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Got it, I'm a creator of comment-section content.

Create what exactly? I'm under the impression that you can hardly create anything on a phone except for cat movies and shopping lists.

Make my password great again

OSes may be technical clusterfucks. However, the most important thing imho is that all this shit is running on a stack that's robust against vendor lock-in. That's easier with a sm…

Microsoft tried this with Touch Develop. The project was shut down last year. The on-screen keyboard layout was context-sensitive. IIRC you could enter complete keywords with a sin…

It doesn't sound to me like the kind of thing that any particular WoW is going to fix. As if it would suddenly naturally dawn on someone to do this given enough time. It's just lac…

I don't believe that not setting a deadline is the solution. There are definitely software engineers who will happily change their designs an infinite amount of times if you let th…

Let's go even more general: I would be unable to download PlayStore apps without violating the EULA. Did you know my apartment building's washing machines are literally inoperable …

Try to use it for a while also. My experience has also been that, after a short time, you will be required to provide your phone number for security reasons.

Knuth invented a system that combines writing and coding: literate programming. Maybe you'd like that.

Yep, I wish it was better as well. The situation has improved a little bit though. For example, you can upgrade to newer builds of the same LineageOS version OTA using a built-in u…

On one hand, I really welcome technologies like this that empower people in a huge way. On the other hand, I really dread that in this case it comes from the company that wants to …

Yeah it makes sense when you think about it, but the first time you see it you're like wtf.

GT Sport has a DLC-mode where you can do time trials vs. Lewis Hamilton's lap times. On a track where he clocked 1 minute 37 seconds, I was pretty shocked to find that the top 10 G…

It has been for a while. I occasionally need to do !g when I'm searching for obscure errors, but it doesn't happen often.

This could be considered a flaw in those products as well.

So, it means cross platform.

Are you aware of any memory-leak issues with fset? I once used it in a game where I updated an fset sequence in real-time. I let it run for a while, after coming back I noticed my …

And increasingly, everything _with_ a computer too. I literally cannot use the laundry machines in my apartment building without an app I need to get from Google/Apple app store.

It seems to me that the amount of politics discussed on a platform is related to how popular that platform is. I like how in some technical IRC channels they just ban any political…

So, the advantage of this method is that it is practical and the closest one to a method that produces the optimal solution. Where the latter method is at risk of crazy compile tim…

Isn't that actually another thing to worry about: what is going to happen to all this data when FB eventually goes bankrupt? Seems hard to believe they're just going to delete it f…

Let's say you run your own mail server. How much privacy do you really gain if 99% of the mail that comes in and goes out passes through Google servers? It doesn't matter what you …

Individually, you have a choice. But not using e.g. WhatsApp needs to be a collective decision or it won't work because everybody else is still stuck in there.

I suspect social media companies don't like the message because they don't like the costs required for good moderation. They don't really care about free speech, that's just spin.