supernes

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by supernes 3y ago
I've seen my share of horror stories, but I'm also the type of idealist that believes the people whom a $3T corporation hires to work on one of its core products would know better. It's more than likely that ultimately the de
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by supernes 3y ago
Not the first time something like this has happened. You can try lying about your User Agent next time, it could work! https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/07/microsofts-xcloud-gam...
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by supernes 3y ago
Widevine kind of works on Linux IIRC, but hardware accelerated VP9 decode is a huge issue still. It was fine for a while, then Google broke support in Chromium and made it work only in their ecosystem (ChromeOS).
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by supernes 3y ago
You can move the Dock to the side of the screen and in fact many people do. What's the excuse for not copying that functionality?
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by supernes 3y ago
Convenience and coercion - they don't want to fiddle with external devices just to watch a movie/show, and streaming services deliver content at a higher quality to these locked-down devices. Had this talk with my parents recently
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Prominent composer delisted from all streaming services in apparent retaliation(twitter.com)
2 points by supernes 3y ago|4 comments
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by supernes 3y ago
Benn Jordan aka The Flashbulb has been an outspoken critic of the music streaming business and today all traces of more than 15 of his releases have been removed from all platforms without explanation.
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by supernes 4y ago
The first (and last) time I tried it, I got a mile long GDPR consent form for the New Tab page . The entirety of the product is an ad delivery platform.
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by supernes 4y ago
Another somewhat recent technique for getting better results quicker is path guiding, as seen in e.g. Intel's OpenPGL: https://github.com/OpenPathGuidingLibrary/openpgl
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“Immediate and permanent” ban for posting AI-generated answers on r/AskScience(old.reddit.com)
2 points by supernes 4y ago|1 comments
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by supernes 4y ago
> Over the past few days we have seen a surge of accounts using bots/AI tools to answer questions on r/askscience. We would like to remind you that the goal of r/askscience is to be able to provide high quality and in dept
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by supernes 4y ago
My Spotify playlists export is a 7.5MB (minified) JSON and I don't even have many of them. Cleaned up of redundant entries and formatted it comes out at over 128K lines.
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by supernes 4y ago
NB: Only decompression in implemented on the GPU (via HLSL compute shader). Compression is still done on the CPU.
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“Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”(twitter.com)
29 points by supernes 4y ago|22 comments
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by supernes 4y ago
... which likely means he's gotten rid everyone who worked on particularly challenging things, like security, privacy, performance, & reliability. - @mcmillen
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by supernes 4y ago
This looks like a very early attempt to manually reverse engineer the code. Lots of empty files and TODOs, almost nothing of value yet.
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by supernes 4y ago
If your spec is entirely up in the air, you can start by replicating the examples. Lack of meaningful examples and/or in-depth documentation is the first red flag. You can also scan the reported issues to see if others are having troub
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by supernes 4y ago
It does seem focused on apps and extensions, but they can already get that data for the latter from the extensions portal (both popularity and actual installs). And the installed app stat is questionable, because it doesn't include any
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by supernes 4y ago
Another term I've seen jokingly thrown around is "inflation-adjusted effort" and I think it fits pretty well in the current environment.
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by supernes 4y ago
I wanted to help, but this tool doesn't collect any useful data IMO. Just queries the distribution, installed apps and the default browser. Full list here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/vstanek/gnome-info-collect/#
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by supernes 4y ago
"Right hand side of subtraction cannot be a date or time." :(
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by supernes 4y ago
Yes, it's safe to assume that public data is being scraped off Twitter constantly, especially with their history of nerfing the APIs they provide. And for most of the accounts affected by this breach the impact seems low. But from an e
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by supernes 4y ago
> At that time, we had no evidence to suggest someone had taken advantage of the vulnerability. They didn't notice that someone managed to scrape 5,485,636 accounts, after they were made aware of the issue?
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by supernes 4y ago
Client-local fingerprinting is not inherently evil, just when you combine it with additional signals and decide to use it in violation of users' privacy. AFAIK it's the most reliable way to distinguish unique visitor agents, and u
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by supernes 4y ago
Thinking about it a bit more, systems like mCaptcha and Botpoison aren't really CAPTCHA in the strict sense - they solve a somewhat different problem than telling if there's a human at the other end, and IMO that's an importa
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by supernes 4y ago
The goal of CAPTCHA is to tell computers and humans apart. I appreciate the effort towards better UX, but there are already "invisible" CAPTCHAs like Botpoison that discriminate better than this. PoW solutions are just more energy
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by supernes 4y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117297 Running "Magicul" through it does indeed give a warning for the french meaning.
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by supernes 4y ago
It's not just the amount of money they try to get people to spend, it's some really obnoxious tactics, like NPCs telling you they "don't run a charity" (i.e. steering you into spending real money) and paid bonuses
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by supernes 4y ago
Fans have dubbed it "Diablo Immoral" and say that it goes far beyond what other mobile titles infamous for their monetization have done.
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by supernes 4y ago
If there's a backlash, then it's a bug. If no one cares, then it's a feature.

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