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FoxBJK

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Front-end Web Dev., and some other stuff too

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Yes but this is local to your browser and you’ll be able to edit and/or clear it out if you choose.

It’s not perfect, and I’m aware of which community this is, but this is vastly better than 3rd party cookies.

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Gorhill already has an MV3 version of ublock. Why is no one aware of this!?

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How often does that happen though? Usually these games get a couple updates early on to fix major bugs, and once it’s stable it’s never touched again.

On the Mac side it’s been a real sad story because so many old 32bit and/or x86 games simply can’t run anymore.

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As the other guy pointed out that’s a little silly from an economics standpoint. Games depreciate quickly so it’s going to be cheaper to wait until someone confirms Linux support.

Also, buying something in hopes of it one day getting the support you want? That’s just crazy! Don’t buy something until it fits all your needs.

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You’re free to spend your money however you wish, but buying a whole bundle and being OK with not being able to play any game in it? If you would wait for the 10 years until it actually becomes playable you’ll probably be able to get it for even less than $20.

You do you, but I personally don’t advise people buy something until it’s actually working. “Sit on this for 10 years and maybe then you’ll get what you paid for” is bad advice.

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Considering how expensive individual components can be, it’s always a good idea to ensure you got the exact model you paid for while there’s still a chance to return it or report fraud to your credit card company. Even with NiB items mistakes can be made and the wrong item could be shipped out.

“Trust, but verify”

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Trying to block a car with your body just seems so foolish. Who’s that going to work on except honest people who wouldn’t try running from the cops anyways?

Fauci on masks: people should take risks into account (www.cnn.com)

“The CDC does not mandate anything,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci. But if a Covid surge leads to a recommendation that people wear masks, “I hope they would abide by the recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and to their families. We are not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.”

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Hindsight’s 20/20 of course, but letting the term “mask mandate” proliferate was a huge mistake. That’s just daring people not to follow the rules. “Mask advisory” or “mask recommendation” wouldn’t have pissed off nearly as many people.

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Given how some of those toddlers were the very police who would’ve needed to enforce said mandate, it’s not as simple as “don’t pander to them”. Especially since, let’s be honest, putting all the people who refused to mask up into jail cells would’ve been extremely counter-intuitive.

We claimed it was a mandate but it very quickly became clear that was in name only, which is my main gripe about it. They shouldn’t have called it a “mandate” unless they were prepared to enforce it like one, which they weren’t.

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It’s not always oppression per se but there are definitely people who hear about a rule or restriction and just think “challenge accepted!”

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Climate change is only going to make this event harder and more dangerous in the future. I just hope the death toll stays at 1.

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By “western society” do you mean the US? Because the EU doesn’t seem to have any qualms about regulating new technologies. That seems to be a uniquely American thing.

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Human drivers should be facing more rigorous testing regardless. It’s horrifically easy to get a license… and then they never test you again for the rest of your life. That’s just insane when you think about it. My test was in 2002. Feels like I should have to retake it at some point.

Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible (www.insider.com)

As more and more states pass laws targeting "pornographic material" in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent

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Unfortunately not only is Reddit still chugging along, Lemmy is slowly losing users.

Growing new communities is very hard and takes a long time.

EDIT - Adding my source

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The PWA still exists

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Firefox doesn’t support PWA’s so you’ll have to use something Chromium based, but yes. They have a manifest file so as long as your browser supports it you should be fine.

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Surprised they’re not banned already. I would have no problem with this type of content being banned. Political content belongs on political subs.

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It’s not, that’s why they’re doing it.

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They were taken to court for bundling a previously paid product (a browser) into their OS for free.

Asking if you want to change your search engine is not the same thing.

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The school knows exactly what’s up. They just can’t say “COVID” in a place like Kenfucky without hundreds of parents screaming at the top of their lungs.

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BK made a Spiderman hamburger. Does that count?

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I understand your point, but a movie that is itself a 2-hour advertisement doesn’t lose any of its value by showing other brands.

What’s bleak is that a movie about a toy grosses over a billion at the box office. Not that BMW or Samsung want you to look at their stuff.

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A fair point, but in your original example we’re talking about a cell phone. That’s a significantly more subtle inclusion than Tom draping himself in an American flag and riding off on the back of an eagle.

I don’t remember the scene we’re talking about, so if it was a cell phone in the real world I see no issue. If it was in Barbie’s world then it should’ve been plastic. That would be my only complaint.

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Like the other guy pointed out this is a fairly standard shot. Whatever you’re wearing that day, blank background, shot in a couple seconds. The height markers and holding a placard with your name are things that were phased out a long time ago.

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Converting ancient code to a more modern language seems like a great use for AI, in all honesty. Not a lot of COBOL devs out there but once it’s Java the amount of coders available to fix/improve whatever ChatGPT spits out jumps exponentially!

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All of that is mentioned in the article. Given how much it cost last time a company tried to convert from COBOL, don’t be surprised when you see more businesses opt for this cheaper path. Even if it only converts half of the codebase, that’s still a huge improvement.

Doing this manually is a tall order…

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The problem is it’ll convert 100% of the code base

Please go read the article. They specifically say they aren’t doing this.

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And in this case they’re not doing that:

“IBM built the Code Assistant for IBM Z to be able to mix and match COBOL and Java services,” Puri said. “If the ‘understand’ and ‘refactor’ capabilities of the system recommend that a given sub-service of the application needs to stay in COBOL, it’ll be kept that way, and the other sub-services will be transformed into Java.”

So you might feed it your COBOL code and find it only coverts 40%.

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One would hope that IBM’s selling a product that has a higher success rate than a coinflip, but the real question is long-term project cost. Given the example of a $700 million dollar project, how much does AI need to convert successfully before it pays for itself? If we end up with 20% of the original project successfully done by AI, that’s massive savings.

The software’s only going to get better, and in spite of how lucrative a COBOL career is, we don’t exactly see a sharp increase in COBOL devs coming out of schools. We either start coming up with viable ways to move on from this language or we admit it’s too essential to ever be forgotten and mandate every CompSci student learn it before graduating.

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Guess it depends on the industry. I’m a web developer so it doesn’t matter what OS I use, and frankly it’s far easier to install and configure the tools I need on Linux than it is on Windows. I can leave a Linux system online for weeks at a time, which in some cases is the entire length of a contract.

Windows is good, but it requires just as much training as any other system to become a real power user.

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“Big tech company bad, Twitter dead, Linux good”

Add Firefox in there and yes I’ve seen this everywhere. So many posts about browser news or the web that just devolves into a circlejerk about how great Firefox is.

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It’s not inherently bad, I don’t even disagree with it. It’s just that (A) we all get it, enough already and (B) the open web is about letting people use whichever browser they want, so it’s kinda paradoxical that we all say we should all be using the same browser

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The turning point will be when companies/websites start spinning up their own Lemmy instances as their official one to replace their forums, which I think will happen.

I don’t know if this is going to happen, and to be honest I hope it doesn’t. Lemmy is not designed to be a forum and shouldn’t try to be used as a replacement for one.

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There is safari too, of course, but it hardly compares to either in it’s current state

Curious to hear you elaborate on this. It’s the #2 browser by marketshare and Apple, while slower in the past, seems to be hearing developer feedback and catching up to what we’re asking.

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Lemmy is a link aggregator. Yes it can serve a lot of (if not all) the functions of a forum but it’s not designed to be a drop-in replacement for something like Discuss or phpBB. It’s different enough that I feel like calling it a forum is not the right term.

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it never gets credit

Not that I disagree, but they get the exact amount of credit their licenses require… a small-text listing on a “credits” page buried deep in the system settings.

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They don’t need any reasons at all anymore. Microsoft won the PC wars a long time ago and has been able to coast ever since. People will upgrade because Windows is the only thing supporting whatever apps they use in the workplace, because Macs are too expensive, and because Microsoft (for all its flaws) still cares about backwards compatibility.

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www.emudeck.com

Emulation is in a great place on the Deck!

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Enterprises will have to upgrade once security support for 10 is dropped. Microsoft can even charge them extra to extend that maintenance window if they wanna squeeze more life out of the OS but it’s so crazy expensive that Microsoft clearly has the upper hand here.

Through their OEM deals, you’ll have a hard time finding a new computer with anything other than 11, and software developers can only support so many versions of Windows so they’ll have to drop older releases to be sure they can keep up with all those new computers people are forced to buy.

No one wanted to upgrade to 10 either, yet here we are. Microsoft knows exactly what they’re doing and have no qualms about how insidious it all is.

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But what about the Waffle House?

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Which parts of this aren’t Photoshopped in?

X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014 (www.theverge.com)

X, which was formerly known as Twitter until its recent rebranding, is having a problem displaying old posts that came with images attached or any hyperlinks converted through Twitter’s built-in URL shortener. It’s unclear when the problem started, but it was highlighted on Saturday afternoon in a post by Tom Coates, and a...

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Back then Twitter was much more open and there were places like the Library of Congress archiving everything. Things with historical significance will live on.

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I like BEM in theory, but whenever I actually dive in and start setting up the naming scheme what I end up with are some really long and convoluted identifiers that don’t always make things easier to organize.

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Yes I get that, just not a fan of what it ends up looking like. Feels like more effort than necessary for what’s really just a naming scheme.

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Have you worked with Bootstrap at all?

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Yeah it’s only a problem because audio consumption is generally a zero-sum game.

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A reasonable request, but I doubt the school’s going to back down from the position of “we’re allowed to monitor the hardware we own”.

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Americans have absolutely embraced public transit. It’s just that not a lot of cities have robust systems in place, but go somewhere like NYC or Chicago and you’ll see a transit system that millions rely on daily.

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