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jessikat | 4 months ago | on: Apple removes gay dating apps from Chinese App Store at Beijing's request

This is why "side loading" needs to be normalised as a completely regular form of app installation. Far more resistant to censorship than relying on profit driven corporations "fighting" on our behalf when it suits them.

jessikat | 6 months ago | on: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

Except they do. One just has to look at the inability to keep JPEG-XL mainlined in Chromium. Sure, some forks still have JPEG-XL, but it's effectively gone at this point.

jessikat | 8 months ago | on: Peter Jackson-backed biotech company sets its "de-extinction" sights on NZ Moa

The Haast Eagle would be another interesting de-extinction... and preyed on Moa :)

jessikat | 1 year ago | on: Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies

It's kind of ridiculous that the US has held onto pennies for this long. New Zealand phased out our 5 cent coins back in 2006, approximately 3 US pennies worth at present.

jessikat | 2 years ago | on: Microsoft keyboard users are so devastated after discontinuation of accessories

I'm gutted; I absolutely love the Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard, especially with the optional slightly inverted slope, it's even more comfortable than previous ergonomic keyboard models. And I've been exclusively using Microsoft ergonomic keyboards for over 20 years, started in my late teens. Tempted to buy a second Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard as a backup for when this keyboard eventually dies, hopefully not for a long, long time!

jessikat | 3 years ago | on: Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

I'm kind of surprised that New Zealand isn't available when Australia is. We tend to share a lot of regulatory standards and such.

jessikat | 3 years ago | on: Saving Energy: Home Server That Automatically Suspends to RAM and Wakes Up Again

I've also heard of a trick of integrating WoL with DNS, where if the server requests a lookup for a local IP, it'd send WoL packets to the destination. You'd probably just need to set the TTL for the server's IP very low so that it doesn't get cached.

jessikat | 3 years ago | on: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization

If the vscode extension did it all locally, I'd 100% install in an instant!

jessikat | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is it like developing and deploying ASP.NET on Linux?

I've had zero issues deploying .Net on Linux, whilst developing in Windows. The docker support is really good, if you want to go that way too, and didn't need any platform-specific shenanigans to get working.

jessikat | 3 years ago | on: Don't Pickle Your Data

JSON really is a terrible serialization format. Even JavaScript can't safely deserialize JSON without silent data corruption. I've had to stringify numbers because of JavaScript, and there were no errors. Perhaps that's the fault of JavaScript, but I find the lack of encoding the numerical storage type to be a bug rather than a feature.

jessikat | 3 years ago | on: Sshfs Is Orphaned

I use winfsp/sshfs-win to remotely access my Haiku system, which works extremely well.

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow?

I use branches gratuitously, and push to my forks regularly as you do, but I also do interactive rebases and edits when preparing to push to upstream to clean up my mess.

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

Ah yeah, I got bit by that too! Haha

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Don't you think DuckDuckGo's name should change?

I think it's neat, and uh... what, type it in? Hahaha, sorry :p

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: A Small Ode to the CRT

Have to say that at least it was simpler to work with than digital displays as a user. I still have trouble with digital displays, EDID, getting __nothing__ when a signal is out of range, whereas you might get something you can decipher from a CRT. Displays that don't wake up, displays that blink off and on, and all sorts of other timing issues and such. It can certainly be a mess for drivers too, esp. in the hobby OS space.

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

It allowed cunts as a guess today :p

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

I solved one the other week with repeated letters, answer was elder.

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

It's basically the digital equivalent of body shaming. And this sort of thing will feed into biased AI algorithms, and shape the world of "acceptable media" in the years to come. It may seem harmless on the surface, but the ramifications run deep.

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

They did not do this out of generosity or good will to small businesses. They did this for the PR, knowing that they're still rolling in the cash like Scrooge McDuck from all the years they've been milking it, and will continue to milk it, whilst looking like they're giving a handout. And it honestly looked like it worked from the comments of people defending their stance.

jessikat | 4 years ago | on: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

I quite like the convenience with the Kore remote for Android, great for my home cinema setup. But unfortunately updated packages on Ubuntu since moving, and now audio doesn't work. I really hate Linux audio, what a mess >_<