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by ldjb 8mo ago
The author may well have been aware of this. However, since the author didn't retrieve those database IDs or URLs in the first place, they would have had to make further requests to retrieve them, which they wanted to avoid doing. &quo
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by ldjb 1y ago
Under the Animated Cursors heading. Here are direct links to the webms if you still can't find them: https://tattoy.sh/assets/screenshots/cursor_smear_fade.webm https://tattoy.sh/assets/s
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by ldjb 1y ago
Please do share any evidence to the contrary, but it seems that the Tweet is not serious and is not from someone who worked on the Start Menu.
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by ldjb 2y ago
I was expecting this post to explain why it's an underscore specifically, as opposed to a dollar sign, an asterisk, a caret, a tilde or some other special character. I can only assume it's a holdover of languages like C where the
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by ldjb 2y ago
A terminal doesn't need SSH integration, but it's convenient if it does, to allow you to easily start and manage connections. Is there something inherently unsafe about such an integration?
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by ldjb 2y ago
I feel like Facebook was often considered a MySpace clone in its early days, despite certain differences, and I certainly think it took its place.
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by ldjb 2y ago
First thing I would do is look for a security.txt file or search to see if they operate some kind of bug bounty. Failing that, I would browse their website or search for contact details (or even just a contact form). WHOIS can be useful for
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by ldjb 2y ago
Suppose there are two students. Each has a 50% chance of drawing the short straw (by picking either 0 or 1). Therefore, there is a 25% chance that neither will draw the short straw, 25% chance that both will draw the short straw, and 50% ch
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by ldjb 2y ago
It's the extensible nature of XML that gives it an advantage. You can add custom elements and attributes whilst conforming to the base schema. Granted, XML isn't the only format where this is possible. You can sort of achieve it w
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by ldjb 2y ago
Today's blog post is related: London's shortest and longest High Streets https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/06/londons-shortest-...
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by ldjb 2y ago
400 years later, this mysterious hand gesture would resurface in the character designs of Capcom's Mega Man / Rockman series of video games. https://themmnetwork.com/2010/03/18/the-great-mega-man-fin
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by ldjb 2y ago
Happens for me in Firefox. I press 'Back' and it untypes the last character.
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by ldjb 2y ago
In a democratic society, if citizens are particularly concerned about the aesthetics of public property, they can make their views known to the relevant authorities and elected representatives, and it could even become an election issue. I
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by ldjb 2y ago
We're talking about public property here. Many authorities have a 'no tolerance' approach to graffiti. Even if it looks nice, it will be removed. There is a belief that removing graffiti quickly discourages it. If graffiti ar
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by ldjb 2y ago
The impact isn't merely aesthetic. For one thing, it can be costly to remove graffiti. And when it's on publicly owned property, who pays for that removal? The public, of course. If, for example, a train is the target of graffiti,
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by ldjb 2y ago
Note that this is not true in many jurisdictions.
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by ldjb 2y ago
Classic Mac OS used colon (:) as the path separator, so slashes were perfectly acceptable in file and directory names. Even in modern versions of macOS, the GUI still allows you to create files and folders with slashes in their names; the s
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by ldjb 2y ago
Piracy is also listed under the "When to use a personal VPN?" heading.
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by ldjb 2y ago
There are restrictions, but SVG is an example of an image file type that can run JavaScript (again, there are legitimate use cases for this).
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by ldjb 2y ago
It's not linked to from the page, but here's the GitHub repo for anyone interested: https://github.com/susam/myrgb
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by ldjb 2y ago
Heads-up: It's ROYGBIV
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by ldjb 3y ago
The solution is to run your own Mastodon instance. Unfortunately, I find doing so can be quite a hassle. Obviously it's not free, and not only do you need to configure it properly, but you need to handle backups, updates and so on. Eve
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by ldjb 3y ago
Almost all employees did not resign in protest, but they did _threaten_ to resign. https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968988/openai-employee...
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by ldjb 3y ago
According to the developer (Ablaze)'s website [0], development of Floorp is entirely funded by sponsors on GitHub [1]. [0] https://support.ablaze.one/articles/floorp/who-build-floorp [1] https://gi
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by ldjb 3y ago
I'm also based in the UK and, in my experience, debit cards actually tend to be slightly more widely accepted than credit cards, even online. But by and large, if a website accepts Visa or Mastercard, it doesn't tend to matter if
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by ldjb 3y ago
Yes. 123 Reg is just one example that comes to mind.
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by ldjb 3y ago
I'm using a Microsoft Surface and had the same problem when trying to click using the trackpad, but tapping it on the touchscreen worked.
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by ldjb 3y ago
I have many email addresses. I don't necessarily know which email address is associated with my account. Therefore, the user benefits from knowing which email inbox they should check. That said, it could be that the security risk outwe
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by ldjb 3y ago
We also used PCs from RM at our secondary school in the late 2000s. At that time there was still a very similar exploit that allowed me to embed and run unauthorised programs inside of PowerPoint slide shows. Fun times.
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by ldjb 3y ago
For reference, here is the text of Microsoft's upcoming Services Agreement: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/upcoming.a... And here is their summary of what has changed: https://ww

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