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by ormax3 5d ago
https://devdocs.io/
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by ormax3 1y ago
it seems possible to install GfW into an existing MSYS2: https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper
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by ormax3 1y ago
microsoft introduced Dev drives for this reason, they are optimized such that no file system filters are attached https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
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by ormax3 1y ago
one might argue that one of the advantages of languages like C is that you only pay for the features you choose to use, no unnecessary overhead like initializing unused variables
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by ormax3 2y ago
and here I am still playing Civ II MGE https://github.com/FoxAhead/Civ2-UI-Additions
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by ormax3 2y ago
I use this handy bookmarklet to kill sticky headers:: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
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by ormax3 3y ago
While OpenCV was born at Intel, I don't think it's solely developed by Intel anymore, there's now a non-profit organization in charge of the project: https://opencv.org/opencv-platinum-membership/
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by ormax3 3y ago
the cache being talked about is for recently/frequently accesses things, not stuff pending write
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by ormax3 3y ago
first thing I did before reading the article, using uBO to block JS on the page
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by ormax3 3y ago
https://petapixel.com/2022/12/14/man-fakes-an-entire-month-o...
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by ormax3 3y ago
I agree, the visualization is pretty but kinda useless to explain mat-mult. It would have been more intuitive to show every element in output matrix corresponds to a dot-product of row/column vectors from input matrices, the animation
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by ormax3 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Layer_for_Unicode
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by ormax3 3y ago
The above manifesto makes the argument to use UTF-8 *everywhere*, even on windows where the internal representation is not native utf8. The conversion overhead is really negligible: https://utf8everywhere.org/#faq.cvt.perf
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by ormax3 3y ago
Like explained in https://utf8everywhere.org/#windows , you can write simple wrapper functions `narrow`/`widen` used when you are about to call window api functions. ::SetWindowTextW(widen(someStdString).c_str())
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by ormax3 3y ago
- TLS 1.2 https://www.emailarchitect.net/eagetmail/sdk/html/object_tls... - Root Certificates https://msfn.org/board/topic/175170-root-certificates-and-re... - XP Browsers / Ma
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by ormax3 3y ago
SD is uncensored, you can generate anything you want with no "safety" rails to stop you. Just take a loot at civitai to see the kind of finetuned models that are out there.
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by ormax3 3y ago
Nowadays even consumer-level hardware can run some decent local LLMs, completely offline. You might want to browse /r/LocalLLaMA/ if "security" is an issue for you.
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by ormax3 3y ago
both work in the same way, by setting up a proxy/local-vpn through which all traffic passes in order to filter ad hosts at the dns level.
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by ormax3 3y ago
sounds like something LLMs can help with, sift through huge amounts of documents to summarize and highlight the interesting ones
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by ormax3 3y ago
private/incognito window?
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by ormax3 3y ago
given the proliferation of electron-based desktop apps, which are known to be resource heavy, making various so libraries smaller is indeed a welcome improvement.
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by ormax3 4y ago
> What really does itch.io or Steam offer in the way of protection if a developer wants to be malicious anyway? more eyes; if a game contained some kind of malware, there will likely be reports made on the game discussion page (hosted on
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by ormax3 4y ago
It should be possible to disable many of these connections as documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-con...
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by ormax3 4y ago
something like this using mitmproxy (from 2017): https://www.softscheck.com/en/blog/windows-10-enterprise-tel...
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by ormax3 4y ago
just means that given the nature of BitTorrent, you will be exposing your IP address to other peers and trackers
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by ormax3 4y ago
https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/project-t... > You can have one free project on your user account, and the resources you create within it will be limited. You will not be billed for
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by ormax3 4y ago
uBlock Origin can: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
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by ormax3 5y ago
Egypt has over 100 million people. Facebook/WhatsApp is quite popular in that part of the world, so I would image it had significant traffic..
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Pale Moon developers (ab)use MPL license to shut down a fork(reddit.com)
3 points by ormax3 5y ago|0 comments
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by ormax3 5y ago
since Discord is very popular in the gaming world, one can only wonder what the future would bring seeing how another acquisition of Microsoft in this space ended, namely Mixer (Twitch-like service).

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