jackewiehose

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by jackewiehose 3y ago
This isn't about "change", they just removed some essential functionality that I use daily since 1995. Besides from being used to it, it is also required for my work to have wide, labeled, ungrouped application buttons instea
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
You get a tool tip when hovering the mouse over the progress bar. But now I see the chapters are also listed in the video description, which I should have linked to in the first place: 00:30:35 Taskbar grouping https://www.youtu
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
There is an interview with Raymond Chen where he is trying to defend the reason why they crippled the taskbar with Windows 11 [1]. Watching that I was just thinking NO NO NO - it worked fine for the last 25 years and there can be absolutely
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
Because fingerprinting. Shit like this is the reason you are supposed to use the Tor browser only with a tiny window.
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
> I guess there is some unfortunate reason why they can't do the same here Because they want to support Git for Windows which is built upon Cygwin/msys. And this is fine because Cygwin is much faster than WSL and a good Window
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
Thank you. That inspired me to try out the lemmy android app. But that was quite underwhelming. We'll see where that goes.
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
Sorry, but I'm too stupid to find it by myself. Would you give me a hint?
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
Does lemmy has somethings like /r/all? Across all instances? I'm not interested in subscribing to specific communities. The way I used reddit most of the time was browsing on /r/all using RIF and then I blocked all
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
It looks like STUN/TURN can be integrated with QUIC so you don't need additional ports, but I wouldn't say "the complexity is gone" ;-) https://w3c.github.io/p2p-webtransport/ > This specifi
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by jackewiehose 3y ago
> A big difference to WebRTC is: All the STUN / TURN complexity is gone but STUN / TURN is there for a reason. I always thought of the P2P scenario as the main use case for WebRTC.
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
I cant think of a use case for me but I want it. But a deal-breaker would be the comment from this German news article[1]: > Wie alle bisherigen Produkte von Finalmouse wird es sich wahrscheinlich um eine limitierte Auflage handeln, di
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
> windows can be set to prohibit executing [...] on a dev machine building windows executables lol @ "dev machine" ?!
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
> Well for one a website can make you secretly upload copyrighted content with plain old javascript Only to a webserver and thanks to CORS not to any webserver. There is no benefit for a website doing that - unlike with sharing a torren
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
Was I wrong about the torrent stuff or did the downvotes come from web-developers who want WebRTC to be always available by default?
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
Thank you, I will try that. Although I hope that for critical security updates they will be faster... Right now it is lagging behind (105.1.0 vs. current 106.1.0)
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
Yes, but as far as I understand, the fight against fingerprinting is lost anyway. Having WebRTC enabled can be dangerous for other reasons. You could be seeding a torrent unknowingly just by visiting a website. This can turn into a freaki
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
How to disable WebRTC on Firefox Mobile? I have uBlock which prevents from leaking the local IP but I don't want WebRTC at all. Why did they take about:config from us?
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
I agree. And besides that I also think it's an incredibly bad idea to train users, who are technically not very firm, to enter their credentials on some random page that asks for it. I'm a pro and even I can't tell how this
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
Welcome to HN, where you read a story like this at least once a month. For this reason I ditched my google account years ago and switched to a paid mail provider that offers support and isn't operated entirely by robots.
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
> "this time let's replace both the motherboard and also the power adapter" [...] > I want to think this is just plain bad luck, but the Lenovo support forums are full of similar problems, and two other colleagues indep
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by jackewiehose 4y ago
I don't understand the point of having 2FA with your password manager. When I open my password manager on a malware infected PC it doesn't matter how the password vault is opened. Once it's opened it is available in RAM and
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
in C++ I would write for (int i: numbers) if (i % 2 == 1) return true; return false; find_if() etc. is fine if you already have the right predicate function at hand but it becomes quite ridiculous with lambda expr
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
It's a different outcome but it is again a problem caused by their signing requirement bullshit. It wouldn't be that bad if they would just let us developers use our unsigned extensions.
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
so true... in 15 years using emacs I never came across another emacs-user in real life. But even if I would find one and we wanted to use emacs together - How is that supposed to work? My config and how I use it is quite personal. Also I d
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> Luckily a few promising alternative browsers are popping up. anything not based on chromium?
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
I agree with most of what you said but ... > My 2012 Nexus 7 runs Android 7(!). why not Android 11? The Nexus is from Google as well as Android. So at some point they must have pushed some "useless" new features into Android t
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
It's a real shame that nowadays 7 year old devices are considered to be out of scope for support even though they would still be perfectly fine otherwise. Fuck google etc. and this whole throw-away society.
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
Being "pissed" is about the phone number requirement which is just a political decision and not about budget. > If you're so motivated, can even build something for them in open source No, as far as I know they don't
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
I'm really pissed at Signal because they went the same route as WhatsApp and tied the account to a phone number and it's not possible to use it on more than one (android) device or just on a PC (without phone). WhatsApp gave us th
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> The only real case which is probably the case in 90% of all my switch'es. Worst use of a time machine ever.

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