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by Qub3d 5y ago
I imagine its a limitation of the sensor capturing the image. When you use a tiny sensor on a phone its doing lots of post-processing, including bumping saturation and brightness.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Yep. I have a buddy who works at $BIG_US_RETAILER and he weekly has to go into the stock room with a box cutter and scissors to destroy unsold clothing. I have also heard big box retailers (i.e. Best Buy) will destroy unsold items to discou
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by Qub3d 5y ago
That's awesome. Looks like his hue is very, very close to YInMn blue, one of my favorite contemporary scientific discoveries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YInMn_Blue
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I've used adNauseam (only on FF, Chrome booted it from their store) and TrackMeNot. AdNauseam blocks ads, but also virtually "clicks" on them to make it look like you are interested in every ad served to you, filling your d
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by Qub3d 5y ago
To add to the other comments, 3rd-party DRM providers such as Denuvo are very careful to avoid claiming totally invulnerability to cracks; the cutting edge is all about covering the initial post release that will represent 99% of the volume
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Here's a great video essay on the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgK51w6uhk
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by Qub3d 5y ago
FLoC isn't needed to show ads any more than cookies are. If we hadn't gotten everyone used to the gravy of personalized ads, this wouldn't be an issue. But going back to placing ads based on, say, the website or the expected
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I'm begging you, do not go to private art school anymore(twitter.com)
13 points by Qub3d 5y ago|3 comments
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by Qub3d 5y ago
@Dang was this a user or a mod action?
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I am ambivalent, but the reduced fees are nice.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Not only did they split, they just forced all sellers to move from PayPal to direct deposit: https://gizmodo.com/ebay-and-paypal-finally-break-up-for-goo...
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Yes, the primary tool is CNAME cloaking. On Firefox, uBlock Origin already detects and blocks this. Unfortunately Chrome and Safari don't expose the APIs to allow this there. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-
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by Qub3d 5y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html : > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. B
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I use the plural because I know there is more than one editor (Guy) who cares about this, if only because there is also myself. I know there is more than that, however, because of the discussion pages (a sampling of which is linked below) r
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by Qub3d 5y ago
The WMF has refused to state how the endowment is stuctured, so we have no proof that they cannot dip into the principle whenever they feel the need/want. Users have tried asking for clarification. Multiple times: https://en
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AWS Expert Corey Quinn on Amazon Sidewalk(twitter.com)
32 points by Qub3d 5y ago|0 comments
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I would really love someone to review a commercial display. I effectively only want the panel and some inputs wired to it.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I can't wait until we see Faraday cages for toasters...
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Yes, Gorhill has published the communication between him and Mozilla when working on the mobile UI for firefox Android. It was all pretty great to see.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Also known as the "Cascade of Attention Deficit Teenagers" (CADT) development model: https://archive.is/l4svG (jwz link, so archive.is)
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by Qub3d 5y ago
No, I received several of his books as gifts, then watched videos on my own volition after reading them.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
In high school I breathed the "gospel" of Dave Ramsey. I was essentially a religiously-bent FIRE [0] advocate. What I have come to realize is that Dave is like an AA leader. His advice makes a lot of sense if you are in a situatio
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by Qub3d 5y ago
+1 for the air purifier. I got a unit that I keep in my bedroom and my sleep quality has improved massively.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I have a similar setup, but I find the bridge doesn't seem to auto-start correctly, and then Thunderbird generates a bunch of connection errors that I have to manually clear out after manually launching the bridge.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I like Fastmail, but as they are based in Australia, how do they address the A&A law[0] that requires companies to decrypt data when compelled by the government? Edit: I found this response[1], which seems to boil down to: "we alre
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by Qub3d 5y ago
You might like Migadu[0]. Its set up as more of a postmaster tool but does have webmail, and multiple accounts on a domain is a first-class feature. I found out about it from ddvault's recommendations[1]. [0]: https://www.mi
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by Qub3d 5y ago
For anyone else who wanted to know more like me, here's a good rundown: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/f8qnpc/ublock... Note that CNAME uncloaking only works on Firefox; chromium-bas
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Here, there is a lot of very in-depth discussion on why Tether is specifically a Ponzi scheme at the top of HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27214342
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Its a fraud in that the money/gold/intrinsic fiat that is supposed to be backing it has not been credibly proven to exist, at least at a value matching the current amount of USDT in supply. --- Let's say I decide to make Nerd
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by Qub3d 5y ago
This is an interesting concern, and you've pasted this identical comment at least three times in this thread. Could you elaborate or link to somewhere that explains this in detail? This comment on its own isn't very helpful.

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