downhill and then a few weeks later they proudly announced that they had spent a third of their funding on...t-shirts. Between that and this huge push towards being just like Google and Bing with LLM hallucinated nonsense, I'm not sure what their aim is anymore.

Anyone can look at the live feed here and see that this is made up:

https://social.lol/public/local

I had to scroll through over 24 hours of posts before hitting anything political, an article about abortion in Texas. Definitely not the majority of the content and it took way more scrolling than a couple of screens. I still haven't seen anything else on your list yet.

(Background: I'm currently using Fly for some hobby apps. I like it.)

It is still wildly unstable right now because they're basically still building the platform and figuring out how to run a business. Earlier this year there was a migration to their "Apps V2" platform [0] which was supposed to be simple but it was extremely poorly communicated which led to a lot of users hitting issues along the way and being forced to make forum posts to try and desperately figure out how to keep their production apps up. None of the migrations worked for me either, I didn't complain as a freeloader - but seeing the support requests from paying customers painted a really bad picture.

[0] https://community.fly.io/t/get-in-losers-were-getting-off-no...

Same here as a paying user, I suspect that the recent change to unlimited searches on the monthly plans may have hit a bit harder than expected.

Haven't had any searches outright fail though. Waiting a couple seconds is still better than instantly getting a bunch of AI garbage from Google.

Seeking asylum does not "bypass immigration laws". The right to do so is enshrined in those laws.

Same as every project that involves cryptocurrency - the advantage is that the scammers who promote it can make money from badly reinventing an existing system.

Kagi doesn't charge you for bangs. (Disclaimer: Happy paying Kagi user here, just FYI)

One underrated use case that hasn't been mentioned here is that you also have the option to install Windows on it and then it's just like any other gaming PC but portable. No need to faff about with Proton and Steam or worry about compatibility, every game on every storefront just simply works.

> As usual with most pro-ChatGPT posts I see, there is little to no actual useful information on how to use ChatGPT practically.

I feel the same way, and my (maybe a bit paranoid) take is that many of those posts are also written by ChatGPT. After all, if someone is excited about the tool, of course they'll also use it as much as possible. In that case it also makes sense that there are never any practical examples since the training data is from pre-GPT times.

At least everyone can agree that we're all really just standing on the shoulders of Mozilla. In a way, that's beautiful.

> How can there be people in their 30s without a citizenship?

Because they've chosen not to pursue citizenship. There's a simplified path that anyone in this situation can utilize. I don't see how giving them the choice and allowing them to live and work in the country indefinitely even if they choose no is in any way "un-democratic".

And if you're suggesting that 30 years is not enough time to learn the absolute basics of a language, that is just utterly ridiculous. Not nearly as ridiculous as comparing this to the slave labor that built Dubai though.

Same, it's weird that this hasn't already been mentioned. They launched untrackable trash into space and got fined for it, nobody should trust this company.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-satellite-fine/fcc-fi...

> GNOME's nautilus, KDE's Dolphin and even Apple's finder do it right: press f2 and you can rename the file without changing the extension, unless you go out of you way for that.

This is exactly how Windows Explorer works by default too.

I don't see how this is on Snopes at all. Facebook users (and even some news organizations) fall for The Onion articles all the time and report them as fact. Snopes debunks them - that's their job, that's what they have always done. Facebook failed to accommodate for satirical publications when they introduced their "fake news" flagging. This is entirely their fault.

Was this when you initially got the phone or did you set it up and delete the account later on? Last I tried you can set up the phone and use it with no Google account, but once you add one you can't remove it without resetting to factory defaults.

How is that headline more accurate? The original one clearly states the facts, that the S3 had more sales than the 4S in this quarter, making it the best selling piece of hardware. And the article itself says that this was probably because of the iPhone 5 release.

I don't understand why you're so quick to defend Apple by changing the metric, despite nobody saying that this is any sort of "victory" for Samsung. It's an obvious result of the iPhone 5 release, it will be on top of the charts the next quarter as usual. If you're going to make it an iPhone vs. Android thing then you should compare the sales of all iPhones and all Android phones, you can't pick and choose a few from each category.

It's the first item in "about:flags".

The article talks about installing apps to your phone while you are browsing the web and reading about them on a different device. You still have to fire up the App Store on your iPhone and find the app and download it (or use iTunes to transfer it) if you bought it using the iPad. On Android, it's installed on your phone automatically without having to visit the Market app to find it.

I can't tell whether this is a serious post or not, but as someone who uses both every day:

> - Virtual invulnerability to malware - no need to buy and use crippling and intrusive anti-malware systems.

> - Partly as a result of the above, it's noticeably faster.

If you let Windows Update do its thing and recognize that downloading and launching freevideo.avi.exe and granting it admin access seems like a bad idea, there's nothing to worry about. Microsoft Security Essentials is free, stays quiet, and uses a negligible amount of memory.

> - Time Machine (albeit it would be much nicer if it were based on ZFS).

Backup and Restore. It's not as pretty nor well marketed, but it does the job just fine.

> - It comes bundled with pretty computers that have no blue LEDs (and most users, Windows and Mac alike, just stick to whatever came pre-installed). My last HP had 18 blue light sources piercing my retinas all the time.

So does Windows. You have a choice of whether to buy a Latitude or the pink Alienware XPS Mega 8000 with the Lady Gaga vinyl faceplate.

> - The company comes with a very charismatic CEO.

Windows comes with a jolly bald guy and an awesome well known philanthropist. Can we call it a draw?

> - It's prettier than Windows.

This depends on the person really, but I do love the borderless windows in OSX. The super-fat window borders in Win7 look silly (although you can make them smaller). The other big difference is the Dock, and that probably falls under UX rather than design. I hate how much space it wastes compared to the Taskbar though.

> - It just works. And keeps working.

Except when something goes wrong, as tends to happen in tech built by anyone running any OS. I think you'll find that the general consensus is that Win7 is rock solid and just as stable as OSX.

> - If you are a developer, it offers a rich Unix environment matched only by Linux machines - that, I have to admit, don't work as consistently. It also comes with a kick-ass IDE for free.

Win7 has PowerShell and MS gives away Visual Studio Express too. It really depends on what you're developing for, of course.

> - It already ships with a decent web browser. No need to download and install one.

IE8 is more than decent - it is by far the most popular and reliable method for downloading Firefox. Also, do any OSX power users even use Safari? All the OSX people I know use either Chrome or Firefox.

> - The App Store promises near-Linux ease for finding, selecting, downloading and keeping software up-to-date. It certainly beats the Windows way of googling for the software, hitting a malware site, going back, searching more, finding the correct site, downloading an executable and giving it the keys to the kingdom so it can do whatever it wants with your computer, something it may never recover from.

My first experience with the App Store was being asked for credit card information when I tried to download the free Twitter app. Ninite is a Windows app that comes close to doing what the App Store does.

Oops. I remember having an option before, guess they changed that.

If I remember right, this was right before Firefox 3.6.4 introduced out-of-process plugins so Flash has its own process to crash instead of taking down the whole browser.

Of course, for some reason the Skype plugin is still capable of crashing it...

My first thought looking at the transcripts was that seeing "IndexTank" as the screen name answering the questions rather than a person's name would make me suspect "robot" at first too. Either way, I agree that introducing yourself to the user with your own name will do a lot to reduce the suspicion.

To be clear, it's an option in the installer that you can uncheck.

Of course the vast majority of users won't notice that, and the add-on has a terrible habit of breaking page layouts, so this is a great move by Mozilla.

Web Developer is a Firefox favorite of mine that also has a Chrome version available now. (http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/)