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skuthus

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Hi, I'm Skyler. I work in IT for a major aerospace company. Before that, I worked in IT for a major software company. Sometimes I work for myself.

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skuthus··on Townscaper Running in the Browser
Part of the fun for me is that it's kind of like a zen garden, but for buildings. I would love to see people start to populate and let the computer decide what they do and what the buildings are used for based on conditions created by the design of the city.
skuthus··on What does microblogging give you that forums didn't?
consistent uptime, apparently
skuthus··on M1 Pro and M1 Max MBP owners complain of crashes playing HDR YouTube videos
you know that's bad, right?
skuthus··on Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016)
it's called the macbook air
skuthus··on My small revenge on Apple
To be fair, Apple users only care about privacy when it suits them - 5-6 years ago, it was not a priority of any apple user and many mocked non-apple people for caring about it. If apples handing it to you, it must be important, or so the thinking seems to go
skuthus··on Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten
obsidian has a whole number of these things - to what degree, I do not know, but it's definitely worth looking
skuthus··on Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten
You could do all this work, or you could just use https://obsidian.md/
skuthus··on Near, the creator of higan and bsnes emulators, has died
Thank you! Didn't see it before I posted.
skuthus··on How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
I agree that corporations should be curtailed in both their size and power. This would resolve the paradox of speech being free, but it's platforms being controlled by a few large organizations. However, to say that free speech is absolute is absurd, because absolute free speech in this context would require the limitation of rights of organizations and owners too.
skuthus··on How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
precisely. A better way to look at it is that you are free to travel by other means. The burden is convenience.
skuthus··on How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
>the billionaires running the digital tools all decide to ban me, I am silenced.

How so? Are you incapable of using non-digital media to communicate? Are you incapable of creating your own digital platforms for communication or using alternative, less popular means to do so? Are you prevented from going to city hall, council meetings, political rallies, or voting? Your speech as it relates to your rights granted in the constitution remains completely intact. Your rights are unaffected by your access to certain digital platforms.

skuthus··on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support
Sounds like reasonable open internet regulation, like the type that "The Left" has been fighting to get for decades, would have really been something useful for Republicans to not oppose simply because of its popularity among the left.

Instead, we are left with mega corporations being the arbiters of their own platforms, Just like those supporting deregulation wanted.

skuthus··on Notion is having a service interruption
Totally - you can also easily sync it with your own service, if you don't want to use their sync service. The flexibility is definitely a huge selling point.
skuthus··on Notion is having a service interruption
Over the course of the last year I have been working on building a personal zettlekasten. I started in Notion, making several relational databases. However, after experiencing some down time, I decided to switch to Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) it's a much, much better program, does not have slowdown issues on my mac, is fully cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and has a sync system that works pretty seamlessly. Not to mention that the files are all plain markdown and stored locally.
skuthus··on Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)
Also used in Watchmen (2009) to great effect
skuthus··on macOS has checked app signatures online for over 2 years
>I don't want to worry about whether my music will work five or ten years from now

This is exactly what Apple has already done to the iTunes world, music you had a decade ago is suddenly inaccessible

skuthus··on PokéWalker hacking: A complete device takeover and ROM dump using infrared
Very cool, love seeing projects like this produce repeatable results.
skuthus··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
My thinkpad works very well with linux, I recommend Zorin or Arch
skuthus··on macOS Big Sur
As of now it says the issue is 'resolved' for users failing update, but none of my macs attempting to upgrade agree with that status.
skuthus··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
Wow this is a huge cluster - threw a complete wrench in my work for almost an hour. Is this what we should be expecting from Apple going forward?
skuthus··on macOS Big Sur
This did help, thank you!
skuthus··on macOS Big Sur
Currently there is an outage preventing users from downloading the update - also experiencing extreme slowness on all macs after having selected the update for download - even though the download has failed. Not a good sign of things to come.
skuthus··on Open Source Everything
I like it. Would love to talk more on this
skuthus··on Intel debuts a new logo alongside its 11th Gen chips
Interesting choice - strange to see so many companies move away from their well-established design language into font-centric typeface logos.
skuthus··on On All That Fuckery
>"Transphobia" - even such things as thinking about "sex" and "gender" as different concepts are quite US specific. i.e. where I live we typically refer to people by their sex, and don't even have a term for a separate concept like gender.

Another way of saying this is that Lithuania is currently either culturally or politically suppressing trans people, whether inherently or knowingly - I promise you trans people and their alternative identification exist there, too. You just dont see it and/or they are afraid to say so.

skuthus··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
iPhone is one of the highest margin products in apples ecosystem
skuthus··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Java edition will work on all x86 machines
skuthus··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
How about when things move to Apple Silicon? Will they then not be just as locked down as iOS iPadOS? Subjected to the same limited app store?
skuthus··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
What about when your computer is on Apple Silicon, and the stores (and their policies) have been merged?
skuthus··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Not to mention that the transition to Apple Silicon will lead to the total integration of the Mac App Store into the iOS store, so these policies are going to merge at some point and literally apply to general computers too
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