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KarlTheCool

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About KarlTheCool

https://ka.rlphilli.ps

Recent public activity

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    Comment #37172557

    Ah, I tried to boot up my old account but it looks like it's been deleted from being in the free tier too long. I cancelled my subscription after they had a nearly week long downti…

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    Comment #35683018

    I feel this response. If voicing your opinion is a risk that needs calculating, it's not worth trying. It's sad to see a small team's chat be bullied into a stream of just :eyes: :…

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    Comment #30810021

    As part of your recommendations blob? You can click the vertical ... on a video and click "Don't recommend channel" The "Breaking News" sections that show up sometimes you could pr…

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    Comment #28646973

    Microsoft has a serious issue with thinking it's ok to wake up from sleep mode. I added a script to the task scheduler to resleep if woken up by anything other than the power butto…

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    Comment #26996666

    Here's a pic: https://twitter.com/KarlTheCool/status/1388185172189741064 It's the YMDK Split 64: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000074426801.html I wanted a split for ergo while …

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    Comment #26005880

    I think the bigger problem is the design pattern of "mobile-mode vs desktop-mode". The document isn't meant to escape hatch on size, individual elements are.

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    Comment #26005426

    The Priv is still my all time favourite form factor for a smart phone. Typing benefits are self explanatory but having your thumb off the screen by swiping on the keyboard was supe…

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    Comment #25525307

    Phones home and groups users who have the same IP address together. https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop/blob/master/server/in...

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    Comment #25382061

    I've been using Tor with proxy disabled[1] ever since that fingerprint tester[2] was posted a while ago. I figure of all people forking and hardening a web browser, I trust the tor…

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    Comment #25176136

    It's worth noting when doing this it registers each anchor in the browser history. If you want to avoid this, checkbox hacking with the :checked selector is an option.

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    Comment #24349507

    The one I know of is Liberapay ( https://liberapay.com/ ) The most true to concept part? They don't take a cut on transactions, but instead have their own page on the site ( https:…

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    Comment #21529024

    Probably a skeleton screen would be better. Show an empty version of the usual ui but with blocky placeholders as stuff loads in. https://uxdesign.cc/what-you-should-know-about-ske…