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by wolrah 1y ago
This is the idea behind Zaparoo ( https://zaparoo.org/ ) which uses NFC tags that can be put in to your preferred form (card, cartridge, token, etc.) and used to select and launch games. It was originally built for use with
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by wolrah 1y ago
> - shorts (they're fine in a separate space, just not in the timeline) No they're not. Nothing that mandates vertical video has ever been fine nor ever will be. Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, all bad and should be destroyed. Unless
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by wolrah 1y ago
> I thought ROM hacks were just modified ROMs, not programs that modify ROMs. Distributing a modified ROM is as much copyright infringement as distributing the base ROM itself, so generally hacks are distributed as just the patch file an
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by wolrah 1y ago
> You can avoid this by not buying a home that is covered by a HOA. In many areas these either do not exist or are limited to only older construction. I haven't seen a single '90s or newer neighborhood in my home shopping that
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by wolrah 1y ago
It's a slightly longer process but it basically comes down to: 1. HOA has stupid rule about mailbox 2. Homeowner is found to be in violation of the rule and fined. 3. Homeowner does not pay fines 4. HOA places lien on house and is even
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Yeah, it’s not like there was national movement of voters threatening to withhold their vote or anything. Well that sure worked out exactly how every single person with a functioning brain told them it would.
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by wolrah 1y ago
Strapping a Pi to a lawn mower for silly reasons, plus a bonus cat at the end. This is what I want in my internet.
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by wolrah 1y ago
Absolutely, when I was looking at houses my bare minimum was 1.5 bath. I don't need two showers/tubs, but two toilets was non-negotiable. I lived for a couple of years in a two bed/one bath apartment and the number of times
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by wolrah 1y ago
I wasn't a hater of Steam, but I did hate it being forced on the CS community as well as the news that it would be required for HL2. At the time I had dialup. Patching on Valve's schedule simply did not work for me. Patching mos
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by wolrah 1y ago
I honestly can't say I have ever in my life seen a GDPR banner where "Reject All" wasn't in some way more effort than "Accept All". The best I can think of at least keep it the same size and inline, but usuall
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by wolrah 1y ago
Shockingly, the Google-produced operating system that GrapheneOS is based on is easiest to build targeting Google-produced devices. Google is also as far as I'm aware one of only two mainstream vendors, and the only one making flagship
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by wolrah 1y ago
> this page is a great example of the UI ramifications of GDPR. No, this is an example of malicious compliance. There are so many bad GDPR banners because the people creating them want you to be annoyed by them. They want to have the
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by wolrah 1y ago
> We knew that. But it is very useful in documents that would be printed, especially if the original url is complicated. Maybe for ads in periodicals or other content where accessing the link isn't going to matter down the line, but
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Bluey is the best children's cartoon _for adults_ of this generation. One of my regular hangouts often puts Bluey on one of their TVs and I know for a fact there have been multiple occasions where no one at the bar even has childr
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by wolrah 1y ago
Using a link shortener for any kind of long-term link, no matter who hosts it, has never been a good idea. They're for ephemeral links shared over limited mediums like SMS or where a human would have to manually copy the link from the
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by wolrah 1y ago
Is that really a problem though? If you're washing another load at the same time as the dryer is running, wouldn't you generally want to wait until both are done anyways so you can swap the wash to the dryer after getting the dry
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by wolrah 1y ago
Other side of the equation. Trillian was an unofficial client, this seems to be a group running a series of unofficial servers that can be used with the original clients, and presumably also contemporary unofficial clients. I'm also a
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by wolrah 1y ago
This is basically what a Chromecast was. Internally they were basically just an appliance that booted to a very minimal version of Chrome which could be remote controlled by a compatible application, web site, or device. It was a neat conc
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by wolrah 1y ago
And it's not like hardware can't get itself in to infinite loops (often with destructive results instead of just denial of service). If you think leaking memory or handles is bad, watch what happens when a turbo starts leaking oil
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by wolrah 1y ago
In a gasoline engine, engine speed is controlled by a throttle valve which meters the air entering the engine. A carburetor or fuel injection system then provides an appropriate amount of fuel for the incoming air. If you release the acce
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by wolrah 1y ago
My extremely cynical guess would be that they needed a distraction from Grok having "gone insane" again so they decided to release what they had and threw together an event as quickly as possible.
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by wolrah 1y ago
1. How sure are you? The ones from established manufacturers don't really look substantially different from their diesel counterparts. Unless you're really looking closely you'd have a hard time telling them apart. 2. Elect
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by wolrah 1y ago
Proving my point, user agent allow lists would make it only ever work on Netscape, when the blink tag was supported in Firefox prior to v23 and any of its cousins, as well as Opera prior to v15 (where it switched to Blink and became yet ano
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by wolrah 1y ago
There are valid reasons to want to know the specific user agent when working around bugs in old but popular versions, that's why I said a user-agent allowlist for access or advanced functionality was bad. That inevitably breaks any ne
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by wolrah 1y ago
> A better question is why it was never fixed / renamed to proper names. Because the reason it is the way it is in the first place is compatibility with sites that are doing things objectively wrong already, which makes it really ha
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by wolrah 1y ago
> You may be thinking of HDMI vs DisplayPort over USB-C, because otherwise they couldn't be more different. No, I'm referring to how HDMI 2.1 changed basically everything but the connector to become a multi-lane packet based pr
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by wolrah 1y ago
DisplayPort has supported HDCP (as well as its own DRM scheme DPCP) since version 1.1. I agree that DisplayPort was better for monitors, but HDMI has basically become DisplayPort so these days they're more or less two sides of the same
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Fetching anything from the internet means some cloud knows what games I'm playing. It's a privacy risk. Games played are very revealing to personality type, and probably lots of other individual info It seems like OP already
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by wolrah 1y ago
Yeah, Netflix doesn't need the long distance interfaces but that's presumably what the ISPs' equipment is going to be built to interface with, so I would not be expecting them to be able to use such interfaces directly any ti
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by wolrah 1y ago
I would assume that this is also because Netflix is designing their CDN servers to be tied in to existing ISP networks, so they're using interfaces ISPs of sufficient size will be expected to have. 1.6TbE will surely eventually make it

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