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by Dwedit 10mo ago
It doesn't "still work" if you're on Firefox. uMatrix has bugs that cause it to randomly delete your cookies, or occasionally fail to block a request (race condition? Looking at logger shows an incorrect domain on some
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
1996 is a surprise, I thought WebWasher (http local proxy ad remover) was first.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Brave has a much better AI search than either Google or DuckDuckGo.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Their Github is https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
FTP is great for the hackers who want to sniff cleartext user passwords over insecure public wifi.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Mt. Gox is a name change done after the fact, it's just reinterpreting the original initials.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
I really gotta hand it to "wget" for picking a good name for a program that gets things from the web.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
What made it in from Daala? * Multi-Symbol Entropy Coder * Chroma from Luma * CDEF filter (directional dering filter) What didn't make it in? * Lapped Transform * Use of vector quantization for residuals (aligning the vectors)
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Isn't the Apple Menu basically a start menu though?
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
"Don’t ask an LLM if a URL is valid. It will hallucinate a 200 OK. Run requests.get()." Except for sites that block any user agent associated with an AI company.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
640 * 480 / 2 = 150KB for a classic 16-color VGA screen.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
One way to use unofficial instructions is so you can use Read-Modify-Write instructions in addressing modes that the official instruction cannot be used in. To understand, it helps if you write out the instruction table in columns, so here&
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
What exactly does sponsoring CachyOS mean? Bandwidth and hosting? Money going upstream to the actual developers who make the packages?
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
It's missing Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Because pirates are unaffected by the patent situation with H.265.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
RIP John Conway, a victim of Covid.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
You need to convince all developers that all 117,881 Steam games need be recompiled for ARM. Hopefully they have a working build environment, have appropriate libraries built for ARM, still have the source code, and are able to do the test
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Async always confused me as to when a function would actually create a new thread or not.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
The "every second version" rule may be a meme, but it does not reflect the actual release order of Windows, nor properly count the NT series. It only really applies to sentiment surrounding Windows 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, an
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Because "sub eax,eax" looks stupid. (and also clears the carry flag, unlike "xor eax, eax")
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
I don't think it works that way, the actual drive letter is a UTF-16 Unicode path. The application must be able to provide an "ANSI" string that encodes to that UTF-16 value if it uses an "ANSI" function to open th
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Very cursed, and the drive letter won't even be accessible under certain codepages.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Why exactly would a hardware 3D renderer be unable to create the desired aesthetic? I don't see anything in the screenshots that couldn't be done using the features of Direct3D 9.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Just because information is wrong doesn't mean it's AI generated, people can make up wrong answers too.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
FLIF got integrated in to JPEG-XL as the modular mode.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Having a PNG go from 164.5K to 127.1K as lossless WEBP is not what I'd call "marginal". An improvement of over 20% is huge for lossless compression. Going from lossless WEBP to lossless JXL is marginal though, and is not wor
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
WebAssembly seems like a big workaround for JavaScript only supporting doubles, strings, and objects/arrays. Its big features are to allow using a byte array as stack/heap storage memory, and having actual integer types, along wi
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Microsoft redistributables are just the standard library. Most of the rest of the new DLLs are not backed by any system calls, just by API calls. Except of course for the D3DKMT stuff, that stuff is the real system calls used by Direct3D.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Windows 3.1 had a color scheme called "Plasma Power Saver", and that would be what it was for.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
That's the nice thing about macros, you can also have the macro generate C++ code using destructors instead of using the cleanup attribute. As long as your other C code is also valid C++ code, it should work.

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