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by efreak 3y ago
Regarding conditioning/drying the air instead of cooling it: the first modern air conditioners were invented primarily to dry the air, cooling was a side effect. The term "air conditioner" itself originally referred to moistu
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by efreak 3y ago
> Starting from Firefox 112, users can now search for text inside the about:addons page (through the usual associated keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Ctrl-F and ‘/’) – Bug 1499500 _Finally_. It's only been _years_ that I haven't
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by efreak 3y ago
If this is the only thing stopping you from using Chrome (ie you'd prefer to use Chrome), this might help. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/29/how-to-set-a-minimum-tab-w...
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by efreak 3y ago
Discourse is just as bad. A forum should not require the use of javascript. A forum shouldn't silently remove parts of the DOM that are off screen. A forum should allow me to load an entire thread (or however many posts it decides a pa
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by efreak 3y ago
You can add a user certificate, but in pretty sure it's up to the app if it wants to trust that certificate.
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by efreak 3y ago
"heavy use of tables". I ran into a script once that took a picture as input and output a massive HTML table with a cell for each pixel and a background color. "Pure html" images without CSS or base64.
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by efreak 3y ago
Looks too me like it was fixed a few hours before you posted, and will be coming to Firefox soon.
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by efreak 3y ago
Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+W close tab Alt+F4 close window Ctrl+(Shift+?)+Q close browser entirely Ctrl+Shift+T undo close tab Ctrl+Shift+N undo close window Ctrl+N new window Ctrl+Shift+P new private window Ctrl+B toggle bookmarks bar Ctrl+Shift+B open
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by efreak 3y ago
I really liked walmart.horse too. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/19/jeph-jacq...
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by efreak 3y ago
Doesn't HTA still use Trident also?
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by efreak 3y ago
Anecdotally: a while back while I was running a long build in termux in a warm room with my tablet plugged in to charge, I got a notification that my device was being throttled to prevent thermal damage. I wouldn't be surprised if this
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by efreak 3y ago
If you're on Android and want eruda, I've got a userscript to load it on every site here: https://github.com/Efreak/UserScripts/tree/master/Eruda-Mobi... It helps with things like removing elem
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by efreak 3y ago
This doesn't tell you the current running configuration, it tells you the current configuration on disk. These should be the same, but aren't always. I personally have a nasty habit of forgetting to reload configs. I make sure t
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by efreak 3y ago
> $CWD/openssl EXECUTABLE!!! (why look in $CWD?) debootstrap, maybe?
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by efreak 3y ago
Array.from(document.body.querySelectorAll('html,body, body > *, body > * > *')).forEach(e=>e.style.overflow='default!important') Adjust number of levels as necessary. Adjust overrides as necessary.
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by efreak 3y ago
This can be automated with stylish (or fork) or tampermonkey. I've used to run a userscript on every page to prevent it from intercepting ESC, thanks to squarespace making ESC navigate you away from the current page to the site login
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by efreak 3y ago
My mother signs out of her email every time she closes it, and does the same for other websites as well. She's the only one who uses her computer, and it has a password on it (mostly because Windows won't do file sharing without o
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by efreak 3y ago
The problem is that you have a few options: 1. send in plain text with http basic auth. Over https this isn't a problem, but https was expensive). This is sent on every request. 2. Use digest. This is also sent on every request, an
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by efreak 3y ago
But if you turn it off, you don't get the start menu indexed anymore. I don't need my files indexed, I just want my start menu shortcuts indexed. There's a few other small things that no longer work without indexing, though I
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by efreak 3y ago
Perhaps what's needed is a website that doesn't do reviews, but only lists businesses that are open to the public and categorizes them by function (pharmacy, grocery, daycare, etc). Possibly with direct links to review platfor
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by efreak 3y ago
I read (and very occasionally contribute to) a large number of subreddits that I'm not subscribed to. Recently I use redreader, but I'm the past I did it via the main Reddit website, simply by visiting /r/a+b+c+d.....
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by efreak 3y ago
Users don't browse all of Reddit, and they don't browse from wildly varying IP addresses, from multiple ips simultaneously, or from datacenters.
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by efreak 3y ago
Self extracting archives don't require scripts or other functionality to work. They have a decompressor built-in. This is why they're _self_-extracting and not just archives.
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by efreak 3y ago
The problem is that Google actually has support for quotes, even if it's not reliable. Try searching for short song lyrics or poetry, or pretty much any obscure quote on ddg and you can't find it. Putting individual words and phra
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by efreak 3y ago
Amazon owns Goodreads. It's not independent. It's also not mentioned on the site afaik. (They also own IMDb and a bunch of other internet companies that aren't Amazon-branded). If you want something independent, try storygrap
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AI Horde’s AGPL3 hordelib receives DMCA take-down from hlky(dbzer0.com)
37 points by efreak 3y ago|24 comments
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by efreak 3y ago
Needs wasm. Some privacy settings may disable that (my Mull browser configuration series)
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by efreak 3y ago
I prefer using table cells for pixels. I saw a script once that took an image as input and output html code to send those who had pictures blocked...
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by efreak 3y ago
Might be an Android thing. They don't show up in materialistic either, a native HN client.
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by efreak 3y ago
> especially since the tool is used to generate derivative works for profit (like in case of openai/microsoft). Profit/nonprofit is irrelevant to copyright.

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