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by shbooms 4y ago
Unfortunately, per Steam's TOS, you do not own anything you "purchase" on their platform. Instead you "subscribe" to access of whatever games/other content you've paid for: ...the rights to access and&#x2
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by shbooms 4y ago
Steam's TOS pretty clearly states that everything you "purchase" is basically just a licensed subscription to that content. [0] ...the rights to access and/or use any Content and Services accessible through Steam are re
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by shbooms 4y ago
> As in, there are apparently sub companies, that are in the US, not in china, Sure, the US "sub companies" are located physically in the US and managed day-to-day by US-based employees but they are still owned by a Chinese par
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by shbooms 4y ago
The worst UI offense to me is the new playlist view that came with their new desktop UI last fall. They went from having seperate columns for Song Title and Artist Name and bundled them into two rows within a single column. Not only does th
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by shbooms 4y ago
it's gotten to the point now where laptop manufacturers tell you not to put sleeping/hibernating laptop into a bag at all due to amount of heat they still generate even while sleeping [0]. Only those that are fully shut down shoul
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by shbooms 5y ago
I still remember the day a young me discovered shodan.io for the first time. before that day, I had no idea just how quick and easy it was for strangers to scan the entirity of the internet and just naively assumed that there was no way any
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by shbooms 5y ago
All while happily throwing Sitel under the bus. This whole communication from Okta is a total debacle. They are trying desperately to under play the event and deflect blame in the poor transparency after the event all while not once mention
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by shbooms 5y ago
> OP put their e-mail in cleartext, unobfuscated, in their profile. The blame is on part of the spammers. Countermeasures should be done by OP (and their e-mail host), not by GH. According Github's site policies [0], they've ex
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by shbooms 5y ago
true, but if they invited you in and told you had to go stand on a very specfic place in the room, facing a certain direction and to only start eating when they said so, that would be very suspicious and likely result in you opting out.
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by shbooms 5y ago
> there's presumably little/no acquisition value in the eyes of the NYT without this tracking. I pay their $4.99/month subscription for access to their "Games" package solely because it includes access to their f
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by shbooms 5y ago
I think from the viewpoint of a business/enterprise environment, yes you're right, context-aware authorization is a good thing. But I think the point of your parent comment's reply was that the inevitable adoption of this sam
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by shbooms 5y ago
> don’t SmartTV manufacturers make 30% of the profit on a TV from your data? I'm not sure about all manufacturers but in the case of Vizio, selling user data: - accounts for 65% of their net profit - is double the amount of money th
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by shbooms 5y ago
They actually still offer the DVD service which has a much broader selection (basically any and all new releases just like RedBox plus a lot of stuff from the past 20-30+ years) but it's basically a stand-alone service now that costs b
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by shbooms 5y ago
>There was never a time when you could name a film and expect it to be on Netflix to stream. That's not what your parent comment was suggesting. It was saying that Netflix's streaming collection was the same as Blockbuster&#x27
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by shbooms 5y ago
Yes--per the last line of the article: If you're interested in participating in a study, please email sainttmsstudy@stanford.edu.
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by shbooms 5y ago
It's not just Firefox though, if you're running Chrome on Windows or Mac, you get the same 720p as Firefox. The only way to get Netflix in high def (1080p and 4k) from a web browser is to use a browser that is made by the same com
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by shbooms 5y ago
it seems like the process has begun for the owner/maintainer to step down: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6... I haven't found anything else related to this yet (i.e. who
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by shbooms 5y ago
`em` is a relative unit that can change depending font-size of the given element while `pt` is an absolute value. the W3C does not recomend using any absolute value such as `pt` for text rendered on screens. only relative values or `px` sho
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by shbooms 5y ago
the total amount he was asking for was actually 50 BTC, so around 2m USD. 25 for the data not be release and 25 for him to tell them about the "backdoor" he used to access their system.
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by shbooms 5y ago
I've never used surfshark myself but they advertise as having a killswitch inlcluded in their VPN [0] so it sounds like in this case, it definitely failed. [0] https://surfshark.com/vpn#vpn-page-essentials
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by shbooms 5y ago
Per the author in the link you posted, the PineNote appears to still be a prototype in development and does not sound like it's really anywhere close to be competing against the consumer-ready remarkable: "If you’re looking to buy
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by shbooms 5y ago
it completely ruins my experience as well. When I finish watching something, I want to take time to digest and reflect on what I just saw, to relish in the mood or feeling that I was put in by the show/film, not get mindlessly forced i
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by shbooms 5y ago
removing the catalytic converter essentially renders your muffler useless since it's located in the middle of the exhaust pipe [0]. therefore removing the cat. converter will make your car incredibly loud and virtually impossible to go
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by shbooms 5y ago
just curious, is there any hard evidence that the telemetry in Windows 11 is any worse than what was in Windows 10 (which was already pretty horrdendous)?
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by shbooms 5y ago
Last I checked, you need an enterprise license to get the LTSC version of Windows. Individual consumer users can't just purchase it on their own
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by shbooms 5y ago
> Setting up ergonomic custom keyboard shortcuts is painful and requires (multiple?) third-party applications to do well. Take a look at Hammerspoon[0] for this if you haven't already. It requires some work to get it working the way
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by shbooms 5y ago
I had that same hypothesis as well until recently when I disabled some unnecessary daemons by 1. booting into Recovery with SIP disabled and 2. changing a handful of the /System/LaunchAgents/*.plist files to .plist.bak files,
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by shbooms 5y ago
> You skipped over Whitfield Diffie don't forget Steven M. Bellovin who's on that list and who was one of the inventors of the first Encrypted Key Exchange, a precursor to the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange.
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by shbooms 5y ago
The new Dell XPS's managed to squeeze their camera/mic up above without needing a notch[0]. I'm guessing Apple had the ability to do so too but decided not to either because a.) they're planning on adding FaceID at some
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by shbooms 5y ago
> Laptops with the camera below the screen tend to have an uncomfortable angle that look sup your nose, and the design suggests that they may be adding Face ID in a future iteration. I agree it's probably designed with a future Face

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