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pehtis··on OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I)
It first appeared in OpenBSD 2.3 in 1998: https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.3/rc.conf

Are you sure that you checked or did you assume that it wasn't there based on you Linux experience?

pehtis··on Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
Its an option under Safari/Preferences/Advanced called Show Full Website Address.
pehtis··on I made a macro keypad with 3D-printed switches
Gold plating wont cut it. It is a very thin layer of gold around the copper and it would wear out pretty fast. I'd recommend bronze.
pehtis··on Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions
Try setting apz.allow_zooming to true and restarting Firefox. No idea why this isn't true by default..
pehtis··on Osborning the Mac, or not
I lived through both major Mac CPU transitions (68K-PPC and PPC->X86) and in both cases the assumption was that it was impossible for Apple to ship a usable emulator. In both cases Apple proved everyone wrong and in fact the emulator was a major contributing factor to a smooth transition. It simply takes a lot of time for all 3rd party software to be released for the new architecture.

Given how they handled it in the past my guess is that Apple will release a very usable X64 emulator for the ARM and really brag about it at WWDC.

pehtis··on OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic
> someone who had no desire to do so, but feels compelled to so just to get by

is the definition of work for most people. How is this different?

pehtis··on How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’
I would highly recommend checking all installers on macOS through Suspicious Package. It will give you a complete picture of all the installer scripts that will be run and all the files that will be written. I did just that for zoom and decided against installing it.
pehtis··on Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expanding Them?
Lotteries work like a social safety valve. They give hope to the poor that there is a chance, however small, that they will make it big and sort out their financial problems just by winning the lottery.

And so they keep working and trying and living their lives despite the fact that there is basically zero chance of ever earning enough money, because: "Someone wins the lottery every week! Next week it could be me!!".

pehtis··on Around the World, People Have Surprisingly Modest Notions of the ‘Ideal’ Life
That is how most smart people cope.
pehtis··on 5 features Opera Browser did first
Opera was the first browser on windows to use tabs. Tabbed browsing was introduced years before in iBrowse for the Amiga.
pehtis··on The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-10/competing-gas-pipel...
pehtis··on Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
Looks like this has been know for years...

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es504038a http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/plastic-loving-bact... http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-09...

pehtis··on Frogpocalypse Now
The same thing happened in Australia decades ago. There is a 1988 documentary called "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" that tells that story. Any information on the extend of the problem today?
pehtis··on TvOS for Developers
Get http://beamer-app.com if it fits your workflow.
pehtis··on If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (2010) [pdf]
Money works like RAM: More RAM than the running processes require will not make your computer any faster, but if you run out of RAM it will make it slower.
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