GlitchMr

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by GlitchMr 3y ago
GDPR doesn't apply for entities outside EU if they aren't specifically targetting services at individuals in the EU (which can be indicated by using EU domains, supporting EU currencies, supporting EU languages or mentioning EU cu
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by GlitchMr 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's unlikely that this browsewrap agreement is enforcable in United States as the website doesn't ask the user to actually consent to Terms of Service, see Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (76
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by GlitchMr 3y ago
NixOS doesn't run Gixy anymore, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209075 .
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
This particular restriction is mostly arbitrary anyway because `this` and `super` accept arbitrary expressions (including static method calls), so in most cases it's possible to do this, just with much worse syntax. Technically, this d
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
The problem with shorting cryptocurrency is that you are assuming that market is fair, when this is absolutely not the case - the market is heavily manipulated.
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Using YouTube is legally not an option here due to Privacy Act of 1974.
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Paying the criminals wouldn't help here. First, there is no guarantee that they wouldn't release the data anyway, second, the data already got leaked - criminals who were responsible for it have access to it, third, they publicly
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Dolphin Progress September, October, and November 2022(dolphin-emu.org)
166 points by GlitchMr 4y ago|9 comments
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Technically Google already has per-service bans for Google Ads and YouTube. That doesn't help if you get banned for a reason unrelated to those services however.
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Certificate Transparency system requires certificates issued by CAs to be publicly reported, otherwise web browsers will reject them. Publicly reported certificates then can be monitored by anyone, and anything suspicious could be reported.
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
For ctest to work, it's necessary to start your User-Agent string with "NX NIFM/" (the console itself sends "NX NIFM/00" as an User-Agent string).
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Technically there is sarcasm tag in HTML specification, it's one of tags that is specifically handled in https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#parsing-... ('An end tag whose tag name is "sa
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
PHP is a much simpler language which helps a lot with optimizations. For instance, consider something like property access. In PHP, doing `$a->b` accesses field `b` of object `$a`. The implementation is essentially type check (making sur
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
> Records use : in their literal form, which is overloaded with type ascription. This is also annoying in cases where you might want to move a field into a let binding. This one is getting fixed by removing type ascription - https:&#x2F
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1958/
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Minecraft website said the following: > Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I'm not very happy with the draconian nature of (L)GPL, nor do I believe
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/tech-specs/ says "USB Type-C".
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
I don't think there is anything wrong with storing passwords unencrypted locally assuming the machine itself has encrypted storage. Malware that retrieves passwords from password manager could get them from an unlocked password manager
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Helvetica typeface cannot be copyrighted in United States, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Technically it may not be a copyright infringement - whether emojis can be copyrighted is quite complicated. However, this is irrelevant as App Store Review guidelines say the following. > Apps may use Unicode characters that render as A
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
I think Apple would have to be stupid to block booting other operating systems on the devices they already have sold. This could easily lead to lawsuit, similar to one that Sony had when they removed OtherOS functionality from PlayStation 3
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Accessibility matters. If nothing else because it is a legal requirement with laws such as US's Americans with Disabilities Act, UK's Disability Discrimination Act, EU's European Accessibility Act, Australia's Disability
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Breaking changes ( https://vitejs.dev/guide/migration.html ) are minimal and unlikely to affect most applications, and when they do the issues should be trivial to fix.
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
> I'm sure Google can send a cease-and-desist to all sorts of other stores instead of just Apple. Google may dislike those applications and refuse to host them on Google Play, but they aren't doing anything illegal, so they can
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Apple will probably try to deal with requirement to not require developers to use WebKit by allowing alternate web browser engines in European Union only - a developer would be required to provide WebKit version of an application or else it
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
- Web browsers with ad-blocking and plug-ins (Apple currently requires all web browsers to use system Webkit with very limited APIs). - Game cloud streaming services (xCloud, Stadia, GeForce Now). - Unofficial clients for websites such as Y
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
This is an issue with Ruby's YAML implementation. YAML 1.2 processors should interpret documents without YAML directive as if they were YAML 1.2 documents - see https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#681-yaml-directives
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
Nintendo's Lot Check doesn't really establish anything. Nintendo Switch's game store is flooded with games that don't really work as the testing was minimized.
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
I don't think using String::intern makes sense, especially now that Java's garbage collector is capable of deduplicating strings ( https://openjdk.org/jeps/192 ). In the past it could have been used to reduce m
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by GlitchMr 4y ago
> 1: Amazing that Javascript is the most popular language, despite nobody has yet managed to write a fast FizzBuzz in it :) The reason for that is that standard output implementation in Node.js is very slow. When the challenge is to writ

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