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mavhc··on Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
True, but I mean wins in a global "it's now the default platform for most people in the world" sense.
mavhc··on Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
Whatsapp wins because it doesn't require a username and password, that's too complex for many people
mavhc··on UK's Online Safety Act comes into force
Are you more likely to die because the people around you aren't vaccinated, or because you can't access a pro suicide website?
mavhc··on Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
"she studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford, where she was an undergraduate student at New College, achieving a 2:1 Bachelor of Arts degree in June 2000.[8] From 2003 to 2004 she studied for a master's degree in economics at the London School of Economics."
mavhc··on Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013)
What about PDF/A, archive version with restricted features?
mavhc··on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ is the OSM like version
mavhc··on AI Guesses Your Accent
Or teach people not to trust that you said something just because something sounds like you. Use actual authentication instead of implied. Same for photos, videos
mavhc··on "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"
Indeed, so if it's on the same continent/building/room is it a backup? depends why you need to restore it. You can't tell whether something is a backup until it's restored, it's Schrodinger's backup.

A snapshot is a backup if a user deletes/edits their file and wants the old version. Raid is a backup if you're recovering from 1 disk failing

mavhc··on "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"
Backup is a useless word, it's too overloaded

Are snapshots backups? snapshots on raid? snapshots on replicated disks?

mavhc··on Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server
The ability to run ethernet and power over the same usb port is handy for static reuse of phones, not sure there's a list of who supports it though
mavhc··on Next stop: Miami
Can they map it to cm accuracy and cope with the millions of changes that happen every day?
mavhc··on Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
Plus you get to use the atmosphere as a free sewer, filling it with pollution without paying the actual cost to clean it up, which makes flying really cheap
mavhc··on ChatGPT Pro
Not like most had a choice, they already had office documents and windows, what else were they going to pick?

Your historical pile of millions of MSOffice documents is an ocean sized moat.

mavhc··on Next stop: Miami
Assuming they stop relying on hd maps, or map everywhere
mavhc··on Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]
Agreed, we tried to learn how to play from the book, and then got an existing player to help
mavhc··on Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]
Doesn't that mean Chess and Draughts are the just variations?
mavhc··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
Does that matter though? At some point someone's assigning them a legal age so you can decide if they're over 16 or under 18, or over 21 etc. Your real age doesn't matter. And why would it not be able to be corrected later? Another advantage of a digital ID
mavhc··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
Not disallowed, just they also have to offer an alternative.

Question is why hasn't Australia created a Digital ID system that can prove you're >= 16 years old without giving away other info?

mavhc··on A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar Technology
It's weird that what he does is so easy yet no one else is making EVs at scale in USA, or landing rockets, 10 years after SpaceX did it
mavhc··on Starlink Direct to Cell
Isn't the Tesla supercomputer completely separate from the xAI supercomputer?
mavhc··on We are shutting down Ondsel
True, MacOS is slightly better, still has raise on click, can't see a way to disable that.

My use case is I have 2 applications that I want to drag something between, and the windows overlap

Can you create a new document and then drag a proxy icon to the Finder on MacOS?

mavhc··on We are shutting down Ondsel
They're based on the 1984 technology of "we can barely run 1 application at once", you can barely drag objects between applications, mostly you can't use overlapping windows because of raise on click, which makes dragging anything pointless, they put the menus far from the pointer.

Why when I have my file manager view of a directory open do I need to open it again inside the application to save a file there?

mavhc··on Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
I assume apple has something similar to https://support.google.com/android/answer/15146908

Theft Detection Lock uses AI, your device's motion sensors, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to detect if someone unexpectedly takes your device and runs away. If Theft Detection Lock detects that your device is taken from you, it automatically locks your device's screen to protect its content.

mavhc··on We are shutting down Ondsel
Desktop managers have never decided if they want to copy Windows or MacOS, both of which are terrible GUIs that we're now stuck with, using paradigms from 1983/1984
mavhc··on IMG_0416
Why are you following them?
mavhc··on Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
99% of my youtube viewing is via the subscriptions page
mavhc··on Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16
https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-t...
mavhc··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
And the same penalties for Human Driver Beta
mavhc··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
Surely the number of cars than can do it, and the price, also matters, unless you're going to ban private cars
mavhc··on Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court
I stood in front of it for at least 10 minutes, the trick is to go in the evenings. Being behind a crappy plastic shield didn't help though
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