elondaits

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by elondaits 6y ago
But (official) Linux repositories are curated. App Stores need to be able to deal with submissions for borderline malware freemium games that could contain content that is illegal in some countries for political reasons, too much violence,
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The GDPR does not limit the possibility of schools sending out emails to their alumni, it just imposes requirements for doing it right. The GDPR recognizes the risk of the school or someone with access to the school's email db spamming
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It could be called Stroustrupilian ... or "The one with Turing complete templates".
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Not everything is easy to Google: C, D, F, R, COM, .NET, node ...
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It's not just obfuscation... you can only buy set amounts of V-Bucks, which not always match with the cost of the skins, etc.
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Rome is the current capital of Italy... not a mythical or ancient thing.
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GPU is used for other things besides rendering animations... AI for instance. In many contexts you want to perform the calculations, even without acceleration.
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I really hate the statement "built-in privacy: this site does not use any javascript", because privacy is not specifically violated by JS, and you can track (or 3rd-party track) without JS just fine. Their site clearly does not n
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Yes, I was going to recommend WeasyPrint as well.
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It's a webkit thing. Try -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased and you'll get the version with less weight, while 'subpixel-antialiased' is the heavier one. This weight difference is more noticeable in white text against d
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If you get the MIDI device to act as a keyboard it’s not for typing things in the browser but in the OS... you are out of the sandbox so it’s possible to download and install any payload.
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It might be a way to detect bots, even on headless browsers, that pretend to be Chrome but don’t implement the MIDI api. I’m sure crawlers are the bane of the porn industry.
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In a perfect world people would share things with you without entering your private email address in other people's systems. I don't want to be in the database of whatever app or system my friends decided to join, nor I want to r
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One problem of VPS solutions is that they're easy to maintain until you have to do it. At some point the technical debt comes back and you need to upgrade the stack components and eventually the OS as well, without sacrificing uptime.
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My reason is the server not being able to handle the traffic. We used Piwik but I couldn't trust it'd be able to handle big eventual spikes of traffic (which the site itself could, being static and on a CDN) or that it wouldn&#x27
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GDPR compliance. GDPR is the European privacy law. It protects European citizens so it applies not only to European companies but any company that does business in Europe (having offices or advertising/selling there). Google does not g
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That part of the article does not apply to my 13'' 2015 MBP... I checked and it already uses 2x resolution by default. Perhaps it applies to larger screens or newer models.
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Show HN: An online interactive exhibition on A.I(i-am.ai)
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Neither... I suggested the name in a brainstorming session. We wanted to transmit the exhibition was like a Lab and I joined with the “La La La” you would use to warm up your voice, or the onomatopoeia of singing. We were concerned of the m
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I recently used Google Sheets as a CMS for a couple of projects. In my case I had a server-side script which read the sheets, converted the data to JSON and saved it on a file which was then fetched by the JS client. The conversion only had
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You can charge money, you can have special rules outside of the scope of the GDPR... what you cannot do is make people’s personal data the price for content. Under the GDPR personal data is non negotiable.
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The net is full of unidentified bots scraping content or looking for vulnerabilities (contact forms , wordpress logins, etc). On many occasions I had traffic issues and had to check logs and these were very hard to block, because they ignor
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by elondaits 7y ago
Exactly the same in spanish with "bayas" and "frutos rojos" (also sometimes called "frutos del bosque", which is "fruits from the woods").
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Use the CDPATH environment variable and you'll be able to CD to your regularly used directories from anywhere: https://jcode.me/cdpath-with-zsh/ much much saner than having your user files in the root directory, a
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The GDPR only applies to websites / companies that either have offices / legal status in a european country or that specifically target / sell to europeans (e.g. they place ads in Europe, ship merchandise to Europe, etc.). Yo
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Not cynical, realistic. I'm not american and was hugely surprised at how little digital information is provided in the NYC Metro compared to other large public transportation systems (Berlin, Paris, London) and that the few screens I c