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by firen777 3y ago
> New Zealand using CSAM laws to prosecute people who watched the Christchurch video Can I get a source on that? I can't find what you described with a quick Google search (using "New Zealand CSAM Christchurch" as my searc
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by firen777 3y ago
> the Plasma debacle I'm not familiar with it. Can you elaborate? > ... but I don't remember it getting something this basic wrong 1. It's only "wrong" because windows has been doing the double click way. In t
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by firen777 3y ago
Why? Perhaps I'm missing something, but I only care about the functionality and not whether the button should have round edges or the background having the right shade of grey. The consistent "feel" is nice to have (cough win
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by firen777 3y ago
The part about IBM in this blog post did change my opinion a bit: https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-sof...
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by firen777 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230708070056/https://manjarno.... (original domain expired) https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
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by firen777 3y ago
I don't own any Apple product so I might be wrong, but wouldn't it be highly impractical to run touch-screen oriented app/game on a device with keyboard/mouse input? Also while we at it, imma include Android into the fol
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by firen777 3y ago
Even if it's not on steam, you can still try the "Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library." option and run it through Proton.
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by firen777 3y ago
> It supports uBlock Origin which makes mobile browsing so much nicer This was the primary reason I switched from Chrome to Firefox (mobile only initially, then full-on switch due to my desire to sync between mobile and PC). The later ma
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by firen777 3y ago
This mess of different symbols is why video game should allow users to change the button prompt to their preferred symbol, especially games with QTE.
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by firen777 3y ago
There's a study that shows flat UI designs cause uncertainty and can lower productivity: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-ui-less-attention-caus... My subjective experience agree with the study too. But since
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by firen777 3y ago
It doesn't even look "better". It's just more "modern", more "professional", more cooperate, or, my preferred description, more soulless.
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by firen777 3y ago
> The inability to support DNS over TCP was a problem for years. I'm no subject matter expert, [but support seems to be coming soon?]( https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/43#note_2..
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by firen777 3y ago
>Control of the .ML domain will revert on Monday from Zuurbier to Mali’s government, which is closely allied with Russia... Is this the reason why lemmy.ml and lemmygrad stay up?
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by firen777 3y ago
> # Fediverse ... There are even comments on Lemmy from Mastodon and kbin users! This is the strength of what is called the "Fediverse" see: [Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances]( https://kbin.
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by firen777 3y ago
Just tested it and yeah, it's still blocking kbinbot user agent.
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Firefox addon that makes old Reddit more mobile friendly(github.com)
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by firen777 3y ago
YouTubers already had the tool they need to combatting this kind of troll by disabling rating and comment. Disabling dislike has the unfortunate side effect of making scam videos a lot harder to identify. And before people comment, no, manu
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by firen777 3y ago
Pretty easy to do that if you redefine poverty. "600 million people have less than 1,000 RMB monthly income" - Li Keqiang, ex-premier of the State Council of China.
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by firen777 4y ago
If you are small fish watching Twitch and Pornhub, couple of weeks, maybe. If you are a dissidents influencer or online figure, on the other hand, you will be lucky to even be found out why you disappeared.
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by firen777 4y ago
A HKer murdered a HKer. said murderer moved back to HK. HK government said "nope can't deal with that sorry" Taiwan: fine, we can negotiate the extradition if you insist on us taking the case. HK gov: actually we are gonna ma
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by firen777 4y ago
It makes scam videos virtually unidentifiable. Example: https://youtu.be/XS-r2Vpkxas Depend on how big of a fish you are for the ccp to fry, this can be a matter of life and death.
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by firen777 4y ago
I am not alive long enough to know many examples of open source dying after takeover. The most vivid counter example I can remember is Audacity fork Tenacity. Thanks to how hated muse group is, it generated quite a bit of momentum in the be
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by firen777 4y ago
This comment thread is the first time I hear about w3w. It hurts my brain trying to come up a reasoning how such concept is not some kind of parody one-off project intended to be posted on HN or reddit for the lolz. Instead, it is actually
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by firen777 6y ago
> Maybe China's people and our people got together back in March or April, they privately admitted it was an accident and privately made some concessions, on the condition we don't publicly blame them, keep everything they sai
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by firen777 6y ago
> It is like putting an earthquake lab in the middle of a seismically active area, then blaming the lab when an earthquake occurs. This is a really bad analogy, though. Seismic lab doesn't contain self propagating "seismic seed