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by phreack 4y ago
I once made a chat app that had significant traction on Android, and many users wanted to try it on iPhone but there was no way to do so without web push, and it was fundamentally banned by the app store guidelines and without side load the
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by phreack 4y ago
Half the world doesn't even get the option or even a waitlist. I've stopped caring at this point about the Deck because of it.
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by phreack 4y ago
Off-topic: In case the author is around, please consider removing the email capture popup. It not only interrupted my reading of the article before getting to the main point if it - it had an animation that literally startled me, and I imme
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by phreack 4y ago
I think this could be dangerous because a generated answer might be 100% wrong and look correct, yet the question asker might accept it nonetheless. The more this happens, the worse the entire site becomes. I tend to agree with the concept
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by phreack 4y ago
It's easier to discard companies by looking up their points of support. If there's not even a phone number where I can get a real person to talk to, that's an immediate out. Typically, then I just ask users about their experi
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by phreack 4y ago
+1 for Kdenlive, it's so good I went from knowing nothing about it to editing a complex 3-hour course full of clips in less than a week. It's incredibly powerful and dense with tools.
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by phreack 4y ago
This is why my #1 metric to choose a service provider is support capability. Things will always go wrong and if the point of contact with the customer does not have any agency to fix things effectively, I will not deal at all. The exception
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by phreack 4y ago
I am convinced everyone is watching a different game in every country at this point.
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by phreack 4y ago
It's sad because I liked Windows, but at this point if they keep doing this stuff I'd rather change the OS than the task bar. I still get all sorts of hardware and driver trouble that require arcane commands buried in old forums t
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by phreack 4y ago
While there's a few EmuDevs around, and I apologize beforehand for the shameless topic hijacking, a friend and I have been thinking of making a sort of educational game that teaches you the basics of coding an NES emulator from scratch
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by phreack 4y ago
I can't believe this is not a "drop everything and get it fixed ASAP" bug. This makes me think there's probably tons of other similar bugs out there being exploited right now even with disclosure.
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by phreack 4y ago
Another one of these that I hate is "why haven't you done X" or "you know X right" not as a question but as a suggestion. When I didn't know about X, or didn't even realize X was an option (particularly wh
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by phreack 4y ago
I think Tailwind only shines alongside a component system like React where you can just create a new Paragraph tag and reuse that. It makes me very happy because in the end there's way less code for me to read and understand, and chang
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by phreack 4y ago
I'm glad you wrote this. It's eroding to constantly see financial advice that is impossible to apply in countries like these except for crypto and are mostly US/Europe centric. Sometimes, there simply is no other choice and t
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by phreack 4y ago
Accountability would be a start. There are very few risks to becoming a criminal police officer so it's clear it'll keep happening.
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Alleged 17 year old Rockstar, Uber hacker has been arrested by UK police(twitter.com)
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by phreack 4y ago
What's hilarious and sad is that MSN Messenger had a lot of features back in the early '00s that major players like WhatsApp and Telegram now only implement through gritted teeth, one every year if you're lucky. Things like c
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by phreack 4y ago
Even if that were the case (which we can debate), him being wrong before does not prevent him from being right now. Being de facto banned from the common internet due to centralization is absolutely scary.
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by phreack 4y ago
It's certainly a huge endeavor. I probably have a pile of projects that I started and abandoned at some point for various reasons. The saddest of all was the first one that started to get traction... a story based game developed iterat
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by phreack 4y ago
Not daily, but since crypto (mostly stables) is a much safer value storage than the local currency, I've seen plenty of people selling say USDT for ARS once or twice a month and living off of that. In major cities you can likely find s
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by phreack 4y ago
Others have chimed in already but I was inspired by this idea: > Like a music synthesizer times a million. Even now, every once in a while I find people arguing that synths are not "real music". Also DJs, etc. generating songs
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by phreack 4y ago
It's been a while but I recall he'd run Twine locally with the Twison plugin. Nonetheless, I believe you can easily add Twison as a plugin to the Twine web tool. That way you'd only need your game designer to send you the upd
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by phreack 4y ago
I did exactly that a while ago combining Twine with Twison [0]. A non technical friend would write the story with Twine, compile to a JSON file, and I'd parse it with a quick script on build time so I could display it on a React web ap
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by phreack 4y ago
Yeah I'm baffled why people do such weird random leetcode challenges when this option is so good. At a place where I used to worked they'd give people a couple of class and ERD diagrams with obvious issues and give them about an h
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by phreack 4y ago
I hear you but they're expensive where I live. For the moment that's not an option though I'm looking into getting one at some point.
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by phreack 4y ago
Yeah I did not know you could use any TOTP besides Google Auth but even that that's not an option that's presented to me anymore at the moment now that I'm checking.
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by phreack 4y ago
Replying to everyone who said to use Google Authenticator. I in fact did fall for the devious wording that implied no other Auth app would work but never fear, even that is not an option for my account now that I'm checking. The only a
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by phreack 4y ago
Amen. Google is asking me to add 2FA to an account for work, and there's no way to do so except from phone numbers or Google Authenticator which I'd rather not use. It's the only service that doesn't let me use something
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by phreack 4y ago
Yes, they're still so prevalent in Italy and Italian-descendant cultures that I thought they'd be self-explanatory since they come to me so naturally. The one on the cover of the book for example, is literally just a question mark
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by phreack 4y ago
Incidentally, I recently remembered about Rebecca Black and went looking to find out she did continue singing and now has a legit established pop career with tons of songs. I heard a few and became a big fan, they're pretty good if you

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