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by johnfernow 2y ago
There's also information that technically works but is horrendously insecure that is highly upvoted on SO. There's usually people in the comments noting how insecure it is, but I wish there was some moderator action that could cau
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by johnfernow 2y ago
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9655943/ The study above references 4 different studies that indicate that artificial sweeteners can affect glucose tolerance through changes in the microbiota c
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by johnfernow 2y ago
> My view is that diabetes is an urgent national scandal. Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, and 100,000 die from the condition annually. In addition, every year hundreds of thousands of people with diabetes have li
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by johnfernow 2y ago
Here's a great PDF I found on the ADA's website from fall 2023: https://professional.diabetes.org/sites/default/files/media/... > This content is brought to you by Splenda, a proud supporter
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by johnfernow 2y ago
I agree, it seems extremely misleading, especially for medical organizations. The US government doesn't make consumer clothes, so I don't think anyone's too confused with American Eagle Outfitters not being government-ran, bu
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by johnfernow 3y ago
So long as Nintendo doesn't end up going after emulators released before the Switch, then the de facto (not de jure) precedent is: don't release an emulator for their current latest console. Overall, that's probably a mostly
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by johnfernow 3y ago
On smartphones at least, you could require users to use a specific app to establish the authenticity of the footage. You could have a code hash signature for the app to compare against the current hash and make sure the compiled code was no
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by johnfernow 3y ago
> I feel like it would be a lot more straightforward if people just came out and said that they think piracy should be legal. I don't believe piracy should be legal. I believe that copyright and trademarks are important for the crea
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Here's the video for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSkkEr-wk tl;dw: First, he searches the exact name of the video on YouTube: it shows a fan-made animated skit of it, the wrong videos but from the
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by johnfernow 3y ago
> In 5 years when shitty battery and defective hinge become apparent, the laptop is already off the market and the user isn't interested in reviewing it. Yep, and quality can vary quite substantially from one year to the next. I mos
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by johnfernow 3y ago
To some extent I understand why Google and Android OEMs don't include call recording apps pre-installed on their phone, as laws vary by jurisdiction and change over time. I also understand why Google wouldn't want them on the Play
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Definitely wouldn't call it "Photopea for video", but it's free (though not FOSS) and multiplatform: DaVinci Resolve is a free NLE desktop program available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Exports are limited to 3840x2160 60f
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by johnfernow 3y ago
I agree. For me, one of the challenging long term parts of video game preservation will be non-standard controllers and other peripherals, such as the Wii remote, Wii balance board, Guitar Hero/Rock Band guitars and drums, etc. Sure, t
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by johnfernow 3y ago
True. I mostly use virtual desktops to separate work content from personal project stuff, as well separate non-productive stuff from both of them. But yeah you phrased it well, craning my neck to see a screen does sound much worse than a ke
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by johnfernow 3y ago
The iPhone 1 is perhaps a stretch, but how have things meaningfully changed since the iPhone 4? (which in 2010 introduced the front-facing camera, something that radically changed how many people use their phone.) That was over 13 years ago
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by johnfernow 3y ago
> Shrinking this technology is all it will take for similar devices to make workstation monitors and gaming consoles completely obsolete. Do people want that? I love playing games in my Quest 2 for an hour or two, or the PSVR2 at my frie
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by johnfernow 3y ago
I agree. When an app uses GPS on my phone, I'm informed of that: a notification permanently displays in the top bar until it is no longer being used. Same with the camera and mic. If my clipboard is copied, I get a notification as well
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by johnfernow 3y ago
You can have a carbon tax with a border adjustment. If goods are imported from a country without an equivalent (or stronger) carbon tax, then those goods would be subject to a fee at the border. The EU is considering is a system like this,
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by johnfernow 3y ago
The difference is that the existing financial system is used by about 3/4 of the world population (closer to 94% in developed nations) for the exchange of actual goods and services. Bitcoin has significantly fewer users, but more impor
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by johnfernow 3y ago
I wonder what leads Microsoft to name things the way they do. When they released a new browser in 2015, they called it Edge to distinguish it from Internet Explorer, which had built up quite a reputation for not being particularly fast, sec
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Bing Search shows few, if any, signs of market share increase from AI features(arstechnica.com)
3 points by johnfernow 3y ago|1 comments
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by johnfernow 3y ago
If you're a single adult (which you probably are if you're interested in taking advantage of this program), $66k/year would mean you are richer than 99% of people on the planet, and your median income would be 20.2 times the
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by johnfernow 3y ago
In the UK, if you publish a book, magazine or newspaper, by law you have to send a copy to the British Library for archive. A lot of other countries have similar laws. In the UK, legal deposit has expanded to include the web (so long as the
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Prior to ~2021 or so, I felt that many if not most in the EA community not only wanted to donate their money in the manner that most effectively saved lives, but also donate as much of their money as they could while still avoiding relative
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by johnfernow 3y ago
As someone who loves VR, I'm not sure at $500 who this headset is for. If you want something cheap but decent, a Quest 2 is a better deal at $300. It'll give you a cordless, hassle-free, console-like experience as a standalone dev
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by johnfernow 3y ago
For a lot of studios, even very large ones, that's not the case anymore, and even those that have their own engines don't use them for everything. Nintendo has several engines, but Pokémon Go is made in Unity, as was Mario Kart To
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by johnfernow 3y ago
I certainly hope it is, but even still Project Mainline only came out with Android 10, and as of May 30, 2023, 27.8% of Android users are on Android 9 or lower, according to Google's stats listed in Android Studio. [1] Considering ther
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by johnfernow 3y ago
I guess in theory a government could strongly guarantee freedom of speech while not guaranteeing anonymity — you could say whatever you want, but you couldn't do so anonymously. I suppose until recently in history there was a limited n
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Actually, making it unavailable wouldn't even solve the problem, as once you purchase a game, even if it is no longer for sale on Steam, you can still redownload it, including to new devices. So if you've ever released a Unity gam
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by johnfernow 3y ago
It is completely impossible to keep track of DRM-free games being distributed illegally on private trackers that they are not members of, and there are surely tons of private trackers that are not mentioned on the public web that no one at

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