Wilya

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by Wilya 15y ago
Other games tend to hide their assets into cryptic packages and file format (or they can even try to encrypt them). Not always impossible to bypass, but very annoying. It's a bit harder to do in html5, where you are supposed to use the stan
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by Wilya 15y ago
Well. Now we know why they did deprecate the '+' in search a few weeks ago (and some people had indeed guessed right, or had had some inside tips). I wonder if searching for regular people the same way is somewhere on their roadmap.
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by Wilya 15y ago
My understanding is that Klout crosses the line by creating accounts for people without their consent, and making those hard to delete. They are different from search engines because they try to link data to a real person (which is mostly w
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by Wilya 15y ago
My /usr is 6.7GB large. That does not fit into any minimal embedded device. By far. Of course, you can strip /usr to make it fit into a 128MB root device (which seems a bit more typical to me). Hell, you should be able to remove it, that'
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by Wilya 15y ago
As much as I would like it to be true, discussing complex issues will have very few influence on your future career. Being good at socializing and networking will. An awful lot. And being hung over with friends does qualify for that.
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by Wilya 15y ago
Regarding #1, it's not necessarily a kernel problem. One bloated program running in the background could be using a bit too much CPU and disk. "Modern" desktop environments love those programs, for some reason. It could be a lack of support
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by Wilya 15y ago
No. But they tend to be quite picky (more than end users, at least). Crashing apps generally don't pass that review. I'm not saying they should have covered for Google, of course. But it's a bit strange.
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by Wilya 15y ago
Nvidia actually provides drivers for FreeBSD, which have worked well for me so far. Nothing on the ATI side, though. And I don't think the users of other BSDs have much need for 3D acceleration..
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by Wilya 15y ago
Oh, I agree on that. My point is that it's my own decision to choose what works best for me. I was more reacting on your "find another line of work".
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by Wilya 15y ago
I don't see how the fact that I don't want to pay for a specific set of tools (a mac machine) prevents me from being interested in alternative tools.
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by Wilya 15y ago
I think that the idea was more to give students a "portable desktop" than just the software. An USB key can be plugged and used on any computer (high school libraries, for example). Practically, I don't know how it turned out. I can't find
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by Wilya 15y ago
For the record, and because it is not obvious to me from the article, this seems to be mainly a move from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice. A few French administrations have been using OpenOffice, since back in 2005 ([0] has a few figures, whi
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by Wilya 15y ago
I would choose the desktop anytime. It's just a matter of use case, but a desktop plus a netbook will likely be around the same order of prices as a laptop alone.
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by Wilya 15y ago
This is addressing the wrong problem, at least in my view. I don't really care about what Facebook does with the data I consciously give them. And ads are just an side-effect. My main problem is that they actively try to get their hands on
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by Wilya 15y ago
Well, how many other seemingly innocent (or not) apps did you give the same permissions to ?
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by Wilya 15y ago
Hu ? By my count, there are quite a lot of people who have low interest in maintaining a computer and want things to just work on Ubuntu (far less so on other distributions). People who had to use linux for a school project, people who just
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by Wilya 15y ago
Siri is exactly what the average person imagines when they hear "Artificial Intelligence". I suppose that gives it a big edge. But yeah, the guy is a bit too enthusiastic.
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by Wilya 15y ago
I'm curious about the part about no one liking dealing with VPNs. I have only used an OpenVPN network for my private use, not any entreprise-class system, but I don't have much to complain about. Once I got how it worked, it was pretty pain
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by Wilya 15y ago
Just tried it, and you can indeed unlink the accounts. But you can't login with just a youtube account. You need a Google account. Still useful to relink to a throwaway account instead of the main gmail account. But I'm not sure the multipl
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by Wilya 15y ago
Err, this is a joke, right ? I mean, this guy raises concerns about an hypothetical Facebook/Google Megacorp controlling everything, and surrendering all your everyday computing to Microsoft is supposed to be the solution ? I'd be scared
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by Wilya 15y ago
The DNT header is to be implemented by website developers (and they have nothing to gain by doing it). I understand that Google is better off without implementing this header, but I don't really think it would change anything if Chrome had
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by Wilya 15y ago
I have, on very rare occasions, seen videos on Youtube muted for copyright issues on the audio. I don't how they choose to do that over taking down the entire video, nor if they still do it, though. http://mashable.com/2009/01/14/youtube-m
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by Wilya 15y ago
http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html This one states the contents of the sdk is in public domain. It seems to apply only to the core lzma compression/decompression code, not to the full 7-zip util (which, I agree, is covered by the GPL). One wou
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by Wilya 15y ago
They show a small notice when you access it via a direct link to a public post. And they definitely use some useragent white-listing. Feels like 2004 again.
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by Wilya 15y ago
I didn't know that. Given that the "No-search-choice" code is in Chromium's codebase (as opposed to Chrome's), this might mean that neither Google nor Yandex want that change. From what I saw, in Russia, Yandex has more reach to distribute
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by Wilya 15y ago
It would be more interesting to know the adoption of this among website developers. And some use cases where it is beneficial for them (as I don't see any). As it is, it is quite useless. If the feature doesn't do anything, the numbers are
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by Wilya 15y ago
Remember the iPhone is, inside, a Darwin system. Put a terminal, and the sky is the limit. Plus, there is always an API. The API, in the first days, wasn't public, but it was there. The base apps included (calendar, browser, etc) needed it.
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by Wilya 15y ago
I really am curious as to why the new interface works so absurdly badly. It's not even a question of being a bit slow, the thing uses constantly 90% of my cpu (I'm using a low end netbook), which makes it technically unusable, and it's not
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by Wilya 15y ago
I like the idea, but the timeline feels a bit weird. Mostly, I wonder why the photos don't change size like the tweets. As the are the ones determining the organization of the timeline (tweets are much too short), I see almost no difference
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by Wilya 15y ago
My RSS reader only refreshes every hour (and there's no easily accessible refresh button or way to force that), and I stick to feeds that get max 1 or 2 updates a day. Problem solved. Don't blame the technology, blame the way you use it. Of

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