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by baumschubser 2mo ago
Just through your comment I found out that they have different screenshots for all their localization settings. Cool!
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by baumschubser 2mo ago
I just checked (in CoMaps): A restaurant around the corner is listed as "Pizza, Vegan, no wheelchair access, outdoor seating". No opening hours, though (but other places have).
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by baumschubser 3mo ago
> I decided to try something that would probably work: I copied the code from the magazine into Notepad and saved the file as .exe instead of .txt. Exactly my first attempt to "convert to .exe" as well :) Browsing through C:\D
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by baumschubser 3mo ago
Through this article, I guess I am one of today's lucky 10k to learn about anchor links to text like https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers#:~:text=SurfE...
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by baumschubser 3mo ago
i earned myself a notice in the local newspaper in 8th grade for hacking the public library. what i did: on the PC terminal right click, show source, edit the HTML to leave a "i was here" note, click save :)
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by baumschubser 4mo ago
To me, these reflections upon my aggressive and violent behavior in a game are much more impactful than games that put me into dilemma situations, where you are already presented with a nicely arranged moral problem in the moment. These are
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by baumschubser 5mo ago
I understand that you want the location of the photo and not the location of the user uploading that photo, but given that both are identical in many cases, getting the location with the regular geolocation API might be an acceptable soluti
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by baumschubser 9mo ago
I am SO close to switch to Android to buy and properly use a Pebble watch. I love the hacker attitude, the retro tech, the quirkyness. Seeing them introducing One More Thing on the other side of the spectrum, deep in big-corp, locked down,
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by baumschubser 9mo ago
I got an Amstrad PCW handed down to me from my dad as my first PC around the same time. Booted always with disk 1 and that was Locoscript and learned typing on that thing. When I discovered there is a second disk that boots you in some dark
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by baumschubser 10mo ago
I would say Telegram is communicating their level of encryption pretty good ("client-to-client" and "client-to-server" is a good way to avoid the ambiguity of e2e). https://telegram.org/faq?setln=en#q-so-
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by baumschubser 10mo ago
Corecursive had an interesting episode with a good story. https://corecursive.com/mobile-ui-with-shai-almog/
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by baumschubser 11mo ago
Meanwhile in southern Germany. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bavaria-wants-to-move-to-Micros...
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German state Bavaria goes all-in on Microsoft cloud(heise.de)
34 points by baumschubser 11mo ago|17 comments
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by baumschubser 11mo ago
"All information should be free" "Mistrust authority—promote decentralization" ("A hackers ethic" in Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, 1984) I think it fits.
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by baumschubser 11mo ago
snibbetracker is an example of a C/SDL iOS app. <1MB from the app store which is really wild. https://apps.apple.com/de/app/snibbetracker/id1065797528
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by baumschubser 11mo ago
Login issues with Jira Cloud here in Germany too. Just a week after going from Jira on-prem to cloud
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by baumschubser 1y ago
In the Left/Right menu in mc, you can select FTP, SFTP and SSH URLs to browse. Is this not what you mean?
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by baumschubser 1y ago
I’m all in for diagrams in discussing software! When there is no whiteboard, I literally draw in the air to explain my point. However, doing real, orthodox UML/BPMN requires everyone to understand the official notation, the difference
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by baumschubser 1y ago
It does say so right in the readme: > Linux only > x86 only > 64-bit only
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by baumschubser 1y ago
> The reality is that we spend FAR more time reading code than writing it. That is why readability is far more important than clever, line saving constructs. In JS sometimes chain two or three inline-arrow-functions specifically for read
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by baumschubser 1y ago
Just last week I was bitten by a customer’s CSV that failed due to Windows‘ invisible BOM character that sometimes occurs at the beginning of unicode text files. The first column‘s title is not „First Title“ then but „&zwnbsp;First Titl
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by baumschubser 2y ago
Angela Merkel was known to text during parliamentary sessions, sometimes with multiple phones, with colleagues about the ongoing debate. Other anecdota: Nowadays it is only part of Green Party folklore from the past, but to knit in politica
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by baumschubser 2y ago
OT, but for a moment I read that as netbook with Win 11 and got way more excited about that headline than I expected. I want netbooks back I think.
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by baumschubser 2y ago
At least the executable is still named "soffice"
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by baumschubser 2y ago
> unimaginable two decades ago let alone the 60’s Ernst Röhm, leader of the Nazi's SA forces, was gay. People did not join the Nazi movement because of the impeccable life style of their leaders, but their political program. Same wi
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by baumschubser 2y ago
I want to mention a recent extension to Berlin‘s subway system right in the middle of the city, in swampy ground and below a canal. They injected „freeze lances“ into the ground, turned 43,000 m^3 of mud into an ice block and then carved th
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by baumschubser 2y ago
I like long polling, it’s easy to understand from start to finish and from client perspective it just works like a very slow connection. You have to keep track of retries and client-side cancelled connections to have one but only one (and t
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by baumschubser 2y ago
As cool as thermal printers are, if you want to have printed news from the nyt in the morning, it might be simpler to just, you know, subscribe to the newspaper.
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by baumschubser 2y ago
> The author's writing is fluent, but the whole thing is kind of odd. This is the Internet; the developer could be 17. Who knows. They may be 17 or 57, why does that matter? To me the Readme seems absolutely professional. Putting to
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SQLitebrowser: First update in three years (July 2024)(github.com)
65 points by baumschubser 2y ago|6 comments

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