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by ripdog 8y ago
No, thanks to federation it doesn't matter which instance you sign up on, you can follow people on any instance. You're choosing your home instance there, so basically the group of people you're closest to.
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by ripdog 8y ago
I did too. Perhaps if emoji are such an ambiguous method of communication, they aren't so good after all? That isn't an isolated instance of emoji confusion for me, either. Apart from the basic facial expression emoji, for me they
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by ripdog 8y ago
You do know you can turn off the redesign in your reddit settings, right?
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by ripdog 8y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I read harry potter. It was great. Not sure what I learned about 'diveristy', though.
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by ripdog 8y ago
See the WaPo post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/10/t... Each image includes some targeting info.
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by ripdog 8y ago
Firefox does this by default. Background tabs do not autoplay, but the foreground tab does.
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by ripdog 8y ago
Blendle offers automated instant refunds. If the article is bad, refund it.
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by ripdog 9y ago
What problems does this solve? It ensures you still have a unique IP on the internet which can be traced by governments trivially, while a VPN service which actually doesn't log will keep you safe from simple attacks like that by shari
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by ripdog 9y ago
Obviously every site is different, but I've developed a few styles before for sites like DDG and wikipedia, and it's a job measured in hours, generally. Nowhere near the amount of work involved in most OSS, and plenty of people he
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by ripdog 9y ago
CSS is pretty simple. Lots of people offer custom stylesheets for websites at https://userstyles.org .
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by ripdog 9y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean it as a personal attack. I meant it as a statement of fact.
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by ripdog 9y ago
>Quantum was introduced was to allow this Looking Glass plugin to collect telemetry from the whole of the browser window, not just the pages being rendered. You have no idea what you are talking about. Quantum is a name for a variety of
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by ripdog 9y ago
Uh, looking glass was not supported or worked on by the vast majority of the fantastic engineers at mozilla. This was a marketing stunt probably thrown together by a single intern, and greenlighted by an out-of-touch marketing department. T
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by ripdog 9y ago
It's happening (as a WE API) but it's taking a while because they're doing it properly, and a lot of the browser expects the tab bar to be visible.
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by ripdog 9y ago
If you like light on dark, why not turn on reader mode? It has a light on dark scheme.
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by ripdog 9y ago
They also jank on windows - but only on my 1080p display. When I move it along to my 4k display, it suddenly janks a lot less, about 50fps or so. I wonder why chrome is turning on composition in 4k and off in 1080p?
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by ripdog 9y ago
They're talking about Electrolysis there, which happened several versions ago. XUL addons did indeed work with Electrolysis, but required some modifications to work well. Most unmodified addons continues to work through some magic cros
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by ripdog 9y ago
Have you tried the new versions with Zero Latency Typing? As the name implies, they managed to basically eliminate all latency on typing, even beating apps like notepad++ and emacs on latency. It's switched on by default in the current
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by ripdog 9y ago
Youtube is rolling out a twitch-style subscription payment system to all channels, starting with gaming channels first. I don't know what's taking so long, but it's coming. Also, YT Red viewers still give money to demonetized
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by ripdog 9y ago
Uh, invest? Why not just use them and recommend them to friends? They need users most of all.
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by ripdog 9y ago
Micropayments for most major US news outlets already exists - check out Blendle.com. It's in closed beta right now, but works great, and invites are easy to come by. It does require you to read articles on its own website and not the
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by ripdog 9y ago
You get ADSL backed by FTTC? Not even VDSL? Who thought that was a good idea?
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by ripdog 9y ago
Really? On my galaxy note 4, Google Play pages open within ~400ms consistently.
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by ripdog 9y ago
Because they are in a dominant market position. Honestly, it's your fault for buying a console - you knew you'd be at sony's mercy due to the monopolistic nature of consoles. The cost of switching to the one comparible consol
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by ripdog 9y ago
Yep, no 64-bit Windows has 16-bit compatibility.
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by ripdog 9y ago
Or use DuckDuckGo as your search engine, and you get thousands of those quick searches for free. You can use !g for google, !a for amazon, !mdn for MDN, !so for Stack Overflow, etc etc. If you want to search an even vaugely popular site, yo
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by ripdog 9y ago
Just don't connect it to the internet and it's the same as a non-smart TV.
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by ripdog 9y ago
>The details of our new SMM attacks will be made available once Intel patches its firmware, most likely we will present them at the Black Hat USA conference in summer 2009. We will also make the code of our
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by ripdog 10y ago
ublock origin is the only adblocker you need. Adblock Plus does the same thing but is less efficient and lets some ads through by default, and ublock is abandoned. Don't run two ad blockers, they will just use more resources for no ben
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by ripdog 10y ago
Yeah, but we're talking about a doomsday scenario when Microsoft disappears overnight. They'd rather invest in a new .NET than have to rewrite their entire stack.

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