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by pitay 6y ago
Booting to a Live USB/DVD/CD and then doing the backup while in the booted Live OS would minimize the chances of corruption of the backup, either reading from it or writing to it. Not ironclad but pretty good. Issues with it that
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by pitay 6y ago
The old Slashdot comment system before the original creator left worked very well. It was proud to say that the only comment they were forced to delete was one that criticised Scientology. That was because they took Slashdot to court. Us
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by pitay 6y ago
The addon is this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc... On that page it says that it is recommended and that "Firefox only recommends add-ons that meet our standards for se
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by pitay 6y ago
I had some issues with Firefox memory usage quite a while ago, tweaking about:config and using the Auto Tab Discard addon made it much better. IIRC the about:config changes were changes to various cache setttings, but one of the more surpr
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by pitay 6y ago
Yes. I definitely enjoyed U8. It's the only Ultima I've finished so far.
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by pitay 6y ago
At least with writing uncomplicated web applications it was still quite easy to have it compatible with the major browsers, you just had to test the web application with them as you wrote it to make sure. Compatibility problems didn't
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by pitay 6y ago
For Firefox there is the 'Auto Tab Discard' addon. It has the ability to discard (unload) tabs after a certain amount of time or the number of non-active tabs is greater than a number, these are set in the addons options. Also h
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by pitay 6y ago
How is this for an idea - companies that provide links to a website that also can generate a preview, charge the linked site for the privilege of having a preview of the content shown. This shows that such things are valuable for the recip
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by pitay 6y ago
I treat 'free but remember to cancel' plans as scams. About 10 months ago I got emails from a company that developed an development environment that was I was mildly interested in. They presented an offer with said it was free so
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by pitay 6y ago
I had the pause problem about when you had it as well. For me the pause happened periodically, but it was for network requests IIRC, the rest of the browser worked fine, but pages wouldn't load a thing for quite a few seconds. I have
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by pitay 6y ago
Full text here: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2019-letexier.pdf
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by pitay 6y ago
If it includes a recommendation system, then something to mix them up a bit so that people can see things that are different to what they have holed themselves into one view/subject by their own karma curation. The idea is that each r
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by pitay 6y ago
If there was a physical device that could filter gas and non-gas liquids that could be installed in a car we would expect car manufacturers to do that. There is one thing they could do to stop people putting the wrong liquid in their car.
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by pitay 6y ago
I just use Open Shell as a start menu replacement. Works perfectly for me, and I have it configured to behave like the Windows 7 start menu. The Windows 10 start menu being cumbersome wasn't enough to push me to it; it was that the W
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by pitay 6y ago
Second idea: I want to store desktop icons in expandable groups much like how a smartphone does. Fences by Stardock ( https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/ ) does that, doesn't quite look like how a smart
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by pitay 6y ago
Your original function definition here: def find_xy_coordinate_of_dogs_cats_and_baboons_in_picture(picture: Picture) -> List[XYCoordinates]: Can be made better by turning it into this: def find_dogs_cats_and_baboons(picture: P
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by pitay 6y ago
User facing monitoring is a huge help here. I removed an application that hijacked the lock screen of a phone with Android 4 on it (Android only had the requirement that applications don't hijack the lock screen from the App Store for
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by pitay 6y ago
I've never seen any evidence that not censoring is worse than censoring. However there is strong evidence of those who instated censorship creating vast swathes of human destruction. The most egregious I can think of is the Russian go
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by pitay 6y ago
I still don't understand what you are saying. When you say "Who is "they"?". Are you saying Google and other tech giants? They have huge advertising networks. But that is a total guess since what you are saying i
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by pitay 6y ago
I need more context or detail to understand the point you a trying to get at. I really do, because otherwise I am just trying to guess what you mean, or even how it correlates to what I said at all. Without further clarification, it seems
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by pitay 6y ago
Not my experience with LineageOS. My biggest problems with my phone with LineageOS is that I cannot use a microSD card as more internal disk space, not a problem with LineageOS itself, but a problem with Android 6 and above on my phone. T
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by pitay 6y ago
This is laughable. If propaganda and advertising don't work, then why is everyone so invested in creating it? The people creating propaganda are also interested in enforcing censorship if they are in the position to do so. Propaganda
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by pitay 6y ago
Here is an example from Australia: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/isps-in-au-and-nz... What's interesting is the Prime Minister made it explicitly legal for ISPs to do this. Couldn't find the exa
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by pitay 6y ago
At least you had the right to resell CDs. Something lost even in DRM free online services. Cannot even give (transfer) a copy of the digital thing they bought to someone on the same service (ie they have it on their account, you now don&#
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by pitay 6y ago
They've destroyed our open web, replaced RSS with DRM, left us with streaming and music options worse than cable and personal audio libraries. The web is bloated with ads and tracking, AMP is given preference, Facebook and Twitter a
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by pitay 6y ago
Try to get a laser with automatic duplex printing if you want to save paper. With manual duplex printing mistakes can cost a significant proportion of paper and may require significant amounts of effort to do correctly. I currently have a
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by pitay 6y ago
You can still use userChrome.css and userContent.css but the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets config option must be set to true .
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by pitay 6y ago
Or something like federated platform which supports federated feeds, federated messaging, federated moderation/spam filtering. The idea is to have all the different aspects of the platform federated separately, and have all the aspect
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by pitay 6y ago
Yeah. There was a time that you could use chrome://global/content/config.xul to get to the old about:config, but they removed that too. Don't know why they did that, only people who wanted the old behaviour would
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by pitay 6y ago
Because with the GPL you can still obtain the source code for any changes made to your original work if they want to put any software made for it public. GPL'd software is required to have the source available under GPL to anyone it i

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