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jeffhuys··on TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting
File is deleted.
jeffhuys··on Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
There's an app by Apple that allows you to remove the U2 songs
jeffhuys··on New MacBook Air with M2
I'm not in the US, so I'm kinda alone in this, and forgot to tell my work I wanted an international one, so I got an M1 pro from work with the international lay-out.

I've been using US layout since I was ~8. And all my other systems have the US layout. I am having such a hard time to get used to it.

I keep hitting ± when I mean ~ (why would I even need a ±/§ key on my keyboard?). I keep hitting \ when I want to hit Return. I keep hitting ~ when I want to hit shift.

Frustrating. Agreed with the "bad design" point.

jeffhuys··on New MacBook Air with M2
I'm guessing, since the OS handles those menu items and the OS knows about the notch, it'll just skip the notch and continue the menu items to the right.
jeffhuys··on New MacBook Air with M2
Oh, man, you're in for a treat.

Make sure to enable Handoff - copy on your phone (Google Authenticator, for example), CMD+V on your laptop. CMD+Tab to something on your phone (a Safari tab, for instance) from your laptop, and vice versa. A lot of other neat stuff awaits you!

jeffhuys··on New MacBook Air with M2
This comment makes me sigh. I know you will defend yourself with "what? I'm just stating a fact!" but saying stuff like this makes me really dislike you. I really like Apple products, does that make me a part of a cult? If yes, why? I wouldn't die for them, I wouldn't go through pain for them.
jeffhuys··on I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort
Small sort implementation in ES6:

   const args = process.argv.slice(2).map(Number);

   for (let i = 0; i < args.length; i++)
     for (let j = 0; j < args.length; j++)
       if (args[i] < args[j])
         [args[i], args[j]] = [args[j], args[i]];

   console.log(args.join(' '));
Didn't expect it to be actually that simple, but now that I wrote it, it makes complete sense.

To PROVE it, is another thing. Good work.

jeffhuys··on My New Sony NW-A55 Walkman
But the nice thing about apple music is that you can add any song to it on your PC and it syncs it to all your devices. So if you have an esoteric taste, you can mix it in with the streaming service.
jeffhuys··on Windows 95 in Electron
> just to save some developer time

That's actually the #1 reason to use any of these bloated development environments. And it's also the reason why it's so popular. But I agree, here we are, getting angry at bitcoin because it uses so much energy, but if I would need to guess, could it be that Discord and Slack _alone_ use more energy world-wide than the entire bitcoin network? Those are on 100% of the time on most PCs.

jeffhuys··on The Seiko TV watch
When I use my apple watch to watch videos (reddit client for instance), I rotate it, so it's on the bottom of my arm. That works a lot better.
jeffhuys··on Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipient in crypto transfers
Still full KYC here.
jeffhuys··on We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned
The entire workflow could remain the same while tar/zipping goes on in the background...
jeffhuys··on Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
I guess that happens when you try to fit everything in 100 seconds.

Also, it will become almost literally impossible to hear the difference in the near future, so I personally wouldn't keep assuming it's one or the other.

Also also, did you give this feedback to Jeff?

jeffhuys··on Dark pattern: how YouTube makes sure you don’t always “skip ad”
Do you own a Macbook with touch bar? Use Safari and skip ads by using the scrubbing feature of the touch bar. No adblock needed, all ads skippable, and they're none the wiser.

Mwua-ha-haaa.

jeffhuys··on Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations
Which is racist.
jeffhuys··on Traffic Simulator
Participating in traffic all comes down to being as predictable as possible, I think.
jeffhuys··on Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
People who care about that support them using (for instance) Patreon, and that makes them a LOT more than youtube will, especially with the demonetisation bonanza as of late.
jeffhuys··on Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
Also living outside the USA, and Apple maps is more accurate in some places than Google maps (the Netherlands). For instance a very big business lot was completely grey on Google maps, but completely mapped out on Apple maps. I don't even have Google maps downloaded on my new iPhone.

So, one anecdote for, one against, it evens out for now.

jeffhuys··on Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
Could you elaborate?
jeffhuys··on System76 – Pangolin
> My MBP's touchpad is not so bad until I need to drag something, I've noticed I avoid interactions such as resizing that I do all the time with a mouse or a touchpad that has dedicated buttons.

Did you know that you could use a macbook touchpad like it has buttons? I've noticed it with my mother and my girlfriend (separate entities for the record) when I got them a macbook when their windows-based laptops almost died: they couldn't get used to clicking and pointing with the same finger, and fell back to their old habits of having a finger on the bottom left of the pad, and clicking that finger if they wanted to click/drag something.

So it kind-of knows what to ignore and what not to ignore / recognise intent of the user trying to do this.

When you combine this with "bottom right click = right mouse button" you basically have what you want!

jeffhuys··on The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
You can find them here:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...

jeffhuys··on Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang
I feel it was just logic: nothing existed, but what is nothing? To define nothing you have to define what "something" is. So there should be something to allow the existence of nothing.
jeffhuys··on Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
I use Cerctube on iOS, no ads. (no jailbreak either)
jeffhuys··on Can't you just right click?
>Why do you need this seamlessness ? Is your attention span so short that you forget what you were doing after the first error pops up ?

Are you seriously asking why one would want a system to be more seamless? Less cognitive overhead = more productivity, period.

jeffhuys··on Apple announces Apple Music radio
Spotify is extremely slow and battery-draining on my 6s. I don't want the random videos that play either. I also want the integration between my mac, apple tv, watch and iphone.
jeffhuys··on Factorio 1.0
Also iOS!
jeffhuys··on Mac keyboard shortcuts
>What does (short-)pressing the power button do?

It goes to sleep.

jeffhuys··on System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution
The elevators I encounter daily have a working close button, are there ones that don't work?
jeffhuys··on New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads
Eh, I use Wipr. Exact same thing. PiHole if you want system-wide.
jeffhuys··on Riot is now Element
Sure, but Apple started before the internet (became big). When Google started, "Apple" probably brought up Apple Computers in the first few results.

Starting out with a common word that already has close to a billion results on Google requires a lot more effort.

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