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by jorams 3y ago
The big difference here is that Runa Capital is a venture capital firm, and they already invested in MariaDB 8 years ago. To be honest I don't really understand how this acquisition makes sense in that context.
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by jorams 3y ago
> Why collude when you can just hire grey-market high frequency scrapers to detect your competitors' repricing and trigger your own? What the thread actually said is this: > My guess was: tacit collusion, meaning, oligopolic pric
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by jorams 3y ago
> Everything causes the hourglass cursor to pop up - even just clicking on a button in Outlook As someone who had to use a very slow 10-year-old iMac recently, I would prefer if macOS showed more indicators that it was busy. The macOS UI
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by jorams 3y ago
> Paxos is a regulated Trust Charter Developments in the crypto world have made clear that this doesn't necessarily mean much in this space, so that's why people remain skeptical. Two examples: Prime Trust filed for chapter 11
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by jorams 3y ago
> and they've been accumulating Lightning cables for a decade. This is why I don't think Apple's electronic waste argument makes much sense. All devices I've bought in the last 5 years have been USB-C, while iPhone us
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by jorams 3y ago
No, it is only bound to localhost.
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by jorams 3y ago
> Even more surprisingly was that Tucows – the domain registrar with the third most domains globally – wasn’t mentioned even once. Tucows doesn't sell domains under their own name. They are the parent company of Hover, which is the
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by jorams 3y ago
There are a few (not that many) things that break on the internet if you turn off third-party cookies, but "I'm no longer being tracked without consent" is not one of them. It's one of the big reasons to get rid of third
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by jorams 3y ago
> You are meant to press Ctrl with your right hand when you press C-x. I've been using Emacs for several years now, and I think the real solution is to turn Caps Lock into another Ctrl. The right Ctrl key is in a very uncomfortable
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by jorams 3y ago
> Datatilsynet used an "expedited process" that was unnecessary and did not give the company enough time to answer The GDPR became enforceable 5 years ago, and this is their core business. This does not concern some ambiguous e
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by jorams 3y ago
It's the narrative because it's true. In 2009 the EU told mobile phone manufacturers to standardize on a common charging connector. Then the manufacturers announced they would standardize on micro-USB, and reached an agreement, or
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by jorams 3y ago
This[1] discussion from a month ago seems much less definitive. [1]: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3Cjwvfs5o9e0f.f...
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by jorams 3y ago
> the price point is just not worth it They mention on the Discord that they're getting close to returning to unlimited searches for $10 per month, so this might improve soon. > stop using bing Interestingly, last month Bing was
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by jorams 3y ago
This is because NFTs don't actually understand the concept of a "sale". They can be transferred to another wallet, but this wallet may belong to the same person as the previous wallet in which case paying royalties wouldn&#x2
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by jorams 3y ago
It's weirder even: Pressing ctrl-shift-x when the input field is highlighted inserts "rtl", then pressing it again flips the entire user interface but not the input field.
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by jorams 3y ago
It seems to me whether you're going to make fingerprintable properties be the same or randomize them, you're always going to need to explore every angle. Otherwise a bad actor can just ignore all the properties you randomize and f
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by jorams 3y ago
mpv only uses yt-dlp to get a video URL, then passes that URL to ffmpeg. ffmpeg doesn't implement the workarounds with range headers, so you get throttled. It's possible to have yt-dlp perform the download, pipe it to mpv and make
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by jorams 3y ago
Firefox on Android actually has a great error message here: > Nightly Can’t Open This Page > To protect your security, www.w3.org will not allow Nightly to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need t
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by jorams 3y ago
I read it as a little joke referring to C++, for what it's worth.
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by jorams 3y ago
It looks like Bram was the treasurer, so his medical condition could potentially have something to do with it.
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by jorams 3y ago
> I don't understand "piracy" much anymore For music I agree for the most part. Tons of music is both available on streaming services, and for sale as a DRM-free download. The rest of the entertainment industry hasn&#x27
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by jorams 3y ago
Google is one of the sources for Kagi's results, but not the only one. The results are not the same.
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by jorams 3y ago
The Netherlands has both. "Laster" requires the accusation to be untrue. "Smaad" is the broader form that does not require the accusation to be untrue. Justifications defined in the law are "necessary defense&quot
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by jorams 3y ago
> But why collect these data points in the first place? This heading is followed by several paragraphs that don't explain at all why they're collecting several of these data points. If the IP address is dropped in the de-identi
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by jorams 3y ago
> 3. Web EME. "End of the web as an open platform", years later, web is just the same as it always was. And yet every single paid streaming service refuses to serve high quality video to users on platforms like Linux. This is e
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by jorams 3y ago
This is very cool. I feel like the Google Cloud documentation does a relatively good job introducing all such complexity as you need it, but I've never seen such a complete overview for it. (I did have to go through some effort to view
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by jorams 3y ago
Here[1]'s an infographic for a report on the Dutch market for Q1 of this year. See the bottom right. iDEAL is by far the biggest payment method. [1]: https://www.thuiswinkel.org/media/oyhhmgvy/infographic_thui
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by jorams 3y ago
Thank you so much for this. I've been using Input for years, and the main things keeping me there were the line height and clarity at small font sizes. Your build makes Iosevka match those very, very closely. I think I've finally
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by jorams 3y ago
I used to watch YouTube on my TV without adblocker almost every day, but it's now forcing so many ads that my usage has plummeted. There's always at least two for every few minutes of actual video, they're almost all at least
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by jorams 3y ago
SBCL needs a relatively large amount of memory to start with, but beyond that it doesn't require much. I run a few small services written in Common Lisp. Instead of running a separate process for every one of them I run a single SBCL p

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