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by j-james 6y ago
> there is output to tell users not to compromise themselves by blindly pasting unsafe code For reference: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47160230/51995729-... This is also present in the Electron version
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by j-james 6y ago
Additionally, as a browser extension: https://fraidyc.at
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My Modern World History class in high school also did this. Our debate came down to whether or not directly / immediately killing hundreds of thousands of citizens was justified by potentially preventing even more dying in a subsequent
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Portland sees peaceful night of protests following withdrawl of federal troops(msn.com)
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by j-james 6y ago
For something with a similar concept, but entirely different execution, see the classic website "Talk Obama To Me". http://talkobamato.me
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by j-james 6y ago
I believe that "remarkable" was referring to Adyen getting and seeking little to no publicity compared to Stripe, yet having a higher market valuation, rather than its location in the Netherlands.
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by j-james 6y ago
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/7519
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by j-james 6y ago
YouTube recently made changes to how they display their ads that affected a fair amount of filter lists. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/7519
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by j-james 6y ago
You can put local music into a Spotify playlist. https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen...
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by j-james 6y ago
That's cool, I'm looking forward to that. Since many different organizations self-host GitLab instances (which is great!), having to enable Javascript for each one can be a bit of a pain. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-
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by j-james 6y ago
You could also try out Sourcehut, which seems to fit your use case well. https://sourcehut.org/
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by j-james 6y ago
> that is updated regularly and uses both a secure transport layer for pacman and doesn't allow "some random guy's" gpg signatures, aka you'd have to manually check every source from AUR. To be fair, all three of
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by j-james 6y ago
Newgrounds has done a lot of work on preserving old Flash content. Some standouts are their own Flash player and an SWF to MP4 converter, but what I find most interesting is Ruffle. Ruffle is a Flash emulator written in Rust that can be use
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by j-james 6y ago
I have: https://public-inbox.org/git/4c08e1a0-db64-5d7d-493f-54c68ee...
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by j-james 6y ago
I'm a little confused by this - are you referring to Chrome on MacOS and Windows only allowing extensions from the Chrome Web Store? With all other versions of Chrome and Chromium, you can drag-and-drop compiled extensions by default.
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by j-james 6y ago
Google Chrome is closed source, Chromium is open source under a three-clause BSD license.
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by j-james 6y ago
> If I wasn't using vim I'd probably just leave that code as it was because it would have been so much effort. Most modern editors, Visual Studio Code included, have powerful refactoring abilities. Not only that, but they'
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by j-james 6y ago
It's worth mentioning that even though it's Electron, it's fairly well optimized Electron. Idle, it takes up a third of a gig of RAM on my laptop. Language server extensions are responsible for the majority of the load users
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by j-james 6y ago
You could mess around with Gemini. It's sort of like the Gopher protocol, but with links allowed in arbitrary locations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424
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> After many years of litigation, on April 25, 2019, ruling from the Northern District of California for Jewel v. NSA concluded that the evidence presented by the plaintiff's experts was insufficient; "the Court confirms its ea
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by j-james 6y ago
Right, but Biology isn't the only AP exam that requires calculations. Dealing with integrals for AP Calculus is much more of a pain.
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by j-james 6y ago
My understanding is it's designed around making short passwords more secure by trying to limit brute force attacks. Seems interesting. https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
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by j-james 6y ago
Re. Oracle vs Google, I believe Oracle's arguing it's the method names themselves, so a formal expression of the exposed functionality. These are methods like math.min and math.max. If your Java implementation doesn't have
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by j-james 6y ago
Ah, you're right. D'oh! And it looks like both the Pinephone and the Librem 5 support various LTE bands.
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by j-james 6y ago
> 3G are okay now Is it really? AT&T and Verizon, two of the largest mobile data conglomerates in the US, have stated their intentions to shut down 3G service in favor of 5G by February 2021 and December 2020 respectively. https:&#x
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by j-james 6y ago
> It's a bit like copyrighting an API and then everyone else has to rename their math.min and math.max functions. Well, that's still up in the air, isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Ora
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by j-james 6y ago
No, it looks like threads aren't (yet) supported in either Riot or the Matrix spec. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2329 https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issue
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by j-james 6y ago
This astronomical naming scheme doesn't seem to be limited to telescopes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array
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by j-james 7y ago
> ViolentMonkey "does not collect user data at the moment", but also allows for it in the privacy policy. That reddit thread is outdated. ViolentMonkey's actual privacy policy unambiguously states that they do not collect
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by j-james 7y ago
XMousePasteBlock is apparently effective. It keeps the primary clipboard clear, so it should also work for non-GTK applications. https://github.com/milaq/XMousePasteBlock

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