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thomask

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  • What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for?

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  • I was comparing frozen diced veggies a couple of years back (in Australia) and noticed that the store-brand version was approximately 1/3 broccoli stems by volume, which certainly explained the cost difference.

  • Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

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  • That is the discussion. Microsoft is pretending by making it the upgrade path for two products which actually are local, and hoping users won't notice.

  • Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

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  • Honestly I'm glad they highlighted the telemetry. I went through the local report about what's included and while it's not an upsetting level of detail, it's more comprehensive than I would have opted in to if asked.

    Still, as sibling points out it's in a completely different league from slurping up your IMAP creds, something which has always been local-only data. This is the second time I know of recently where MS has trampled on this kind of local-only expectation - the other was Edge defaulting to sending the contents of textboxes you're filling out on webpages to the MS cloud for spelling and grammar checks. Thunderbird is still a sound recommendation, and unlike Microsoft, I trust that if I uncheck the telemetry box they're not going to try to get me some other way.

  • Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git

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  • Nothing in tech stands still. If you want a glimpse of a possible alternative future check out Pijul. And I don't know an example off-hand but the idea of doing version control on ASTs of program code rather than flat text is an interesting concept that hasn't taken off yet.

  • Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO

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  • I’d rather go to the local library and ask the clerk for a search term

    Sounds kind of relaxing tbh

  • Fighting against evil

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  • What’s the best note-taking app currently out there?

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  • You're putting yourself in a tough position by asking for both E2EE and the ability to use from a browser. You have to trust the web app each time you open the page, and hope that they haven't altered the deal to simply grab your data after it's been decrypted by your password. I have no idea how likely it is that Standard Notes would do that but I'd reconsider the browser requirement specifically if E2EE is non-negotiable for you - an offline open source client program would be a much stronger position.

    For my money, I use local text files and SyncThing but it's probably not spiffy enough for many people/purposes.

  • What are your defining memories of computing in the old days?

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  • Sitting there watching with satisfaction as MSDOS 6.22 DEFRAG.EXE did its thing.

  • A reminder in the age of the Fediverse: if you're not the customer, you're still the product.

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  • Not necessarily in the fediverse world. If server costs are being covered by donations from 4% of users, a volunteer admin will probably be quite happy whereas a commercial operator will undoubtedly think "damn I have 96% freeloaders, that's leaving money on the table".

  • Transitioning /r/rust to the Threadiverse

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  • Agreed. Why overcomplicate things? I can understand the desire not to pick favourites in a rapidly-evolving space which was clearly the approach of /r/rust mods early on, but enough time has now passed that the project could save everyone some headaches by just picking one Lemmy community that they're confident will be held to the Rust community standards. Nobody's expecting a permanent decision with young software. We can change the way we operate again in a year or two if we have to.

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    Those of you who are married, how do you go about privacy if your wife or husband does not care?

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  • IME something like Signal is an easy sell since it's simple and works well. For all the fair criticism about relying on phone numbers it makes the onboarding easy. For other things compartmentalising helps, e.g., "okay we'll collaborate using this cloud file storage but I personally will be accessing it through the browser while keeping most of my files in a SyncThing over here". While I self-host certain things I don't volunteer to do that for family/friends because it will be too frustrating for everyone if/when I let them down.

    In this kind of situation there's a fine line between someone who maximises their privacy through tech decisions and someone who makes their "correct" tech choices their self identity. If you drift into the latter, being asked to compromise can feel like an attack, leading to overreacting and coming across as insecure and annoying. Not to psychoanalyse anyone in particular but sometimes I think people need a reminder.

  • 2022 Annual Rust Survey Results

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  • Previous years:

    I continue to be a little disappointed how brief these have become since 2019, given how exhaustive the questions are.

  • Windows 3.1 SkiFree (WinSki)

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  • I recall that if you elude the monster long enough by catching enough logs you eventually wrap around to the start of the course and can ski down it again, and you get an additional monster chasing you when you get to the bottom.

  • coroutines/channels in Rust?

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  • One approach I'm personally fond of is actor-style async programming with tokio. It's easy to mingle timers with receiving messages from channels, which is quite powerful. This post by Alice Rhyl is a good description of the idea: https://ryhl.io/blog/actors-with-tokio/

  • Phantom Menace theme for Windows 95/98

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  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Phantom Menace theme for Windows 95/98

    archive.org /details/dtphnmnc
  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    BBS: The Documentary

    archive.org /details/BBS.The.Documentary
  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Campaign: Send AOL CDs back

    edition.cnn.com /2002/TECH/internet/10/17/aol.discs/index.html

  • Rodent's Revenge

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  • Oh damn. This brings back memories I didn't know I had. Awesome.

  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    doskey

    learn.microsoft.com /en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/doskey
  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    You will regret this! (SC2000)

  • Rust Lang @lemmyrs.org
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    Improved API tokens for crates.io

    blog.rust-lang.org /2023/06/23/improved-api-tokens-for-crates-io.html
  • Rust Lang @lemmyrs.org
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    rustfmt update 1.5.3 - 2023-06-20

    github.com /rust-lang/rustfmt/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

  • Introducing the Rust Leadership Council

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  • Yes. The interaction with the Rust Foundation is described in the linked RFC.

    The Council is responsible for establishing the process for selecting Project directors. The Project directors are the mechanism by which the Rust Project's interests are reflected on the Rust Foundation board.

    The Council delegates a purview to the Project directors to represent the Project's interests on the Foundation Board and to make certain decisions on Foundation-related matters. The exact boundaries of that purview are out of scope for this RFC.

  • Rust Lang @lemmyrs.org
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    Introducing the Rust Leadership Council

    blog.rust-lang.org /2023/06/20/introducing-leadership-council.html
  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    CANYON.MID

    canyonmid.com
  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Uh oh!

  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Your sound card works perfectly.

  • Consolidating on one Lemmy instance

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  • I suspect parent was talking about the number of subscribers to the Rust community on each server (currently 174 on P.D, 591 on lemmyrs). Which server people choose as the "home base" for their account so to speak is an interesting reflection of that server's maturity/impact but not the major driver of community activity.

  • Rust Lang @lemmyrs.org
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    Advantages of async runtimes other than tokio?