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by pilif 6y ago
webp is also possibly patent-encumbered. At least if you ask various members of the MPEG-LA. The only safe format for photo-like content remains JPEG probably for decades to come
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by pilif 6y ago
For this to be useful in production, it would need to be signed by a proper CA. No CA will sign this. And if they accidentally did, it would be revoked immediately in order to not end up like Diginotar and Symantec
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by pilif 6y ago
Yes. But without trickery. The actual product is a display port or USB-C dongle that you connect to your mac and that pretends to be a display
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by pilif 6y ago
but that's the point: It can be. Just add that key to the plist file and the SDK won't initialize and won't do any requests by default. This is absolutely on the app developers. Not knowing what an SDK you linked does or does
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by pilif 6y ago
I think the parent poster would already be happy with an APT repo provided by Caddy. It wouldn’t need to be included in Debian itself. When you can make dpkg files, making an apt repo is trivial (using reprepro shipped with Debian) And when
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The problem of Ubuntu 20.04, Snaps, and where your home directory is(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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by pilif 6y ago
Apple doesn't want to expose itself to the still somewhat murky situation around patents which might or might not be covering WebP (which is basically a still frame encoded in VP9). Aside of the potential risk of a lawsuit, what makes
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by pilif 7y ago
And maybe offering these modern features is so much easier using the electron platform that offering the features based in something else is not worth doing. There must be a benefit for developers for them to chose electron. And that benefi
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by pilif 7y ago
> My workflow hasn't changed. My activity hasn't. > Now, dynalist, stremio, discord, signal, pulsesms and vscode are added to the mix. So your workflow has changed. You added additional tools to it. These tools have alwa
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by pilif 7y ago
depends on the provider. Netflix is pretty good at offering peering or local cache servers that can be installed inside of a providers network. But most providers don't take Netflix up on that offer and rather focus on hoping that crap
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by pilif 7y ago
The real tragedy is that there are still "security" standards bodies mandating that AV software is installed on clients. If you want to be PCI-DSS compliant for example then you better install AV software. Even worse, sometimes th
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by pilif 7y ago
either that or when there are 2^24 used codepoints.
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by pilif 7y ago
well. the process that contains the JS engine can. The JS engine itself seems to be limited to what JS engines in browsers can normally do, so no intentional file system access. However as the README says, this is a custom built implementat
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by pilif 7y ago
What's crazy to me is how much functionality of Aperture was apparently powered by OS features that were just there to, well, power Aperture. Pro fonts. Pro table headers and so on. I guess that's what you get when the OS vendor a
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by pilif 7y ago
Then check out the rest of the site this article was posted on. Welcome to the rabbit hole. This is practically explaining what was pure magic to me in my childhood. I can't stop reading this blog
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by pilif 7y ago
tracking and privacy violations are only a problem when other people are doing it. "We're protecting your data" means "we make sure nobody but us gets to profit from your data". That's not just true for Reddit
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by pilif 7y ago
Does such a person exist? And if so, then just do all your communication using existing means like email and blogs.
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by pilif 7y ago
And no civil engineer will ever have to deal with the update to Gravity 2.0 now even better at 10m/s2
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by pilif 7y ago
absolutely. I'm telling people to always use `git add -p` to help them produce self-contained commits. And if you screw something up, there's always `git commit --amend` or the sledgehammer of `git rebase -i`. Note: I'm not a
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by pilif 7y ago
also great commit message: https://github.com/spacejam/sled/commit/b7a5d14399540daa433a... the limit to 16 threads under windows was added in a commit named "refactor imports". If somebody in the fu
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by pilif 7y ago
> This is not something Github supports. actually, they do now[1], but only for enterprise accounts. Which is a shame - this is useful for "normal people" too. 1: https://help.github.com/en/github/sett
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by pilif 7y ago
For me, Catalina worked fine since I’ve installed Beta 2 last summer. Even the usual suspects, VMWare, Vagrant/VirtualBox and Homebrew survived the update just fine. I see no crashes (at least not more than the usual once-every-two-mon
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by pilif 7y ago
The prompts appear once per app. The vista prompts appeared every time an app was doing something that required elevated privileges which, back then, was all the time. This issue is totally overblown and, TBH, I like to know what applicatio
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by pilif 7y ago
«just write your own server on top of serverless embedded SQLite to get to acceptable performance without needing a client/server database» (Honestly, once you are at the point where concurrency causes performance issues with SQLite, y
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by pilif 7y ago
>No. Internet Explorer will remain a supported product until its support lifecycle runs out. which is pretty much going to be "never". IE's support lifecycle says that a version of IE is supported for as long as the vers
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by pilif 7y ago
> How does once check for the presence of a VM from inside the VM for example by enumerating the connected PCI devices and looking for common VM vendors virtual devices. >Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the VM to begin with
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by pilif 7y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by pilif 7y ago
Because people most likely behind a badly maintained middlebox aren't allowed to pick, much less install a browser of their choosing.
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by pilif 7y ago
> In theory this is the solution to that problem How so? There is still an API to ask for more details, so you can continue to do exactly the same thing as before at the cost of a few additional API calls What am I not seeing? To me th
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by pilif 7y ago
As an Opera user you were not very likely to be behind some middlebox. Middleboxes interfering with pipelined traffic was the reason it was never safe to enable by default.

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