Liquix

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by Liquix 3y ago
...which leads to yet another paradoxical situation: 80-90%+ of Mozilla's yearly revenue comes from google [0]. they keep firefox afloat (with 3% market share) with the sole purpose of avoiding antitrust action vs. chrome. IMHO if Fire
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To be fair some people have naturally different "peak hours" and sleep schedules. I naturally fall asleep around 1-2AM and wake up at 10. Going to bed earlier involves tossing and turning for hours annoying the SO. Staying up for
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not a mac user, but on macs ctrl in shortcuts is replaced with command. guessing it's - left thumb on command - pinky on shift - index finger on R ...which IMO is more ergonomic and less annoying than the equivalent PC shortcut.
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Or don't buy products that are subsidized by recording and selling your data! Not to mention these half-baked "features" produce thousands of hours of headaches, tech support calls, and general unhappiness. $tvManufacturer co
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installation/setup is dead simple. up and running in under 3 minutes: git clone https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus.git cd Fooocus pip3 install -r requirements_versions.txt python3 entry_with_update.py
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thanks! the thumbnail trend has gotten really, really bad. any insight into why creators are hopping on the bandwagon? is there data they have access to which suggests switching to this type of thumbnail will increase engagement?
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Any party with sufficient resources and motive to influence the outcome of an election. Outside of election season, this tech would be very dangerous in the hands of anyone seeking to influence the public for their own gain.
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Just like you said - being surrounded by interesting people on interesting platforms who are likely to create small websites, we occasionally stumble across a link in a walled garden profile. For the average internet user, small websites
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While visualizers have fallen out of favor, live video jockeying is gaining popularity. Some DJs work closely with VJs before shows to produce curated visual experiences which augment the music. Lots of raymarching, geometry manipulatio
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Same. But IMHO Google would be fine with this. They aren't in the business of giving out CPU time and bandwidth for free – your data must be catalogued and correlated and sold to keep YouTube viable. What do they gain from the 5-10% of
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Does this type of practice really convert casual readers to paying customers? It seems like it would just drive traffic away from the site.
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Yeah, but google owns that domain and you chose to navigate to it, so they have every right to do so. Imagine if navigating to apple.com in Chrome displayed a hardcoded survey asking why you're not buying an Android phone. Over the lin
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WSL is great but it does nothing against the invasive advertising, political messages, clickbait articles in the start menu, and surveillance - some of the main pain points of Win10/11.
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Our biOS composes their reality, sending information about it via electrical signals. It then converts the neuron's activity into actions inside that reality. Their world is mediated through our biOS. The simulation argument asserts
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33540293 (11 months ago, 239 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20683735 (4 years ago, 176 comments)
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Anyone who enjoys Ott may also want to check out Cosmic Trigger [0] and/or Globular [1] https://shponglemusic.bandcamp.com/album/shpongle-remixed-by... https://globular.bandcamp.com/album/long
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Having trouble understanding the context in which this is not sarcasm. Would you mind linking the column if possible?
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They are A/B testing various anti-adblock strategies. You might be in the control group
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In fact there may be an evolutionary advantage in doing the opposite - flooding the system with stress/fear chemicals at the time of death. Predators would likely prefer to avoid tense, stringy meat reeking of primal panic and feces.
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> if microsoft goes and enshittens github between mandatory 2FA "for your safety", the copilot scandal, and the way M$ treated paying mojang customers who refused to make microsoft accounts - github's future looks bleak. I
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Absolutely. But sometimes the best in class tool is open source (see: ffmpeg), resulting in a win-win-win for the accounting department, for the developer freed from bureaucracy, and for open source as a whole. It would be nice to live in a
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Slight tangent: How can Lazarus/HIDDEN COBRA be such a sophisticated nation state actor when North Koreans can barely access the internet until becoming government employees? One would think that being unable to access modern security
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I would be happy to pay content creators the money they deserve for high quality content. But no matter how good the video is, it's not worth sitting through pitches trying to convince or manipulate you into spending money. At that poi
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The brine more often than not contains traces of pretreatment chemicals, heavy metals, and other byproducts. It's frequently treated before being disposed of. Methods include pumping it down to the ocean floor or mixing with a source o
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To be fair, 100+ pounds overweight isn't a "body type". It's a health hazard and the direct result of eating too much food. It's easy to lose sight of what's normal when every two out of three [0] Americans s
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> I have to give an ocular patdown hold it right there, jabroni
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It's kind of like that one friend who will pontificate on the merits of smoked cinnamon sticks, bitters, candied pecans, and the $10,000 worth of liquor in their living room bar - they've fooled themselves into thinking they'
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via third party launchers. some of them can also handle modpacks, shaders, optifine, LAN multiplayer, etc: https://github.com/huanghongxun/HMCL https://github.com/PojavLauncherTeam/PojavLauncher
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> Clearly, it is in humanity's best interest to... Herein lies the problem. What happens to the environment is not governed by "humanity's best interest", it's governed by whomever has the most power and the bigg
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pihole is very stable - deploy it on a cheap pi/nuc/etc that lives near the router and forget about it forever. as a failsafe you can set your router's main DNS server to the pihole and set the secondary DNS to something like

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