PinkSheep

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by PinkSheep 2y ago
To "catch a serial killer" you'd need each retailer selling printers to track the ID and model number on a receipt, to be submitted to a central government agency and saved in a database. This is not what's happening in
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
> A person printing a single small book they didn't want to buy Oh btw, you've paid a "tax" to unknown entities for this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
The fact the author hadn't responded to multiple requests to contact here, makes me think too, it is a made up story.
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
This entire comment chain is moot, if that were the implication, they had no business interviewing him and wasting everyone's time.
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
The "eh?" should be directed back at your comment, how you casually omit that microtransactions and the incentives to purchase them have become a central part of modern game design. In the end, how much of an issue you rank this
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
Now that you've written it out, it explains why my solo games are better than when we queue with a friend, who never plays outside our games together. And I end up promising "I just had nice team mates the last game!" :)
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
The above commenter was probably inspired by the recent investigative(!) video series by Coffeezilla (and decided not to mention it?). It was either in part 2 or 3, where C-z alleged/suspected Valve's legal actions to have been mo
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
> Slavic family: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#ind...
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
Maybe he should've pardoned himself into the past and a little bit into the future too, like that other man did. /jk
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
Alright, I have a mismatched setup: a 1080p and a 4K screen. No matter how you twist it, the virtual screen* will have dead zones. Self-management of a single full-screen canvas is easy (browser F11). But then I will want to use the entire
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
Not Chinese, but I might call myself trilingual and this is exactly something that has wondered me. Language "pair": ru>de>en In very general terms, the longer you listen to a particular voice, the better you get at reconstr
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
This is correct. Unfortunately, xdg-tools is a set of almost forgotten scripts that need some more eyes and collaboration to polish. I've seen many problems there. Nobody is actively maintaining it, but a couple developers could get th
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
Diplomats and other low tier consuls.
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
> US or EU? I'm a bystander, but the gist I got from the official lists and trials is that each EU country needs it's own approval with the gov agency. It may be that "being EU" has equalized requirements to an extent
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by PinkSheep 2y ago
It's worse than bare maintenance, MS may have entered the stage of "clueless breaking" probably for the same reasons outlined above (newcomers don't understand what came before them). The following is an account as an en
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
You can override the default route of the VPN for the LAN.
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
Although I'm late to the party, I'm surprised by only 4 mentions of "Lua" in all of comments. At its basis, a valid Lua file can consist of one table. Then the data description will be very similar to how people operate
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
Similarly, Russian translations are often translating such phrases verbatim. I have come to the realization that the correct translation would be to drop the "pleases" and instead use the respectful 2nd person plural "Вы&quot
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
Maybe we need a CoC for error messages.
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
> Never tell me what I "need to" do. Do you imply ill intent upon the program? Because I read this as a violation of tone . I interact with the program because I want/need to. It's in my interest to follow through th
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
People who speak English and frequent this website will inevitably follow US culture or news coverage and have been tainted by it in some way. At the same time cultures are growing closer together, in part this is visible in poor internatio
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
> get access to data free from the priestly interpretations I believe nowhere. I almost never see news media hotlink the source when we're talking about online events. In other cases that's copywriting or regurgitating news age
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
Ironically they are not even pingable from my VPN.
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
Firstly, it's there because the copyright on his works has long expired in Russia. Secondly, there happened to be an individual who was passionate about a topic. Notice how it's "web 1.0". I don't know if people cre
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
In Russia the smallest coins are practically out of circulation, the price tags are still in x.99 but rounded at checkout.
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
Did you complain to Linode to fix it?
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by PinkSheep 3y ago
That's magenta on purple with decent contrast. To my eye that's vastly more usable than those San Francisco Thin fonts.
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by PinkSheep 4y ago
> As a potential contributor, I'm scared away by their practices of turning down improvements on political grounds. As a potential contributor I suggest you to be present on their mailing list (filter for OSX and other keywords if y
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by PinkSheep 4y ago
About choosing phones: I agree, but for newbies the realization may come after the purchase. And the custom ROM experiment may be postponed until the next purchase... and then forever. I have had a good example of a late realization where
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by PinkSheep 4y ago
> Can you please link me some articles/references? Well explained here: https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-co... So the issue is not the SecureBoot itself, but the ways it can a

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