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by Macha 2y ago
I think there's been some people who have had e.g. multiple successful articles on HN that got them vouched for on lobste.rs (and presumably had some sort of public contact to let them know to create an account), but there's also
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by Macha 2y ago
The comment (written in 2024) was disagreeing with a comment written in 2014, disputing a prediction of events in 2016, written as if 2016 was still in the future.
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by Macha 2y ago
> Eire The name of the country in English is Ireland. The name of the country in Irish is Éire. Eire without the fada is not great in either language - in Irish it means burden, and in English it was used by the UK government and BBC for
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by Macha 2y ago
This was discussed at the time of the libxz revelations and they did re-review all commits in light of this: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2103
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by Macha 2y ago
Honestly, Gitea have started on the open core route, I'm skipping over them and have gone to Forgejo
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by Macha 2y ago
Note for anyone confused, this is about AMOLED displays commonly used in phones and some OLED laptops from a few years ago. W-OLED and QD-OLED have unconventional layouts compared to LCDs but every pixel has the complete set of sub pixels (
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by Macha 2y ago
The timing was too good on this when I saw it today, but: https://mobilegamer.biz/those-assassins-creed-resident-evil-...
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by Macha 2y ago
I don't think so. Apple is the one who really has the power to push that, and they haven't, preferring to let people port iOS games over to Mac OS. And while that is gaming, it's basically an entirely different market to the
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by Macha 2y ago
Similarly, my Windows 10 install on my primary PC is basically a Destiny 2 launcher at this point
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by Macha 2y ago
Art and architecture have had this problem already. Linguistics still has post-modern to use.
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by Macha 2y ago
> Let's now imagine that we want gay marriages or abortion rights or something minor, like the right to repair, and the proposal is rebutted by the parliament. > Should the parliament respect an exponential backoff algorithm to p
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by Macha 2y ago
It's probably worth reflecting on some of the things Hungary considers to be child grooming and exploitation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_anti-LGBT_law
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by Macha 2y ago
glibc on the other hand is very much not.
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by Macha 2y ago
I do wonder about these extended periods of support. Like how many eyes are they spending on comparing vulnerabilities in 18 year old versions of, to pick a random example, libdeflate. Are they backporting security fixes? If someone goes wr
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by Macha 2y ago
My understanding is sites like Wowhead get their reference content in an automated fashion to some extent, pulling it from the Blizzard API and the game data.
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by Macha 2y ago
A few things people may have to hide that they arguably should be able to, depending on the culture: - Embarrassing medical conditions - Minority ethnic heritage - Being LGBT
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by Macha 2y ago
My understanding is the ECJ can overturn legislation that has been passed and appealed, but it can't pre-emptively block legislation?
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by Macha 2y ago
It also means the RS Wiki have full control over their fate, in comparison to e.g. what happened with the WoW wiki where it was WoWWiki at Fandom (then Wikia), they split to Wowpedia at Gamepedia which then got bought by Fandom and reeled t
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by Macha 2y ago
> Ahem what? Last I checked any EU country can veto anything on its own. Only on certain topics, which have been narrowed down over time. For most areas (including something like chat control), it comes down to Qualified Majority Voting,
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by Macha 2y ago
Note the concern is based on historical precedent, that the commission can browbeat the parliament into passing it, especially considering the recent changing of the guard and relatively limited information that many national voters get of
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by Macha 2y ago
To add to the mess, the WHATWG now maintains a "URL" spec that covers URIs and declares URIs an outdated term for URLs: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/ So now we have a URL spec from WHATWG that says URI is an old te
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by Macha 2y ago
So Toyota has a company folklore explanation to do with the number of strokes when written in hiragana being a lucky number, but Japanese linguists were skeptical when the BBC did a piece on it and think it was just a preference for the unv
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by Macha 2y ago
Trademarks, not copyright would be the issue here. This is a clear use of the Gitlab trademark, which gives two options for being permitted to use it: 1. An agreement with Gitlab themselves. Gitlab's own published trademark guidelines
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by Macha 2y ago
MAL's demographics is probably the answer. Anime had a big wave in the 00s, and Death Note, Code Geass, Toradora, FMA and Gintama are all probably beneficiaries of that for higher ratings in MAL than in forums populated by younger or o
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by Macha 2y ago
This is true already if your remote machine is red hat, fedora, arch, opensuse, rocky, ...
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by Macha 2y ago
Here the council* provides the bins that they collect on rubbish day. If you want to provide your own bin they'll leave it alone, if you leave the council bin there on rubbish day they'll take the contents away. Likewise if you ma
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by Macha 2y ago
Reminds me of when my uni blocked outgoing connections to unsupported protocols (including Minecraft servers). It did DPI on most ports, so we couldn't just put it on port 80 as it would recognise it as not http traffic, but the HTTPS
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by Macha 2y ago
There aren't any, the closest is that some authorities reserve low sequence number plates for e.g. the local mayor
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by Macha 2y ago
I've been in orgs where it's up to engineering to measure that, and it's treated as a failure of engineering if they're not positive.
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by Macha 2y ago
This assumes a level of fungibility that's just not there. Apart from the discussions elsewhere in this thread about why spare bedrooms might not be suitable to rent, even for those that are, splitting a family of 4 across 4 spare bedr

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