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| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-27, 23:12 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #141 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Huh, apparently they have a real office there, but it can't do anything. I'm surprised, I'd have thought they at least had some minor powers. They sometimes give interviews to the press explaining why they did this or that or talk to the government, but apparently it's not their own actions they're defending. Strange, although I guess it makes sense from a business perspective. Posted by https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/how-facebook-australia-doesn-t-operate-facebook-in-australia-20180323-p4z5ym.html In Australia's case, unless Facebook there has some contractor-type agreement they could auction off their actual offices, or whatever other property they have in their country. For The Washington Post, their foreign bureaus could get seized. Sure, they could run everything abroad with as little property actually in the country, but nobody wants to be living on the edge when it comes to the law. Especially not large companies. For smaller companies that have absolutely no business in Europe, they wouldn't be able to collect on it. But they still could be sued over something that took place in another country that was legal in that country, at least in theory. It's absurd - whenever North Korea does something like that, they're laughed out of the proverbial room (that they weren't in anyway), but when Europe claims jurisdiction over the entire world it's considered perfectly normal. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-27, 23:25 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 1)
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Post: #142 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
What do you need computers for when you have smartphones? They even secured them for you so you can't get any viruses, and hate speech is soon to be a thing of the past. What isn't there to like? Venezuela might not be able to have any computers, but at least they can pride themselves on becoming a cashless society, narrowly beating out Sweden and the United Kingdom for first place. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-27, 23:53 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #143 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Shit, I thought it was apparent. Poe's law. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-28, 00:06 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #144 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Well, if they wanted to arrest someone that wouldn't be under the GDPR anyway. And their executives might have to plan their holidays differently. The GDPR fines are actually quite high. $20 million or 4% of global turnover, whichever is highest. For Facebook that's $2.2 billion, or about 10% of global net profit. It would also be piss-poor optics, since Australia is a well-respected first world country. It's possible they could get away with it, but why bother taking the risk when you could just delete a few videos and save millions in the process? Of course, it won't be the last time. Say Facebook wants to make some inroads on the China expansion, then it's an expedient move to just hit a few buttons. Heck, they won't even need to delete it, just make it appear low enough on the timeline that it doesn't reach criticality. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-28, 18:11 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #145 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
The voting system in the EU is an utter joke. It's the epitome of "one job". A committee of educated people sat down, thought about how they were going to design their shiny new parliament, and this is what they came up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmXJhGK4cr0 Unless you're saying they didn't think about how to design it and just winged it, but that's even worse. As for this specific referendum, you had to vote YES to oppose Article 13 and NO to back it. With buttons designed in accordance with the common UX principle of "as similar to each other and close together as possible," it's no wonder mistakes happen. How do they vote? In most parliaments, buttons tend to be color-coded. In the EU? That's right, you guessed it, three identical gray buttons next to each other with colored stickers. Now that's what I call robust. If you don't have a list prepared beforehand, it's completely impossible to know what you're voting for. And if you do have a list, then what's the point of introducing another extremely error-prone step where you try and transcribe it and hope you don't mess it up? Could just demolish the parliament, have them mail in their votes, and save on travel costs. Man, "I pressed the wrong button" is something that's supposed to happen in third world countries with rampant voter fraud, not in stable and developed first world countries. What the hell were they thinking? It's as if someone saw the U.S. Congress, and said to themselves, "hey, how can we take the absolute worst parts of this system and build them into an entirely new system?," and then went ahead and did just that. What the hell were they thinking? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-28, 23:35 in Something about cheese! (revision 1)
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Post: #146 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
And here I was, thinking that empty catch blocks were considered a bad idea. No, but really, it is literal third world level to fail to vote in parliament. This is something you can do with paper and pen with a failure rate of approximately 0%, that people have successfully done since antiquity, and yet the EU can't manage it for important decisions with multi-billion dollar consequences? It's a complete farce. Not that it makes a difference anyway, since they'd just have tried it again after the next election to the so-called European parliament and eventually won by attrition (see: SOPA - the enthusiasm undergoes exponential decay as a function of the iteration count), but it irks me that they can't even be bothered to try and provide the thinnest veneer of legitimacy to their proceedings. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-29, 13:07 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #147 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
On the flip side, perhaps it would spur development into alternative technologies, which have historically been neglected because YouTube was Good Enough™. Depends on how overbearing the regulators are. I mean, we did get BitTorrent out of Napster getting shut down, and all the pieces are there for it, at least in theory. However, doing anything like that on mobile is a recipe for disaster. And that's all you can work with nowadays. Yeah, good luck making anything of value when CPU usage, bandwidth, and storage are all extremely limited and the availability is zilch. That doesn't mean something like a slightly more civilized version of popcorn time could emerge, though. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-29, 19:54 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #148 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Posted by KoiMaxx Think bigger, what if you design a protocol that doesn't need a VPN? VPNs cost money and introduce no benefits other than IP cloaking. If you'd manage to make a good P2P protocol, you could leverage the indirection to build in some kind of caching along with the anonymity, like in Perfect Dark but good. Of course, you'd need to implement lots of state-of-the-art blockchain technology (whew, first and last time I use that word sincerely), but it should be just possible. VPNs aren't feasible as a long-term solution. They can be banned or compelled to turn over user data, and while for your average first worlder $5 out of $3000 a month might be acceptable, it's quite expensive if your monthly wage is $300, especially considering your share of income discretionary is very likely lower in the later case. OTOH, {second|third} worlders generally aren't that bothered by copyright. I don't think the VPN providers have that much economic muscle that they'd spend it on lobbying, especially since there soon won't be anywhere to hide. What's the point of getting a VPN if you can only browse Article 13'd websites anyway? Maybe some 'expert' will claim you can use it for darknets, but that you don't need a VPN for in the first place. Here are my personal 'conspiracy theories': * Politicians who oppose the EU and Article 13 still vote for it to make the EU less popular. * Politicians who secretly are vehement opponents of copyright vote for it to bring about a real-life reductio ad absurdum of copyright law. * Large companies with the sufficient resources for ContentID et al lobby for it while claiming to oppose it, since it hurts their future competitors more than it hurts them. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-29, 22:37 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #149 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Posted by KoiMaxx Well, you can do that, specify what exit node you'd like to have, but it's still trivial to detect it's coming from Tor. And it doesn't solve the core issue: where will you run? Even if you get your super-secure VPN hosted from a secret bunker in the former Soviet Union, it's not very useful if you're using it to connect to YouTube which censors everything on their end. You can run hidden services which is what you get when you use Tor to hide the location of the server. And then you could run your website, no problem. The downside is that anyone who wants to connect needs Tor to access it, and that it's a bit slow. Not that slow, I used it as my primary browser for a few years and it was acceptable for browsing, but for streaming video it can be a bit bumpy. It's relatively user-friendly though, you just download the magic browser and go. The main issue for scalability is that it's a dumb pipe, just like VPNs or proxies. You connect through Tor, and you use 3x the bandwidth, and that's all. This bandwidth is provided by volunteers who have to be (reasonably) trusted, and very few people are willing to run nodes because of the legal risks and that it's a good way to make an IP dirtier than a $2 hooker. You can see the total bandwidth here. It should be noted that Tor is CPU-limited, and that you can't saturate a 1Gbit connection with a regular CPU. Still, were it to reach any kind of mainstream adoption it'd collapse in on itself, and it's also quite vulnerable to DoS attacks. I2P is better in this regard, since traffic never leaves the network which gets rid of a lot of those issues, but it's still quite slow. Tor and I2P are what you'd call low-latency networks. They're perfect for browsing, and can wrap network applications seamlessly (see: torsocks). To run a forum on tor, you install phpBB, make sure it doesn't leak IP, start tor, and then you're done. Don't even need to open any ports. On the other hand, it's garbage for file-sharing. On the other hand, networks like Perfect Dark, Freenet, and GNUnet are what you'd call high-latency networks, and they have the characteristics of high throughput. They require much more engineering, but file-sharing doesn't strain the network. They also get the pretty cool effect that the more a file is downloaded, the more it's cached, and the faster downloading it becomes. But because of the latency, websites on it have to be either static or rendered client-side. Chat becomes straight-up impossible, although I suppose you could use Tor's hidden services for the actual messages and the HL network for everything else. Forums become a nightmare of engineering but perfectly possible. Oh, and both are useless on mobile. If you will, Tor (and friends) are to HTTP what Perfect Dark (and friends) are to BitTorrent. Posted by sureanem I don't see why it'd be their concern what they're voting for. EU politicians simply are told to vote for Article 13, no further analysis is needed on their side. The main proponent of article 13 didn't know what was in the bill, and most EU politicians don't even bother raising their hands when voting. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-29, 22:53 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Post: #150 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Posted by tomman Tried LXDM? It looks nice by the screenshots, and should be lightweight. Otherwise you could just install another greeter for LightDM. Personally I use SLiM and have never had any trouble with it. It looks terrible but I use it for about five seconds so why care? But then again I'm not a ricer ;) There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-30, 01:41 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Post: #151 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Man, I hate X. Tons of failure modes, a black box that sometimes sprays black goo all over everything, and designed around the non-existent use case of running software over the network. When will it die? Here's an idea for a Linux distro: each successive version of a package has to decrease its size/complexity, or else it won't be merged. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-30, 18:01 in Dear modern UXtards...
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #152 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Not sure if it's an option here, but have you tried the "add another layer of abstraction to revert someone else's fuckups" mode? Like Readability or Pocket or whatever they call it. Another trick is to disable certain domains' JS, but this is only really feasible on computer and on certain web pages - on mobile, it's generally all or nothing. See, this is why I started getting my news from the radio. No radio channel ever switched me over to their 'mobile edition,' nor hid behind a paywall. Reading the newspaper, you end up "learning" a lot of stuff that doesn't actually concern you in the slightest, while wasting a lot of time doing so. It's just an obsessive and pointless habit. How does it affect me that X million people have died in some obscure civil war in some backwater shithole in Africa I can't even point out on a map? How does it affect me that there was a traffic accident way out in the middle of nowhere in the countryside? It's just noise and a waste of time. Well, at least they're about to die, unless the government steps in and puts them on life support, which they of course will, since they don't want to be branded "enemies of democracy" in the newspaper's dying breath. And so Starbucks gets to keep a loyal customer. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-31, 14:18 in Dear modern UXtards...
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Post: #153 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Posted by jimbo1qaz Look at how it's done in the editor, without leading and trailing linebreaks: There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-03-31, 14:46 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Post: #154 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Most countries in the world, at least those with substantial technology industries, celebrate April Fools. Not only USA, most of Europe and of course the Anglosphere as well. Even the article image for it on Wikipedia is from Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. I think it can be quite funny if done tastefully - the one about YouTube shutting down I remember, and the stackoverflow one is cool (if a bit early). I think it's a good reminder to not take everything you see on the Internet seriously. Unfortunately some newspapers completely miss the point and refuse to print April Fools' stories because of "the danger of fake news." Bah! Are they opposed to vaccines too? EDIT: What, they don't style the front page, only the question pages? And no funny styling of code tags? What's the world coming to? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-04-01, 07:27 in Dear modern UXtards...
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #155 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Yeah, you need to write the stuff before and after without newline too:
Posted by jimbo1qazCode block however does have space on the bottom: There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-04-01, 08:40 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Post: #156 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
I thought the hinting was only defined for straight text, and possibly right angles (although dubious with the freetype and whatnot) - it wouldn't make much sense to hand-draw all the edge cases. EDIT: On closer inspection, it looks like my Firefox attempts to alias it instead, which looks even worse but at least it isn't blurry. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-04-01, 11:18 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #157 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we Another great mystery: Sometimes the text gets all blurry, then it goes back to "sharp but aliased" mode. Not sure what triggers it or how to reproduce, but it seems to have something to do with switching windows. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-04-01, 13:12 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #158 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Posted by KawaA setting that's only fun for as long as it stays enabled. Here's my suggestion: Russian Roulette - It's like Forced Anonymous, but each post has a 1/6 chance of exposing your username and IP. No anonymous proxies. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-04-01, 19:23 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #159 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Posted by Nicholas Steel Yeah, but they were different colors now. What do the colors mean anyway? Gender and user class? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-04-01, 20:42 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #160 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1554 days Last view: 1552 days |
Would it be possible to do something like stripping opening and closing newlines from within quote tags, and stripping the first newline succeeding them? At present, there's tons of empty space if you write it the "normal" way:
asdasdasd ------------- Compared to asdasdasd(Quote my post in the editor to see the difference in markup) There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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