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lozenge··on NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”
Apple's not much of a monopoly in the UK. iMessage isn't anywhere near as popular here as the cross platform WhatsApp. Kids can choose between iPhone and Android, they aren't forced.

We in the UK just want the same products that are available everywhere else, including encryption.

lozenge··on There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
Just make the maximum jackpot payout $25.7 million per draw. Any remaining money in the jackpot remains for the next draws.
lozenge··on 20 years working on the same software product
I'm guessing CICD isn't a priority on a desktop product that doesn't need to be released all that often.
lozenge··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
That actually shows they understand and care because they don't want the law to apply to them. They don't care about its effects on other people.
lozenge··on Users don't care about your tech stack
That's a poor example, as users genuinely don't care about download file size or installed size, within reason. Nobody in the West is sweating a 200MB download.
lozenge··on Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
Although authorised by some members of the executive branch, it is missing some of the oversight the executive branch is supposed to have.
lozenge··on Chrome browser bringing an IP address privacy tool to Incognito
Google wouldn't have any data from an Incognito window though?
lozenge··on Chrome browser bringing an IP address privacy tool to Incognito
Because your use of a proxy is governed by certain terms, and you agreed to them by signing up to a Google account and signing into Chrome?
lozenge··on DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique
Make them fill in the CAPTCHA on the temporary page, then double click to finish.
lozenge··on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Is it possible to pause a VM just after the browser has started up? Then map it as copy-on-write memory and spin up many VMs from that "image".
lozenge··on The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released
Not in sales which is what matters.

It isn't like today where you can port a game pretty quickly. The architectures were hugely different.

lozenge··on Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes
You know they contain rechargeable batteries but are just missing the charging port and a few tiny chips?
lozenge··on Google's counteroffer to govt trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps
Three years is a laughably short time to bind Google. It's about 1.2 generations of phone replacements for most people.
lozenge··on Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder
I don't think he reviews products that haven't shipped yet. It would be a PR disaster if his video sends people to pre-order something that doesn't actually ship.
lozenge··on HTML Form Validation is underused
There is a way to annotate it. autocomplete=one-time-code

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...

lozenge··on Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)
Right, I'm going to name my next company "NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE"
lozenge··on We're excited about our new roundabout
I guess drivers just don't realise they need to slow down or give way to anybody unless there's a stop sign, traffic light or they're turning into a different road.
lozenge··on We're excited about our new roundabout
That's... Not a roundabout. It would be funny if it weren't so scary.
lozenge··on Noise
Very cool. It would be good to support multi touch, letting the user instantly switch to another noise by reacting to the latest finger. You would need to use viewport meta to disable page zoom as well.
lozenge··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
Building the open source repo gets you something which isn't VSCode. It doesn't install a lot of VSCode extensions, therefore you shouldn't call it VSCode and shouldn't say VSCode is FOSS.
lozenge··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
You can't use Gitpod, Theia IDE, etc with Pylance. Or GitHub Copilot. Or Live Share or numerous other VSCode extensions.

The idea is people start a project in VS Code, need to scale up to a reproducible dev environment for multiple users, and follow ads in VSCode to GitHub Codespaces, which charges by the hour for VMs. Now you're locked into that, you're locked into GitHub as well, and they can cross sell you GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security &etc.

Therefore, Pyright is almost the minimum needed to add type checking to your CI process.

Edit: to clarify, not only is Codespaces advertised in VS Code, it also uses private APIs so no competitor can publish an extension which replicates this functionality on the VSCode marketplace.

lozenge··on Some of us like "interdiff" code review
Not really. The idea is to split work into separate stages which are reviewed separately, but as a whole.

In the example: "small refactor 25LOC -> new API 500LOC -> migrate API users 50LOC"

Making a PR of the small refactor will probably garner comments about "why is this necessary".

Opening two PRs at the same time is clutter as GitHub presents them as separate.

As well, sometimes CI won't pass on one of the stages meaning it can't be a separate PR, but it would still be useful in the code review to see it as a separate stage.

lozenge··on Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
The CPSC would be interested.
lozenge··on State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant
If you choose Restart in Windows then it avoids Fast Boot and actually restarts.
lozenge··on The End of Finale
The customers paid for a lifetime license, why is a year reasonable to revoke this with no compensation?
lozenge··on Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more
What if you go to the toilet andtype a message to 8 people?
lozenge··on Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
The app's useful for audio posts. But mostly it's just an extra chance for them to make money. Push notifications, the home screen icon, etc. Most people I know, their inbox is barely functional due to the marketing emails, and they're reliant on features like Gmail's "Important" which only highlights real people, not Patreon content.

You're not the average user, and if the average user gets a billing email and hasn't bothered to read their content email, visit the site or open the app, they are more likely to end their subscription.

lozenge··on End of an era: Apple's SuperDrive has sold out after 16 years
So do optical disks.
lozenge··on Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
I expect Google will release their implementation when the Windows feature gets into stable. Implementing something 9 years after Windows 10 is released doesn't show "respecting the EU" to me.
lozenge··on Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
And because MS wants to increase its userbase on IOS and macOS. Meanwhile Windows Start Menu is locked to Edge and Bing.
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