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by worble 6y ago
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... DDG has a number of sources, including it's own bot, although it specifically says Google is not one of them, contrary to the GP.
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by worble 6y ago
This is such a huge pain, I keep having to turn off the antivirus because it will often slow "npm i" so much that it'll just fall over and report a crash. I shouldn't have to disable my built-in antivirus just to do basi
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by worble 6y ago
And even if that doesn't work out, you'll have a lot more domain knowledge than you did before, so if you do hire someone else you'll be able to work with them easier, understand the work they're doing, and have a better
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by worble 6y ago
> If I'm searching for programming stuff or similar, I want it off. If I'm searching for shops that sells bricks for my new wall, I want local results. In all fairness, how exactly do you expect DDG to know what you want from t
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by worble 6y ago
The offshoot from this as well is: go to someone elses PC and do a query in google. You might find the results are just nowhere near what you want or expect. Or tell someone to google something while on a call and click the 1st or 2nd link.
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by worble 6y ago
I don't know why they're not also advertising their Matrix server: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix
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by worble 6y ago
>On Android using a different store or sideload is easy. Asking users to use developer mode is not easy, and a huge barrier to entry that most would just not bother and download something else from the Play Store instead.
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by worble 6y ago
>maybe it's the "code feel" of interacting with a grumpy compiler. It's crazy, because this is that part I love the most. Both Rust and Elm just blow my mind every time the compilers not only throw up something I neve
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by worble 6y ago
> This forced publishers to put useless blurbs, redirecting to the HTTP version, which was a bad user experience and just sucked. Is this that bad? I personally don't mind this at all, I subscribe to RSS feeds so I can easily tell a
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by worble 6y ago
While its not exactly Windows 10, MIcrosoft's design system is called "Fluent UI"[0] which includes what they use for the Web. It features a similar flat UI but isn't exactly a copy of Windows 10, it does it's own t
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by worble 6y ago
Good? Should the user not be able to decide how something plays on their own machine?
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by worble 6y ago
I read as it as "I expect this to work" since expect throws a panic! if it can't unwrap the result. Essentially you're saying you expect this to work because otherwise you'd handle the error properly using pattern m
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by worble 6y ago
Sorry, I just remember reading it somewhere and I think it was more likely I got confused with the announcement that web-ext supports Fenix: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/releases/tag/4.1.0 So devel
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by worble 6y ago
Fenix is pretty much a complete rewrite of firefox on mobile, and they haven't implemented every extension api yet which is why only a subset of extensions are allowed currently. I've read that you can sideload any extension you w
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by worble 6y ago
Old Edge was a great PDF reader and EPUB viewer. New edge... well it's just the same as Chrome, which is to say that it's fine.
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by worble 6y ago
> Middle click to open an email in a new window doesn't work, if it was a normal web page that would have come for free The fact that things like middle click and right click can be overridden in javascript is pretty much one of the
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by worble 6y ago
I'm personally curious how far we could go with using just canvas and wasm. If we focused on making a browser that was just incredibly efficient and focused at using wasm and webgl, and had no other concerns, a lot of the cruft could b
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by worble 6y ago
Outside of the official documentation, there are some text tutorials here: https://godottutorials.pro/ I'm also a fan of HeartBeast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrHQNOyU1q6BFEfkNq2C
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by worble 6y ago
> Best case: you make a ton of money by selling to actual businesses (rather than annoying geeks and other weirdos who dare use uncommon clients); slightly-worse case: you sell it to MS. And worst case: MS change how things work and bloc
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by worble 6y ago
Well, before Steam was the behemoth it is today, all they had was the Source engine. Back when it first came out, everyone I know _hated_ Steam, but you had to install it to play Half Life 2 with it's new graphics, physics and facial a
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by worble 6y ago
What if you want to know the relative length of a page without scrolling first? What if it's one of those webpages with a full height hero as the first element and no indicator you can actually scroll? What if I want to click and drag
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by worble 6y ago
I don't think there's anything official or even standard for naming. Some places refer to them as class-less: https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks#class-less And these seem to be the strictly fra
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by worble 7y ago
Firefox supports this, go into Settings -> Search and set a keyword for the search engine. For example, if you set the keyword for DuckDuckGo to "ddg" and Google to "go", then typing "ddg <your query>"
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by worble 7y ago
There's a list of alternatives for all Google services here: https://nomoregoogle.com/
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by worble 7y ago
A little off-topic, but the article mentions they support Privacy Pass. I remember seeing the announcement a little ways back when they first released it but just kind of forgot about it. Is anyone using the browser extensions? Has it reduc
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by worble 7y ago
I think the real loss here is that with a # or // the person reading the file immediately knows this is a comment. This line won't be read by the interpretor, and it's purely here for me to read it, so I probably should
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by worble 7y ago
I'm sure someone will call me a slowpoke on this, but one really cool thing that I didn't know about until recently was that you can also use this in images with srcset's, to display a darker image. For example, if you want t
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by worble 7y ago
I'm slightly disappointed that clicking on it didn't just return a HTTP 418 error, but was nontheless satisfied with the result.
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by worble 7y ago
Absolutely agree with this, and if Gitlab's hardware requirements seem a little expensive, I can highly recommend Gitea[0]. It runs very happily on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but for my
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by worble 7y ago
>The thing is, everywhere you use your password is probably 'closed source' and probably has 'lots of bugs'. Well, that's the argument for a password manager, no? You can't trust any of these services, so yo

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