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by ripdog 5y ago
How on earth is this page killing all 3 mobile rendering engines?! I literally can't view the page on my phone.
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by ripdog 5y ago
What dark patterns can you find in Plasma today?
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by ripdog 5y ago
Uh, okay. We're talking about dark patterns, which are anti-consumer and anti-user design decisions to pursue profit over user experience. Like stuffing candy crush into windows by default or making it incredibly difficult to switch de
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by ripdog 5y ago
Windows is stuffed full of anti-patterns. You can't avoid them just by using notepad.
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by ripdog 5y ago
The only way to avoid dark patterns in software these days is to use Linux.
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by ripdog 5y ago
Which is why the author is positioning it as an alternative to PNG, not JPEG.
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by ripdog 5y ago
Hah, I knew a JS wizard would come up with an easier solution after I posted that. Perhaps I'll have to re-sub to that site to see if they've changed their DRM scheme...
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by ripdog 5y ago
I once broke the "DRM" of a site which displayed images by downloading them obfuscated and using a big blob of JS to unfsck them and display them on a canvas. Grabbing the image should be easy, no? Just use `.toDataURL()`, right?
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by ripdog 5y ago
Theft deprives the seller of the object, causing direct financial losses. With piracy, there's no difference between someone who doesn't consume the media and someone who pirates. If consuming media without paying the copyright ho
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by ripdog 5y ago
WSL needs to be manually added to windows by the user before it can be used. Also a distro then has to be installed in the VM.
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by ripdog 5y ago
From what I recall, an MS engineer explained why they gave up on WSL1 as being intractable issues with the way Windows and Linux interact with the filesystem, leading to major, unfixable performance issues.
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by ripdog 5y ago
I don't know anything specific about your situation, so I'm sorry for sticking my nose in here, but isn't this a case where you just need to compile your own kernel with a bare minimum of modules for your hardware? Surely tha
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by ripdog 5y ago
I don't understand any of that. Any chance of an acronym dictionary for us laymen?
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by ripdog 5y ago
Oh, for sure. There are always other factors in the real world. But I think that's the main one that allowed Linux to snowball ahead of the other Unix(-likes).
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by ripdog 5y ago
IMO Linux won because its license forced everyone who used and extended it to open their changes - this changes the calculus for firms building products on Linux to make it more worthwhile to upstream their changes to reduce their local mai
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by ripdog 5y ago
Google workspace isn't free.
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by ripdog 5y ago
Ack, I do indeed. I blame the JPEG org for having such confusing names!
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by ripdog 5y ago
The great thing about XR is that ordinary JPEG images can be compressed with XR and receive a reduction in size without any reduction in visual quality. Once all your tools receive support for XR, you can convert your entire image library i
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by ripdog 5y ago
At least at restaurants, alcohol is both more expensive and served with food - alcohol is dramatically less impairing when consumed with a meal. I mean if you're asking me personally I'm happy with any extra alcohol restrictions,
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by ripdog 5y ago
>Now some grocery stores have wine bars, beer on tap, signs inviting you to “shop ’n’ sip,” and carts with cup holders. What the hell?! That's absurdly irresponsible and dangerous considering most people travel to the grocery store
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by ripdog 5y ago
Have you tried googling the app identifier (grab it from the google play url) to find an APK download?
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by ripdog 5y ago
That Firefox issue only happens on Linux when you upgrade Firefox on disk using your package manager while Firefox is running. The ABI mismatch between the running version and the new version makes starting new Firefox processes unstable, s
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by ripdog 5y ago
Yes, and Arathorn works on element, does he not?
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by ripdog 5y ago
Great to hear! I'd love to be able to recommend Matrix/Element as a Discord alternative. However, actually competing with Discord will require a tonne of hard work in Element. The little things like automatic voice activation, e
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by ripdog 5y ago
For future reference, most windows apps keep their settings in the AppData/Roaming folder in your user folder. There's a useful shortcut as an env variable - type %APPDATA% into explorer to go straight there. System-wide settings
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by ripdog 5y ago
>Apple Music will also make its catalog of more than 75 million songs available in Lossless Audio. Apple uses ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) to preserve every single bit of the original audio file.
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by ripdog 5y ago
Generally good comment, but if search is separated from ads, how does it make money? I'm totally on board with splitting up Google, but losing Google search (or search becoming notably worse) would not be worth it for me. The competiti
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by ripdog 5y ago
The latest exynos chip replaced Samsung's custom CPU designs with stock ARM ones, presumably because exynos variants of the S20 lagged far behind the snapdragon variants in performance and battery life.
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by ripdog 5y ago
Appreciate this, but the discussion is about male circumcision.
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by ripdog 5y ago
Municipal broadband really isn't the solution here. Sure, it's miles better than private infra, but we down here in NZ have a much better solution. (Not claiming we invented it, of course.) In 2011, Central government started a bi

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