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New comment by traderj0e in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:02:28 +0000

I personally don't, even when I'm doing heavy multitasking on a 13" laptop. Only exception is if something needs to be full-screen.

It can make sense if you're keeping a lot of non-full-size windows on a larger screen and working on separate tasks that are in the same application, meaning cmd-tab won't help.

New comment by traderj0e in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:59:01 +0000

Apparently the "natural scrolling" option also reverses the swipe gestures for space switching, haha

New comment by traderj0e in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:57:58 +0000

It's also hilarious that it works this way

New comment by traderj0e in "FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:41:09 +0000

Fun fact, apps can't wake from APNS if the user killed the app (swipe up) last time instead of switching away normally. Apple publicly said something contrary to this at one point, so it might be surprising that Signal can work this way. The notification itself will still come through outside the app, so I wonder what you see, probably some placeholder text?

New comment by traderj0e in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:35:37 +0000

I don't like their UI either, that's why I'm using the Mac/iPhone Mail app.

New comment by traderj0e in "DIY MacBook Neo upgrade can boost the SSD to 1TB using iPhone parts"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:32:16 +0000

dosdude1, classic. His macOS patcher tools were lifesavers.

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:19:26 +0000

ah np, HN probably disallows it cause I replied already

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:09:37 +0000

Well, I'm not discouraged at least. The entire article probably shouldn't even be on HN so whatever

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:05:58 +0000

What did I say about the laptop? The WH coercion was about covid19.

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:28:57 +0000

I'm not gonna make this about good vs bad, just gonna say EFF is telling us they endorse the Democratic party, a bit like the ACLU. If that's the message they want to send, that's fine.

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:19:49 +0000

Of all the verifiable complaints I've heard about Twitter censorship, the best left-wing one was "they banned the Elon Musk jet tracker" and the right-wing was "they banned people for saying there are two genders." Anyone have a better one for either of these?

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:01:51 +0000

On Twitter, "cis" is about as censored as racism. Neither one gets you banned, but you're warned when posting.

New comment by traderj0e in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:45:37 +0000

Yeah I've made a few maps for it, very fun

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:01:51 +0000

Yeah they're not anymore. Woke opinions were getting shoved until that abruptly stopped a bit before Trump's second term. Which is weird because this didn't happen in his first term. Now we've got Amazon promoting the Melania movie.

On Twitter in particular, the woke shoving stopped the moment Musk took over, replaced with it shoving whatever Musk is saying. They're doing less censorship now but are also heavily promoting him.

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:55:16 +0000

Of course not. Those platforms have 1A rights. In some cases, the US govt violated those rights by pressuring them to take down viewpoints, hence what I said about "1A violation on the government's side."

In other cases, the platform did it all on their own. That's perfectly legal but is also rightfully seen by users as political censorship, something the EFF claims to fight even when it's not from the govt.

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:48:02 +0000

"working with federal government to censor speech" is a 1A violation on the government's side

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:45:36 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspensions_on_X search for "gender", at least one was a Congressman

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:38:05 +0000

I guess? Washington Post and others were doing this for a while. As insane as it was for a "neutral" news source to officially endorse political candidates, it was earning them subscribers. And Fox News didn't do this officially, but it was obvious.

If you want to give EFF more credit, maybe they figured at least they can reach people on TikTok who don't already agree but don't already disagree, while Twitter was just flaming.

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:33:06 +0000

A few of these were actual calls to violence, but most were about political opinion https://ballotpedia.org/Elected_officials_suspended_or_banne...

They also banned NY Post for publishing that Hunter Biden laptop story. Which as much of a nothingburger as that story was, it's insane to get banned for that.

New comment by traderj0e in "EFF is leaving X"

traderj0e — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:30:17 +0000

It's not even ideological concerns about the platform but about the userbase. TikTok and Instagram have a lot of left-wing people on them, as they've alluded to, regardless of who owns those. Twitter users are too right-wing for them.