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by omoikane 3y ago
If the way you use social networks is to view the live feed of all posts by all users and pick out the ones most offensive to you, I am afraid you are going to have a bad time. A better way is to ignore the live feed (or suggested/reco
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by omoikane 3y ago
There are quite a few that are free for all, but most of them come with some restrictions. I tried to get a count of them[1] and got these numbers: General Public Release - 132 U.S. Release Only - 210 U.S. Government Purpose Release - 139
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by omoikane 3y ago
My reading of https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290 is that any activity on the account that required login counts as activity, independent of which sub-product is being used. Although it would he
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by omoikane 3y ago
> I think of likely reasons this happens is username exhaustion I think Google never recycles usernames due to security reasons: https://support.google.com/mail/thread/48938290 https://twitter.com&#x
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by omoikane 3y ago
Are you finding the "delete data" part unreasonable, or the "two years" part? If it's the duration, I am curious what time limit you might find reasonable. If it's the "delete data" part, I can see w
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by omoikane 3y ago
Related: hobbyists taking control of ISEE-3: https://blog.xkcd.com/2014/05/30/isee-3/ https://xkcd.com/1337/
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by omoikane 3y ago
Related, there was a recent thread that mapped travel advisories for different countries: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/15kh611/travel_adv...
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by omoikane 3y ago
That's what I was hoping for as well -- Twitter for Japan (with the Twitter brand) run by someone other than Elon Musk, and Elon Musk can keep his X.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Summary: Samsung's LDRB doesn't zero-extend when reading a byte, so it's not following ARM specs[1]. Fix was to workaround in the JIT[2]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1833315#c13 [2] htt
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by omoikane 3y ago
Then I have no idea. Sounds like more captcha vendors should be advertising themselves as "GDPR compliant". Reminds me of "asbestos free" labeling: https://xkcd.com/641/
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by omoikane 3y ago
Probably cookies. Some captcha will try to remember that you are human with a cookie so that you don't have to solve captchas repeatedly, this one advertises as not storing personal information: https://friendlycaptcha.com&
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by omoikane 3y ago
Nippers. I used to be mostly interested in the end product when building plastic models, but after getting a pair of GodHand nippers, the building experience itself became much more enjoyable. I think this generalizes to "better tool
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by omoikane 3y ago
Actually I only see this with Firefox and not Chrome, probably because I disabled "Allow Chrome sign-in" in Chrome. I am not sure if there is a similar option for Firefox without resorting to addons.
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by omoikane 3y ago
> I have a weird catalog in my head of things not to mention An optimistic view is that people maintain blacklists of topics to avoid, as opposed to whitelists of noncontroversial topics that they are allowed to talk about ("Do you
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by omoikane 3y ago
I would guess that Apple make business decisions based on metrics that others do not have access to, including those unknown to Google and average internet users.
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by omoikane 3y ago
This is the letter: https://futureofliff.org/ I wonder if the website is named after "The Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff
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by omoikane 3y ago
VIM is not just my favorite text editor, but my favorite piece of software of all time on all platforms. I have only ever encountered so few minor issues, and Bram fixed them all quickly. He will be sorely missed.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Also discussed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/15i8bfw/think_twic... I wish them best of luck.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Is there a reason for using LAB as opposed to YCbCr? My understanding is that YCbCr is another model that separates luma (Y) from chroma (Cb and Cr), but JPEG uses YCbCr natively, so I wonder if there would be any advantage in using that i
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by omoikane 3y ago
> https://degreeswhat.com/ It's the first time I have heard of this site. I like it already :) You might also like https://xkcd.com/2292/
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by omoikane 3y ago
That is true of course, although I would think most competent rate limit implementations would set thresholds that deter bots while real users barely notice, unlike what was observed with twitter. Coincidentally, higher rate limits were a
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by omoikane 3y ago
It's amazing how they managed to spin rate limits as anti-spam features. Also, no mention of crippling twitter for non-logged in users.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Not an asteroid game, but similar idea: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/whack/ See also "History theft with CSS Boolean algebra": https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/css_calc/
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by omoikane 3y ago
I first learned about serpentine walls via splint, which is a linter for C. The serpentine walls were visible on the front page until 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20200521064022/http://splint.org...
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by omoikane 3y ago
It's a cat and mouse game between the ad-blockers and ad-blocker-blockers. I imagine if WEI actually becomes a thing, WEI countermeasures will also emerge, and WEI counter-countermeasures soon after. A better plan might be for website
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by omoikane 3y ago
If websites wanted this feature, and the choice is between Chrome implementing it versus me installing proprietary software, I would rather choose Chrome, especially since Chrome is implementing it in the open. There are already various ser
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by omoikane 3y ago
If a complete rebranding to X actually happens, I wonder if someone else is allowed to take over the Twitter brand. But I suspect what will happen is people will continue to call it Twitter and the X name will not stick.
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by omoikane 3y ago
I suspect the "X" branding for these companies has less to do with Roman numerals and more to do with the prominent use of "X" in mathematics as a unknown variable, and that's due to René Descartes according to: ht
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by omoikane 3y ago
Has anyone tried any of the 7.x releases? It sounded buggy according to this 9 month old thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualbox/comments/y56gpv/anything...
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by omoikane 3y ago
Absolute file offsets demand a particular memory layout or some extra bookkeeping that could be avoided with relative offsets. If I were to write a JPEG parser, I could write a function to handle one particular segment and not have to worr

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