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Re:What I Self-Host on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:42AM (#50130608)
Isn't a snapshot of the db a bad idea? At least you won't always be able to restore from that. You'll need a dump for that to work.
Re:IRCv3 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @07:16AM (#50041953)
But as IRC has a social network component, it's more of a social thing than anything inherent to IRC.
Re:Hacking OpenAI on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:57AM (#49750973)
Those companies that produce more RCEs than they close will sink and those that don’t won’t.
Somebody in another thread said gastown and wheelhouse automatically move to the next provider if one fails.
Please formulate your posts yourself and don’t use AI for it. What you are saying is true, but that way of writing takes away from it.

Juxtaposition: “…is not the method. It is the motive. …”

Don’t know what to call it, but it is also typical: “… He said so, publicly. \n On television.”

Re:Never Give Them Your Face on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:53PM (#48632702)
This article is AI slop
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @02:40AM (#47859878)
Is that true? Many other comments in this thread are saying Apple Silicon has something like 30% better efficiency/battery life.
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @02:39AM (#47859871)
There are enough keys there, just configure some to your liking. That’s a software problem.
Re:Nine observations from carbon dioxide monitoring on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:51PM (#47568275)
Your reply is unrelated to the article which discusses measuring CO2 in order to gauge pathogen transmission risk.
Re:Bugs Apple Loves on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:29AM (#46729977)
Thanks for that tip!

Unfortunately, it's still bad. It's a bit better than dragging the handles of the selected area, but if I go to far and want to reduce the selected area, it doesn't work anymore.

Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:12PM (#45291420)
I can agree to that, KDE is very good. Sadly my hardware has some persistent issues on Linux.

Also, while ScreenTime on MacOS is very unpolished, at least it exists. I do not think something similar exists for Linux or KDE.

Re:iPhone dumbphone on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:29AM (#45179155)
Apple actually finally managed to allow 0 minutes as a time limit. Screen Time really needs to be finished by Apple, with a few more features, like more allowing certain apps at certain times (not just disallowing one set of apps at a certain time).
It also works in Safari, don’t have to use firefox focus.
Re:Apple Launches Apple Watch 9 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:01AM (#37492755)
They also said something about analyzing blood flow for the gesture, I think.
Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @11:12PM (#37491765)
A single cow eats many times the calories it is worth before it is ready to be eaten.
Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) on Sunday September 10, 2023 @02:34PM (#37458632)
Apple support recently told me to kill all other apps to make the Files app work. It was taking ages to download and save data.
Re:You might want async in your project on Sunday September 10, 2023 @05:30AM (#37454260)
I don’t think that has changed.
They don’t emulate, they have a reimplementation of Windows APIs. And in some cases, a better one.
I haven’t tried debugging with lldb in some time so I don’t know whether it has improved significantly, but couldn’t the 9% also include that?
Zstd isn’t a product. Facebook isn’t getting anything out of anybody using it. So it isn’t a product.
Re:Linux Desktop Environments System Usage on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:57PM (#33959362)
What he probably meant is that Command+C is copy, etc.

You can’t easily do that because every Linux program expects different things. The hack to make it work is to switch keyboard configs when you switch the application, I think. It’s far from ideal.

I’m going to try this, I just don’t feel comfortable with Obsidian being closed source.
Re:CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed's DNA on Thursday December 01, 2022 @02:45PM (#33821644)
This webpage crashed my iPad 6 Gen Safari when repeatedly scrolling down without reading (iPadOS 16.1.1). It’s probably just too little memory, but still, isn’t this just a blog post?
I thin Apple should have rejected all versions of the Spotify app. It’s atrocious.
Re:When Germany’s flight control system ran under Emacs on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:07AM (#33529801)
I don’t think that’s idiotic. There is no standard way of transferring a file from on device to another. That is a failing of the tech industry.
Re:Peto's Paradox on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:55AM (#33516587)
Sounds like the environment of humans is the explanation. If you were to put a whale in a human city, eating and working there, maybe the whale would have the same rate of cancerous cells
Re:Analysis of Apple Watch running data on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:54AM (#32972566)
The author still seems to be on an Apple Watch 4, if I read correctly. So this seems like a case of Apple shipping a bad update to an older device and not caring. Or OP has a bad device.
Re:Analysis of Apple Watch running data on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:51AM (#32972517)
Open health app and press on your profile picture in the upper right corner (scroll to the top). Then scroll down and press export all health data. Also OP mentioned the exported XML has some errors in iOS 16, so beware of that.
Re:Analysis of Apple Watch running data on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:46AM (#32972463)
In iOS 16 it’s tap on the workout, then anywhere under Workout details and scroll a bit. That is really no discoverability issue, because there is even a show more button next to it, that has the same function.

But maybe it changed on iOS 16?

Re:iPhones and action discoverability on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:20AM (#32968925)
Just press on the small album art, then it’s big again.

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