placatedmayhem

A big of black gaffers tape takes care of that for me. Electrical tape in a pinch. If I use white gaffers tape, it significantly cuts the light but is still visible when I'm looking right at it.

This post was my first introduction to it too. Searching for "git.io" on github.com, including the quotes, returns a number of repositories using git.io links -- "2M+" if their search is to be believed.

I do wish any time there was a service deprecation notice, the service providers would give some detail as to why it's going offline. Lack of use, difficulty to maintain, expense, etc. With that said, I don't think we're owed any explanation, especially for free-to-use services.

Specific to this service, I never personally used it, but I wonder how many project links will break when the service does finally go offline.

I believe the "8-bit" descriptor is intended to reference 8-bit video game systems like the NES, but that seems poorly communicated in the project.

I do wish access times were disabled by default. In my experience, they don't generally provide any useful information, but place unneeded stress on the storage.

This is the biggest issue, IMO. As I understand it, with governments, particularly the US, wanting Apple to get data off an Apple device, they couldn't because forcing Apple to write software to do this would be coerced speech, which is forbidden by the US court's interpretation of 1st amendment of the US constitution. (Obviously, this doesn't address breaking into the device, which the US did in the San Bernadino shooter case, which is more akin to law enforcement breaking into a safe or house with a warrant.)

By implementing data harvesters, Apple's 1st amendment protections goes away, since the code is already written. What must be changed, by court order or what have you, is the configuration for what gets reported back. Again, IMO, it becomes much more like a "give us your files" subpoena, like Apple, Google, etc. get on a regular basis and must comply with. But IANAL.

At the same time the hostess asks "Would you like crayons for the toddler?", it'd be simple to add "We have a digital menu, but would you like physical menus?". Or even a put "Physical menu available on request" below the QR code.

> Introduce an app whose only job is to act as a content player but has no content of its own, then have customers go to your website to buy the content, and then download it to your app. Epic can sell one game that is empty and make every actual game DLC.

I believe this accurately describes Epic Games Store, or any other games storefront like Steam, as they work on desktop platforms like Windows. The Store is free, then all the games are paid (or sometimes, free) "DLC". Is there a fundamental difference I'm missing?

Have you got a source for that? It's the first time I've heard it and I'm interested to learn more, specifically about the kiss/pathogen response part.

Discussion on this is happening over on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285333. Maybe worth deduping this post to that one?

Iirc, those shrink wrap licenses are of questionable enforceability. The Wikipedia entry on "shrink wrap contract" agrees, but I'm not well-versed on the topic.

Or maybe we simply legislate that any charger take card payments? That would allow competition in the market to continue while also providing accessibility to the general populace.

I used UDF on USB media for years, and only past tense because I don't have much need of passing files between systems on physical media anymore. Iirc, there were some sharp edges, but it was an overall refreshing experience compared to dealing with FAT or dealing with any other experience. I would recommend UDF based on my own experience.

That sounds like systemd-resolved. You don't have to use it, and it's easily stopped by normal systemctl commands if you want to use normal libc resolver behavior.

The trouble is when your place of work is doing business that is morally hazardous or worse. It's further difficult when you otherwise believe in the company. It's especially bad when the situation goes from acceptable when you start then changes during your tenure.

This is a personal and subjective thing. Each person had their own set of moral limits. And some people don't want to hear it, do their jobs, and go home.

What are the realistic alternatives? "They should find another company" can easily apply to the outspoken or the don't-wanna-hear-it groups. "Put up with it" also could also apply to both groups.

I don't regularly use AWS services, but it would seem to me that writing operational tooling (deployment descriptors and such) to the Kubernetes API allows more control over the management of your app and more portability to other cloud providers compared to ECS. On the other hand, ECS is a bit more "turnkey", doing more of the detailed control isn't required. It's worth someone with more regular usage weighing in, though.

I'm not sure, but I think some standard shipping containers fit on semi truck beds and on special train cars.

So Apple and Google are now in the personal finance game. Facebook is trying to launch its own currency. That's some big names coming from pure tech backgrounds entering the banking world. This can't be a coincidence, right?

Not OP, but I think they're referring to the task-switching thin line at the bottom.

It's not just green bubbles. Tapbacks are awkward and pictures and videos don't send as reliably.

With my "green bubble" friends, we usually use Telegram or Signal or Keybase instead.

I'd love to see a standardized IM/Text protocol instead of 1000 fragmented platforms. I've got on the order of 10 chat apps on my phone right now, all used in different contexts.

Why not both? At least, it's safer to assume both when choosing a platform and where to spend dollars. Security is important yet, in my experience, even more underfunded than reliability -- features are generally king. A platform that repeatedly gets breached shows they don't value security as much as they should. An attacker that has been successful previously should continue to be successful except against those targets that secure themselves.

Isn't deriving more value from your users while limiting the ability of your competitors just vendor lock-in? Said another way, finding a rich gold vein and buying the mining rights to that vein prevents your competitors from capitalizing on it.

iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR base models are 64 GB.

Medical equipment is expensive for reasons other than just liability. Much of it is because of some combination of being quite specialized, protected by medical patent (or other IP law), produced from expensive materials or manufacturing process, and subject to all sorts of regulations involved in prolonging/saving lives.

The article mentions the Windows 10 upgrade debacle, which caused data loss for some users.

The video at the top of darkpatterns.org, linked by the article, discusses the LinkedIn lawsuit concerning linking to users' contact lists.¹

¹https://youtu.be/kxkrdLI6e6M

I wouldn't count on it. There's an industry-wide SSD shortage happening and prices are actually on the rise. This is a temporary situation while SSD manufacturers retool and ramp up 3D NAND but neglected to ramp up existing 2D NAND to meet demand in the mean time.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-hdd-shortage-nand-marke...

I've heard that HDD prices might rise as well, but I can't find a source for it right now.

Nexus uses x86, Celerons specifically (at least all of them I'm aware of). You can see it if you watch one boot over serial. It's in the example text from this upgrade notice: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nex...