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by lawl 5y ago
> It pursues its minimal language design further after removing several features from Go like pointers, mutability, I don't consider pointers and mutability to be features, but I consider immutability and trying to hide pointers a f
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One of the reasons I never logged in on youtube back when I watched it a lot. Every few weeks when the recommendations were stuck, I'd just wipe cookies and get new stuff.
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by lawl 5y ago
Here's the relevant commit: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e928b3e95a6c3b725... (I think)
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by lawl 5y ago
The text channels in mumble/teamspeak are pretty much irrelevant because matrix already has good text channels, the IRC part. The text channels there are just to post the odd link or something in mumble/ts. There's a reason d
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by lawl 5y ago
> Is that significantly different from making a new channel and labeling it "voice channel"? To me it doesn't seem to be, but I haven't tried it. Yes it is. For matrix currently you'd need to have the discipline
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by lawl 5y ago
> Or am I completely misunderstanding something fundamental about Discord's voice rooms? I think you are. Think back to messengers like ICQ or MSN, they had a group chat feature. It's like comparing that to IRC. I personally us
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by lawl 5y ago
> If Apple thinks hosting costs are of any consequence, then charge people for hosting If they don't actively use IAP. For 99% of apps hosting is pennies on the dollar, but for games like Fortnite it may actually cost a decent amoun
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by lawl 5y ago
> But what then do you think is a realistic alternative? Not my department. I'm perfectly happy being a parasite. I used to watch Twitch every now and then. Twitch introduced server side ads and made ad-blocking unreliable and annoy
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by lawl 5y ago
> Are the sponsor parts really so bad? To me not only is it easy to skip, I want indie people to make enough money to produce high quality content; otherwise media is just what a few biggies want to fund. In my experience, it's the
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by lawl 5y ago
> Veritasium also tested different versions of the thumbnail Pretty sure there automated tools that A/B test thumbs and titles and most big youtubers use them and then just add a bunch of titles and thumbs that are automatically tes
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by lawl 5y ago
> How can any open-source project compete if it doesn't lean on other open-source projects? Am I missing something? It doesn't want to compete. It's a system for them, by them, based on the things they like.
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by lawl 5y ago
Can't say i'm happy about perfectly functional hardware just being destroyed. There is a game theory argument that the police cannot be allowed to sell these, or it would incentivize them suddenly find lots of "illegal pc&#x2
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by lawl 5y ago
I think they're completely different audiences. Nintendo games aren't, and never were about cutting edge graphics or the latest tripple A games. They were always about family/kids oriented more casual games. Which is not to d
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by lawl 5y ago
> And yet it looks like you cannot use the Steam Deck without logging into a Steam account. Looks like we are trading in one lock-in for another. valve so far has been miles better than any other big DRM platform. i would almost bet valv
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by lawl 5y ago
I have symmetric 1gbps. It's not about what generates that much data. It's about things that become feasible. I remember when a decade ago I occasionally needed to share large VM images with a customer. I'd set up my notebook
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by lawl 5y ago
Way better. It's susceptible to copyright trolling. Put up repos with snippets for things people might commonly write. Preferably use javascript so you can easily "prove" it. Write a crawler that crawls and parses JS files to
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by lawl 5y ago
> I'm subscibed to several newsletters out of my own volition.. Are they spamming me then? reply No, since you signed up on your own volition, obviously they are not unwanted emails. But I always uncheck the newsletter etc. box an
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by lawl 5y ago
> Email is super critical for most people these days (eg. 2FA). That sounds like a really scary bus-factor [1] risk Not such a big deal if you have your own domain (you should). Update the MX record and point it elsewhere. I've swit
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by lawl 5y ago
Microsoft needs to stop signing kernel level anti cheats completely. They are always rootkits by design. No game should require a kernel driver.
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by lawl 5y ago
> You're thinking of Google. This is Mozilla. Well, it is really difficult to tell them apart these days. Mozilla does like to copy everything google does, if you look at firefox.
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by lawl 5y ago
> crowdsourced scientific research that benefits society. how, in your words, would the covid19 news misinformation study benefit society?
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by lawl 5y ago
> Kind of nice that it’d be in the hands of Mozilla, Princeton University, other trusted research partners, and the open web, isn’t it? No? It'd be much better to not collect that data at all.
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by lawl 5y ago
Not op, but I've used ddg for years. Imo ddg and brave are currently pretty much a wash. I've found that for some queries brave performs better, and for other queries ddg/bing performs better. With both of them, i've fou
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by lawl 5y ago
Interesting. The swiss system, which is supposedly compatible with the EU uses JSON + base64 [0]. Seems we also use RSA, and from a quick glance the EU seems to take any x509 certificate authority [1]. Does anyone know if there is a reason
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by lawl 5y ago
> You seem to be dismissing instant answers when in-fact those are exactly what the end-user expects; that's search results: Type in a query, get an answer. What am I missing here? No, I didn't, and in my first post I also said
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by lawl 5y ago
They pretty clearly only talk about instant answers there. When they say over 400 sources it even links to [0] a page about instant answers. What do you expect? That I hack into ddg and give you their source? Try some searches for yoursel
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by lawl 5y ago
Not true. In practice I've found their results to be basically identical to bing and other bing front-ends. What's not from bing are the widgets like weather, or dictionary definitions etc. So imo, "many sources, bing is just
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by lawl 5y ago
yes. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/103060/Valve_Plans_InGam... https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/counter-strike-gets-in-ga...
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by lawl 5y ago
> Sadly this is likely a pandoras box we will not be able to close. Valve has tried that a long time ago too and it wasn't successful. There's still some hope.
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by lawl 5y ago
I'll take your word for that, but remain unconvinced. I don't think it's just about reaction time. Playing a game with input lag is terrible because you always need need to do all your inputs ahead of time in anticipation w

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