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by zootboy 2y ago
I pay the creators I care about, but I do it through Patreon, not Youtube. Of those $14 of Youtube subscription fees, approximately $0 would go to the creators I care about. If Youtube made some guarantee that the money I spent would only g
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by zootboy 3y ago
I'd go a step further: if you change the UI for no functional reason, you are a bad person who is causing needless consternation, confusion, and productivity loss. Even if you believe you have a functional reason, you had better think
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by zootboy 3y ago
I've been using this macro with GCC / GDB for years without running into the issue you're describing: #define DEBUG_BREAK() do{__asm__("BKPT");} while(0) I can continue just fine with it. Granted, this is on the var
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by zootboy 3y ago
FLOSS = Free / Libre Open Source Software. It's meant to be a more specific version of FOSS, making the point that it's using a properly "libre" license, and not just free of charge and source-available.
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by zootboy 3y ago
Personally, I prefer Windows 93: http://www.windows93.net/
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by zootboy 3y ago
Like, say, OpenStreetMap? https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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by zootboy 3y ago
That is a separate state in both of these systems, though. My complaint is that a perfectly valid tracking number isn't immediately in the "awaiting pickup" state after being generated by their systems, and is instead in the
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by zootboy 3y ago
The "invalid tracking number" thing drives me nuts. Both Fedex and UPS do it. How hard is it to stick a record in the database the moment a tracking number is generated so that I don't get a "This tracking number is inva
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by zootboy 3y ago
This headline could really use the word "hurricane" in it. I had no idea what Otis or Acapulco were, and my initial guess was wildly off: some sort of space probe experienced a catastrophic failure on the way to an asteroid.
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by zootboy 3y ago
I left out things that a typical battery management system will prevent, like over/under charging, or operating outside safe temperature limits. But yes, charging a typical cell below 0 degrees Celsius will immediately and permanently
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by zootboy 3y ago
The world of lithium-ion battery chemistry is quite complicated, but in my experience, the top contributors to battery wear-out are, in decreasing order of severity: - Charge cycles (including partial cycles, e.g. 100% -> 50% is half a c
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by zootboy 3y ago
Anecdotally, I've found OSMand's search functionality to vary between OK and completely unusable. Especially when entering addresses, OSMand really struggles to interpret what should be quite straightforward entries. While I haven
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by zootboy 3y ago
Probably for the reason the author speculates about in the article: > For example, would it not be cool if there was a game with a stack buffer overflow bug that allowed us to run arbitrary code remotely? That could potentially enable us
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by zootboy 3y ago
I would assume so. I tested on one of my private domains that generally isn't linked to anywhere, and it just returned the few domains that I generate Let's Encrypt certs for, plus my nameservers. Interestingly, I did not receive
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by zootboy 3y ago
Honestly, I don't agree with this. The evolution of computers seems to have sharpy dwindled, to the point that I regularly switch between a 2016 Lenovo and an 2021 Framework and hardly notice the difference, at least performance-wise.
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by zootboy 3y ago
Indeed. The point of linking the first one was to indicate that the issue has been reported for 3 years without being fixed.
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by zootboy 3y ago
I would be wary of using their calendar app. It has had a long-standing bug in basic timezone / DST handling: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Calendar/issues/... https://github.com
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by zootboy 3y ago
My new favorite punching bag for this is Discourse. It's literally just a forum. Some text and maybe a few images. Nothing crazy. But their "new and improved" system has a stupid lazy-load design that takes 7 _seconds_ to loa
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by zootboy 3y ago
That feels like trying to get by on a technicality. The casual reader would reasonably interpret "after" to imply some causation the way this headline is written.
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by zootboy 3y ago
Sadly, this isn't over. The appeals court simply overturned a lower court decision and remanded the case back to the lower court.
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by zootboy 3y ago
Oh dear, indeed. Why not offer the option to make an account directly? That would offer at least some solace that your data is not being shared outside the walls of 8x8.
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by zootboy 3y ago
My guess would be pornography. That seems like the most obvious use of a video calling service, and something that would cause them to run afoul of various legal requirements (e.g. age verification / records keeping).
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by zootboy 3y ago
The control key should be the bottom-most, left-most key on the keyboard. It should also be a different size or shape from the FN key so that you can tell it by feel.
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by zootboy 3y ago
In a way, this is kind of an indictment of modern software overall. Why doesn't the average person think that tasks can complete quickly? Because so much of the software they interact with is bloated, slow, terrible crap that they all
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by zootboy 3y ago
I've noticed an obnoxious new UI anti-pattern showing up more frequently as of late: a loading page that renders a fake UI made of nothing but light grey boxes. More often than not, it's not even the actual UI layout of the page,
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by zootboy 3y ago
I use a randomized PIN pad on my phone, and I've gotten quite used to it. I can enter my PIN almost as fast as I could on an unscrambled pad; it's definitely not hunting and pecking.
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by zootboy 3y ago
Lol, not my 2005 Toyota. It doesn't even have anti-lock brakes, much less a GPS phone-home system.
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by zootboy 3y ago
I got 66% for Gmail, but a bunch of these did feel a little difficult to judge. Like "Bugs are not fixed." Is that any bugs? All bugs? The majority of bugs? Important bugs? Etc, etc. I went with no for "bugs are not fixed&quo
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by zootboy 3y ago
I consider a provider from LowEndBox disappearing one day a near-certainty. In my experience (N = ~10), an average LEB provider will have an existence half-life of around 3 years. That's not to discourage anyone from using them; in fac
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by zootboy 3y ago
Judging from the photos, not unless "touched" means "was pulled back and rolled about 7 turns downward".

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