digi_owl

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by digi_owl 9y ago
Bunch of webheads that thinks JS is the end all be all of languages...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
How the stock market cargo cult works. We have already seen this with things like offshoring. A few big name companies did the numbers and found they could save some on moving their production somewhere else. Then came a rush of companies t
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Or simply picking the wrong campaign theme...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah, the results have to be hacked. No way the politicians can be so tone death as to scuttle their chances from the word go...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The HTML5 clusterfuck comes from having the biggest players being allowed to adjust the goal as they see fit, when they see fit (aka "living document").
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Speaking of Japanese, i ran into a claim some time back that the view of Bushido that we have now is one fabricated by a Japanese writer. That effectively transplanted European chivalry over long after the samurai had turned into career bur
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Once upon a time, hitting insert resulted in the caret switching from line to rectangle to indicate input mode.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
If you are going Thinkpads, the touchpad is a distant second to the Trackpoint.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
As a foreigner, i am massively puzzled by how people seem to want to place all this on some left-right axis when both "sides" seems to have a massive problem of authoritarianism and groupthink.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Sadly it does crap all when the original headline is already clickbait...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
So, yet another single purpose package manager. FFS...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The tinkerboard, being backed by a big name like Asus, seems to at least have as good a distribution network as the RPi has built up. Many of the alternative boards, for all their improvements over he RPi, are virtually impossible to get ho
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by digi_owl 9y ago
There is also a known cognitive issue with how a crowd will look to each other for for someone else to take the initiative in an emergency. at our core we are still pack/herd animals. And if anyone has tried to herd, say, sheep one qui
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by digi_owl 9y ago
In a sense social media feeds on our pack animal hindbrain...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Effectively it is VB for the web age...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yep. If you look at many of the daily tools out there, they do basically the same as was done using CLI or TUI tools back in the day, but now they pile on graphics "assets" to make the experience shinier.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
If it works, don't fix it.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Google seems to have a habit of dumping directly to spam emails from any domain they do not recognize. Or at least i have seen some complaints bouncing around certain mailing lists in that regard.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Another thing is that actions malware take and actions legitimate "power user" software takes are separated only by context. Thus automated behavior analysis is always going to produce false positives.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Depending on how many games he later bought for that xbox, MS may well have been the ones that came out on top.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Not sure if joking, as that sounds like a scam call...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Reminds me that for some time now the SD reader on a certain model of Intel Atom package has a bad driver. A driver supplied by Microsoft via automatic updates, that can't be rolled back. This seems to affect a number of models from a
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Effectively if Apple did anything for the mobile industry it was to retard it by a decade (or more), because all you describe we already had.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
One thing to note is that one of the programs they flagged accounts for, Cheat Engine, is basically a memory modifier similar to what you find in console emulators (or what GameShark or similar used to do). It should have limited effect on
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Hmm, i recall reading something similar about Steam's VAC. Simply having Cheat Engine running is enough for VAC To flag you and lock you out of any multiplayer via Steam. Used to play GW2 quite actively until they released their first
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Ah, i missed the program downloader while poking around. I'll take another look.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The What's new blurb in the Play store is regularly panned for this. Every big name app, even Google's own, constantly read "bug fixes and performance improvmements"...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Tried the livecd in a VM and a couple of niggles sprang up. First of all, no driver for the network card in Virtualbox, though Vmware worked fine. Second, no web browser... Third, the mouse sometimes freaked out and got stuck in a corner.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Would not surprise me that if you replaced the Google blob with MiniG that battery life would improve on Android. I keep seeing report after report that Play Services in particular can be a real drain.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Perhaps, though it may be related more to the number of payments than the amount pr payment.

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