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Who the hell can afford a printer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Seconded! I have several Brother MFCs. Rock solid, great Linux support, rarely change the toner.

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Sign in with Apple mystery (lemmy.ml)
 

Digging around in iOS settings under Apple Account, I encountered the Sign In with Apple page listing apps to which authentication is being provided via my Apple account . All app entries are familiar to me except for one with an Apple logo and "Sign In Group Production" as the app identifier.

I found a discussion on Apple's developer forum about Sign In With Apple and app grouping (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/125087 ), but this isn't mentioned, and I don't use developer features or TestFlight on this device.

Does anyone else have this entry or know what it's used for?

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That was fascinating. Ditto the link in the post to the article on names, which they cited as inspiration for writing it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/?ref=flightaware.engineering

Sail wagon in Brooklyn, New York City, USA, ~1910 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm unfamiliar with the slang term you used, but I'll simply say that there is a well-established genre of humorous and perhaps wishful examination of old photographs with the intention of identifying possible time travelers, for example: https://www.pocket-lint.com/photographic-proof-of-time-traveller/ . I don't endorse this theory, but it was a visual trope that inspired my comment.

Yes in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'll leave this here -- it was maddening, but so satisfying and magical to have a running program after seemingly endless typing: https://archive.org/details/1990-11-compute-magazine/page/0-34/mode/1up?view=theater

Yes in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

LOAD "*",8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn't know what they missed.)

Lulworth Cove, England in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That is a stunning photo. I adore the optical illusion, in which the cove appears to be above the level of the ocean. I'd love to see this view first-hand. Bravo!

Sail wagon in Brooklyn, New York City, USA, ~1910 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Early makers! I confess that the 21st century has reprogrammed me, so my initial impression was that the chap in the back was checking his phone. Strange to think that this was taken over a century ago.

Administrative court: Cookie banner must contain "Reject all" button in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And a cookie banner which features this text, along with a slew of abusive dark patterns for maximizing data gathering and compromising user privacy:

"We and our up to 179 partners use cookies and tracking technologies. Some cookies and data processing are technically necessary, others help us to improve our offer and operate it economically.

The processing purposes are storing or accessing information on an end device personalised advertising and content, measuring advertising performance and the performance of content, target group research and developing and improving offers; displaying external content (e.g. YouTube videos, podcasts, Twitter, quizzes), recommendations of own products and content, A/B testing, push notifications/communication, technically necessary cookies (security, login, forum)."

Edit: nuked the links, since they also seem to contain per user/session metadata!

installing linux on my surface pro 8 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've been using Linux since the days of Slackware on floppies, and I still like Mint. It seems to just work -- I'm not at all averse to "more hardcore" distributions, but would rather get on with my work. That being said, the Surface kernel is a nice piece of software and worth considering for an optimal experience on Surface.

Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

With this one weird trick!

installing linux on my surface pro 8 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Definitely doable! I've run several Linux distributions on Surface devices. I had good experiences out of the box with Ubuntu and Mint, and not-great experiences with Debian Bookworm (even with the Nvidia driver, it could never seem to work out that the external monitor on my machine was a primary. I did not try the Surface-specific kernel, however. Good luck!

This Inmate Used Solitary Confinement to Learn Math. Now He's Solving the World's Hardest Equations in c/SWP
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you very much!

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Feature request: Reddit repost content filter (sh.itjust.works)
 

In quite a few of the communities I subscribe to, a portion of the content is provided by bots reposting items from corresponding subreddits. This is often useful, but it'd be helpful to have a filter that would show only "native" Lemmy posts, since these tend to attract more dialog.

Perhaps this could be done by looking for the presence of Reddit URLs in the post text, and/or by triggering on common strings such as "rss" or "bot" in the username.

Thanks for building such a great app.

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Disappearing message notification / message app freeze (sh.itjust.works)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33588339

I received a text notification from an unknown number earlier today. I'm usually suspicious of such things, but clicked the notification. The messages app loaded, but displayed a blank white screen until I closed the app. After doing so, there was no evidence of the message notification or the message itself, in any of the message categories (known, unknown, all, deleted messages, etc).

This is on an iPhone 14 Pro Max using a fully up to date device running iOS 18.3.1 .

Has anyone else experienced this? I am hoping that the group might be able to offer insight into whether this is a bug worth reporting to Apple, or an attack of some sort? I am aware that at least one zero-click messaging bug was recently patched in iOS. I rebooted my device, and I'm waiting for the security delay to expire so I can reset my iCloud password. I have 2FA and stolen device protection switched on.

(please disregard link to example.com ; my Lemmy client wouldn't allow a text-only post without an image or a link).

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Disappearing message notification / message app freeze (sh.itjust.works)
 

I received a text notification from an unknown number earlier today. I'm usually suspicious of such things, but clicked the notification. The messages app loaded, but displayed a blank white screen until I closed the app. After doing so, there was no evidence of the message notification or the message itself, in any of the message categories (known, unknown, all, deleted messages, etc).

This is on an iPhone 14 Pro Max using a fully up to date device running iOS 18.3.1 .

Has anyone else experienced this? I am hoping that the group might be able to offer insight into whether this is a bug worth reporting to Apple, or an attack of some sort? I am aware that at least one zero-click messaging bug was recently patched in iOS. I rebooted my device, and I'm waiting for the security delay to expire so I can reset my iCloud password. I have 2FA and stolen device protection switched on.

(please disregard link to example.com ; my Lemmy client wouldn't allow a text-only post without an image or a link).

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Eternal September (en.m.wikipedia.org)
 

Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet Service Providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.

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