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by ernesth 6y ago
There's a GUI I need to use twice a year. It contains confusing icons and processes that take multiple clicks with no way to come back. I used to do variations of the same mistakes every time until I wrote the steps in a text file (in
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by ernesth 6y ago
There is nothing more to it: Project Gutenberg distributed books in Germany that are not in the Public Domain there. The rights holder sued. PG was condemned to stop distributing those books in Germany. PG complied by blocking the whole sit
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by ernesth 6y ago
There is also Localizatodo https://www.localizatodo.com/html5/ They have less coverage. I am not sure if they have a business model, but they do not try to sell me premium feature.
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by ernesth 6y ago
Not sure if it's a counterpoint or an agreement, but Communication softwares are already not inter operable with themselves: * In discord, you need to install the "native" client to be able to share your screen or see other
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by ernesth 6y ago
I don't have a facebook account myself but follow some people's publications using rssbridge ( https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge ). I would indeed prefer that facebook provides those feeds themselves as
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by ernesth 6y ago
On my physical keyboard also. As with all azerty keyboards from the last 20 years. https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4668/as-images.apple...
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by ernesth 6y ago
> Maybe French law is much weirder than ours, but this phrasing would be highly suspect in the US. You would get a really affirmative ruling that you are still bound by contract or not. French law is not that strange :). But the decision
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by ernesth 6y ago
A judgment has already been given, which Frogwares lost. The judgment, in october 2020, said that frogwares had illicitly tried to end their contract with Nacon. They were condemned to pursue the contract. Hence Nacon has published the game
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by ernesth 6y ago
Oh, you mean localcdn is not yet ready?
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by ernesth 6y ago
Really? How do you enable it?
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by ernesth 6y ago
That is the default for the screenshot, pdf and one of the html archives: they use your chrome cookies.
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by ernesth 6y ago
Debian used to manage and package programs from the real world. It is obviously easier to create breaking changes that will not be discovered in dynamic languages. But in the real world, where everybody do unit tests, it is difficult to und
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by ernesth 6y ago
My anecdotal experience as a teacher is that when tasked with implementing sort, students go for selection sort. However when asked to do it in real life on a bundle of graded exam sheets, if I ask them to sort alphabetically, they will do
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by ernesth 6y ago
Why do they need both a WTF (World Taekwondo) and a FIT (Internatinal Taekwondo Federation)?
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by ernesth 6y ago
So you mean Apple has this huge advantage of 5nm compared to 7nm but failed to outperform AMD? What a failure. (that was sarcasm. My take is this performance is impressive but you should not be surprised if it does not completely outperform
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by ernesth 6y ago
> Brave removes ads "pre-render" so it is the fastest experience one can get. Doesn't Ublock Origin remove ads "pre-download" which is obviously faster?
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by ernesth 6y ago
First, I do not think they are irrelevant, but it's probably subjective. Second, them being irrelevant is certainly not a good reason to forbid those notices. Third, that they are forbidden makes them all the more relevant.
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by ernesth 6y ago
> Is there a way to federate Hacker News? There's Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
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by ernesth 6y ago
It is due to a bug in firefox (some kind of feature in webrtc not being enabled in Firefox). It however works in FOSS browsers such as chromium. It may be resolved now: the bugzilla entry mentions a patch: https://bugzilla.mozill
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by ernesth 6y ago
> the first several google results look pretty explanatory to me? Is the article really about Java Web Toolkit?
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by ernesth 6y ago
France is indeed the best/worst example as it is the current country spanning the most timezones (13).
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by ernesth 6y ago
Opera was doing this ten years ago. They used to call it Tab Stacks[1]. Note that Vivaldi has this feature[2]. Or is this chrome feature different? [1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/h
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by ernesth 7y ago
So all in all, you have three options: No privacy used by billions (Android), a little privacy used by millions (iOS) or some privacy used by thousands (Android derivatives). If you are willing to sacrifice privacy, why not go android? If y
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by ernesth 7y ago
Germany and France have had very parallel number of cases: see https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_... The first case in Germany was 3 days after the first in France. They reached
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by ernesth 7y ago
In the 80s, the game console makers did not operate the store where you were buying games. Even, you could buy second-hand games without Atari or Nintendo receiving any part of the fee!
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by ernesth 7y ago
> I would certainly hope that "entering an endless boot loop" is considered a malfunction no matter what network traffic is occurring. Once the switch is in airplane mode, the endlessly looping device seems fixed. The fact that
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by ernesth 7y ago
That's essentially what https://www.senscritique.com/ does in the french speaking world. You rate movies, books, comics, series, music, then it will suggest "éclaireurs" (scouts/recon) to follow, finally
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by ernesth 7y ago
I have been using Goodreads for years. I remember when Amazon turned off API access to goodreads and how all books lost their covers and most of their data. And the shocking turn of event of Amazon taking control of Goodreads. And I am pret
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by ernesth 7y ago
> for me and a friend, show me the rarest book we have read in common Got to your Friends page ( https://www.goodreads.com/friend ), click on "Compare books" in front on the friend with which you want to compare.
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by ernesth 7y ago
Similar to how tetris was (jokingly ?) described as a plot of the soviet to ruin the productivity of the west by hijacking the minds. Second-hand Reference: https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/a-tale-of-the-mirror-world

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