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by wackget 3y ago
I use an old version of iTunes on Windows and haven't found anything better, for the following reasons: 1. It has a taskbar player, which is a tiny strip of media controls which sits in your taskbar. AFAIK the only other player to offe
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by wackget 3y ago
What parts of it do you find boring, specifically?
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by wackget 3y ago
I have one point which I really feel exemplifies the entire Netflix experience: before you sign up, they do not give you a list of what's available to watch. Seriously, check out their website. It's basically a landing page which
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by wackget 3y ago
It was obvious to me that Apple doesn't care about developers the moment I learned that they charge a $99 per year fee to open a developer account. I refuse to pay a company so that I can contribute value to their ecosystem.
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by wackget 3y ago
Doesn't help if you want to send data to the server with every request (i.e. cookies).
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by wackget 3y ago
I can't believe a Cookie Store API has not been officially implemented yet. How can it be 2024 and we're still having to parse a huge ugly string to get a cookie by name?
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by wackget 3y ago
The regular homepage is super laggy for me. It also doesn't explain what the product actually is . For example, I clicked on "TV shows" and it says: > Just search for your favorites > You type in the name of the TV sho
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by wackget 3y ago
Their online store is pretty bad. The page just says "6 pack" without specifying any weights or bag sizes. The image carousel also didn't stop when I clicked on a thumbnail to read more. Oh and the pasta is grotesquely overpr
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by wackget 3y ago
1. Cookie banners allow for informed consent. I like to see which companies are abusing my data, and take the extra couple of clicks to stop them from doing that. 2. USB-C cables are ludicrously cheap and massively preferable to needing to
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by wackget 3y ago
I have no idea how inflation works - what happens if you're an average Turkish person who had, say, 1000 lira in their bank account 10 years ago? If that 1000 lira used to be able to buy you 100 meals at 10 lira each, and now the same
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by wackget 3y ago
How much data is Gizmodo harvesting from you when you read this article? uBlock Origin shows 16 domains connected; most of them loading JavaScript. The real number is probably far higher when no ad-blocker is used.
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by wackget 3y ago
There's something disagreeable about charging a subscription to search freely-available scientific papers. Yeah I get you're technically paying for the "advanced" search but it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth becau
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by wackget 3y ago
Personally I hate articles which are split across multiple pages. It's unnecessary.
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by wackget 3y ago
When did Ars Technica start splitting articles into multiple pages? I thought that stupid trend died out 10 years ago. It just results in me abandoning the article on page 1.
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by wackget 3y ago
Article/title is a bit confusing and perhaps borderline clickbait, so... If I understand correctly it seems like his crime was *using* the exposed database credentials to log in to the third-party database server. So he wasn't cha
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by wackget 3y ago
Wow that is truly shameful. P.S. thanks for uBlock Origin and uMatrix
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by wackget 3y ago
There's such a beautiful irony in reading about unfettered data mining on a website (theverge.com) which connects to *37* third-party domains when displaying the article: 1. ak.sail-horizon.com 2. amazon-adsystem.com 3. api.parsely.com
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by wackget 3y ago
They don't want to promote PWAs. They want to promote their own business.
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> I know I ought to pay it forward and publish the code for my app. Even if it doesn’t work for anyone else as-is, it might provide a helpful guide — one I would have been grateful to have. But the code is marbled with application-specif
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by wackget 3y ago
Do you still need to pay Apple's extortionate $99/year developer fee if you're only developing apps for private/personal use?
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by wackget 3y ago
A question I always ask is why we can't control our phones via desktop computers yet. It's 2024; this should be possible and mainstream without half-baked solutions like Airdroid or unacceptable workarounds like rooting your iPhon
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by wackget 3y ago
How does AuthKit compared to Auth0? Any major differences? Also what if you have an existing email-based account system which works fine - can you use AuthKit to add additional sign in methods like social without replacing your existing sys
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by wackget 3y ago
Or people could just not use obscure acronyms when discussing specialised topics on an open forum?
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by wackget 3y ago
Out of interest, what would happen if you didn't have proof of purchase or if, somehow, one day in the future Apple ceased to exist and enrollment became impossible? Would the computer be "bricked" by this or could you wipe i
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by wackget 3y ago
The irony of the prominent "TUF Gaming" branding on the side of the card. You'd think they'd add a rigid frame around the card, or at least around the weakest point.
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by wackget 3y ago
What if you already run a web server which uses port 443? Strange that the readme doesn't mention that scenario because it's extremely common. Presumably you'd choose a different port but then it'd be pretty obvious you&
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The font hurts my eyes.
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by wackget 3y ago
> Nov 29: We disclose issue to CTO & Security team with video examples > Nov 29: Writer responds, asking for more details > Nov 29: We respond describing the exploit in more detail with screenshots > Dec 1: We follow up >
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by wackget 3y ago
OpenCola always gets passed around but for me it just represents the tip of a very frustrating iceberg. There are tons of flavor formulations I'd love to know - not because I'm a chemist or a food scientist but just out of sheer c
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by wackget 3y ago
The entire second half of the article acts as if custom elements aren't already supported in HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html You can go ahead and create <whatever> <custo

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