sovok_x

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by sovok_x 1y ago
It's what betas are released for - to check whether something breaks or not. What's the point of reposting this to a news site?
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by sovok_x 1y ago
This doesn't work though. I was banned there without as much as a single-line explanation after 10+ years of being a normal rule-abiding user which didn't change even up to that point. Maximum stuff they might not like I did is vi
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by sovok_x 2y ago
"Incompatible hardware" is their corporate speak for any hardware that weakens vendor lock-in and propagation of MSFT-centered consumerism.
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by sovok_x 2y ago
The comments section there says everything about how many people process such questions: - historical ignorance; - economical ignorance; - repeating mass media propaganda narrative word for word; - hubris. I do hope europeans will start wor
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by sovok_x 2y ago
AFAIK there are two ways for this, neither of which is convenient to use: install all extensions from the source (you can unpack an existing crx for it or use their clonned repo if it's opensource) or use a group policy to disable exte
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by sovok_x 2y ago
That reminded me of how Windows abuses my HDD by regularly writing dozens of logs I won't ever need unless I'm both knowledgeable enough and debug for specific errors. And also about WinSxS/Temp/InFlight folder that gets
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by sovok_x 2y ago
More like false advertising and platform abuse, but given that this doesn't incur any loss unless you were actually hired and then dismissed, it's also not really actionable. The best measure here is for job search platforms to cu
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by sovok_x 2y ago
The thing is it was pretty obvious from the update description that something like this will happen. But the update in question is cumulative so even among advanced users that know how to restrict autoupdates many were forced to install it
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by sovok_x 2y ago
If you have uBlock Origin installed it should already protect you from this attack vector with "Block outsider intrusion into LAN" filter list, though. And you also don't need this on Windows since 0.0.0.0 IP is blocked on a
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by sovok_x 2y ago
Ignoring moral and sanitary considerations of accessing a dead body, it just won't work. Most modern phones use capacitive sensing during the process. Once tissue is dead, it loses its electrical charge and will fail to activate the fi
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by sovok_x 2y ago
You just use bad tools for that. When using custom AutoPagerize UserJS mod that utilizes pushState, endless scrolling works like a charm for me for years already. Like I can scroll to thousand-numbered items of HN seamlessly. It remembers t
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by sovok_x 2y ago
Heads up map digitizing seem to refer to the method where computer operator digitized an aerial image map by manually tagging its features displayed on the screen, in contrast to heads down digitizing where they used a special tablet. Anywa
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by sovok_x 2y ago
This site is currently a counterproductive trash that will simply waste your time on using it. There is some promise in LLM comparison but the limits of this make it utterly useless, even as a litmus test, since you can't check anythin
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Also: - Allows switching non-utf8 zip filename encodings from the menu, it's a mess with 7zip; - Its context menu works inside Sandboxie without bugs; - GUI is really much better, so I will reiterate the point. 7zip basically froze in
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by sovok_x 3y ago
I will switch to it in a flash if it'll allow creating embedded recovery/par2 records for 7z and zip archives without breaking format compatibility somehow. Otherwise it's just an alternative GUI or things I don't need i
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Technically sites can prevent that by disallowing anything that looks like long baseXY-encoded blobs in their postable sections like pastebin does already.
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Can someone explain why WinRar installers of the same exact versions and languages but downloaded from their different sites www.rarlab.com vs www.win-rar.com have different sizes/hashes while being signed by the same signer?
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Well, the man clearly wants to kill the thing so crossing it out is not anything unusual.
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by sovok_x 3y ago
For ads and online-dependent annoyware a third-party firewall works too.
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Google Windows IoT. And yes, it supports WSL.
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Use IoT version of the OS instead. It's quite difficult to remove some of the bloat from mainstream versions even having Windows debloater scripts or O&O's tools because of how deeply they're intertwined into the system.
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by sovok_x 3y ago
It's not a question of should or not. People just willingly give up privacy for convenience. For example merely using a phone (not to mention a smartphone with their location awareness capabilities, or a plain mobile phone with their m
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Also I suggest to use: ):xpath(following-sibling::tr[1]) instead of: ) + * as the latter bugs out sometimes if you use an autopagination browser script/extension.
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by sovok_x 3y ago
At this point I just wonder whether Firefox userbase will flee the browser in droves if someone will make its unmozilled tracking fork sustained by easily payable tips, that has all the BS disabled and uBlock + couple of other top 10 exten
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Also some of the settings are more of a silent cry "please stop doing this" because the browser will disregard them a few versions later.
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Nice, today I learned of :upward CSS pseudo-class in uB, so I will change my old rules to that. Still, it's better to add html:not([op="item"]) before overall selector so it wouldn't filter even in specifically o
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by sovok_x 3y ago
Nicely written. I want to add some usability ideas to this: - Don't show multiply modals of the same error if possible. Add something like "(# errors)" to the existing modal instead; - If some error is not critical but possib
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by sovok_x 3y ago
It's nice as a vague intro but leaves more questions than it answers. Are there any actual insights into accessing and (ab)using this underlying RISC-like architecture, IME, or other mysterious stuff, somewhere?
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by sovok_x 3y ago
If you use uBlock you can just filter out those posts with a couple of rules like I do: news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .athing:not(.comtr):has-text(/corona|covid|\bAI\b|GPT|wordle|Ukrain|Russi|\bChin[ae]|death|quarantin/i):xpat
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by sovok_x 4y ago
I'm not okay with this because its author cherry picks images to compare. Those might as well be an outliers. It'd be more convincing when comparing 10k images gallery with a variety of image types, like photos, paintings, sketche

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