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by branon 4mo ago
I'd be concerned a kid would lose this. Sure it's got Find My but that only tells you where it's at, doesn't guarantee retrieveability. Also do you need an iPhone to manage the kid's Apple Watch or can you do this w
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by branon 4mo ago
I'll never, ever forgive Google for killing the "Basic HTML View" client mode for Gmail.
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by branon 4mo ago
Ah, for some reason I figured this was a minor bug that'd be fixed eventually. Wayland windows are never allowed to spawn always-on-top? Sort of lame. If the logic is that it's the window manager's job to set window rules for
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by branon 4mo ago
Still painfully sloppified and hard to read. They must have let it terraform the entire text without setting any expectations. Em-dashes for emphasis and punchy short sentences abound. Terrible.
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How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up(jkm.dev)
5 points by branon 4mo ago|0 comments
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by branon 4mo ago
I bought two LCD models before the OLED came out and have constantly bounced between buyer's remorse (I only use one of them) and feeling okay about this decision. Currently, I'm feeling like it was a pretty wise move.
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by branon 5mo ago
> as a longtime frequenter of r/unixporn, it was immediately apparent to me that omarchy is not a linux distribution in any traditional sense I'm not sure why "I browse reddit" is any sort of a valid qualifier upon wh
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by branon 5mo ago
Closed-source/proprietary and downstream of Chrom* so contributes to browser monoculture. Thanks but no thanks, I'm sticking with Firefox.
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by branon 5mo ago
how about "Purchase License"
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by branon 5mo ago
They are (correctly and most commonly) called hypervisor bypasses because they do not remove the DRM from the executable.
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by branon 5mo ago
Untrue, cracking software necessitates _removing_ the protection from the executable completely. Whereas with a bypass, Denuvo is still running on your computer, albeit ineffectually. This has implications - the bypasses cannot run on Linux
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by branon 5mo ago
Yeah, the headline is sensational and the body of the article doesn't do enough to distinguish between the bypass and a real crack. They only resemble one another only in the most shortsighted of ways. One big difference is that the by
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by branon 5mo ago
Nice, I was a fan of the more experimental design they used for the original so it's nice to see that brought to its logical conclusion here. Dual sticks, dual trackpads, back buttons, and good battery life... this will be fun to use.
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by branon 6mo ago
Oh nice, didn't realize they were doing a second one. Loved the original but I took mine rock climbing and cracked it :(
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by branon 6mo ago
They went to the guy's house, workplace? Followed him and took pictures? This article reads like a Kiwi Farms thread. Just saying. I'm not a fan of what they do, but that's what came to mind. And when people do undesirable t
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by branon 6mo ago
Gamasutra's "Postmortem" series was great: https://web.archive.org/web/20210823172711/https://www.gamas...
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by branon 6mo ago
> Android DOA. We need more feature phones running custom firmware. Or Linux phones. What Jolla is doing with Sailfish is nice. Stop leaning on Android. It's unnecessary baggage. Divest.
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by branon 6mo ago
is this the first since EMPRESS? these seem few and far between nowadays
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by branon 6mo ago
It's LLM slop unfortunately, bears the hallmarks at least :(
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by branon 6mo ago
How will the transfer occur? I'm assuming via Google account? So this is vendor lock-in to an online account being sold as a way to "win" against a problem _created_ by said vendor? I would prefer a per-device wait time and I
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by branon 6mo ago
Recommending RetroArch seems needlessly complex too, I'd figure it'd be simpler to learn how to operate a given emulator for a given system since the scope is narrower. DuckStation's UI for example is pretty friendly.
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by branon 6mo ago
seems like a missed opportunity not to include a screenshot of said banner in this blog post
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by branon 7mo ago
Even this cannot adjust volume levels independently for multiple tabs in the same browser, which I have always been able to do on linux with pulseaudio/pipewire. People on windows use browser extensions for this, with full access to al
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by branon 7mo ago
I didn't say the scams don't exist. I am of course aware of these types of scams. But again, I've never heard of sideloading being used as an attack vector here. Nor have I ever seen reporting on it. I figure Krebs or somebod
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by branon 7mo ago
I doubt a one-day wait will solve this though. Abusers have persistent physical access to the device, often over a span of years :(
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by branon 7mo ago
There's no way this is really about scammers. I have never heard of scammers pushing sideloaded apps upon their victims in order to carry out their scams. Would welcome evidence to the contrary. Is this truly a threat model that's
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by branon 7mo ago
This 24-hour wait time nonsense is a humiliation ritual designed to invalidate any expectation of Android being an open platform. The messaging is very clear and the writing's on the wall now, there's nowhere to go from here but d
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by branon 7mo ago
The surveillance system gives you the footage. If police can't do anything with it, that's unfortunate, but not the fault of the surveillance system. In this instance I'd say the surety and closure provided by the ability to
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by branon 7mo ago
I understand where the author is coming from but this bends a little too far towards "recording outside your door is bad and you should feel bad because you are a horrible paranoid person" for my taste. The reality is that a lot o
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by branon 7mo ago
The PDF lists specific products and their results, Sony WH-1000XM5 look good, so do a few others. Purchasing a known-good model might be a good idea but I question how effective this would be, given potential variance in manufacturing proce

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