shbooms

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by shbooms 8mo ago
the title contradicts what's in the actual article. the proposal is to change the default beahvior, not getting rid of the ability outright. as long as they both retain the ability to change the behavior back to how was before, it do
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by shbooms 9mo ago
I'm a bit out of the loop, what are people's issues with Tahoe?
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by shbooms 9mo ago
often times you will have requirements that the documents you release be digitally searchable and so in these cases, this would not be an option
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by shbooms 9mo ago
It depends where you are. most cities in the US have them everywhere now
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by shbooms 10mo ago
this is true a lot in the world of paintings. there are regularly auctions where you can buy items "attributed" to (meaning it's speculated but not confirmed) very famous Modern Art painters like Van Gogh, Monet, etc for und
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by shbooms 10mo ago
there was already an attempt to take it down back in 2020/2021 [0]. The DMCA claim's main argument was that ytdl was circumventing Techincal Protection Measures (TPMs) in order to access the content. Thanks to a letter from the EF
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by shbooms 2y ago
It's completely true. Looking at Vizio's financial records[0], the numbers make it clear. They seperate everything into 2 distinct businesses, Device and Platform+ . Device represents their hardware business of selling physical
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by shbooms 2y ago
why not both? "Postbox is winding down its operations after being acquired by eM Client"
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by shbooms 2y ago
idk, even that seems too much to me, but maybe I'm just being too senstive. but like, why is it a website's job to tell me what browser version to use? unless my outdated browser is lacking legitmate functionality which is require
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by shbooms 2y ago
What's the deal with ereaders and their seeming disdain for sane battery life measurements? Amazon boasts "up to 8 weeks on a single charge" in all their selling points, then, in the fine print states "A single charge la
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by shbooms 2y ago
I agree that more granular permissions is better (in terms of dictating which sites an extension has access to) but I think the main problem as I understand it is that this is an entirely seperate issue from the one that nukes uBO. V3 intro
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by shbooms 2y ago
Same here. Prior to my discovery that fandom was bad and a lot of wikis were moving away, I was following so many instances of out dated info in games I was playing due to not realizing that the wiki was no longer maintained since the activ
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by shbooms 2y ago
What can a website do just from opening dev tools that it can't do without opening them?
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by shbooms 2y ago
> that's a contractual term between Apple, Inc. and OpenAI, LLC. do you have a source on this or are you just assuming?
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by shbooms 2y ago
And I can almost guarentee you it will magically all turn itself back on/reinstall itself eventually after the OS force updates/reboots itself in the not too distant future.
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by shbooms 3y ago
yes for about 2 years (2015 - 2017) as a part time partner https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-peter
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by shbooms 3y ago
> Wasn't the Moskva spotted by a drone before missile deployment? Drones were speculated to have been involved but it was said they were used to distract the ship's defense system as the missiles were in the air, not in the ini
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by shbooms 3y ago
+1 for itsycal. - solid integration with macOS Calendar app (shows all your events and has a "+" option to create new ones) - can also display a time clock along with the date and also has fully customizable datetime patterns mean
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by shbooms 3y ago
I can't find the source but in some of the communication Selig released between him and Reddit a few days ago, Reddit themselves confirmed that their pricing is based on lost oppurtunity cost per user, not just expenses
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by shbooms 3y ago
I think GP's point is that the amount of the settlement is not enough given the total number of users involved, rather than the class action itself is insignificant. In my opinion, in these type of cases, the amount should be directly
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by shbooms 3y ago
I feel like even that would fall under the umbrella of a desktop app in the context of this asine bill. they didn't say desktop apps with a GUI , just any "app" running on a desktop which I'm sure they would argue inclu
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by shbooms 4y ago
Right but the point is you at least need to notfiy them first and give them the chance to do something. If you're unsatified with what they've done, or lack thereof, then sure.
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by shbooms 4y ago
not GP but I do agree to a point that the records of Messi/CR7 at the club level are more impressive than Pele's. Pele played all his club games in Brazil (18 seasons with Santos) and the US (2 seasons with the Cosmos) where the
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by shbooms 4y ago
> Got "1234" as a passcode on a long-forgotten family iPad or test iPhone? Better go change it to something secure... according to the article, I don't think this will be possible because you won't even be able to tur
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by shbooms 4y ago
> the fundamental ideas of open source A bit ironic that Copilot itself is not open source.
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by shbooms 4y ago
> Organic Chemistry 1, 2 and 3 at NYU have always been considered challenging and “weed out”. It seems this "weed out" culture around orgo is very much an established thing in the world of the sciences/pre-med which is a l
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by shbooms 4y ago
isn't Brave chromium-based? Have they stated yet if/when they will take MV3 into/remove MV2 from their codebase?
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by shbooms 4y ago
You are not misrembering. They announced it at the beginning of this month [0][1] and have officially shut down all of their hosted instances as of about a week ago [2] [0] https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontin
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by shbooms 4y ago
Holy hell, this blog is virtually unreadable. Article content aside, the fact that after pretty much every single paragraph there's 1-2 giant links to some other article and/or an ad is just infurianting and makes it impossible to
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by shbooms 4y ago
agreed, I didn't mean to imply that they did. merely that this is something that is inherent to Steam's platform meaning they as much a part of the problem as the publisher here

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