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by wjoe 9y ago
I've noticed that American articles cite Vint Cerf as the "father/inventor of the internet", while British press give the same titles to Tim Berners-Lee. Of course both were instrumental, but as you say, many people and
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by wjoe 9y ago
One headline I saw yesterday said that these fake videos had been "deleted from the internet". I don't think they know how the internet works.
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by wjoe 9y ago
Watson is one of very few British politicians who seems to care about privacy, surveillance, and internet issues. He was also a big part of the "phone hacking" case against the Murdoch press. It's a shame we don't have m
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by wjoe 9y ago
Depends on your definition of wealthy, and your location. In the UK and Europe there are a number of low cost airlines, and you can easily get flights to other European countries for under £100. Obviously it's a luxury and probably not
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by wjoe 9y ago
Similarly been using it on Arch for a few years. Looks like they only advertise downloads for Ubuntu and Fedora on their sites, but in the end they're just deb and rpm files. And in the end deb and rpms are just archives of files. I gu
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by wjoe 9y ago
Yep, back then it was very hard to get any free hosting that supported any sort of scripting language. Of course, as a 12 year old on the internet, paying for anything was unheard of. I remember wanting to set up some forum that required CG
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by wjoe 9y ago
While it's valid to question insider trading in cryprocurrency, I don't think that's what made the difference here. Coinbase had said they would add BCH to their exchange before the end of the year months ago. And people had
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by wjoe 9y ago
Aside from the common dislike for AMP centralising everything on Google's servers, I also dislike AMP links for the same reason I dislike mobile links to sites when I'm using a desktop PC. The AMP versions usually lose formatting
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by wjoe 9y ago
Don't agree with that at all. I have over 300 Linux games on Steam, and there's a wide variety of games. Sure, it's lacking the big AAA releases that make the headlines, but in my opinion, those are the 'cookie-cutter&#x
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by wjoe 9y ago
Not sure how it works on other OSs, but in my experience on Linux, Chromium is installed without Widevine DRM, Flash, or any proprietary stuff, and if you want that you have to install it separately.
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by wjoe 9y ago
>Honestly, work with Atom open for a day or two on the same project, that's not uncommon right? Prepare yourself for some serious type lag. I dunno, I have the same Atom instance open on Linux for weeks with 20+ files open, I haven&
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by wjoe 9y ago
The example at the top of the article is actually an example of what makes me dislike the YouTube feed. I watch one video review of a game, and now I'm getting 20 videos suggested about the same game which I only had a passing intere
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by wjoe 9y ago
>Unrelated, but the fact that the developer doesn't get the extension AMO approved and uses eval() all over the place should give some pause as well. He does, it is in the official add-on site, but their approval process is slow, an
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by wjoe 9y ago
But Firefox has the option to disable search functionality in the URL bar - not sure if it still asks you or if it's hidden behind an about:config option these days though. It's also significantly better at matching parts of URLs
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by wjoe 9y ago
Same with EE in the UK. I did previously pay for an EU roaming addon which cost £3/day in the EU, they've said that that's removed from the account, and charges in the EU will be the same as at home, no extra charges.
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by wjoe 9y ago
Doubtful. Take Two have released a fair number of Linux games already, at least from 2K's catalog - Borderlands, Bioshock Infinite, XCOM, etc. I guess much of this is down to the individual developers rather than the parent company, bu
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by wjoe 9y ago
My company handles live video streaming, so slow speeds and high latency tends to result in a lot of buffering. You're looking at about 200ms latency minimum from Europe to South Africa, and when you need to download a ~2MB video chunk
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by wjoe 9y ago
Yep. We've had to do some work for clients in Africa in my job. One we did in Morocco was fine from EU data centers on AWS, but South Africa has been very difficult to serve with acceptable latency from any data centre we've tried
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by wjoe 9y ago
Same for me. Some of the changes Opera have been making are interesting, and they do seem to be doing more with the UI than Firefox and Chrome, who are removing as much UI as possible. But the social messenger stuff doesn't interest me
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by wjoe 10y ago
It depends. Obviously if you're an experienced front end web developer then Electron is an easy choice, and the benefits of using your existing knowledge probably outweighs the speed/resource benefits of a native app, especially f
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by wjoe 10y ago
I can't see any such option in Atom, Sublime, or Eclipse to copy as rich text. To be fair I didn't really expect it to work with automagically copying the syntax highlighting from my IDE, but it made it sound like it could. It&#x2
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by wjoe 10y ago
I think it's mostly just because the concentration of the industry is convenient. In the UK, there are tech jobs all over the country. But there are probably more in London than everywhere else combined, especially if you're looki
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by wjoe 10y ago
I agree with the parent about the sidebar. I already disliked the change to make it hidden by default with the pin option since it was a bit inconsistent for me, but it at least gave the option for best of both worlds. Ideally this should b
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by wjoe 10y ago
It's getting there. I saw a video last week of someone running Overwatch in wine at about 45 FPS with a patched version of Wine. Not sure how easy it is to get running or if/when those patches will be merged in, but it's maki
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by wjoe 10y ago
>My only concern for Scotland is that they wouldn't be able to gain (re-gain?) EU membership then would be left out on their own for many years. So I definitely think the Scottish leadership needs to better plan out EU entry relativ
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by wjoe 10y ago
Cinnamon has similar "drag to edge" tiling as Windows, and you can also configure keyboard shortcuts for it - I have win+arrow keys configured to move windows to the edges/corners.
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by wjoe 10y ago
One interesting use of a Winter Olympic venue - the sports arena in Hamar, which was used as an ice skating arena in the Lillehammer Winter Olympics is used once a year for The Gathering, a massive LAN party with around 5000 attendees, and
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by wjoe 10y ago
On Linux, it says for Windows too, with no mention of the Mac version (and presumably no Linux version exists)
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by wjoe 10y ago
It's a shame if the biggest impact of Steam on Linux has been to encourage Microsoft to improve DirectX performance. I wasn't aware of Valve layoffs particularly hitting the Linux team, but it doesn't surprise me. Valve'
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by wjoe 10y ago
High DPI on Linux is indeed a mess, but I find running the screen at a lower resolution preferable to Apple's implementation of DPI scaling anyway. Bluetooth is very broken too. Not sure if that's an issue with the drivers or the

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