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jaffa2··on Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)
yeah but it's not configurable for local vs network as far as i can tell
jaffa2··on I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep
a decent long form article with pictures, a story, well written, and something of interest. I will read this fully later as it will require some time. Good work!
jaffa2··on Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
My experience of docker is running docker-compose, which uses docker desktop on Windows . I can use apple containers instead of docker to achieve the same thing? it's sounds like it.
jaffa2··on Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
Yeah. I don't quite understand this. Can I use this instead of docker desktop, to run docker containers on my mac 'natively' ? Or this is completely separate from docker ?
jaffa2··on Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software
Who designed that map?

Anyone know?

Did it appear First in quake or quake III?

jaffa2··on Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)
Is there any way to stop /prevent it enumerating tif files over the network ?

When i open a directory of 400 30MB tif files it grinds to a halt while it thumbnails them all over the network. Its unusable.

jaffa2··on Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)
One thing worth knowing is in the mac file dialogs you can drop a file from finder into these and it will change directory to where that file is.

The other thing is in most apps in the title bar there is an icon. Drag that to finder and it saves the file. Kinda Risc os style.

jaffa2··on Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)
does this index the disk to do this ? So the filemanager is working with an index rather than the files ? It could be stale ?

I haven't found a good file manager for mac since 15 years now. They all just about do the things I need but not good enough. I've never really done the dual pane thing, my favourite gui for file management was Windows XP. Every iteration of explorer since has gotten objectively worse.

On mac I don't even bother trying to filemanage. I remote in to a windows machine.

I need to be able to get paths and paste paths.

for my downloads I just sort by type in list view and delete whatever by type. just do that a few times a year no big deal. I don't understand why we can't have an AI that sorts out the files they half baked 'stacks' onto the desktop, but all that happens is i now have dozens and dozens of stacks which contain dozens and dozens of files.

jaffa2··on Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
never ask why, but instead, why not?
jaffa2··on My quest to see all of Tetris
how doe piece selection work? isnt it random?
jaffa2··on Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
why dont you get it? i dont' get why you dont get it.
jaffa2··on Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
i still don't know what castro is, and I'm not interested to look it up. something to do with podcasts, is all I've gleaned from the comments.
jaffa2··on Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty
hmm. seems a little dystopian, but wrapped in a friendly 'oh they have no groceries lets advertise them a pizza'

anybody got any scenarios, following the same devious pattern, but with nefarious or more serious consequences. ? Some company sells my data, some other company uses that data with another company to send me a highly targetted advert.

in fact is this already happening, what is novel here ?

jaffa2··on How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps
> Where I had control, I made changes. Unnecessary labels removed. Accurate alt text added — not filed-in-for-compliance alt text, actually descriptive alt text. The heading structure was cleaned up where I could reach it. For this project's SharePoint tracking page, I rerouted entirely: instead of asking users to fight through the noise, the system now sends an email update at every stage of the approval.

seems to be the only bit of text that actually details anything that was done. I would liked to have read about the actual changes and steps taken to improve accessibility instead of some kind of low key rant about MS

jaffa2··on This blog is written in en-GB
the irony of an Englishman complaining about Americans assuming cultural expectations, whilst simultaneously doing the same thing to fellows from outwith England and Wales. Yes I did say 'outwith'.
jaffa2··on This blog is written in en-GB
> Accrington Stanley

I've never heard of this depite being from the UK. It seems to be some ad from 1989. Although I do remember many classic ads from the 1980's I don't recall this. Is it an English / Scottish thing ? Who knows.

Why is Accrington Stanley so famous?

Ian Rush reflects on famous milk advert ahead of Liverpool v ... Accrington Stanley achieved worldwide fame primarily due to a legendary 1989 television advert for the Milk Marketing Board. In the iconic commercial, two young Liverpool fans debate whether to drink milk. One claims that football star Ian Rush told him, "If you don't drink lots of milk, you'll only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley". The other boy questions, "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?", prompting the reply, "Exactly". The slogan became a massive pop-culture catchphrase in the UK, turning a then-obscure non-league team into the most famous minnows in football.

jaffa2··on Aerial Photographs (2017)
Nice.

Would it be possible to GIS these or join them into a google map style interface ?

jaffa2··on Free the Icons
I press the lock button long, short, tap, it doesn’t do ‘the thing’ like yellow wobbles around the edge of screen.
jaffa2··on Free the Icons
On YouTube if enter a comment and decide i dont want to submit it after all, does back close the comment window and take me to the video, or does it take me to the previous video i viewed.

If i click a link in youtube and browser opens, does clicking back take me back to YouTube? Back in the browser? Back to the previous video.?

jaffa2··on Knoppix
I tried this with 2 drives in my life. 0/2 success rate.
jaffa2··on Knoppix
I had knoppix running at the time. It was my first experience of a Live CD. which was cool as I could run it I'm sure it was a pentium 100 with 16meg and 800MB hdd. or maybe it was later on my Pentium II with 128Meg and 6.4GB Fireball!

Either way I used it a good few times to rescue data and generally fiddle with all sort of pcs from this era. (late 90's to early 2000')

jaffa2··on If You Didn't Vote Then Shut Your Mouth – Don't Advertise That You're an Idiot
> Unfortunately, not everyone does vote. There are a hundred different reasons why someone might choose not to vote. None of them are valid.

gonna have to disagree there. Who the hell are you to say what is and isn't valid ?

jaffa2··on Free the Icons
Go to previous (web)page if web/file browser

Keeps walking the tree upwards.

If i switch to my browser and hit back what happens : I go back to my previous app ? I go back in my browser page cache history ? I go back to the page that opened that web page i'm looking at ? something else ?

also mixing Back and Up is just wrong. I've had arguments with people that don't understand the difference.

jaffa2··on Free the Icons
EXACTLY. I'm a tech savvy user and know about all these things. But it's still too damn difficult to use without all that jeopardy. It didn't used to be like this.
jaffa2··on Free the Icons
brilliant. when i last used an android google apps were the worst for abusing the back button. maybe it's changed since then. sometimes it went up. sometimes previous. sometimes quit.
jaffa2··on Free the Icons
Its just as bad. Please define ‘back’
jaffa2··on Free the Icons
1. Ive been using apple iphone since 2010 and i jave an iphone air right now. I still dont know how/why/when i seem to accidentally call the AI thing where the side of my acreen go all all funny. Ive never done it intentionally and i dont know how but every so often i trigger it.

2. Can apple ‘regress’ the camera app so the it is easy to use. The interface is a disaster of mixed inputs and over loaded widgets. Theres so many modes and sub modes. Swipe to zoom works mostly except when it changes modes. I spend about 10 seconds every tone inise the camera app just making it take a picture because accidentally touching it in the wrong place switches to some other mode.

3. The genrel consistency has went downhill. Its difficult sometimes now to know just how to interact with an app.

4. Search box. If i do another attempt at a web search when i am in mail search box i dunno. Either unify it or make it distinct. Also sometime its at the top sometimes the bottom

jaffa2··on 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
you can click through on this site, then on the menu click through to the actual resource
jaffa2··on We’re making Bunny DNS free
So is this just a dns service? I can use their servers to service dns requests? The main webpage unfortunately has a lot of marketing speak that says a lot but doesnt really tell me what it is.

Quote “ At bunny.net, our mission has always been ambitious but focused: help make the internet hop faster.

To do that, we’ve built a massive global network spanning 119 locations and counting. Today, this network powers over 1.5 million websites and consistently delivers some of the fastest content delivery around the globe. But while deploying thousands of servers globally is an impressive feat on its own, the hardware itself does not explain how bunny.net is able to deliver such an impressive level of performance.

The real secret hides under the hood, embedded in the routing engine that directs every request, every user, and sends traffic exactly where it needs to go. That engine is Bunny DNS”

Ok… so what is it? Router? Dns? Software? Service? Upon reading again that para actually sounds a bit like AI slop, could explain it.

jaffa2··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Yeah the older devices were notoriously bad when intrusion was on.

I also have it on on my unit .

I do agree though nonharm in giving a bit more power. Why skimp on the cpu.

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