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by pteraspidomorph 13d ago
I drew Vuk,a boy who lived in the 13th century Balkans. He died at 2. His dad was already gone. According to the statistics the life expectancy at birth for him was around 50%. I suspect a lot of our random people would have died early, if
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by pteraspidomorph 26d ago
You can access page info through address bar shield > connection secure > more site information too. It used to be easier to access from there, but they redesigned that at some point I think.
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by pteraspidomorph 27d ago
Also, people can and should go to the firefox settings > Permissions and data > Autoplay and change the Default for all websites to "Block Audio" (at least). You can set per-hostname exceptions if you like! CTRL + I > Per
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by pteraspidomorph 28d ago
Graphene passes basic integrity, so most of them work. There is a list here: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
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by pteraspidomorph 2mo ago
I suspect that while Ron Gilbert is great at what he does, Tim Schafer was always the funnier writer of the Monkey Island trio...
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by pteraspidomorph 2mo ago
It's a stylistic choice. Here's an analysis, complete with a link back to an old HN discussion: https://www.pbjstories.com/blog/spaces-around-em-dash I beta read for a popular american author and they start
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by pteraspidomorph 2mo ago
> It sucks that Google is probably using OSM data to check what they are missing and adding it to their maps If only. Maps are still super broken around where I live. I personally mapped everything in OSM (which thankfully is used by mos
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by pteraspidomorph 3mo ago
Remember it's also coming for you: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require... > The KIDS Act Regulates Private Messages, Too
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by pteraspidomorph 3mo ago
Have you tried foliate? Their embedded reader works quite well for me.
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by pteraspidomorph 5mo ago
Maybe because a lot of users still have those games wishlisted?
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by pteraspidomorph 5mo ago
I can confirm that it got more stable for me in 2025. Good job!
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by pteraspidomorph 7mo ago
I had this problem with Facebook 15 years ago. Nothing new, but as always, people will avert their eyes until it begins to affect them personally.
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by pteraspidomorph 7mo ago
And we're still getting passwords changed periodically or requiring a number, upper case letter, symbol... I'm an European engineer and I can confirm that our tech is often broken and customer-reachable people are usually obtuse a
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by pteraspidomorph 7mo ago
As someone who has been on Discord since the beginning, runs Discord communities and writes Discord bots, here's my list of three things that I believe would make a viable Discord competitor: - Free without requiring self-hosting; - Ab
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by pteraspidomorph 7mo ago
OK, but you're not the one making that decision and you don't know/can't control how that decision is being made.
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by pteraspidomorph 7mo ago
That has always been the case, yes, though I'm not sure what you mean by "illegal" content. There is only a small overlap between NSFW and illegal content, and the NSFW filter has never been concerned with, uh, violating phot
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by pteraspidomorph 7mo ago
Here's how Discord works. A third or so of its features, such as forum channels (EDIT: I think this specific example was wrong; stage and announcement channels, but not forum channels) or role self-assignment, are locked behind Communi
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by pteraspidomorph 8mo ago
RTS like Age of Empires were more geared towards combat, and base building existed only to supplement that. Whereas in games like Pharaoh and Caeser you could plan your city if you wanted to. My iteration of The Settlers was The Settlers
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by pteraspidomorph 8mo ago
Of course not, everyone knows there were only five Istari in total, Saruman the White, Gandalf the Grey, Radagast the Brown and the two Blue ones that were kidnapped by aliens.
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by pteraspidomorph 8mo ago
I used Nova for years and went through this research before, having tested many alternatives. Octopi is what you're looking for. It can do pretty much everything Nova did for me and more besides. They also update often with improvement
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by pteraspidomorph 9mo ago
I'm happy Airvpn is rarely mentioned in mainstream vpn lists and don't typically mention them myself (sorry airvpn folks, but here's my apology) because I suspect its relative obscurity is in great part the reason it works so
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by pteraspidomorph 10mo ago
If you enable privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config I believe instead of trying to prevent fingerprinting entirely, it's supposed to make things annoying for the fingerprinters by regularly changing the various spoofed factors.
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by pteraspidomorph 10mo ago
I only own Index controllers, not the headset. I have a mixed tracking Pico 4 setup and wireless functionality is definitely one of the pluses; the higher resolution panels also make a significant difference (the Frame and the Pico 4 seem t
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by pteraspidomorph 10mo ago
I'm led to believe there's only so much FOV you can get out of pancake lenses? This is already spoecced to be the best pancake FOV seen to this date.
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by pteraspidomorph 10mo ago
As an Index controler and Pico user: The back straps are pretty much essential for any serious use; the controller purportedly includes finger tracking (capacitive) but you can't really open your hand without dropping the controller un
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by pteraspidomorph 10mo ago
As a current and frequent user of this form factor (Pico 4, with the top strap, which the Steam Frame will also have as an option, over Virtual Desktop) I can assure you that it's quite comfortable over long periods of time (several ho
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by pteraspidomorph 11mo ago
Yes, while VRChat does a lot of things right, the VRChat company definitely doesn't seem trustworthy in the long run. It's an aggressively walled garden where the company has full control over both content and narrative, and we&#x
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by pteraspidomorph 11mo ago
Conceptually, it reminds me of DropMix by Harmonix. The physicality of it was really cool, but it also ended up being really unsuccessful, and I can imagine why: - Compared to a traditional board game (well, most of them), it was expensive
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by pteraspidomorph 1y ago
> There is no target audience in this planet that benefits from less options or less features. I'm currently involved in UI design and, to my frustration, adding more options or features seems to send a vocal minority of the user ba
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by pteraspidomorph 1y ago
I'm happy they didn't choose to go full authentic with quirks mode and table-based layouts, because Firefox has some truly ancient bugs in nested table rendering... that'll never get fixed, because... no one uses them anymore

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