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  • None, he gave up after Apple blocked them once.

    There were actually a couple attempts, but it’s kinda in Apple’s hands… I think he was hoping he could generate enough public outcry to force them to not block it. You can also still access it now, if you have your own mac.

    Further, Beeper is just a re-skinned Matrix client with the Beeper company hosting the open source bridges between services

    It’s their own client, not just reskinned, and it has a bunch of new features designed to make cross-service nice and simple. Also, the bridges ARE open-source, but the beeper company wrote a few of them and decided to open source them.

    Don’t let Migicovsky take your money and mismanage it again.

    He refunded everyone who bought a subscription when Apple blocked it. Beeper main is also free.




  • Yeah, but what’s the relative quality of responses? I feel like the bar for “tech savvy” or “competent at programming” has dropped precipitously. And unfortunately, the number of people confidently asserting a wrong answer online is high in my experience, including on programming forums.


  • Another really helpful tool is to use the fish shell instead of bash. It has tons of useful features, but my favorite is by far the autocomplete. It parses man pages to provide suggestions for flags, subcommands, even passed arguments, and each item in the results list has a description, and it’s all searchable by hitting shift+tab.

    fish autocomplete subcommands

    fish autocomplete git

    That’s what leveled up my cli game from 0-100. It’s a massive difference in usability and discoverability. And unlike things like nushell, it’s close enough to bash that you won’t feel confused if you have to use bash instead.











  • TekhnetoTechnology@lemmy.mlMozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox
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    4 months ago

    Brave can make micro payments to content creators based on the number of views to the site, directly supporting content creators without ads or the need to join the patreon for each creator. It’s a fully optional system, off by default but prompted upon opening the browser for the first time. It’s a cool idea but they kind of spoiled it by making it be a crypto wallet with ads to earn the crypto.

    Also, Brave doesn’t have a subscription…?




  • TekhnetoGreentextAnon finds a flashdrive
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    5 months ago

    I did one similar! Used autohotkey to hide the task bar at random intervals and pop up a warning that said “system out of memory”. Only way to get it back was autohotkey or a reboot. It would restart daily and on login so it would keep happening. And I hid it as “Nvidia game scanner service.exe” in the Nvidia bloatware folder so it looked innocent. Had a good laugh about that one
























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