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philo_sophia commented on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks   kdpcommunity.com/s/articl... · Posted by u/captn3m0
nippoo · 3 hours ago
They failed to deliver a Pixel phone to me - they never even tried to deliver it and the status said "permanent delivery failure" so I assumed they'd automatically refund me.

Fast forward a few months, I never received a refund and they claim they have no record any more. I could chargeback my credit card but I imagine I'd also be permanently banned from Amazon - so instead I accept they've just stolen $1000 from me with no recourse...

(if anyone from Amazon is reading this, my email is in my bio!)

philo_sophia · 2 hours ago
Just ask for the refund. If they lock your account you can always make a new one (gonna be a scary day when that isn't possibl cuz they use biometrics or something.....).

But if they just close your account in response to asking for a rightful refund.... Literal thievery

philo_sophia commented on Iron-sodium grid batteries just took a big step toward US rollout   electrek.co/2025/12/11/ir... · Posted by u/Bender
philo_sophia · 7 days ago
Remember seeing this idea 13 years ago [1]

Glad they're finally coming online, though I think these iron-air batteries[2] will take most of the market share (room for all though!).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sddb0Khx0yA

[2] https://sustainabilitymag.com/news/the-rust-revolution-can-i...

philo_sophia commented on After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline   iwriteaboutcode.blogspot.... · Posted by u/birdculture
philo_sophia · 23 days ago
>When you leave software developers alone for too long, they start developing software

I've gotten so bored at work lately I've been coding for fun again

philo_sophia commented on Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools   educationdaly.us/p/missis... · Posted by u/pkrecker
philo_sophia · 7 months ago
I think the comments on the article are a fair critique. Notably that this single metric for educational outcome is not as important as the author is suggesting.

Also, Maine has a huge drop on that chart I'm assuming from COVID. I don't think this is southern states catching up. I think it was just them outperforming during COVID potentially. Whether or not that will last, we will see.

philo_sophia commented on The Candid Naivety of Geeks   ploum.net/2025-03-28-geek... · Posted by u/SlackingOff123
philo_sophia · 9 months ago
As a tech employee who has worked on software privacy controls for consumer devices at amazon I have a couple thoughts. First, let me clarify that I am still highly skeptical about any tech companies privacy promises. That being said, the privacy control I worked on for one of Amazon's devices was a pita. It was a hardware switch which completely powered down all sensors, and modifying code related to it required extensive testing to preserve customer privacy. Amazon at least emphasizes to employees earning and retaining customer trust. The real reason I actually semi trust tech companies privacy policies is the ethics of individual employees. Maybe I'm projecting my disgust at privacy infringements onto my coworkers, but I generally believe these large corps can't hire sufficient teams of devs to build privacy compromising systems without at least one person whistleblowing.

My $.02

philo_sophia commented on The Candid Naivety of Geeks   ploum.net/2025-03-28-geek... · Posted by u/SlackingOff123
cavisne · 9 months ago
Google has been around since 1998 with people putting every dark secret and worry into search queries. Not once has someones searches been leaked by employees, despite highly political people working at these companies with a lot to gain by leaking to a journalist or similar.

Likewise with private messages on Facebook, order history on Amazon.

Big Tech has way more to lose than the small "privacy focused" alternatives, and clearly for them to go this long with this many employees its through design not luck.

philo_sophia · 9 months ago
Upvote. Employees are the actual enforcement of tech ethics. See Google project maven pushback
philo_sophia commented on Tmux – The Essentials (2019)   davidwinter.dev/2019/03/1... · Posted by u/devonnull
anyfoo · 9 months ago
I like tmux a lot, but like its predecessor "screen" I mostly use it for explicitly running long-lived jobs (i.e. for its detach feature), and for very special situations where I have elaborate tmux window configurations with dedicated stuff running in each window/pane.

Note that I have been using text-only terminals since the 1980s, but I've adapted my tty usage over time.

The problem that tmux (or screen) brings are first and foremost:

* Smooth/fast scrolling goes away. I can no longer give my trackpad a slight push to find myself tens or hundreds of lines in the scrollback history, and visually scan by slightly pushing my fingers back and forth. Instead I have to use the horrendous in-tmux scrollback using "Ctrl-b [".

* My terminal app's tabs and windows are not tmux's tabs and windows. I cannot freely arrange them in space, snap them off with the mouse, easily push them to another desktop, and so on. I have to start a multiple tmux clients and do awkward keyboard interactions with them for any of the same.

* tmux's terminal emulation and my terminal emulator's terminal emulation (heh) are not congruent. As a result, programs cannot make full use of my actual terminal's capabilities. For example selecting, copying, and pasting text sometimes behave weirdly, and there are other annoyances.

What I'd really like to have instead is terminal session management at a higher level, i.e. involving my actual graphical terminal app itself. Attaching to a running session would mean restoring the terminal app's windows and tabs, and the entire scrollback history within (potentially with some lazy loading).

tmux could likely be a major part of that, by providing the option of replacing its tty-facing frontend with a binary protocol that the graphical terminal app talks to, while keeping the backend (i.e. the part that provides the tty to anything running inside it) the same as it is today.

As it is, the downsides of using tmux all the time are too high.

philo_sophia · 9 months ago
Disclaimer: I generally prefer doing everything by keyboard and never touching a mouse

When you enter tmux scroll back buffer with "Ctrl-b [" you can reverse search the entire output and navigate within the buffer with standard shortcuts (same as man pages). I also added this yank plugin to copy any highlighted output to my system clipboard. Makes searching and copying output super fast

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

philo_sophia commented on Tmux – The Essentials (2019)   davidwinter.dev/2019/03/1... · Posted by u/devonnull
PhilipRoman · 9 months ago
Regarding scrolling, I just have a keybind which dumps the scrollback buffer into vim in a new window. Works great for copying or searching things.
philo_sophia · 9 months ago
Tmux allows reverse search of the text on the screen and add the tmux-yank plugin to directly copy highlighted text onto your system clipboard

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

u/philo_sophia

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