Sylos

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by Sylos 8y ago
I'm really enjoying Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup at the moment. Especially as a game for when I don't actually have time. It takes like two seconds to go from desktop to in-game, continuing your previous run, and saving your progress
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by Sylos 8y ago
> It’s similar to the General Data Protection Regulation that went into effect in the European Union last month, but adds to it in crucial ways. Under the GDPR, businesses are required to get users' permission before collecting and
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by Sylos 8y ago
I mean, there's other map providers as well. OpenStreetMap is generally good with providing lots of map detail (whereas they are not good as a Google at providing the sort of in-depth information like opening times or that this shop ha
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by Sylos 8y ago
I was about to say that I can't believe this isn't illegal, but I guess I shouldn't take things that companies do as an indicator of what's legal.
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by Sylos 8y ago
This is also the reason why I prefer Java over C#. Most differences that C# introduces, are quality of life features for devs writing the code. But they make reading the code worse and mean that junior devs have to learn more in order to
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by Sylos 8y ago
Yeah, in about:profiles, there's a "Launch profile in new browser"-button. For launching multiple profiles in parallel from the command-line, I already tried to explain it in my previous comment, though it is more finicky tha
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by Sylos 8y ago
Well, you could write a blog post about it, so that Google gets the bad press it deserves for this dick move...
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by Sylos 8y ago
I don't know, if he's talking specifically about this, but on Firefox for Android, Google serves a version of their search page from a few years ago.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Well, Atom now belongs to Microsoft, too, as they bought GitHub, so that competition is at best going to exist for PR reasons...
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by Sylos 8y ago
It goes away when you close the Private Browsing window. I cannot feasibly imagine a situation where you need your browsing history to be purged as you close individual tabs. Like, what are you gonna do? Close the tab to have its browsing h
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by Sylos 8y ago
Firefox supports both, completely separated browser profiles and these more lightweight Container Tabs. You can type "about:profiles" into the URL-bar to manage your profiles (which you can also bookmark for easier access). You ca
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by Sylos 8y ago
Not even tabs usually live in the same process, so you must be misinterpreting something. I think, the Windows Task Manager groups processes in the most stupid of ways, where when a (parent-)process has spawned many child-processes, then on
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by Sylos 8y ago
There's the Mozilla Foundation, which is legally a non-profit. More specifically, they are this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization So, there's actual clear specifications of what they
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by Sylos 8y ago
Chromium is technically free software, yes, but it's a horrible example of it. Because Google entirely controls code contributions to it. Only a fork could be amended the way that the community wants it. The same is obviously true for
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by Sylos 8y ago
Firefox's new extension API is Chrome's extension API + a few extra APIs. There's a handful of APIs that are actually Chrome/-ium specific, which made no sense porting to Firefox in the exact same way, but those should n
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by Sylos 8y ago
They make money off of Pocket. Companies can pay to have their articles be in the pool of recommendable articles. And it's especially also a different source of income than search engines. They try to differentiate here, in case for ex
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by Sylos 8y ago
It's maybe not stored in clear text, but it is at the very least stored in a form that Google can decrypt. They would not be able to recover your data upon requesting a password reset, if they used proper end-to-end-encryption.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Might be related to some people thinking the same of animals. An infant is not necessarily more intelligent than certain animals.
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by Sylos 8y ago
> While Microsoft Windows has a much larger number of viruses developed for it, this is a consequence of its extremely large market share ...and it's terrible security and it's still prevalent installation method of downloading
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by Sylos 8y ago
I never understood in the first place, why governments let advertising become such a big business. Yes, there's the informational aspect to it, Farmer Joe needs to know that there's a new tractor that fulfills his needs, but we&#x
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by Sylos 8y ago
Of course, they should. It may be hard to fix it, too hard for it to be worth the disruption in stability, but it is a design error that breaks user expectations and can cause severe issues when interoperating with other filesystems. And wi
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by Sylos 8y ago
We're talking about pressing keys on a keyboard and the corresponding letters appearing on the screen, maybe even with spellchecking. This has been computationally achievable for decades. It's not something where you need a state-
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by Sylos 8y ago
I am not aware of a single piece of software written by Microsoft that I would call efficient, apart from maybe Notepad or MSPaint.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Even just scrolling is laggy in Excel to the point where it makes it hard to scan through data. LibreOffice does not have this problem.
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by Sylos 8y ago
As the article that the guy linked to points out, this unfairness is due an aggressive configuration of the CUBIC congestion control algorithm in QUIC. TCP also uses CUBIC. So, you would have just as well already been able to be a dick by c
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by Sylos 8y ago
1) That's a lot of precursors. Many people want Sync functionality, which Google uses to track your browsing history. And most people don't go through the privacy settings. 2) We don't really know, Chrome is not open-source a
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by Sylos 8y ago
With your own domain, you can shorten the part before the '@'. You could call it "forename@lastname.com" instead of "forename.lastname@gmail.com".
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by Sylos 8y ago
The UI element typically used for this is the "Snackbar", so if you search for "Android Snackbar", you should find some examples. But yeah, I definitely also see a lot more confirm-dialogs still. Seems to be a classic ca
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by Sylos 8y ago
I think, Google recommends this for Android application development. Not that I would consider Google a shining beacon of great UIs. Well, and it is also much easier to quickly locate and hit an Undo-button on a small touch screen than it i
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by Sylos 8y ago
You don't embrace open-source by buying a major code hosting platform.

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