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by rpigab 10mo ago
I can't prove that there are no technical solutions to this kind of problems, but it certainly feels like so (to me). It's like electronic voting, you can have the best cryptography hardware and software in the world, if the end u
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by rpigab 10mo ago
I have a categorical swipe to make, sadly this is a human problem, and attempts to solve it using technology are doomed to fail or to be increasingly complex and require endless modifications. Your solution sounds good and should work fine,
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by rpigab 10mo ago
And I thought I was being paranoid when I redeemed Steam gift cards before even exiting the store.
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by rpigab 10mo ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware.
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by rpigab 10mo ago
Classic "any interaction is positive interaction". That's modern platforms to you. Do not try LinkedIn. Not even once.
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by rpigab 10mo ago
One day, you won't be able to delete your social network account anymore. There will be a delete button, but the account will stay, and it will keep posting after you're gone, it won't care whether you are doing something els
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by rpigab 10mo ago
Thank you, I just did the opposite in Microsoft teams PWA, "text-transform: uppercase;", now I feel like the whole company is mad, everyone using shouty caps at each other, and every message makes me laugh!
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by rpigab 10mo ago
If that's what it takes to fight back against AI crawlers, users will have to accept a fair amount of actually visible porn in blogs, maybe also on Wikipedia. This is not enshittification, it's progress.
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by rpigab 10mo ago
They should be fine since I made up the setting name, and even though I am not familiar with Tor client's configuration, I don't believe this is possible without altering its source code. Also, using this kind of software without
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by rpigab 10mo ago
I had that problem too, very slow on network requests, just change the setting "num_relays_proxied" from 3 to 1 to make it blazingly fast .
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by rpigab 10mo ago
That's how I feel about my commandline Solitaire game (gitlab.com/rpigab/solitaire-cli, playable on Gitlab pages with an AZERTY or QWERTY keyboard), I'm the end user, I like playing it and making it, but that's abou
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by rpigab 11mo ago
Does he have a MSc?
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by rpigab 11mo ago
In my experience, Steam client and most games work great on Debian and Ubuntu, but you should know for GNU/Linux systems, it's only officially supported on Ubuntu (maybe SteamOS is implicit), I can't find the information on S
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by rpigab 11mo ago
Yeah, beating your cob for too long does that.
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by rpigab 11mo ago
Not Searching For Wheat, indeed, it's a cornsite.
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by rpigab 11mo ago
I don't need any of the 3 announced Steam hardware products, I already have a decent gaming PC running Steam on Ubuntu, a VR headset (Meta Quest 3, that I would not have bought had I known earlier, though it works wonders streaming PCV
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by rpigab 11mo ago
I was about to say Dwarf Fortress, but you said "modern", so I'll go with Minecraft.
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by rpigab 11mo ago
We can now start to dream of a future without Windows Kernel level Anti Cheat software in every competitive multiplayer game.
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by rpigab 11mo ago
If they have security in mind, they should intend to deprecate and remove HTML. The benefits of keeping it are slowly disappearing as AI content on the web is taking over, and HTML contains far more quirks than XSLT, and let's not talk
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by rpigab 1y ago
Plus, Epic and Gog work through the third-party launcher "Heroic Game Launcher", for Ubisoft, EA and Blizzard, you can just install their launcher using Steam compatibility, or Lutris, then run games from it. The major hurdle is g
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by rpigab 1y ago
Wierd that we're presenting SpaceX rockets that explode shortly after takeoff as a problem. They're objects that disintegrate in the atmosphere at some point when you use them. That's normal, it even has a name: rapid unsched
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by rpigab 1y ago
They never use the software the way I intended them to. I should get rid of all of them. No users = no bugs.
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by rpigab 1y ago
That's fine, I care about 0% of my users.
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by rpigab 1y ago
"I heard you were extremely quick at math" Me: "yes, as a matter of fact I am" Interviewer: "Whats 14x27" Me: "49" Interviewer: "that's not even close" me: "yeah, but it was fast&q
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by rpigab 1y ago
My first resume was in XSLT, because I didn't want to duplicate HTML tags and style around, it worked really well, and it was fun to see the xml first when clicking "view source".
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by rpigab 1y ago
Funny nitpick, this definition applies to most drones, because most drones sold are x-copters and do not have wings, they always take-off and land vertically. This should be "a 3D printed winged VTOL drone"
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by rpigab 1y ago
Good thing it's funded by generous investors or groups who are okay with losing money on every sale (they'll make it up in volume), and never stop funding, and never raise prices, insert ads or enshittify.
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by rpigab 1y ago
No user ever had a real use case for seeing a button that says "invite X" that doesn't send an invite on the platform, but instead sends an email to X who doesn't have a Linkedin account. And if you decline, it asks you
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by rpigab 1y ago
Yes, that's affirmatively aesthetically the best way to ensure artificiality automatically, or alternatively applicability and acceptability, there's appropriately a whole chapter about it in my autobiography, had to adventurously
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by rpigab 1y ago
Between around 2005 and 2011 in France, if a child was born and parents Mr Bar and Mrs Baz wanted to transmit both of their last names, he or she had to be named "Foo Bar--Baz". No, that's not a typo, that's two hyphens.

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