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by grishka 2y ago
> The use of algorithms to filter information has become the norm because chronologically presenting information from followers creates a confusing morass for the average user to process. Can't disagree more. Call me old-fashioned b
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by grishka 2y ago
Now I want this comparison for Opus. It doesn't do that whole psychoacoustics thing, does it? But it also somehow manages to ~double the compression ratio compared to MP3 without any noticeable difference in the sound quality.
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by grishka 2y ago
Simple distorted-characters captchas still do a good job of catching unsophisticated bots, which is most of them. They work even better when combined with hidden form fields because these bots don't support CSS. Targeted attacks though
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by grishka 2y ago
Looks like something that doesn't need to have a passcode on it in the first place.
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by grishka 2y ago
Reminds me of how some manufacturers tried to combine a small SSD with a large HDD the same way in the early 2010s.
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by grishka 2y ago
> At least with USB-C Apple "donated" their designs. What do you mean? I've always thought that it was designed jointly by the same standards committee as the previous iterations. The first USB-C device I know about and ha
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by grishka 2y ago
Mastodon has a big honkin' "Join mastodon.social" button both on joinmastodon.org and in the mobile apps to solve this exact problem.
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by grishka 2y ago
EOL or no, there are many people who still use older OSes because they own older computers, can't afford an upgrade or don't want one (it works just fine!), and can't be bothered with figuring out running a newer OS on offici
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by grishka 2y ago
> the Metal/Vulkan mess But what about MoltenVK?
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by grishka 2y ago
If you're building macOS apps, it's common to want to test them on all system versions you support. Especially so considering Apple's attitude towards backwards compatibility.
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by grishka 2y ago
I have a feeling that the Linux developer community in general just constantly prioritizes the wrong things. They love to boast about technical achievements instead of doing something that would actually enable real-world regular-usage scen
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by grishka 2y ago
The readme also doesn't specify how to set up the development environment. I'd like to make a PR adding support for the two Russian streaming services most people here use, VKontakte and Yandex Music, and the code looks simple eno
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by grishka 2y ago
Yandex maps does this at least for Russian cities. And as others said, Citymapper does it too.
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by grishka 2y ago
> Then we got CDs, which were fine, but read-only You could format a CD-RW to use it pretty much like a (slow) USB flash drive. I don't remember the details but it definitely was an option in Windows. But then, before CD burners bec
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by grishka 2y ago
Material came out in mid 2014. I know that for sure because I was at the Google I/O where they presented it together with Android L/5. iOS 7 was released in 2013.
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by grishka 2y ago
I can't access this website without a VPN, I'm getting the dreaded "you're blocked" cloudflare page. Cool stuff though once you get past that.
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by grishka 2y ago
Can we please stop this feature creep in browsers already?
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by grishka 2y ago
I ended up doing kinda the same. Our API already had a method to retrieve the current unixtime on the server, which I used, together with the user-set timezone, to figure out the UTC offset that the user actually meant to set by adjusting
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by grishka 2y ago
Another fun fact about timezones: if the government abolishes DST one year, and then moves some timezones an hour the next year, it creates a wild mess. Especially when you're building an Android app. Especially when it's the earl
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by grishka 2y ago
> the CPU is too old for photo or video editing as software got so much slower over the years Unless you need to render 4K or 8K video, why won't you just use older software?
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by grishka 2y ago
Was going to ask "how is this different from Anbox", but apparently Anbox got discontinued by its developer more than a year ago.
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by grishka 2y ago
They do sell quite a lot of Android phones in Russia, but those come without Google apps. They have their own app store, Huawei AppGallery, and I see that logo fairly often next to Apple app store and Google Play.
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by grishka 2y ago
Didn't Google deploy it to some of its smart speaker devices a while ago tho?
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by grishka 2y ago
I did get #2 on an Apple M1, so probably not video card specific.
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by grishka 2y ago
If you buy a device, the manufacturer should retain no control over it whatsoever. There should not be technical provisions to make such control possible. Otherwise, it should be considered a rental and made very clear to you before you com
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by grishka 2y ago
So what is the root of trust in this system then?
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by grishka 2y ago
I've not researched how this works, but this definitely feels like one of those things where if you dig deep enough into it, it boils down to "we verify your 'humanness' by checking that there's your biometric data
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by grishka 2y ago
Also works to say that you live in a country where Kindles aren't officially sold so you can't make use of the ads anyway even if you wanted to. Don't know if they actually check if you are in one of those countries, but I am
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by grishka 2y ago
From the title I thought this would be about running DOS on an old laptop on bare metal. There even exists this to emulate SoundBlaster on a modern sound card: https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU
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by grishka 2y ago
So it's more complicated than I thought it was. Now I'm curious about our Russian trains, especially in subways. They've never made any interesting sounds, it seems. The older (Soviet-era) ones don't make any noticeable

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