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Wasn't the efficacy of the focus/bionic reading stuff disproven awhile back? Are people still using it?

> But there is also the fun side of it becoming a status symbol I guess. Drive up future demand. For the Steam Controller that's very clearly at least partly what's going on. Valve…

Exactly what I thought. The beginning of the end of the free and open internet was the rise of the walled garden. The final nail in the coffin is that every search result for "inde…

In addition to the wonders of the physical world, national parks, lakefront properties, skiing locations becoming owned by and run for the rich, advertising is moving further from …

You need better proof than tiktok buzzwords. This isn't reddit.

Bun is now almost twice the size of JavaScriptCore, too, by linecount after this. This is the 'world class' engineering that Jarred claims he can't hire Americans to do, by the way…

> It is straight up wrong to say "if you have ASLR enabled, you're not at any risk from this" and saying this is extremely harmful for anyone that trusts claims like that. You can …

> Does nobody remember his old videos rambling about women and gender topics, for example? No one remembers these because they don't exist.

The difference is that the Not Just Bikes guy is actually doing what the parent commenter is claiming Louis (only) does and Louis in reality does a lot more than that like what's i…

Sure, but what's the point of obfuscating that? This article is activism. The re-framing of software that you install intentionally being about breaking your 'consent' is ideologic…

The Empire of AI book seriously did permanent damage on this talking point.

When the new jobs number increases to four (or even three) digits people will take that more seriously.

If there's one thing I've learned about the custom Android community (and to a lesser extent, the Android community) it's that "it actually works" isn't really important or convinc…

> That's not healthy on an individual level or cumulatively at a societal level. This is a product of a secular neoliberal culture (certainly including this website) that there is …

World IPv6 Day was in 2011, so 15 years since then. This is also requiring a consumer hardware and software upgrade on both the client and server (resource they're accessing). GitH…

Right, but in most situations clients will prefer IPv6 if its available, so if they have access, they almost always are using it, at the very least from their local network.

Got a lot of downvotes here but this is just good advice. One of the good things about the split between the "homelab" and "selfhosted" communities - they are solving fundamentally…

It's basically the entire context of this website.

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spyware Why is Palantir a spyware company, but Snowflake or Databricks are not? "Spyware" has an actual definition, and there are real companies that sell it, like Pegasus. It's no…

They literally did. XLS was proprietary until Microsoft completely cornered the spreadsheet software market.

Austin is not a success story. It is a treading water story, and an example of lying with statistics because most of where it's cheap to live in "Austin" literally wasn't Austin wh…

And also expand the city line for what "Austin" is so you can include the cheaper, far from everything housing that you refuse to build. Yes, it does need to be affordable, and a c…

0-days mostly got expensive from compiler optimizations and other security guarantees that carry over to webassembly, like ASLR and pointer authentication, as well as sandboxes and…

> In my opinion, inappropriately leaked information should probably still be considered private. I'd love to see the limitations of this opinion you definitely hold honestly and wi…