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by ourcat 6y ago
This is exactly why I never got further than their login/signup. Being forced to give them one of my 'most unique identifiers' (my phone number) was an absolute 'no'.
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by ourcat 6y ago
As well as the compression, I think this also had a lot to do with native mobile app support, where MPEG4 was far easier to deal with than animated GIFs.
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by ourcat 6y ago
First, right-click on a YouTube video. You'll see their custom menu appear first. Now, right click next to their menu (while still somewhere on the video frame.) You should then see the browser contextual menu with 'Picture-in-pic
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by ourcat 6y ago
First, right-click on a YouTube video. You'll see their custom menu appear first. Now, right click next to their menu (while still somewhere on the video frame.) You should then see the browser contextual menu with 'Picture-i
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by ourcat 6y ago
When I saw this video of a lot more apps doing it, I did wonder if it actually might be a commonly used third-party library causing this. It's certainly possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo
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by ourcat 6y ago
> "I really wish there were a way to know whether I already used Facebook, Google, or Apple to log into a site or app before" You can. On each of the places you mention (Google and Facebook, certainly), somewhere in a settings
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by ourcat 6y ago
Confused why this got -4 on it? Is linking to graphs about the issue frowned upon here? When submitted, it looked quite relevant to the discussion within the minutes beforehand.
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by ourcat 6y ago
DDOS Attack apparently. https://twitter.com/OutageAlert2020/status/12726387880119951...
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by ourcat 6y ago
Nice. Since there's no way I'm going to put a multi-billion-dollar company's 'smart' speaker in my apartment, I've been wanting to build something offline like this inside an old dial telephone (like a red Bat
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by ourcat 6y ago
Since Steve left us, over time I've witnessed so many issues crop up in the Apple ecosytem, for users/customers and developers, and it's clear that there's nobody to be shit-scared of anymore at Apple. So many recent thi
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by ourcat 6y ago
*nods. I was friends with Dave once too.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Usenet / NNTP. That's what needs 'reviving'. These days, light and responsive client app/interfaces with little Javascript (service worker) scripts could be busy UUen/decoding and uploading/downloading all
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by ourcat 7y ago
Google Duo? https://duo.google.com/about/
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by ourcat 7y ago
Interesting. I've had to insist on that clause being removed at a couple of places I've worked. As long as anything I build in my spare time (which I like to do a lot) isn't competitive.
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by ourcat 7y ago
How does this work when it comes to any intellectual property you create, while still bound by an employment contract which can often stipulate a company's ownership of ALL of your creations while working for them. (Maybe not being pai
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by ourcat 7y ago
Ahah! Thanks for this. Many a time I've had to temporarily install their mobile Messages app just to reply to someone while away.
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by ourcat 7y ago
Here's also a short Youtube video from that page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btuou0nAbak
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by ourcat 7y ago
Alongside the risk of exposing people's private peccadilloes and the danger that presents, there's a huge risk of identity fraud, bank fraud, sim-swapping etc. with all this data. Particularly when it comes to all the copies of Go
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by ourcat 7y ago
We need more photosynthesis (again). I've often thought that vast swathes of otherwise barren land on this planet could be used for cultivating hemp and Cannabis, for a vast amount of uses (not just getting high). It obviously grows ve
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by ourcat 7y ago
Exactly. Glad someone else mentioned them. I was reading through the article, thinking "Erm... I'm pretty sure Bellingcat did all this."
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by ourcat 7y ago
I've used "Modified Preorder Tree Traversal" as a method for storing tree-structured/hierarchical data a few times. (Threaded 'forums', 'Folder'-type management/curation of RSS feeds (to churn ou
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by ourcat 7y ago
Some kids (and their parents) are making a fortune on YouTube with kids content. I can't imagine they'll be too pleased.
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by ourcat 7y ago
From early posts in the @HindsightFiles feed Malaysia: http://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/malaysia.zip Kenya: http://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/kenya.zip Brazil: http://repo.
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by ourcat 7y ago
The term has been somewhat evolved to mean an 'episodic' series of media files (audio or video). Which is why so many places call them a podcast now. Rather like when people online post a big blurb of text anywhere and just call
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by ourcat 7y ago
A 'podcast' is (or was!) a media file located at the 'url' of an RSS feed item 'enclosure'. When a podcasting downloading application (aka:'podcatcher') 'subscribes' to the RSS feed, it gets
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by ourcat 7y ago
I agree with the need for 'safe' social places like to be built. But since the entire system is based upon lists and lists of email addresses, there REALLY needs to be a Ts & Cs and Privacy Policy in place here. I'm assum
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by ourcat 7y ago
Thank you LetsEncrypt.
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by ourcat 7y ago
Bring back skeuomorphism. A little bit of shadow would sort that out ;)
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by ourcat 7y ago
Suddenly, all those odd-looking 'cartoony face' apps begin to make sense.. [edit] This might sound like a glib response (thanks down-voter). But I'm serious. Apps could easily be created to thwart this.
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by ourcat 7y ago
A browser extension could do this. (Maybe one already does?)

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