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by efreak 1y ago
Add a rule to your adblocker for the image, then. The main site appears to have it at `anubis.techaro.lol/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/happy.webp?cacheBuster=v1.21.3-43-gb0fa256`, so a rule for
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by efreak 1y ago
> I'd say Word, even the web version is definitely more capable than Google Docs. I reinstalled Wordpad. Wordpad is sufficient for most things (including opening and editing most simple word documents--though that may be because I c
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by efreak 1y ago
There's a website I use irregularly (I sign in maybe every other month) that doesn't use passwords, doesn't use sign in with X, etc. Instead, they have a form to enter an email address, and they send you a magic link to log i
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by efreak 1y ago
If only that worked on mobile Firefox, which doesn't support extension sync APIs. Other add-ons (eg tampermonkey) got use cloud storage accounts (Google Drive and/or Dropbox) for this, despite not being as useful on mobile devices
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by efreak 1y ago
Not on Windows 11 you can't. They removed that for...reasons. They also removed the lovely hosted network that was added with 7 (Vista?) so now you can't network two modern Windows devices without something else (physical cable, o
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by efreak 1y ago
Unfortunately, it's getting harder and harder to hold your phone like this and see any useable amount of information. I'd love to have a 3:2 desktop monitor to replace my 16:10, but even 16:10 isn't available for phones. My c
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by efreak 1y ago
> That basically already exists on the desktop in the form of Electron apps. Those apps are universally hated because of it. I hate a few apps on desktop because they're web apps. Because those specific apps should _not_ be webapps.
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by efreak 1y ago
Nothing. Balaclava is a location.
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by efreak 1y ago
Replied to wrong comment...
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by efreak 1y ago
The device should be absolutely caching the most recently used apps, yes. Force closing is unnecessary, but I manage my apps on my phone not because I want to close background apps, but because I want to keep certain apps running (I don&#
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by efreak 1y ago
This is true, but it also applies to not just the chrome browser by Google itself, but also to derivatives (I don't actually use chrome proper unless I need to disable adblock; I still use Kiwi browser for my PWAs, because you can&#x27
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by efreak 1y ago
Try indexeddb. Apparently Firefox is faster than Chrome in recent years when it comes to putting items into a database, but my experience with multi-gigabyte databases (the database contains image blobs and metadata for use as a local webap
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by efreak 1y ago
The app itself is insanely slow to start up, and it always has been. Try killing Firefox and Chrome, open the browser via a link from another app and see how long it takes for the page to start rendering. I suggest a page with a different c
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by efreak 1y ago
> "Teddy," he said, "I'm going to pull up flowers from the flower bed.” "No Davy . . . pulling up flowers is naughty . . . don't pull up the flowers.” The little voice squeaked and the arms waved. > &quot
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by efreak 1y ago
Also, censorship software is infamously bad at curation. Peacefire isn't around anymore these days, but the sites blocked by local censorship software around 2000 is pretty terrible, whether they used keyword filters or URL lists. See
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by efreak 1y ago
You can run an ssh server in termux and run whatever programs you want from there. There's several options for storage, as well: - connect an external drive via USB (The /Android/media directory on both the internal and exte
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by efreak 2y ago
I've used SVG in the past to work around limitations in css alignment (cloth before and after new layouts made it unnecessary--I don't write CSS enough to remember how they work, but adding text to a quick drawing in inkscape is f
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by efreak 2y ago
If you use putty there's a way to log all output, including terminal control codes. This lets you see exactly what was happening, eg characters being deleted and the screen being wiped, and other things caused by eg curses. It's p
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by efreak 2y ago
I need this for Android pretty badly. I currently just don't set a default, and often use urlcheck in the middle to edit the URL if necessary, then pick my browser. I would love an app that automated this after the first use. I've
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by efreak 2y ago
My user profile directory on my PC is `c:\users\efrea`, which is exceedingly annoying given my muscle memory typing out my username. I "fixed" this with a couple junction points (both `efreak` as used on my Linux systems, and my f
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by efreak 2y ago
I installed wireguard and just use remote desktop
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by efreak 2y ago
Google lens and other apps do this. I've seen apps that read QR codes that don't, however. Usually they're single-purpose and just don't recognize unexpected data (scan the magic code to get a character in a game, etc) b
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by efreak 2y ago
Shouldn't the compiler optimize this into a single call if they're called so close together?
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by efreak 2y ago
It's extremely outdated now because the developer has abandoned it. I have the vague impression it's lying about the chromium version it's based on as well, or something related to that.
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by efreak 2y ago
Unless you're on Android. Android doesn't give extensions access to sync. When I update ublock manually (usually to make things go away on my phone, hence the need) I have to manually export it.
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by efreak 2y ago
Chrome allows you to open multiple profiles simultaneously. I think Firefox can do that these days too, but for a while it's why I was using Chrome.
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by efreak 2y ago
Be careful of those as well, but in this case it's quite simple: password reset links should only be sent when the user explicitly requests them; of you receive an unexpected email asking you to reset your password, don't click th
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by efreak 2y ago
Originally it was personal home page
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by efreak 2y ago
Amazon no longer let's you see reviews that aren't on the main product listing without logging in. You can see the top reviews and the most recent reviews, and that's it; navigating to the page you linked or clicking one of t
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by efreak 2y ago
I'm not saying it is, it's a response to this, which I should have quoted: > having a hollow tube-like structure made from metal would be very wasteful because you would have to mill out the entire core (unless it’s cast metal?

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