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bakugo
2y ago
>just the monthly fee was way more than a dedicated server on the same host What kind of "dedicated server"? When you colocate, you have full control over the choice of hardware, meaning you can stuff 200TB worth of hard drives
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bakugo
2y ago
I wish the Android app for this wasn't so unstable and unintuitive, currently you can't even sync multiple selected files without it getting stuck on the "wait a moment" screen forever and forcing you to restart.
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bakugo
2y ago
I'm still a bit out of the loop here. How exactly does the Redis license change affect me anyway, as an end user who just runs Redis binaries and does not use or sell any managed redis service?
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bakugo
2y ago
Elon Musk is not the government.
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bakugo
2y ago
> De Moraes argued (correctly, IMO) that Musk's non-compliance was a "clear and present danger" to Brazilian democracy. Democracy is when the government censors free speech, got it.
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bakugo
2y ago
> It’s so bad that the EU consider it a platform for misinformation these days. Can you define "misinformation"? Is it just things the government disagrees with?
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2y ago
Nintendo's legal department feels it's led by a bunch of extremely spoiled and jealous children. This lawsuit is like the corporate equivalent of a child seeing what another kid made in art class and getting angry because it'
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bakugo
2y ago
> using Wordpress Wordpress should be avoided like the plague if you care about code quality at all. It actively encourages bad code and this will never change. PHP programmers being conditioned to write low quality code due to their exp
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bakugo
2y ago
> I have a vague feeling that some of my coworkers looked down on Laravel. Less dependency injection, more weird magic. Well, you can rest easy knowing it probably wasn't just a vague feeling, because I'm pretty sure every mode
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bakugo
2y ago
>Is the demo using user agent strings to determine compatibility >I am on Chromium, not Chrome Don't know about your build, but I'm using Ungoogled Chromium, and it has the exact same user-agent string as Google Chrome. Have
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bakugo
2y ago
> Why would it be illegal for a manufacturer to retain full control of what you do on your device after they've supposedly sold it to you? The fact that this question even needs to be asked at all shows just how dire the state of co
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bakugo
2y ago
> they take place in fictional worlds so there is no reason they can't have diversity. There is one reason and it's the only reason you need: the developer wants it to be that way. If you don't like it, play something else
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2y ago
> Here is a little secret you may not know. Diversity, includes also having white and asian people. Does it? Why do I never see anyone complaining about a lack of diversity in the NBA? > But those games are the exception, most games d
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2y ago
> instead of actually representing the community at large You mean, representing what your idea of the "community at large" is. There's been no shortage of games lately trying to represent your imaginary version of the w
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bakugo
2y ago
On the topic of network settings, in Windows 11, the Settings app and Control Panel can actually end up conflicting if you mess with both. A while back I was messing with IPv6, trying to get it to work my desktop the way I wanted it to, and
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2y ago
They are popping up all over consumer-facing services because investors want them, not because consumers want them.
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2y ago
> you think the best way to fight for software freedom is to ensure people get hacked rather than, like, actual policies designed around giving control back to users It's just being realistic. Obviously, it would be great if there w
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bakugo
2y ago
Agreed. I could write a 10 page essay about all the subtle ways minecraft has lost a lot of its original appeal since I first played it 14 years ago, but a few people have already done it for me in video format: https://www.youtu
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2y ago
True, but you mostly can't play quests or events on private servers, so they're pretty useless right now.
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2y ago
It's easy to say "F2P bad" or "live service bad", and I'm usually inclined to agree, but in this case, the entire game was carefully designed around the monetization model from the very start of development, to
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bakugo
2y ago
Pretty good read. Particularly the part about avoiding enshittification. I've never really thought about it, but there are in fact a few very valuable lessons that many of the world's biggest tech companies could learn from this c
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bakugo
2y ago
The words "AI" and "respectful" don't belong in the same sentence. The mere concept of generative AI is disrespectful.
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2y ago
> If I go to a bookshop, take a book off the shelf and start reading it, I am not infringing any copyright Do pro-generative AI people have absolutely no argument besides this? If I had a dollar for every time I've heard it, I'
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bakugo
2y ago
Don't know about the rest, but ungoogled chromium scrambles every occurrence of the string "google" in the code specifically to avoid things like this, so probably not.
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2y ago
> If you allow random users to write arbitrary unsanitized HTML into other users’ pages, you have already lost Not really. The whole point of CSP is that, even if someone manages to inject arbitrary HTML into your page due to a bug or ov
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2y ago
What do you use instead?
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bakugo
2y ago
I'm guessing the option to block AI bots using WAF rules has been available since last year, but this simple toggle on/off option is recent (though, all it does is create a WAF rule for you, which seemingly counts towards the WAF
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2y ago
> I don't know what Windows does. Windows does not allow overcommit. The commit limit is the total size of RAM + the size of the page file, attempting to commit more than that will fail.
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2y ago
Tried the same thing but phrased the follow-up question differently: > Why did you not respect robots.txt? > I apologize for the mistake. I should have respected the robots.txt file for [my website], which likely disallows web scrapin
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2y ago
> when they use random user agents and ip ranges From what I've seen, most AI scrapers operate on known cloud IP ranges, usually amazon (Perplexity included), so just check for those.
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