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by Rd6n6 5y ago
What security vulnerabilities?
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> Firefox now does catch-up paints for almost all user interactions, enabling a 10-20% improvement in response time to most user interactions. What are catch up paints? A quick search didn’t turn anything up
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> Firefox now does catch-up paints for almost all user interactions, enabling a 10-20% improvement in response time to most user interactions. What do you mean nothing about performance?
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
With all the news about doom and disaster, it’s really nice to find an article about fun monsters
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
As somebody who just began using grids in their designs, I can say that grids can have a really nice effect on a lot of layouts. Fundamentally, it’s just about creating order and alignment among various elements in a view, both in positioni
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> The government actually loves monopolies because it makes monitoring citizens easier. You make it sound like the government is a single person with a plan. I don’t think people and departments in a government are very coherent and alig
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
A few months ago, everywhere you looked people were promoting apple as the privacy company. It was an amazing amount of viral goodwill and trust
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
For anyone curious, they mention “appendix n.” In one of the very old books (adnd 1e dmg I think), there was a section with that name that had a list of inspirations. In the old school dnd community, this list has a slight mythic status and
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I’ve been surprised to find that search.brave.com is par with google for almost all my queries
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I listened to a podcast once about somebody wanting to build a mr burns style sun blocker, except in space and extremely far away from us. The idea was to reduce the amount of sun that hits the earth by a couple of percentage points. It wou
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I have been assuming the idea of these vaccines was to buy time until a new one gets developed that also stops transmission. Ie, I assume we will all get a second vaccine one day that’s better that can have a shot at wiping Covid out, if we
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I had no idea. What is the reason for this default behaviour?
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
In Canada, engineer is a protected title. There are software engineers and you get professors who stress to you the importance of testing and safety, and there are safety and ethical requirements. It’s not very strongly enforced though, lot
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I avoid interview podcasts because they wander across so many topics. If one were to stick strictly to a well defined topic or question, then I would personally be more open to them
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I tried a lot of alternatives to thunderbird on linux for mail/calendar/contacts. Every single one had a severe issue at some point with something (timeline problems, losing events, can’t sync contacts, privacy issue for one paid
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
This has the potential to be a great laptop, if execution is good: https://frame.work/
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
The battery on my xps seems to be swelling and messing up the trackpad. Apparently it’s a pretty common issue Edit: seems to be the precision line too > The same problem is happening with the Precision 1510 line with the same batteries.
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
It’s annoying in game jams that have your players have to see a scary security screen after they download your game because you can’t get the executable signed. Will they just be blocked now? The article has no information on what actually
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
There are discussions of a strike where I live because the province is trying to cut nursing total comp by about 5% https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/mobile/when-is-the-strike-vote-fa...
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I’m actually beginning some informal research on 17th century Europe for a small game right now. There are some village life and village builder aspects. It’s the beginning of the “modern” period and just after the renaissance. What is life
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Sounds like a fun weekend project
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
What protects the companies and freelancers who write these insecure systems from liability? Is it just a blanket “we are not liable” clause in every contract?
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Do they have a version for ordinary web app servers?
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> include anyone who is “responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets” Does that include PDFs, audio books, software, and photos? Web apps or plugins? “Asset” is monstrously vague. Does Dri
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I thought this was just going to suggest you play old school dungeons and dragons https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wL7lEwD1uGI
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Between Firefox and Chrome, the performance is almost identical. What is different is the smooth scrolling behaviour: it is far smoother in chrome than in Firefox, and that has a dramatic impact on how performant the browser “feels.” If Fir
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Chapters/indigo in Canada is like that. Half the stores are gift shops for socks and blankets etc. They removed all the tables and chairs they had 20 years ago for you to read at. At least they still exist though, all 4 used bookstores
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
How is privacy tools operated? What is the organization behind it? Is it a business or a group or volunteers? I’ve been visiting for years, it’s a good site Edit: looks like it’s becoming a business? > The PrivacyTools team is proud to i
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I read recently in a hn thread that masks have surprisingly little effect on facial recognition accuracy
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Seems like a good opportunity to ask: what are some news agencies that do not use deliberately misleading headlines? For the blizzard thread, Bloomberg was the only article I saw linked with an accurate title

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