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by RunSet 4y ago
It would sure be cool if they fixed this bug. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521 Note: The spiciest comments are labelled "admin reviewed" and collapsed by default.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Have you tried lying to Apple? https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/10/apples-business-website-is...
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by RunSet 4y ago
At one point Firefox's slogan was "Your web the way you like it." Now it's more like "You can disable that new change by installing an extension and trusting its developer and whoever they might sell it to at a date
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by RunSet 4y ago
SumatraPDF singlehandedly makes the format readable for me. The alternatives are complete rubbish- in other words, worthy of Adobe.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Pursuing a programming degree required me to obtain two credit hours of a foreign language. Gotta suck as much cash from the student body as possible I guess. I took Spanish classes online. One of the common exercises tested your "ear&
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by RunSet 4y ago
An operating system developed by the world's largest advertising corporation and the privacy of hardware camera and microphone switches: Nuts and gum, together at last.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> The thing with Steam is - at no point in history it felt like the company is just milking its users. As someone who purchased Half-Life in a physical box in a retail store before Steam so much as existed and was happy downloading updat
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by RunSet 4y ago
I just bet the PayPal terms also included words to the effect of "We can alter this deal, already couched in the vaguest possible terms, whenever we please without any notice other than this."
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by RunSet 4y ago
If you don't learn to write cursive, don't be surprised when your vote gets discarded because your signature didn't match exactly with the scan on record. https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/sign
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20170814002835/https://twitter.c...
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by RunSet 4y ago
> It's the only platform I've seen that focused primarily on text instead of photos, which was a unique niche and opportunity. I have created such a platform since CL killed their personals and you can find it in my account his
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by RunSet 4y ago
Elden Ring delivers the sort of frustration I require to distract me from my IRL frustrations.
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by RunSet 4y ago
I'm on a mission to keep encounters casual. https://lokilist.com/about.php It's slow going but fortunately text is cheap to host so I can keep this up indefinitely. Edit: If you like it make a post. Even better sh
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by RunSet 4y ago
> How exactly has IME ruined the fun for you? The nagging knowledge that no matter how thoroughly I secure my environment it is insecure by design at a base level. > you don't have to use it Disabling Intel Management Engine is n
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by RunSet 4y ago
Computers were more fun before Intel Management Engine (and the AMD equivalent) was a thing. Feels like someone poked holes in all my condoms.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Website have to receive informed and specific consent. Websites only have to ask consent to track you if they track you in the first place. Sucks to suck.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Rich get richer.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> The merge is freaking incredible. Switching the engine of a $60 billion financial network in-flight. Permanent power savings the scale of a country. Indeed. If someone claimed that Ethereum is a scam and Vitalik Buterin is a scammer I
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Same thing happened with Architecture software eg when Autocad bought Revit - end result is extortionately priced software that many architects cannot afford I only hope Macromedia's story doesn't repeat itself: Adobe buying
500.
by RunSet 4y ago
Strange that, apparently, at no point did barbed wire ever feature actual barbs. That's probably for the best.
501.
by RunSet 4y ago
I intuitively expected some trash like that from Adobe which is why I wrote "every PDF viewer" and not "Acrobat Reader".
502.
by RunSet 4y ago
A more meaningful security boundary might be making HTML viewers' ability to run arbitrary code an opt-in feature, rather than opt-out. Imagine if every PDF viewer included a virtual machine that ran in the background while viewing the
503.
by RunSet 4y ago
I find that requiring signed git commits is extremely useful for metric-chasing github repo owners who can use it to justify claiming credit for bugfixes that I submitted but did not sign.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> WebAssembly programs are sandboxed and isolated from one another and from the host, so they can’t read or write external regions of memory, transfer control to arbitrary code in the process, or freely access the network and filesystem.
505.
by RunSet 4y ago
"If you have nothing to hide you have no need for privacy." "If I have nothing to hide you have no need to violate my privacy."
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/06/07/the-cur...
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by RunSet 4y ago
If anything the opposite. The goal is to return to a web before facial verification was required to create accounts and before everyone knew you were a dog.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Virtual Game Station: PlayStation emulation software. Sold to Sony, who bought it only after their lawsuit to stop it failed, and then dropped the product immediately. Ah, the invisible hand of the free market at work.
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/floridas-vanishing-... > "Everybody is aware that sea rise, sea level rise is a fact of life, and it's not going to reverse itself in our lifetimes," Davi
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by RunSet 4y ago
The important thing is that they waste users' time and not the time of the developer(s).

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