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2y ago
Soundtracker was German Noisetracker was Swedish Protracker was Norwegian MED/OctaMED was Finnish
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2y ago
So, as https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-31160 says: * CWE-617 Reachable Assertion * affected from 0 through 2.11.0 ... can we assume these will be updated to the actual vulnerability (CWE-940, CWE-120?), and vulner
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2y ago
> 95% of your focus should be on reducing the number of iterations. This is why language doesn’t matter. And then once you've used the playful, expressive (interpreted, abstract, slow) language you enjoy using, to develop an excelle
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2y ago
Fingerpointing is bad, but we have to have an honest conversation. One person posted the vague post. They clearly did not expect the reaction it got, though they could have anticipated some of it, they are aware their blog is widely read.
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2y ago
Shown: the regulations actually set minimum cleaning and drying requirements, for precisely that reason - the equipment has to do the job properly. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:.
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2y ago
> counter-productive The opposite, actually. Productive. Millions of litres of water and terawatts of power saved per year. End users collectively saving €1.3 billion on water and electricity costs in 2020 (in comparison to them having s
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2y ago
That's a really weird thing. In the EU, not only is Eco mode mandatory, and must be the default mode, and you can't label any other mode "default" or "normal" to sway the consumer to use that instead... but it&
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2y ago
Perhaps I misspoke, but needing a network connection, needing a smartphone, giving over your details, very likely getting marketing materials you didn't want via app notifications, or email, requiring to comply with terms of service, a
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2y ago
This reminds me of the EU regulations, which not only: 1. _require_ dishwashers to have an Eco mode, not locked behind anything, but also 2. _require_ Eco mode to be the default . If you buy a dishwasher in the EU and turn it on, and press
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2y ago
It would seem odd, that if he did sign that away, that he nonetheless appeared in the credits of Minecraft, until he caused social media fury, and then Microsoft removed him from the credits. It does seem crazy to me, given he lived in
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2y ago
That's sound advice, but to give a comparison: Roman Polanski didn't just post divisive tweets, he drugged and raped a 13 year old girl and has been a fugitive from justice for more than 40 years now. Surely that's worse? And
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2y ago
I don't know if I have exacting quotes to match up, but he seemed pretty unhappy in 2015: https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/technology/minecraft-creato... (He bought the mansion in 2014: https:/
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2y ago
Well, sort of. I'm not going to say there's no racism, there absolutely is, but the whole black/latin/white divide of the USA belongs in the USA, and trying to view British social status through an American lens produces
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2y ago
If you take a look at someone like Markus "Notch" Persson, he was on a roll of being incredibly famous and at the head of one of the best-liked games in the world. It was too much pressure at the top, though, and he sold the proje
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2y ago
That chap is a marketing genius. Articles ostensibly about him are effectively a promotional tour for his new game (available in all good stores prices $xx.xx) If you're thinking of buying the game, though, read its reviews: https:&#x
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2y ago
> Really the "taking back control" was really a euphemism for "less black faces on our streets". I think you need a better understanding of the UK. Brexit was a "fuck you" to the white Polish, Romanian and
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2y ago
You can get away with that once, but the downside is you can't rent a car again (from that company, and possibly other companies if they share information about fraudsters with each other)
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2y ago
I'm afraid to say this is bipartisan. The law the Frenchman was charged under - the Terrorism Act 2000 - was passed by Labour. Both Labour and the Tories are rather authoritarian. However, on left-rightness, both Labour and the Tories
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2y ago
Also, the USA is not alone in doing trumped-up bullshit to visitors. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65314605 The French authorities did not like what a French publisher published about them. So they asked Britain to f
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2y ago
No, it's not. It's also not safe to live within 100 miles of any border in the US... which is where 2/3rds of all US citizens live... because the CBP decided to themselves that they can search anyone, any time, within 100 mil
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2y ago
When you're born . That is your birth day, because the person to whom you were born gave birth to you that day. No culture I know of tracks the date of your conception as a measure of your age. If they measure it at all, the s
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2y ago
I'm not sure North Korea is a place you'd make a car rental, but this is now 99% of car rentals work: 1. You agree up-front in the contract with the car rental company that you will pay for all fines, parking tickets, etc. you mig
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2y ago
The key word in "birthday" is "birth". Not conception. For human cultural purposes, you are 0 days old at the time and date recorded for your birth. It goes on your birth certificate. If you find a culture that celebrate
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2y ago
> They don't care what you think about the limit The outcome for greedy, corrupt towns who enjoy profiting by abusing the law is DEATH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio#Dissolution So perhaps, for t
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2y ago
You are being wilfully obtuse. https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-... https://reason.com/2022/05/08/11-insanely-corrupt-speed-trap... https:/
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2y ago
There are loads of reasons governments can't afford up-front capital expenditure! They have an income stream (taxes) but that all goes out the door on existing liabilities, including financing existing debts. They can only get money by
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2y ago
It's harder than it looks. Excluding special cases like HS1 and TfL, we have three players: - Network Rail, who maintain the entire country's track, signalling, etc. Also owns and runs some major stations. Run at arms length by go
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2y ago
https://gitlab.com/amigasourcecodepreservation has quite a number of the old Data Becker / Abacus published books For example: https://gitlab.com/amigasourcecodepreservation/amiga-graphic...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgtsBm0IQ1Q "That is when we present our solution. Mandatory digital identity verification for all humans, at all times." (This video is a pitch-perfect parody of MGS2 but also pres
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2y ago
Anywhere Apple trusts itself is a place where they can trust a third party. Anywhere Apple wouldn't trust a third party is a place it should not trust itself either. It doesn't even have to be arbitrary third parties, it can be
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