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I'm quite partial to 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, the last release with the "Phablet" UI layouts meant for the Nexus 7. I had a Galaxy Note Ⅱ at the time, and it was easy to get that UI by changin…

Get your friend an HDMI dummy plug and he should be able to turn off the TV. No affiliation with this particular item but just sorted Amazon by lowest price to find an example: https://www.…

Monaco 9 in BBEdit :) "Monoid" in the linked article made me think of it immediately.

The contents of the book are wonderful, but I can't stop admiring the TeX typesetting itself. It's startling how effortless it is to read this document compared to 99% of Web-based reading I…

(on Android)

There's only a racial tenor in the sense that work visa status gives companies like Facebook more leverage over immigrant employees than. Losing your job can mean you have 30 days to find a new p…

FB uses a Tasks tool. A task can have an owner, subscribers, tags, blocker/dependent relationship to other tasks, can be associated with one or more code diffs, etc. Bots have internal accounts i…

I feel like there’s some implicit self-deprecation in their comment considering in order to be able to share it they must have generated the archive link for their own lazy/poor self :)

He's on Windows 2000, though, which doesn't offer anything newer than TLS 1.0 support. Not really useful for the modern web.

It was an idea for a community-designed video game on the Something Awful forums. This is a much better summary: https://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/Zybourne_Clock.html …

BBEdit does if you happen to be a Mac user.

In this (hypothetical) case I’d assume a Gitlab acquisition would be more of a hedge against Microsoft for Google than anything else.

We should all be happy for the public release of this exploit more than happy it exists. The alternative is that law enforcement and other bad actors might have knowledge of this exploit that the publ…

Starting new apps aren’t the only initiatives that fail. Whatsapp was the target to meet or beat for every single speed and reliability metric during the development cycle of Messenger 3.0 (2013).

I miss levity in computing. That page is a nice throwback.

> I think Facebook's goal is to make it so that you have one persona you show to everyone. It's the other way around, in my experience, not a "goal" but a reflection of the peop…

You got me excited for a minute thinking there was a Micro Center in the Bay Area that I didn’t know about, but Maps still shows the nearest one as Denver. Darn :) When I moved here I was really surpr…

It's missing the abandoned 2014 redesign of Facebook: https://dcurt.is/facebooks-predicament

Mods, I edited the original title from "Internet TV with CU-SeeMe: Chapter 8 - History, Culture, and Usage" because I thought "Internet TV" would be confusing in modern usage and b…

Flash the browser plugin may have died, but the mindset that made people want to make websites in it never did.

Early 2018

iOS 13 drops support for iPhones with 1GB of RAM. 5s and 6/6+ are out. The 6S/6S+, the SE, and above are supported.

The "message" you see the notification for is the one from Facebook telling you how super great Messenger is and how you should join your 327 friends who already installed it. Then the notif…