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jtvjan
5y ago
If we're listing file uploaders, someone made a spider to find them automatically: https://pomfcrawl.pythonanywhere.com/ Though it hasn't ran for a few months now, many of them are still up.
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5y ago
I guess Catalyst will now be the name for "OSX apps that look like iOS apps blown up to a big screen".
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I love the double indirection on the cookie dialog. You're used to the small, unhighlighted option being the one to click to reject cookies, but here the question is asked the other way around, making the big button the one you want to
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5y ago
That's Windows 11 Pro, not Home.
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5y ago
If developers designed it, it wouldn't have all these rounded corners, superfluous animations, and useless padding everywhere.
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5y ago
> It's pronounced completely different in French For real? I thought both languages pronounced them like /libʁ/.
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5y ago
Reminded me of Deko[1]. Used it a lot when I had an iPhone. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deko-beautiful-wallpapers/id58...
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5y ago
I think we should just stop using commas and newlines and start using the ASCII unit separator and record separator. It would alleviate most quoting and escaping issues because those two rarely appear in actual text.
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5y ago
Look if the site has an option to use the noscript recaptcha (you might be able to force it to appear by blocking scripts). That one's much easier: as long as you get it right it lets you through, and you always have to select three sq
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5y ago
Looks like it just searches giphy.com for transparent GIFs.
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5y ago
That's to support single sign-on. It checks whether to show the in-house sign-in page or to redirect.
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5y ago
So pretty much, this starts an RDP server on the WSL side, with Windows acting as the client. I liked the old solution of running a Win32 X11 server and connecting to it from WSL more.
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6y ago
It's a simple, 1-bit image format, used by MS Paint before it switched to BMP. https://www.fileformat.info/format/mspaint/egff.htm
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6y ago
You can use an add-on like HTTPZ[1] to load HTTPS versions of sites automatically. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/httpz/
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6y ago
Would „confidental computing”[1] be able to provide a solution in this situation? If it is encrypted using a TEE, they would have no way of knowing what kind of data they are hosting. [1]: https://confidentialcomputing.io/
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6y ago
If the system was really perfect, they wouldn't have had to start requiring a login to post as AC.
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6y ago
They're stream compressors, so they don't want to rely on being able to seek in the file. Even with swap, you'll have to cut it off somewhere; swap space isn't infinite.
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6y ago
The 'window size' dictates how far back the algorithm can look for redundant data. If you set it too high, people without enough core memory might not be able to decompress your archive.
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6y ago
Looks fine for me, but I'm using a 1080p display. Maybe change the font settings in your browser?
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6y ago
At that point, you can argue that you can't be sure whether the kill switches would actually turn off the radios.
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6y ago
I really liked "The C Programming Language (second edition)" by Kernighan & Ritchie. It doesn't teach C99 and later features, but if you want to write portable code you're not using those anyway.
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6y ago
Then you'd have to trust that the original owner destroys their copy.
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6y ago
Oh. I thought it was a free software, federated implementation of Facebook's "poking" feature.
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6y ago
In the first paragraph, you argue for freedom of expression. Then, at the end of the second paragraph, you call for regulation against it. Huh?!
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6y ago
Try using the `select-editor' command. If you don't have that, you can also try setting $EDITOR and $VISUAL in your bashrc.
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6y ago
Yes, but you need to press enter before using it. Try typing `⏎~?' in an SSH session.
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6y ago
You mean your qdb.us project? It's cool, but I don't think it's very user friendly.
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Yeah, that, using the --date parameter on git-commit.
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6y ago
Disappointed that they weren't backdated.
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6y ago
Black text on black background with Firefox Android 68.4.2.
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