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by ashmud 10y ago
It let us switch our servers to SNI-only as we still have clients with users on XP. (IE on XP does not support SNI.)
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by ashmud 10y ago
And anti-facial recognition (e.g., face paint). Burner phone if you have to.
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by ashmud 10y ago
Possibly a junction-like mapping into the "physical" position in the MFT. Perhaps something like "\\?\$MFT\positioninmft\possiblyshortenedfilename.ext". Somewhat similar to the various mappings for 32-bit programs runnin
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by ashmud 10y ago
With Privacy Badger, there were a few months not too far back ago, where on certain sites (e.g., sports blogs) when browsing in private mode (Firefox), the first time I would visit a site, it would work. Then every subsequent time it would
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by ashmud 10y ago
I've found the Philips 424382 (60w replacement, 2700K soft white) to be very nice. I haven't tried any of the replacement SKUs, though.
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by ashmud 10y ago
I've used some of the better tested LED bulbs (per http://www.ledbenchmark.com/ 2700K, 80+ CRI, "nice" looking spectrum, "flicker free"). They are very good, and have improved over bulbs from years
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by ashmud 10y ago
I did at one point in time for flagging links to show a "leaving site" prompt. Now the JS simply checks any link when you click it (no more custom selector for flagging).
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by ashmud 10y ago
Acorn graphics hacking thread from the comments: http://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10147
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by ashmud 10y ago
Almost all these look monochrome. It gives me the feeling of reading 3D graphics tutorials before the textures are applied.
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by ashmud 10y ago
A bit of trivia [1] linked from that discussion about Julian calendar still in use. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos#Date_and_time_reck...
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by ashmud 10y ago
The author is one of the founders of Atavist.
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by ashmud 10y ago
I think the article could have used a little more on chroma subsampling ("downsampling," per the article). A couple examples: It is basically an optional step (in the case of 4:4:4). And the visual impact on heavily saturated colo
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by ashmud 10y ago
%67 is "g" encoded. In this example, it's goo_g_. Typing %hexcode for any letter of a site in your history/bookmarks at the appropriate position triggers the behavior. edit: %22 is interesting. It triggers a JSON snippet
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by ashmud 10y ago
I wonder if that's the case (what was meant). When I first worked with ASP.NET 1.1, getting it to work (feature-level) with Opera often required forgoing most of the "managed" control properties and using CSS/JS directly
45.
by ashmud 10y ago
Even worse: Simply, "Closed." No reason given. Had to hop on IRC dev channel to find out.
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by ashmud 10y ago
The primary product I work on limits (on-screen) results to 10k results (after any filtering) regardless of page size. Aside: However, this was based on our most complicated queries at the time, which have since been simplified.
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by ashmud 10y ago
Ultimately, nothing. They could still aggregate your usage data, though, and not necessarily be out anything investment-wise, compared to using the Opera client proper.
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by ashmud 10y ago
Is there a source for this claim (e.g., document from Opera, personal testing such as with Wireshark, etc.)? Are the OS overrides for DNS entries (e.g., hosts file) used at all in this case?
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by ashmud 11y ago
Common wheat of today is probably not what people were eating 50k years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wheat
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by ashmud 11y ago
The Devil's Advocate had a statue that resembled another artist's work. Some of the home releases had the statue edited as a result of the legal case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Advocate_%2
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by ashmud 11y ago
Thanks for this. I was unfamiliar with Henry Reich's videos.
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by ashmud 11y ago
I had nine. On another computer, I had eight (less Yahoo). Both computers have uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and the built-in Firefox tracking protection.
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by ashmud 11y ago
HTTPS Everywhere (Firefox) is blocking this. I get the "third party cookies blocked" message. When I disabled HTTPS Everywhere, it worked.
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by ashmud 11y ago
Also, so called Mexican Coke is made with sugar. Though not necessarily all Coke sold in Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Coke
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by ashmud 11y ago
Windows + free + low system impact / short install time. Makes it a goto in a lot of cases on the Windows platform.
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by ashmud 11y ago
If all the vendors participate in the scheme, it works? Ex: SCMS copy bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System
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by ashmud 11y ago
At least for IPv4, without constantly buying and selling IP addresses and/or also acting as a larger internet service entity (e.g., also as a local ISP), I'm not sure how they would prevent getting quickly blocked from region-spec
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by ashmud 11y ago
I stumbled upon this MeFi discussion when I searched for "Atom City Number Nine." http://www.metafilter.com/118133/A-Tall-Tail
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by ashmud 11y ago
Archived WP page: https://web.archive.org/web/20060819151043/http://en.wikiped... Partial postmortem edit log: https://web.archive.org/web/20120204052201/http://en.wik
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by ashmud 11y ago
The demo on the left (the face) has a disorienting "ripple" effect, at least in FF44. The Buddha appears fine, though.

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