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Lammy
19,532karma·5,232submissions·July 30, 2008
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I think that's their point. It isn't a centralized service comparable to Discord that will be overwhelmed by the entire quarantined world bearing down on it at once.
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To be fair to SF, it's a clip from a film that's trying to evoke that exact sentiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi Highly recommended, especially the sc…
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Sometimes putting America first means being an altruistic and cooperative international citizen. PR is real.
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Everyone here is talking like they don't remember the protest. The restroom policy change was in response to a protest alleging them of racism. The homeless had nothing to do with it. From the li…
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Meta: I tried submitting just the updated Twitter policy page, but it got caught in the dupe checker: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2019…
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The page doesn't even show any text without whitelisting its Javascript. I doubt I'm missing much.
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I wonder if this project is in part a hedge against Apple's legal attacks, as in "our tech opened up Apple's locked hardware".
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Yes, exactly. The social graph they couldn’t acquire organically by having the better product.
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If FB Messenger beat Whatsapp they wouldn’t have had to buy it.
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The one pictured was a jailbreak tweak called DetailedPowerUsage: https://legitcomputerwhisperer.github.io/depic/InternalBatte... DPU hasn't been updated for compatibility w…
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> I can imagine a world where PostScript would be used for building user interfaces NeXT did that in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript …
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I don’t know if there are any user-visible side effects, but the phone does knows the difference between official and unofficial batteries. Here’s a photo I took of my iPhone 7 showing the internal ba…
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We can't know, because choosing ECC or non-ECC based on price vs features isn't a choice most Intel consumers get to make. I do personally think the benefits would have proven themselves wor…
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I'm sure it won't be as slow as SoftWindows95 was on my 66MHz PPC601 around the first time I lived through predictions of the Mac's death due to an architecture change :)
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Moving away from Intel sounds like a huge benefit to me due to the number of ways they have held back computers over the decades. I believe that ECC memory, for example, would be standard in all deskt…
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I thought the static PNG was just fine, personally. What would an animated GIF show here, the time changing every 60 seconds? Animated product showcases are just annoying to me because I can't st…
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They probably expect the Mozilla/Chrome extension sites to be the discovery point for people.
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I love Decentraleyes but how would they redistribute most web fonts without running afoul of their licenses?