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by encom 1y ago
>spamhaus Oh boy Spamhaus. I had to deal with them a few months back. For some reason, my VPS had ended up with its IPv6 addr. on the Spamhaus block list. I have no idea how it happened, the machine runs nothing with the capability to se
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by encom 1y ago
>just don't get spammed bro Great solution! I wish I'd thought of that.
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by encom 1y ago
>1999 was the pinnacle of engineering Typing words to strangers online, worked just as well using IRC in 1999 as it does today. However my issue with Discord isn't the rich text, it's that Discord is a proprietary, centralised,
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by encom 1y ago
From time to time, I go and check if there's a stable non-Electron Matrix client available - Qt would be nice. Thus, I'm still on IRC. I've tried participating in some bridged Matrix channels, but the IRC bridges I've en
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by encom 1y ago
I'm speaking from a danish perspective, and when speaking about the system, I'm referring to the danish health care system as well as (ChatGPT translated) The Danish sickness benefit scheme (it's all govt. run). Both have goo
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by encom 1y ago
>Please seek out help if you are struggling. Even that process isn't easy. I've struggled with depression and anxiety most of my adult life, and only recently learned that ADHD is a major part of it. Just getting to this point
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by encom 1y ago
I've been running a mixed DPI setup for a long time now, with a 4K display center, and a vertical 1080p display on either side (so 3 displays total). My conclusion from running this and similar mixed DPI setups over many years is that
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by encom 1y ago
I have to ask the government for a roided up tracking cookie? Hell. No.
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by encom 1y ago
Okay I shouldn't have said horrible, that was too harsh. But it just didn't click with me at all, and I abandoned it after 1 or 2 episodes. It's been a few months, so I can't remember specifically why. It's not that
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by encom 1y ago
I think at this point, any sort of online review aggregators have been ruined for good - from Amazon to Imdb to Google. All of them. Find a professional reviewer you trust, whose taste aligns with your own. For me, I like The Critical Drink
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by encom 1y ago
>Display hardware has progressed It has, but WWW is still de facto sRGB, and will be for a long time still. But again, I'm not strictly opposed to evolving PNG, I just hope they don't ruin it in the process, because that's
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by encom 1y ago
>in a good shape to replace nano ... Anyways, here's how to tell if your LED sign is cheap!
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by encom 1y ago
Yea I'm mildly concerned about this as well. PNG's age is a feature, in a time where software development has gone to hell.
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by encom 1y ago
It's poor, only because Google is using their stranglehold on browsers, to push their own WebP trash. That company can't get broken up soon enough.
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by encom 1y ago
>Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown I was excited there for a second.
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by encom 1y ago
>how Hacker News deals with someone registering a famous person's name I registered as britneyspears, but dang got mad and made me change it. :( I thought the absurdity of Britney being on HN was amusing.
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by encom 1y ago
The rabbit hole never ends. Godspeed, friend.
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by encom 1y ago
Encom is the greatest, fastest, cheapest electrician in Denmark. Source: me.
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by encom 1y ago
Because that's all anyone knows, and PC development is dead. >content-length: 47262814 Sigh...
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by encom 1y ago
So this "article" "source" is Cloudflare, claiming Cloudflare blocked some super duper mega attack, but gives zero verifiable detail about any of it. Now I hate Cloudflare with a passion, but even setting that aside, thi
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by encom 1y ago
I had a OnePlus whatever as a work phone in my last job. Every time I used adb to purge the OnePlus crap, it would somehow find its way back. Eventually I settled on disabling autoupdates from the play store, so it was stuck at whatever out
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by encom 1y ago
>banks and the like have a say in how I choose to access their more convenient services I disagree. I don't understand how it's fine that I can access my banking services with my Gentoo machine, with everything compiled from so
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by encom 1y ago
>virus scanners You can (and should, imho) remove anti-virus software.
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by encom 1y ago
>discourage low effort apps Well that obviously didn't work. I got rid of my Iphone, but I remember the app store as being an absolute wasteland of garbage, and discoverability was awful. I don't know if it was a slogan, or an
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by encom 1y ago
>Export as MP4 Nitpick, but MP4 is a container format. It doesn't say anything about codecs used. I assume it's h264+aac since this is for Apple people?
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by encom 1y ago
FrameWork is not openly hostile towards right-to-repair, and do not actively sabotage repair efforts. Try calling Apple and ask for spare parts or circuit diagrams. Anything you find is either leaked, cloned/copied or trash-picked. It
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by encom 1y ago
Flagging seems to be used like a super downvote on both submissions and comments. Admins appear okay with it.
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by encom 1y ago
What decoders don't support VBR MP3 at this point? You would have to go back at least 20 years to find software that breaks on VBR. Maybe some very very terrible hardware decoder chokes on it? Incidentally, breakage on VBR bitstreams
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by encom 1y ago
Often (in my experience) WebP is served as a bait-and-switch even if the link ends with .jpg. So I use Curl to fetch the file, and since Curl doesn't send "Accept: image/webp" unless you tell it to, the server just gives
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by encom 1y ago
Your post triggered a deep seething hatred in me of stoves with touch anything . Last place I lived (rented) was a stove with touch buttons on the stove top, which was itself a glass surface. Never mind that it beeped annoyingly on every i

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