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by nirimda 4y ago
The GDPR didn't fester the web with cookie popups. There are literally zero cookie popups that exist because of the GDPR. Businesses who wanted to inconvenience customers festered the web with cookie popups in the hope that the custome
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by nirimda 4y ago
If it's SSH or HTTPS you aren't - the SSH client will check the fingerprint and abort on unknown, and the HTTPS client should check the certificate and verify that it was issued when a trusted client could access the same server v
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by nirimda 4y ago
In case anyone wonders what the cooperation is, normally when you start a program on Linux you get three open file handles: standard input, standard output and standard error. But if you use systemd socket activation, then when your program
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by nirimda 4y ago
Consider looking for a used color laser. They tend to last long enough that it's worth buying and selling.
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by nirimda 4y ago
Who has been trained not to say anything negative about capitalism? I've heard and made many complaints. The number of people who complain about inflation profiteering is quite significant. If anything, unchecked capitalism is peaking.
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But we don't really have the option to buy a good quality printer. We can spend more on a printer, but the printer companies don't say "here we have a cheap printer that is designed to cause you trouble so that it becomes eff
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by nirimda 4y ago
But if you bought full cartridges they would be expired or clogged before you half-used them.
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by nirimda 4y ago
I suppose it's easy enough for many of you in Blighty to pop out this lunchtime for a pint and a bite to eat in a pub older than the UK itself. As an Australian I'm always surprised at how long ago European colonisation of North A
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by nirimda 4y ago
Vi predating certain paradigms explains why it doesn't follow them. But it doesn't make it any easier for a random developer who grew up in the context of those paradigms. A new developer wondering whether they should adopt some m
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by nirimda 4y ago
> I can't think of very many, if any, examples in computing history where a project, open source or not, followed the path of "dominating a domain" -> "sponsor does something crappy" -> "the community
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by nirimda 4y ago
Thanks. We must have different internet usage patterns. I'm using ublock origin, maybe it's just less disruptive. Or maybe GDPR rules make sites in the EU more forgiving of blocked bits. For the ones you mentioned, Vanguard seems
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by nirimda 4y ago
What doesn't work for you? I use it occasionally and I haven't noticed anything in particular that seemed broken.
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by nirimda 4y ago
Do CPUs make a noise? I thought they were dead silent and any noise is the fan or a rotating disk.
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by nirimda 4y ago
It's not a matter of what year it is. It isn't Linux's fault, it's a consequences of split responsibilities. On a laptop, Linux is essentially an aftermarket addon -- the product has to be released before it can be adapt
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by nirimda 4y ago
For instance, when you send a message from the backend container to the database container during ordinary CRUD, the backend container will largely be waiting for the database to start processing. Something similar for most frontend request
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by nirimda 4y ago
I've never knowingly encountered a website breaking because I have an adblocker, but I've being running adblockers of one sort or another for about as long as there's been ads on the web - so maybe there's just features
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by nirimda 4y ago
The purpose of a life peerage is status. If it confers negative status, then it's no problem to rename the House of Lords as the Senate and call them Senators, a la Canada, instead of Baronesses. This is the case regardless of whether
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by nirimda 4y ago
> In general I recommend using the default font for "body text" because you know it is something that the user finds easy to read. A lot of users don't know how to or can't change the default font. For instance, I hav
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by nirimda 4y ago
I have heard that Windows users (or those more influenced by SQL Server) say "sequel" whereas Unix users (or those more influenced by Postgres) say "SQL". Think of how bad "Postgresequel" sounds in comparison t
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by nirimda 4y ago
Are there any major free/OS projects for which (2) is different? Some projects accept next to no third-party diffs, other projects will accept documentation diffs as eagerly as code diffs. I've never heard of a project that is hap
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by nirimda 4y ago
What if you're using ids and two organisations merge? Whatever solution works for organisation ids will work for organisation names.
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by nirimda 4y ago
> What fees? There are no fees. I guess that depends on the legal system. In some places the merchant frequently passes the fees on to the customer (and any contract between the payment network and the merchant which prohibits it is inva
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In Australia they allowed merchants to pass on the payment network costs, and a good lot of them did - so you might pay x for cash, x + 0.5% for debit card or EFTPOS (equiv of European EC card) or x + 2.5% for credit card. I think it was pa
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by nirimda 4y ago
They mention in the faq that they do not use GNUStep's implementation of the frameworks, but they do use GNUStep's implementation of the libobjc2 runtime. There's licensing and goal issues. Apparently their Cocoa implementati