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Re:Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by...
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:32AM (#50354134)
agreed i'd love a german and spanish version of this
Re:Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:28PM (#50249597)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual
they could take a page out of the CIA manual for it.
Re:Canadians Are Running Out of Time to Oppose the Dangerous C-22 Surv...
on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:17PM (#50218079)
how is it cognitive dissonance when canada is mostly in the right about a lot of issues that america is in the wrong about? just because you disagree with some dickhead politican's point of view doesn't mean you disagree with the country. there's plenty of shitty bills like this being thrust upon americans against their will. what a weird argument.
Re:What the heck is /pkg?
on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:34AM (#50148727)
I grew up on apple computers and switched to windows and pcs for gaming reasons. when the iphone era came i switched back to them for my work computer and daily driver. my ideology soured when they deprecated perfectly good computers and phones from being able to run more recent software due to a few structural issues. Don't have that with linux generally and i don't want to be beholden to some update cycle to appease the apple managers and their sales targets. macos is great and the best software they've made... i just don't like their philosophy no. (that and ever since jobs died it's kinda gone downhill... tahoe is pretty bad it seems)
that said linux is objectively better in the freedom to do what you want department and complete customization areas and kde has a lot of the nice extras i had to install other software for on macos or windows out of the box. (middle mouse click on the magicmouse works out of the box, window management stuff, gaming controllers are some that come to mind)
i also think the people that think linux is some kind of super difficult thing to use forget that windows and macos have a ton of issues too and not everything works... you're just used to how it's broken and how to fix it from decades of using it. for 95% of the people that only use a handful of apps and a browser it's perfectly fine... you just need to call a different IT person to fix it or google it or even just use an LLM if you are so inclined.
Re:What the heck is /pkg?
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @08:43PM (#50147038)
yeah i'm happy to be on linux fulltime now from macos. you have the ultimate control over your system at the end of the day and can inspect how everything works and change it. toshy made it easier to keep my muscle memory of mac keybindings which i love and it works really well out of the box. there was a month or two before i installed it because i though it would be this big deal that would break things but to my surprise most everything worked well ootb.
Re:90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI b...
on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:31PM (#50126187)
yeah I am an aviation nerd and knew that but I was just trying to figure out how much they knew for such an outlandish claim.
Re:90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI b...
on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:32PM (#50123337)
do you actually understand how modern airplanes work in practice or is this just based off the fact that an airplane can land by itself?
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:42PM (#50092818)
apple pay is pretty damn convenient and seemingly secure. open a webpage and scan the apple qr like code and it's all done without much worry. maybe there's a mitm attack but i feel like you have a better shot at getting a refund from apple(i admit i've only used it a few times and nothing substantial or expensive)
i believe it also autofilled the address form for me.
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:49PM (#50024211)
i'd suggest trying out toshy... it's a game changer for linux. you get almost all of the mac keyboard shortcuts working out of the box. there's a few rough edges sometimes but generally it feels like you're using a mac wrt shortcuts. even stuff like diacritics and textbox emacs shortcuts work if you want.
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:47PM (#50024180)
karabiner-elements works very well to remap keys in macos even in very complex ways if you want. (multimodal ways held does something with other key presses but pressed by itself would emit a different code like esc or capslock)
Re:Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:16PM (#50014276)
local area network traffic was sent out and received by the device to the tune of 1TB of traffic. not internet data but local area network data which is not ideal for a coffee machine either way you slice it. if it were some kind of local bonjour or whatever the open standard is called service that was just alerting the network of their name it would be understandable but the coffee maker is streaming the equivalent of about 17 high def movies every day to the local network.
Re:Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies f...
on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:32PM (#49968636)
not only that but there are knock on effects like people hoarding toilet paper etc.
Re:An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:02PM (#49947271)
having written a few extensions... they are basically the same API with a few differences you need to account for. there's polyfills that can unify the experience a bit more too.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:20PM (#49929251)
i'd expect the fact that svelte doesn't have a shadow dom that gets recomputed all the time that it would be a significant performance and memory benefit for most apps. i'm not an expert though so idk if that's 100% accurate
Re:What About Rails?
on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:09PM (#49850588)
vary similar processes. vibe code/vibe create a presentation. he also knew what "shape the graph should look like" but still had errors in his powerpoint. if you can't trust it with a powerpoint i'm not sure why you can trust it for other low stakes things.
billionaires are a flaw in the system. it's an obscene amount of wealth for one person to have. A million is a lot for most people but a billion is 1000 of those.
Re:What About Rails?
on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:52AM (#49845509)
dhh did just what you did and apparently made a bunch of mistakes in his powerpoints.
Re:I said no and Apple said yes
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:21PM (#49804841)
that's really ignoring two big points. 1. windows and macs don't "just work" either... they have their fair share of pain points that you have to accept and/or workaround. 2. linux is different than windows and is different than macos in the sense that you've spent a long time learning the quirks of windows and macos and have the fixes mostly ready. once you learn the quirks of linux it's basically the same.
After the learning curve of linux desktop(well kde) it's basically the same as macos for me and for most people that would use it. most of the computing is done in the browser and that's basically the same experience in any os.
Re:Second Circuit Allows Government to Search Electronic Devices at th...
on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:55PM (#49757060)
...which is about 2/3rds the population of america.
Re:Small Programming Tricks
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:02PM (#49731423)
if you enable history substring search in zsh you can get that feature anywhere in the command and not just the start. it's very useful if you remember some snippet of the command like it had the word debug in it etc. in fish that is built in and on by default.
though one function that i recently added will narrow your history down based on a space separated set of filters which i found useful
function hgrep
set -l cmd history
for pattern in $argv
set cmd "$cmd | grep -- "(string escape "$pattern")
end
eval $cmd | cat
end
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:52PM (#49685994)
do you have any kind of succession plan in place in case you get incapacitated for one reason or another? anyone you trust enough for that?
I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service
Re:NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident...
on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:20PM (#49661941)
> This exact thing could happen 20 times with everything turning up relatively ok and we only heard about it because they didn’t make that final call correctly either
This concept is called normalization of deviance and is the cause of a lot of accidents in aviation and other fields.
Re:NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident...
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:54PM (#49652191)
mind you those numbers are seconds until the cvr stopped recording. they were a few hundred feet from the end of the runway when they initiated the go around and like the other poster said the turbines do take time to spool up from idle. they were so far out of normal spec for landing that it was absolutely pilot fault but not at the far end of the runway. they were not stabilized on approach way further back about 5 min or so. (if you're not stabilized on approach you are required to go around). they even called for flaps 30 halfway down the runway which is also not allowed for a stabilized approach.
Re:Hang on to Your Firefox
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:53PM (#49529948)
middle mouse click auto-scrolling too!
Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Includ...
on Monday August 31, 2026 @07:43PM (#49516188)
firefox has a setting on ios version that blocks ads so maybe they will get more market share that way?
Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:49PM (#49500996)
if you reset the keyboard shortcuts to their defaults and install toshy you can get the ctrl-a/e stuff and copy and paste in the command line with cmd-c/v and a lot of the other mac like keyboard shortcuts. it's really plug and play and works well... can't recommend it enough. (though there are some edge cases that may require some tweaks but overall it's great)
Re:Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds into ...
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:32PM (#49469221)
there was a time in history before fungus came along and ate trees so there were just a huge amount of trees around that couldn't decay. (which is why we have coal actually) this could be something akin to that.
Re:Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's St...
on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:15PM (#49423790)
Exactly. if AI gets a pass on stealing all of the world's information and gets a pass why shouldn't we get to enjoy the same benefits?