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marmshallow··on Malloc Geiger Counter
I was just thinking about this. Other examples that come to mind are reading CD/DVDs, dial up modems, and turning on old CRT monitors
marmshallow··on Microsoft Flight Simulator players are flying into Hurricane Laura
Next up: Fight the Lightning Complex fire in Firefighter Simulator.
marmshallow··on Scrollbar Blindness
While folks are rightfully bashing macOS’s hidden scroll bars, I would like to advertise an iOS feature that is actually pro-scroll bar. As of iOS 13, you can grab the scroll bar to scroll at hyper speed rather than repeatedly flicking the screen. Not sure if there’s a proper name for this feature but it’s explained here https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/08/05/scroll-faster-iphon...
marmshallow··on Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years
It seems so. According to their blog post about it, they're writing cards specific to the life event - birthday, get well, etc.

https://www.zappos.com/about/stories/pec-cards

marmshallow··on User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (2012)
Is this trial by mail available given she lives in Norway?
marmshallow··on US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase
Hotel renovations are on the rise too, according to my landlords who are interior decorators.
marmshallow··on Ten countries kept out Covid, but did they win?
Seeing as all these terrible economic outcomes would happen whether or not the virus infected the population, I think this is a pretty solid win and a poor article title.
marmshallow··on Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
Definitely seems like a case of someone that wanted to publish a blog post for some internal kudos, but I'm not complaining. Always good to share knowledge.
marmshallow··on Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform
Awesome product. Are there any worries that platforms may restrict the APIs that you depend on?
marmshallow··on Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores
Wow, they don’t look very real at all.
marmshallow··on TikTok Tracked User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google
tl;dr: TikTok exploited an android security hole to collect MAC addresses likely for targeted advertising.
marmshallow··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
If this makes you sad or pissed off, the best thing you can do is donate. I just donated for $15 for the first time.

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

marmshallow··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
Reddit has been somewhat successful in this regard, but it doesn't feel like the most stable business model.
marmshallow··on Linux 5.8-rc1
Seems this is biggest in terms of # commits / lines of code / etc.

But does anyone have opinions on what the most “impactful” linux releases ever was?

marmshallow··on Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
What does this change from my perspective? No more waiting 2-3 business days for all my transfers between banks or 3rd parties?
marmshallow··on Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
In my and several of my friends' experience, Google Photos search is simply much, much better than Apple Photos. Even though I use Apple Photos personally, I have to admit Google's is just better. My friends always say "if I can't search for my photos easily, what's the point in amassing a large collection?".
marmshallow··on Google vs. Yahoo Interface Design (2005)
Here are the google products on the list that are discontinued as of today:

- Google Answers (read-only now) - Google Desktop (killed 2011) - Google Directory (killed 2011) - Personalized Google Homepage - Google Picasa - Orkut

I left out some that had been integrated into other products or rebranded.

marmshallow··on US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
A lot of people here are asking the government to make payment of ransoms illegal. Makes sense to me, but can someone explain the potential downsides, and why it may not be as simple as it sounds (I'm sure it's not)?
marmshallow··on US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
Well, of course another will come along!
marmshallow··on NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975
Here's a link to that part of the stream if anyone's interested. https://youtu.be/H-l6f4wcv2I?t=27524

It is _extremely_ aggravating.

marmshallow··on “Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia
I agree it's a shit website, but I loaded it on Chrome with uBlock Origin and I don't have scrolljacking (scrolling seems fine), history hacking (my back button works as expected), and no background ads at all.
marmshallow··on NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]
*are returning home. They haven’t made it back yet. They are on track to land 11:48am PT on Sunday
marmshallow··on Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case
Here's a great example of their shit support: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35889152
marmshallow··on Luigi Model found in Mario 64 source code
Is there a rendering of Luigi 64 yet?
marmshallow··on One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat
Lately I find myself inserting "site:reddit.com" at the end of my Google searches. Most of the stuff that shows up by default is pure garbage that is riddled with ads and doesn't answer my question quickly.
marmshallow··on Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel
This takes the cake for unexpected comment of the night. Could you explain where you live (location and housing situation) and how you feed yourself? I'm genuinely curious.
marmshallow··on UCSF forced to pay more than $1M ransom to perpetrators of malware attack
This is quite surprising. I feel like often the victims of ransomware do not pay the thieves. Are there other high-profile examples of paying the perpetrators?
marmshallow··on If Rockets Were Transparent [video]
I'd also love to see a comparison of the rockets' altitude & velocity thru the launch
marmshallow··on Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
Both are extremely valuable. Giphy data would include a wider user-base, but Onavo has much deeper data (all of someone's mobile data traffic, which would include seeing what someone is searching on Giphy and in which app)
marmshallow··on Monobloc chair
Maybe like this one? https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/12/412300/6034129/stac...
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