multiplegeorges

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Comment · 23 hours ago
It would just stack the windows of different sizes, so if you hit the Winamp tab the smaller Winamp tab would be at the top of the stack. Pretty simple and intuitive.

I loved the tabs on BeOS.

Comment · 3 days ago
> After a local activist uploaded a license-plate search tool on Fly.io, a developer-focused public cloud platform, to an infiltrated Signal chat, HSI agents reviewed website DNS queries and Stripe data along with data purchased from a commercial broker. This gave HSI access to SSH session logs, outbound connection records, the Fly.io account’s signup IP, and a Stripe card fingerprint on an account that had never completed a payment. Agents fused that with Minnesota DVS records and commercial data from the Thomson- Reuters CLEAR platform to produce a driver's license nummber, Social Security number summary, years of address history, phone numbers, property records, and jointly registered vehicles.

Wow, I wonder how they got SSH session logs?!

The breadcrumb trail here is chilling.

Comment · 15 days ago
It had a decent number of apps, I drove it as my primary OS for a while.

Ended up using Linux, but it was a great OS for its time.

Comment · 25 days ago
No, more like:

> If you're evil, you're at least competent.

Incompetent evil exists. This statement is wrong, B does not follow A.

> And if you're evil, you're not bad.

They aren't mutually exclusive, so this is incorrect.

> And therefore, maybe you're actually kind of good because you're at least getting something done

This presupposes that "getting something done" is a positive end in itself, which is not a given.

Each phrase is wrong. It's impressive, actually.

Comment · 29 days ago
Well, I apologize for assuming! But, nevertheless, that's why TUIs are popular.
Comment · 29 days ago
I would've LOVED that. It was a huge need that got filled (half-assedly) by others.

Better late than never!

Comment · 29 days ago
This is like 10 years too late.

Wallet Passes are incredibly useful and people like them. I tried to create a Pass with the woefully inadequate Apple documentation years ago and ended up pivoting because it was such a pain in the ass.

Comment · 29 days ago
I like TUIs because I am running agents in Docker, often remotely.

How can a GUI replicate this workflow? I know it could, technically, but not as easily.

Comment · 1 month ago
This is probably the best take I've seen on this.
Comment · 1 month ago
They all gave $1M to the inauguration, among other things, that's how. The corruption is out in the open.
Comment · 1 month ago
Not much of a surprise. Government action has been anemic at best. Industry action (overall) has been net negative.

The only hope now is exponential growth of (solar and wind)+batteries making other sources uneconomic. This seems to be slowly happening, so I hope we hit the exponential curve soon and we're there quicker than we expect.

This only stops it.

Then, to fix it, we'll need a massive Direct Air Capture industry that will have to operate for a century, and probably past that so we can hit and maintain a CO2 level of 250ppm.

Comment · 3 months ago
> San Francisco schools decided a couple of years ago that they would no longer teach Algebra in 8th grade.

This has nothing to do with this at all. We're talking about 4th grader literacy nationwide and you're talking about algebra in a single area in a different grade!?

The second point where there aren't enough teachers nationwide (10% missing workforce) is probably because teachers are terribly paid, disrespected, and subject to bad working conditions.

Maybe that's why people aren't clamoring to be teachers and the quality of work is low?

Comment · 4 months ago
Using my phone in grayscale convinced me of the power of shiny colours. It is shocking how boring my phone feels in grayscale.

This really does help break any feeling of attachment to the device and the solutions in this post really do make it more practical. It does kind of suck using the camera in grayscale.

Comment · 5 months ago
> blocking a referendum because they didn't consult indigenous groups

The requirement to do so is in our constitution, the Charter. It's not optional and not absurd to anyone with proper historical understanding of Canadian history.

Comment · 5 months ago
Sedition, technically.

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