hyakosm

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by hyakosm 6y ago
There is a issue of the incoherence of this behavior in Big Sur. Example: on my screen, in the menubar, vertical alignment of menu items (File, Edit...) is not the same as date & time widget (slightly upper). I don't know if it&#x2
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by hyakosm 6y ago
The article points to an interesting UI bug in macOS, text alignment in buttons is weird. Cf https://grumpy.website/post/0UfwgmMDe
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Wkhtmltopdf is slow, inconsistent between platforms and can lead to leakage of sensitive informations on the server (an iframe pointing to file:///etc/passwd). Cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=175
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by hyakosm 6y ago
When you're blaming the victim and defending criminals pretexting "security practices". No one deserve to be punished excepting by the Law.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Firefox has some really nice features like container tabs (example: opening a gmail session in a tab and another session in another tab). The vertical side panel is another thing I love, with a tree of all bookmarks (on -B or CTRL-B).
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Yes, many OS forked code from FreeBSD, especially on the network stack.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
MacOS is not based on BSD, it's an old legend. NeXTStep was designed to be "compatible" with 4.3BSD (the diagram on Wikipedia is wrong because of this confusion). Edit : source about compatibility on the last page : http:&#x
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by hyakosm 6y ago
It's the difference between a social network decicated to exchange in a bubble and a truly universal communication service like post, phone system or email where anyone can reach anyone without subscribe to same/any service, witho
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by hyakosm 6y ago
It's more about French language. It can possibly be interesting to listen even if you don't speak French.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
You can comment or share individual blocks in one click, I guess it's the point of that.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
It works on my cheap TCL TV with a PS4 after enabling HDMI-CEC, it's really nice!
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by hyakosm 6y ago
LG WebOS is a pretty good operating system for TVs.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
"The Computers Chronicles" had an episode about it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUx7dP2S7h4
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by hyakosm 6y ago
There were regular phone numbers, you had to call these numbers with the phone (no dialer on the minitel). All voice calls were billed per minute, variying by distance ("local" vs "national") and by the time of the day (
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by hyakosm 6y ago
In 70s - 80s there was custom inspections in every european country, and it's still the case in Switzerland and UK.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Today they added a weird "feature" in Google Search : when I hover on some results links, there is a blinking black line and the result description expands from 2 lines to 4 lines, sometimes with adding pictures. I trigger that ef
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by hyakosm 6y ago
You can run 32 bits apps with Crossover.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
The 3.5" floppy disk is easy to draw and recognize. Today we save documents on mechanical drives, SSDs, USB devices, cloud... As a way to represent the "save" action, the only alternative to floppy is an arrow and a square, o
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by hyakosm 6y ago
In Windows 95-98, toolbar icons were grayscale until you hover on them. It was a good idea.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
This exact problem happened in Montréal with the Champlain bridge, cheaply built in the 60s. A new bridge had to be built at the same place (inaugurated last year) and connected to existing infrastructure.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Same rules applies to all apps. It's curious to have 1 star when competitors have 4 or 5 stars.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
On the french Minitel a lot of discussion forums were private owned and not really censored. I think the censorship is more heavy on facebook than it was on minitel services.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Similarly, the French first program ("première chaine de l'ORTF" before 1975, TF1 after) was transmitted in 625 lines SÉCAM on UHF band and simultaneously on 819 lines black & white on VHF. Old black & white 819 lines
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by hyakosm 6y ago
In 80s, the french electricity network was mostly in 220v. There is no perceptible difference between 220 and 230.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
The original TuxKart website is still alive: http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/
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by hyakosm 6y ago
1 GB of internet in France ($0.81) == 1 GB of internet in Canada ($12.55). Canadian prices are exorbitant. The key is true concurrency.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
XMPP works with a lot of extensions (XEP), used for things like file transfers, avatars, alerts... and every client implements different XEP... so the interoperability is non-existent.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
Probably ë and not ö
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by hyakosm 6y ago
A decentralized video service powered by P2P, with content creators retributed by donations and/or ads and sponsorships inside videos.
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by hyakosm 6y ago
If you have your laptop in your bedroom, an uncovered camera can provide material for blackmail easily and fast.

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