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Edvik··on LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product
Sooo.. how much will it cost, and why is the price so difficult to find?
Edvik··on New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs
I would imagine apps that work on undoing iOS7's visual changes are going to be popular. I personally would like one, at least for those icons.
Edvik··on Firefox 26 is released
I switched to Chrome because it was faster and I didn't care about extensions.

I switched back to Firefox because it became faster than Chrome (from my user experience, I don't know about tests and whatnot)

Many of these updates are helping them stay fast and haven't resulted in any bloat (yet), so at least from my perspective, great!

Edvik··on Personal Fresh Air Desk
Does anyone know what is special about the pollutants addressed by these plants? Are there other pollutants that are helpful to filter, and why did NASA focus on this set?
Edvik··on The Open Source Bikeshed
It's a matter of degree then. Saying "doing work to change pronouns isn't worth it to me" is one thing - you may find the benefits of that too trivial to be worth your time.

Rejecting (multiple times) work that has already been done for you leans much more in the direction of some sort of agenda.

Edvik··on The Open Source Bikeshed
My impression was that the problem with the original post was a denial accepting a change, which the author took to mean a militant exclusion of gender neutral language.

The author wasn't taking a militant stand against someone who simply writes gendered language, but against someone who made a decision to exclude gender-neutral language specifically.

Edvik··on Today’s an international prime day
While not really useful in any computer sense, M-D-Y matches common English spoken construction "January 4th, 2015" is 1-4-15
Edvik··on NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you
Excellent! I'm excited about mixed media articles getting better and better!

One small tweak I would make is to have the video start playing not when it's in the middle but closer to the top of the page.

Reason is, I find myself distracted by listening to the guys speak before I finish reading the text.

Edvik··on Windows 8.1 now available
Service packs have always been free in Windows though. Except for maybe Win 98 SE?
Edvik··on Anonymity Is Hard
This is the exact way in which metadata, in the age of computer analysis, is just as important as the data itself. With a computer looking for patterns, it's possible to sift through billions of pieces of data to single out someone trying to hide in the noise.
Edvik··on Nest introduces their Smoke Detector
This will find its biggest market (I think) in NYC apartments - you only need 1 usually, and tiny unventilated kitchens are a near guarantee to send off an alarm.

I lived in an apartment where we essentially had a broom handle hanging next to the alarm because it was inevitable, and during Sandy blackout the thing constantly chirped because its landline was disconnected. Not a good experience.

Edvik··on Microsoft Surface chief: ‘Multiple aspect ratios and sizes’ are in the works
This seems like a mistake... it's hard to build a brand around a huge amount of products with only marginal differences. Yes there are advantages of one aspect over another, but having to choose which aspect to spend $500 on could be an infuriating choice to make.
Edvik··on FlameStower - USB charger powered by fire
Same - been on the fence about the biolite because it's only paying for the weight if you're 100% wood based on your trip.

This kind of makes that decision easy I think. The design seems nice, and the fact that it folds is doubly so. In backpacking your limits are in both weight and volume.

I'd like to see some reviews of ruggedness - the main thing I'm concerned about is what happens to the part of my USB cord that's plugged into the unit - it may be designed for high heat, but an average apple plug probably isn't.

Edvik··on A Cosmonaut's Fiery Death Retold (2011)
I am not sure if these replies count as confirmed. They are more sources citing different events. But the sources are often official USSR documents, which are not being doctoring.

The final official transcript, for one, reads like propaganda.

Edvik··on Should I buy LED or CFL light bulbs?
How far have LEDs come in terms of looking pleasant in terms of light quality? There's wildly different anecdotal data on how well people respond even to the highest quality CRI. Looking at spectroradiometer charts even bulbs rated 95+ CRI have very narrow spikes compared to a blackbody radiator.
Edvik··on iOS 7 before and after screenshots
One thing I'm seeing on Hipmunk specifically is lower contrast and lack of shading has to be made up for by white space - the after seems to have a lot less information on screen, while still being (at least in my perspective) harder to read at a glance.
Edvik··on Say Hello To The Hideous New USB 3.0 Micro Connector
There's nothing particularly wrong with the connector. The article picks a specifically ugly/cheap looking cable, though. Others look better, eg:

http://i.imgur.com/7zEL7HJ.jpg

Also it's not really new - as others have pointed out people with USB drives have been using these for a while.

Edvik··on Decentralizing Trillian
the windows client is equally excellent, and it's still the only IM platform (to my knowledge) that supports inline image sending, which I've gotten very used to. Plus the windows version handles IRC elegantly enough.
Edvik··on Exhibit A – the “child pornographer”
The problem here wasn't that he was accused, but that the entire case was seemingly going through based on an interpretation of the primary evidence, as opposed to the evidence itself, which seems ridiculous to me.
Edvik··on Good Old Games: gog.com and the DRM-Free Revolution
I tend to only buy cheap games (or heavily discounted games) on Steam, partially because of their DRM. A game on Steam isn't bought, it's more of an indefinite lease. If Steam as a service shuts down, or something happens to my account, Valve isn't guaranteeing me access to my games (as far as I know).

I try to buy on GOG even if it's slightly more for games I wish to keep, archive the installer, and be able to revisit years into the future.