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by dantondwa 3y ago
Funny that he is now into… cryptocurrencies. The man has experience with bogus markets.
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by dantondwa 3y ago
Because those companies chose to operate in the EU. Regulating its market is one of its main tasks, and certainly not a waste of time. That depends on the perspective. From the perspective of a company abusing its market dominance, it is in
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by dantondwa 3y ago
You are making connections that are not there. For example, Novell, which owned SUSE, made that deal with Microsoft. But SUSE, the corporate distro, at that point was not using KDE as a default desktop, but GNOME. This stemmed from the fact
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by dantondwa 3y ago
This is crap. What happened was a change of paradigm inspired by the iPhone. Windows a few releases later followed exactly the same trends that GNOME and Unity spearheaded. Same thing with macOS.
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by dantondwa 3y ago
You’re right. I should discriminate between the seriousness of the tool. A non-essential service can be easily replaced when eventually they enshittify it. Email is an essential one, and reliability is the most important factor.
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by dantondwa 3y ago
They’re just closing it, wow. Someone had recommended me Skiff, but I stayed away from it and opted for Proton, given that they have been around for a while and Skiff smelled like VC money too much. I guess it was the right choice. At this
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by dantondwa 3y ago
> Brave is run by a homophobic, anti-vax crypto clown. I won’t dignify it here with a link. And their business model is based on replacing other ads with their ads. Privacy is just a troy horse for expansion, given that their other “””fe
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by dantondwa 3y ago
Hah! I spent a lot of time as a child reading and studying that guide, while actually never playing the game until many years later.
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by dantondwa 3y ago
Here is a breakdown of a WoW skybox by a Blizzard artist: https://80.lv/articles/how-to-create-skies-for-3d-games/ TLDR. it’s multiple skybox meshes layered
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Bending Spoons laid off the entirety of Filmic(theverge.com)
1 points by dantondwa 3y ago|0 comments
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by dantondwa 3y ago
When a website is blocked by the firewall, it doesn’t load. When a website blocks Chinese users, the website loads but you cannot create an account. Yes, the firewall does not block everything, otherwise it would be the same as turning off
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by dantondwa 3y ago
100%. They are even paying developers to work on optimizing Blender for Metal, so that Blender was ready for HWRT from day one.
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by dantondwa 3y ago
Unity bought other things that then they just proceeded to close a bit after. Perhaps it was just a strategy to inflate their shares. See for example ArtEngine, which I loved and they just killed after acquiring it. Now I’m so afraid for Pa
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by dantondwa 3y ago
> Good point! Have you had any experience with CrossOver? Does it tend to work better than Whisky? It certainly does. It has presets for most mainstream games and it uses the latest version of Wine. The author of Whisky, in a move that
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by dantondwa 3y ago
To change modules order in Darktable, you have to know what to do. By default, the module order is correctly arranged and no intervention is required. Changing the order is an option that you can use only if you want to. No user will ever
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by dantondwa 3y ago
In general, I do think that Darktable's UI could be better, and most likely it could be more efficient. His points are not wrong, but they are also not as fundamentally disastrous as the author makes them to be. I feel the damage that
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by dantondwa 3y ago
The author, while having contributed greatly to Darktable in the past and being without any doubt skilled, has severe communication issues. When he was in the darktable team, he was abrasive and offensive. There is a limit to how much offen
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by dantondwa 3y ago
For Cycles, it’s in the works but it will take a while. You can use LuxCoreRenderer with Blender, though!
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by dantondwa 3y ago
“The above is the most accurate translation of the ancient classic available anywhere at any price.” Quite a bold statement that immediately makes me very sceptical. When reading ancient classics in translation, the wisest approach is compa
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by dantondwa 3y ago
I agree, I use it on Windows and it’s an amazing piece of software.
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by dantondwa 3y ago
just commented to write this as well. By coincidence, I have listened to the Assyrian episode today. There is really nothing like it. I also recommend the youtube videos of the same podcast. They are really the perfect companion to this inc
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by dantondwa 3y ago
On the topic, I can absolutely recommend this sublime episode of Fall Of Civilizations on the Neo-Assyrian Empire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jpAphcaVJIs
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by dantondwa 4y ago
This reminds me of Bergson's theory of memory and present consciousness. In his essay "Memory of the Present and False Recognition", he argued that memory and present consciousness are the same, and what changes is a sort of
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by dantondwa 4y ago
I don't like Starlink. It increases light pollution, even in places without much human activity, which is a disaster for astronomers. Moreover, sending satellites to space is really inefficient. It wastes a lot of energy and pollutes a
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by dantondwa 4y ago
I will post here the first paragraph of [1], as it directly provides this bit of information: "The Haiti indemnity controversy involves an 1825 agreement between Haiti and France that included France demanding a 150 million franc indem
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by dantondwa 4y ago
This is really spot on. I find myself helping a lot of friends and acquaintances with digital bureaucracy, and it is so counterintuitive. I, as a person who is used to buggy software and weird, complex rules, manage somehow to move through
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Darktable 4.0: 3763 Days Later(darktable.org)
3 points by dantondwa 4y ago|0 comments
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by dantondwa 4y ago
However, one could argue that geopolitical matters are a lot less interesting for you, private citizen. If you're not a world leader or someone involved in said geopolitical events, you will live the consequences of "the enemies o
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by dantondwa 4y ago
It’s not a disaster, because in Germany there is Roman law, as opposed to America’s common law. It’s different and it makes a sentence something much less disastrous.
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by dantondwa 4y ago
This stats are bad and this article doesn’t account for a few points: - in Italy the amount of jobs that are carried illegally, without a contract, is huge. Particularly when you’re young or in certain sectors, having a contract is a dream.

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