kevincox

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by kevincox 3y ago
I currently have 533 healthy feeds, 20 unhealthy feeds. However the vast majority of these are low-volume, many are probably dead (even the ones not explicitly unhealthy). I get roughly 1k new entries a month.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Personally I don't want the physical hardware. But I would be happy to buy the games if they just ran in PC ...and Nintendo wasn't a giant asshole. Of course if they started selling their games for PC that may be a sign of enough
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by kevincox 3y ago
This future seems very unlikely. Nintendo has published like 1 phone game? They are very much a fan of their garden. It course I would love to see this. I think Nintendo makes some very good games but have no interest in having specific phy
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by kevincox 3y ago
But if tons of people are partly buying a Steam Deck because it is a great way to play loads of retro games from NES to Switch in the same console they are still likely to buy some games from Steam which is sitting right there.
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by kevincox 3y ago
It seems like this is happening on Sony's side. It seems that most or all of their AAA games are available on Steam now. https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/playstationstudios (And I have to say they are prob
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by kevincox 3y ago
There used to be an option to redirect the Custom Tabs API to just open a regular Firefox tab. I loved that option as it replaced a reduced functionality API with the full thing. Too bad it got lost in the great fenix rewrite.
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by kevincox 3y ago
I hate to say it but at some point it is their device and they can install malware if they want to. I think it is good to put up some warnings and make particularly dangerous permissions particularly hard to give. But at some point it is my
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by kevincox 3y ago
Sort of. You can just poll it like it is a feed. However annoyingly if you want push updates you need to subscribe which is a publicly visible action. There is no way to follow a feed without having some profile to appear as a "followe
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by kevincox 3y ago
Also people share articles. If you have a feed there is roughly 0% chance of me sharing one of your articles. If I subscribe to your feed and like the article then I may share it with friends or post to Reddit or Hacker News. Of course whil
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by kevincox 3y ago
nixpkgs is a funny situation where it is incredibly easy to just run with patches and additions locally. It is often easier to make a service config just for you than something reusable and broadly useful. Thankfully the upstream contributi
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by kevincox 3y ago
Schwab support accidentally broke my account so that it sends 2FA verifications over email and I couldn't be happier. (Well I could be happier if they supports TOTP, but I'm not holding my breath)
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by kevincox 3y ago
No one walks in Mountain View or most of the US so product management doesn't understand the use case.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Mostly a Git issue. In general Git won't remove old data pushed to remotes. Maybe if they run a garbage collection. However GitHub does exacerbate it a little by providing APIs that list commits that are no longer in the history. Howev
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by kevincox 3y ago
What I like about Nebula is that when I am using it I feel like they aren't trying to coerse me into anything. They don't push me to watch the next video, they don't push me to comment, like or subscribe, they don't push
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by kevincox 3y ago
It may be slightly faster to break the table into two and encode as 2 8-bit values. Each eight bit value can store the value of 5 cells. So two can encode the whole board (with one extra cell to use as you please). And if this is a hot part
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Pitchforks for Rdseed(lwn.net)
2 points by kevincox 3y ago|0 comments
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by kevincox 3y ago
Serving the site from the original onion address seems like a bad idea. It is teaching people to trust instructions from sites that say "THIS SITE IS NOW UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE. UK, THE US AND THE CRONOS TASK FORCE" at the top,
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by kevincox 3y ago
Not even just without JS. If you middle-click to open a link in a new tab you get just get content that was expected to be swapped in. I think that abusing links is a far bigger sin than adding a custom attribute.
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by kevincox 3y ago
I much prefer username+password or email+password if the app have a good reason for email. 1. Keep accounts independent. Less tracking and less stuff tied to my Google account in case it gets locked because some AI went off the rails. 2. Wi
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by kevincox 3y ago
1. ICMP messages often don't reliably make it back to the sender. This is especially true with low level load balancers. 2. You at least get some information. Maybe half a packet is better than no packet. 3. You get an exact size limit
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by kevincox 3y ago
You can request this via https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/StorageMana... . If the browser reports that the request was granted that storage should not be cleared except by explicit user re
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by kevincox 3y ago
Games with rich assets are big, that is true. But I don't see why this causes a problem for delivering a game over the web. It seems like the key requirements here are 1. Ask permission first and 2. Strongly cache the downloaded data.
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by kevincox 3y ago
The only way to do this reliably is to render the PNG to pixels then render it back to an PNG with a trusted encoder. Of course now you are taking the risk of vulnerabilities in the "render to pixels" step. But the result will be
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by kevincox 3y ago
Apps that natively support fractional scaling will not be scaled by the compositor. (Well unless they span multiple monitors with different scales IIUC.) Scaling is just a fallback for apps that don't support fractional scaling or edge
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by kevincox 3y ago
Worse it seems that for unknown formats it confidently claims that it is one of the known formats. Rather than saying "unknown" or "binary data".
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by kevincox 3y ago
Apparenty the Super Mario Bros. 3 ROM is 100% a SWF file. Cool that you can use it online though. Might end up using it like that. Although it seems like it may focus on common formats.
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So you think you understand IP fragmentation?(lwn.net)
195 points by kevincox 3y ago|119 comments
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by kevincox 3y ago
https://gitlab.com/kevincox/filepush I should probably add a link to the source on the site.
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by kevincox 3y ago
I made my own site for this. https://filepush.kevincox.ca/ It uses WebPush notifications to set up a WebRTC data channel. So full E2EE with no website-run server in the middle (unless you need TURN). The actual domain is ju
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by kevincox 3y ago
Also rehearse on a specific commit/build. I've seen so many cases where a feature or two were added since rehearsal and about was introduced into the demo path. If you do want to fix something for the demo run through your rehears

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