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by Lammy 2y ago
See also: ECMAScript for XML (E4X) https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-357_2...
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by Lammy 2y ago
It's so impressively underhandedly sneaky how Microsoft named their ODF-competitor format “Office Open” just as the OO.o hype peaked with OO.o 2.0 having ODF as its native format, when MSOffice finally had a viable and popular compet
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by Lammy 2y ago
> The biggest issue I had migrating as a Photoshop user since 1996 was the key bindings RIP GIMPshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop
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by Lammy 2y ago
Oh, neat. I had no idea it was intentional but I can see how that would be a useful feature. It felt like a bug to me because it felt disconnected from any intentional cursor movement on my part.
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by Lammy 2y ago
I like how my cursor randomly enlarges itself for like it's moving between a high-DPI and low-DPI mode despite being entirely on one display and nowhere near the edge between my internal and external. It gets big for maybe 1 second and
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by Lammy 2y ago
> moving the Mac to a new processor architecture (for the second of three times) Four times kinda — maybe five if you want to count PPC32 and PPC64 separately but I usually don't since the Intel transition happened so soon afterwa
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by Lammy 2y ago
It was closed-source for the entirety of Android 3.x “Honeycomb”, the tablet-only Android version that introduced Holo on the Motorola XOOM etc. Source code for 3.x was retroactively made available when 4.0 resumed its open-sourceness: htt
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by Lammy 2y ago
TIL you can't move it to the sides any more in Windows 11, wild. Just one more reason for me to stay on Windows 10 no matter the forced-obsolescence schedule.
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by Lammy 2y ago
I can't live without this. I also use WinCompose on Windows and Karabiner Elements on Mac which I find vastly superior to the native special-character input methods of both: https://wincompose.info/ https://
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by Lammy 2y ago
Those are all folding/portable chairs, not fixed chairs. There are a few fixed benches built into the sidewalk in front of a few houses in my neighborhood, and 5 would apply to them. I'm also curious how this could be interpreted
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by Lammy 2y ago
Not that it would ever be enforced against these people (and not like I agree with the ordinance existing at all) but the “typical weekend stoop hang” seems like it would definitely be illegal by a strict reading of San Francisco Police Cod
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Technical analyses of Free-X’s “Bert & Ernie” XBOX Dashboard font exploit (2003)(archiv.sega-dc.de)
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> YAML is fine for what it is: a markup language. Pardon my pedantry, but the meaning of YAML's name was changed from the original “Yet Another Markup Language” to “YAML Ain't Markup Language” in a 2002 draft spec because YAML
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Sun – The Power Behind Pixar's Movie-Making (1995)(web.archive.org)
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by Lammy 2y ago
And FreeBSD Ports has 434 extant ports which depend on it https://www.freshports.org/x11-toolkits/gtk20/
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by Lammy 2y ago
Call it GNU IMP if it bothers you
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by Lammy 2y ago
Relevant: “The Mac, Metadata, and you” (2001) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2001/08/metadata/
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by Lammy 2y ago
Also the Super Mario World fortress boss for some reason https://www.mariowiki.com/Reznor
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An Introduction to Basic CATV (2004)(web.archive.org)
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by Lammy 2y ago
https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-... “The Agency’s relationship with the Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees
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by Lammy 2y ago
FYI: The Bose app also phones home with your media metadata by default. There's an option to disable it tucked away on the same screen as the Privacy Policy.
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by Lammy 2y ago
It reminds me of the “Ducks” PLAYSTATION3 demo from E3 2005 a.k.a. Super Rub-a-Dub: https://archive.org/details/ps3duckdemo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Rub_%27a%27_Dub
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by Lammy 2y ago
There was a little magic to make that happen too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format
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by Lammy 2y ago
Same problem as LED lighting: fine in concept but so cheap that it's suddenly easy to have way too much of it.
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by Lammy 2y ago
They had this and killed it lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Time_Capsule
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by Lammy 2y ago
I wonder if the “Agent” hat iconography was inspired by Forté Agent, the most (IMHO) popular Usenet software for Windows, which used a very similar motif: https://archive.org/details/forte-agent-1.6 Love reading this k
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by Lammy 2y ago
To save anyone else looking it up, CLA == Clean, Lubricate, Adjust https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/15613/what-is-cla-... https://markorussa.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/general
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by Lammy 2y ago
In the future this stuff will get so good that the public will beg to be surveilled at all times because it will be the only way to prove what you didn't do. You will learn to love Total Information Awareness. Consent status: manufactu
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by Lammy 2y ago
I did say “mildly” although this is still double what it used to be before DigiCert (read: Clearlake Capital wearing a DigiCert skin suit) bought DNSME: https://i.imgur.com/zhMjaFp.png
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by Lammy 2y ago
I wonder if this is related to the massive increase (quadrupling) in DNS traffic just to my own domains as of January 2020 that has become the new normal ever since. Figure 2 in the article lines up with mine exactly: https://i.i

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