Grom_PE

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by Grom_PE 1mo ago
Websites blocking Firefox because of ad blocking has happened before: https://web.archive.org/web/20070817224229/http://whyfirefox...
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by Grom_PE 2mo ago
I have made a keyboard layout for Windows that abuses dead keys and AltGr as a substitute for compose key, the difference being that such compose key needs to be held while typing the first character: https://github.com/gr
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by Grom_PE 2mo ago
Linux: Compose key, period, period = ellipsis … Compose key, period, equals = bullet • Compose key, period, minus = interpunct · Compose key, !, ? = interrobang ‽
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by Grom_PE 2mo ago
And some USB drives pretended to also be a CD-ROM to circumvent the limitation of autorun.inf not executing on removable media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3_(software)
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by Grom_PE 2mo ago
For comfortable reading, I just had to figure out what on this webpage causes Chromium to drop subpixel rendering, and it's not this: html { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } it's this: #TableOfContents { backd
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by Grom_PE 3mo ago
What the hell. Just now I learned of "font-family: monospace, monospace" hack. Indeed, browsers will render the font smaller with just one "monospace". I've never run into it before because setting explicit font-siz
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by Grom_PE 3mo ago
Maybe if you look at it from far away enough. Watermarking tries to resist image data manipulation. Smuggling data is concerned with preservation of bytes. Though if we're executing arbitrary code on the target anyway, ways of embeddin
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by Grom_PE 3mo ago
It isn't necessary to use Exif to embed arbitrary data inside an image. Could as well use PNG extra chunk, JFIF app marker, or simply append data to the end of the file. It would be more interesting to devise a method that survives all
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by Grom_PE 4mo ago
On Windows, I've mostly avoided CRLF by configuring text editors and git to use LF, and writing text files in binary mode. The only places that still forced CRLF were batch files and clipboard.
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by Grom_PE 4mo ago
At least they aren't intentionally breaking Win7 support by using some random later version API function unconditionally. Some developers seem proud doing that, somehow feeling that extra 5-10 lines of code for backwards compatibility
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by Grom_PE 4mo ago
Since those people don't care about privacy and anonymity, perhaps they are also willing to trade by verifying for someone who does care?
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by Grom_PE 5mo ago
I generally never want programs to go fullscreen because I like to keep taskbar shown, so I can keep track of time, notifications and whatnot. Well designed video games that rely on fast and precise mouse input capture the cursor during the
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by Grom_PE 5mo ago
I was worried about .NET sending telemetry once I found about the existence of the DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT env. Thankfully, the dotnet package installed by package manager on Arch Linux disables telemetry by default. I left the env set
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by Grom_PE 5mo ago
Just bring back opposable thumbs on feet.
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by Grom_PE 6mo ago
In my 25 years of using Windows I've grown so much disdain towards annoying, broken, slow installers that I started to instead extract them like zip archives, using various tools: 7-Zip, UniExtract, Observer plugin for Far Manager, som
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by Grom_PE 6mo ago
PPMd (of 7-Zip) would beat BZip2 for compressing plain text data.
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by Grom_PE 7mo ago
Modding Windows is akin to building a sand castle. It might be fun, beautiful, but very much impermanent. You can expect it to be washed off with the next Windows update. I've done it before on Windows 7. Resized system clock, resized
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by Grom_PE 7mo ago
0 and O, and l and I that look the same in a single font is a crime of modern typography. Also, I remember 8x16 VGA font that came with KeyRus had some slight differences between Cyrillic and Latin lookalikes, that brought some strange sens
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by Grom_PE 7mo ago
I thought oxfmt would just be a faster drop-in replacement for "biome format"... It wasn't. Let this be a warning: running oxfmt without any arguments recursively scans directory tree from the current directory for all *.js a
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by Grom_PE 7mo ago
I feel that blocking, substituting, and even inserting user-defined resources for a website must be a native browser feature.
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by Grom_PE 7mo ago
As Flash files are often compressed, a patch wouldn't be any smaller than having an original and a fixed copy. You'd have to invent a new patch format that operates on an uncompressed SWF.
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by Grom_PE 7mo ago
I never liked the idea of running Flash inside the web browser, but a single file .swf game format is almost as good as any ROM game dump. Some games didn't mind running locally from an .swf file, but some others had a "URL protec
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by Grom_PE 7mo ago
It seems crazy to me that the offered way to install an extension on Chrome is to click a button on a privileged website, and then the installed extension autoupdates without an option to turn it off. I hate the idea of installing stuff wit
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by Grom_PE 8mo ago
Deluxe Paint 2 for DOS was my favorite drawing program, so had to check this out, pretty nice! The only thing that stops me from recommending it is non-integer zoom levels, which is especially bad for pixel art. Moving layers around was als
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by Grom_PE 8mo ago
It doesn't work when uBlock Origin blocks uncrossy.com/js/cookieManager.js?v=7
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by Grom_PE 8mo ago
I've found Xfce with Wallis theme to be quite comfortable after I ditched Windows 7. Been using it for 3 years now. Also I enjoyed how easily I could modify it: - xfwm4: zoom only to multiples of integer, nearest neighbor only - xfwm4:
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by Grom_PE 10mo ago
Tiny Core Linux fits nicely on a FAT32 EFI boot partition as a rescue OS.
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by Grom_PE 10mo ago
This made me remember old set of tools called mtx2midi and midi2mtx, I used them to edit some midi files while making sure I'm not introducing any unwanted changes. While roundtrip output was not binary identical, it still sounded the
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by Grom_PE 10mo ago
On my Linux system, I hooked up xfce4-screenshooter's "custom action" to a shell script (ocr.sh %f) with tesseract like so: #!/bin/sh set -o pipefail lang=${2:-eng} if tesseract "$1" - -l
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by Grom_PE 11mo ago
I have experimented with Tiny Core Linux + Wine, that netted around 100 MB, would be a good starting point for running Windows software on a minimal OS. Certainly would run more software than any Windows cut and shrunk to that size.

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