TonyTrapp

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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Does it fall back to US if the IP address can't be used? Because this would be the first time a GeoIP database would move my EU IP address to the US...
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Seems to be corrected now. For posterity, the title was "Say goodbye to Hold Music".
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
The way the title was capitalized, I thought Google was just about to can yet another product :-)
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Off-topic: The font of this blog looks distractingly weird on Firefox + Ubuntu. For some reason the e and o letters are slightly bigger than the rest: https://i.imgur.com/W1JaiWQ.png Does anyone have an idea what's goi
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Can we please stop giving human names to devices and services? It may not be as popular as Alexa as a real-name but it will just repeat the bully cycle for even more people now.
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
I have to doubt that Amnesia would "work" on a smartphone. The tiny screen would remove a lot of the immersion. Amnesia is not (just) about finishing the game - it's about immersing yourself in the horror.
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Maybe (given the timing), but Frictional is known for open-sourcing their older games. The Penumbra sources are on their Github, too!
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
But that's the entire point of using global shortcuts - I never have my media player focussed. I specifically had to enable global media shortcuts in it and Firefox should do the same: ask the user if they want this feature, and not as
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Oh well. I guess "having an actual media player that observes to media keys" is "very advanced PC usage" in the year 2020, so that fully justifies hiding it in about:config. Sad.
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
> You can pause and play audio or video in Firefox right from your keyboard or headset, giving you easy access to control your media when in another Firefox tab, another program, or even when your computer is locked I really hope that th
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
And I hope it stays the way it is. I always found Firefox font rendering to be much more readable and easy on the eyes than Chrome's, to a point that most Electron software felt terribly blurry to me until they slightly improved it.
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
> Would it even be possible to make a truly Kafkaesque game? The primary elements of Kafka are all directly opposed to an enjoyable experience, if done right. Isn't that true for any horror game, though? And yet people play them.
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
From the very beginning I was sold by Let's Encrypt's concept but I loathed to install their bloated client. Instead I have been using acme-tiny [0] from the very beginning, and it saved me from all the frustration. [0] https:&#x
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
On Windows, that standardized API would be the IAccessible2 interface. If you need a cross-platform solution it's probably going to be more difficult, at least I'm not aware of any cross-platform abstraction layer for accessibilit
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Another anecdote: I have another email address (first_last@isp) and my last name is one of those that are very common but exist with several different spellings. One day I got a message from a freshly-wed lady, and she intended to send the
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
My GMail account (that I don't really use for anything apart for having a Google account) apparently shares its name with a Brazilian game store chain. I have received a number of complaints (in Portuguese) that were apparently about g
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
And at the same time you win by not falling victim of "oops, there is a bug in our browser add-on that accidentally leaks arbitrary login data to websites", as it has happened in the past. Leaking all my credentials certainly so
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Trust me, none of the memory errors in those examples come from the omission of a `const` in a pointer. It's not like adding `const` to a pointer will write-protect that memory so that magically exploits become impossible. All those in
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Fresh Chromium installation, no adblocking or other content blocking plugins. Zero advertisements and popups on that site. I keep reading these kind of comments on HN and everytime it seems to be only that one person reporting the problem t
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Microsoft (Live/Hotmail/Outlook/...) is the single worst offender against small mail servers. I have run a mail server for the last ten years spam-free and vulnerability-free. It has never been on any spam blacklists, deliver
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
I have moderated several forums over the course of 15+ years, and I have never come across this kind of content. But then again, all of them were very specialized in their topics. I still am convinced that we would be better off if we went
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
> We like them because you can make one or two cups without wasting a lot of coffee or water. So just like a regular espresso machine. You put espresso powder for one or two cups in the portafilter, put some water in the tank, done. Tank
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Or maybe because it takes really long until it reaches its full brightness / visibility, unlike a traditional turn signal?
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
Bought a PC case last year which has a green power LED. It's infuriating how bright it is in the dark, and despite being placed below my desk I can still see it e.g. when playing a game in the dark. I wrote a message to the manufacture
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by TonyTrapp 6y ago
You are probably observing the missing fundamental phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental