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by jorams 6y ago
I have a pretty good setup for MPD on Android. It's not perfect, but quite nice. https://www.joram.io/blog/android-streaming-mpd/
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by jorams 6y ago
I find Gandi to have pretty thorough information on all TLDs they offer. The page for .de[1] lists one rule to keep in mind. [1]: https://www.gandi.net/en-GB/domain/tld/de
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by jorams 6y ago
Having used Teams, Zoom, Skype, Google Meet and Jitsi, I'm having a very hard time understanding why people go through the pain of Teams, Zoom or Skype. Jitsi and Google Meet don't employ any dark patterns, they are fast, they are
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by jorams 6y ago
> It's alright like that, although it's still not a great use of time. I don't understand why you go through this effort at all. A filtered view is why r/popular exists.
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by jorams 6y ago
> This bug wouldn't present in the first couple years with the limited amount of DLC GTA Online loading times have been infamous for a very long time. They were already unjustifiably bad when they released the game for PC, and at
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by jorams 6y ago
> no definition of recent They've been very clear that it's 2 years, and they will notify you before they remove anything.
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by jorams 6y ago
The README has a single section about Pro features, and it starts with "All pro features are convenience or advanced features". That definitely looks like the non-pro version is meant to be a free-to-use product.
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by jorams 6y ago
Monopolistic platforms don't own the copyright on user-generated content. The users do, and they license it to the platform.
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by jorams 6y ago
I think the duration for each changeset just depends on the number of map elements it touches. Every map element gets 1.5 seconds. Every individual yurt is a map element so that changeset gets a lot of "airtime", but a changeset t
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by jorams 6y ago
The element ID for it is "queuesize". I think it just fetches a batch of recent changes then queues them up. When the queue gets empty enough it fetches a new batch, and the number still in the queue is what you see.
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by jorams 6y ago
They do, you just don't hear about it.
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by jorams 6y ago
I've heard, and keep hearing, so many stories about frustrations with Facebook's tools for advertisers that the situation described doesn't surprise me at all. Somehow this massive organization with >50 000 employees and b
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by jorams 6y ago
If you do that, there's a real risk you'll end up having to pay more than your max price. Say your max price is $2500, but you bid $1 million. Then it turns out 10 others have a max price of, and bid, $10000. You are now on the ho
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by jorams 6y ago
One of the things "Request desktop site" is supposed to do is report a larger effective viewport. For a responsive site, that should switch it to a desktop view. Does iOS Safari not do that?
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by jorams 6y ago
Rather than keeping a lower-quality copy of my music on my phone, I stream my own music library by running MPD[1] in a satellite setup. All files are served by a simple webserver[2] that converts them to Opus when requested, to save bandwid
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by jorams 6y ago
> I work for a large CDN, with many thousands of servers pushing near line-rate out of our NICs... we certainly can't vertically scale that. A CDN is essentially "horizontal scale as a service". The vast majority of produc
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by jorams 6y ago
Setting the SA_RESTART flag using sigaction[1], which Postgres does, makes it invalid behaviour. Even according to Apple's (confusingly worded) documentation[2]. [1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799
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by jorams 6y ago
Returning EINTR is valid behaviour, but not when SA_RESTART is set. The POSIX documentation for sigaction[1] is quite clear about that, even if Apple's corresponding docs[2] are confusingly worded. [1]: https://pubs.opengrou
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by jorams 6y ago
While open[1] is documented for macOS to be able to return EINTR, the documentation for sigaction[2] seems to specify (in confusing wording) that setting SA_RESTART prevents that. It seems to me like a bug in macOS, since they're going
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by jorams 6y ago
> which means I have the disadvantage of having to stay up-to-date on things like dhcpcd and systemd and coreutils In the past 8 years of regularly updating my rolling release Linux systems, I have spent significantly more time reading h
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by jorams 6y ago
I agree "the new IE6" is a tad much, but this... > there are a growing number of areas where Chrome and Firefox have nearly identical behavior and Safari is the odd one out. ...is definitely true for me when developing relative
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by jorams 6y ago
> Requiring a novice to learn arcana of a 30 year old Unix system before they can learn to program is purely extraneous. The thing is, that's the system they are using. Node.js is a programming runtime for that system. Node.js has a
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by jorams 6y ago
What would be the layer below it? It's certainly not GUIs, which are a significantly more complex layer of abstraction.
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by jorams 6y ago
> Your statement of being "LGBT / neutral" seems strange to me I think the / in that sentence is supposed to be read as "and", so: > I am LGBT and neutral regarding the the use of pronouns.
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by jorams 6y ago
> It's like when people say "I'm feeling melancholy". NO! You're feeling melancholic! While I fully agree with you and it sounds incredibly weird, dictionaries don't agree with you on this one. They consider
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by jorams 6y ago
> Who the hell wants to create new blocks for each sub-heading and paragraph when they're writing regular articles? The old editor is much easier to use. You add new paragraphs by just pressing enter, and you make it a heading by ty
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by jorams 6y ago
> I don't want to interrupt my thinking by clicking to add blocks, I just want one big white sheet of virtual paper, to start writing untill the end. There's a lot to criticize Gutenberg for, but this is not one of them. It&#x2
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by jorams 6y ago
If they're not using Google Analytics anymore, it's probably time to remove the request to 'gascrolldepth.js' from the blog as well.
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by jorams 6y ago
They appear to be using a self-hosted analytics solution. Every page makes a request to collector.githubapp.com.
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by jorams 6y ago
Note that FastMail allows you to add ~600 aliases to your account, choosing from a large list of domains. I'd advise anyone to use their own domain, but those aliases can be a godsend.

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