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Throwthrowbob
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Comment #49233584
Looks like about 30 MiB with a quick test.
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Comment #48782450
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Comment #48392284
Dave Jones also did some videos on the LMV321 used in his uCurrent Gold project. The AS5X variant caused issues while others worked fine. Looking now, a document source suggests th…
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Comment #48086567
Looks like the vendor has the option to disable Link: https://support.stripe.com/questions/how-to-turn-off-link
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Comment #48076597
Neat, but Ruffle failed to load the first game I tried, with reasoning that there is possibly no file to load. And then I was blocked by Cloudflare, even though there were no Cloud…
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YouTube Meet the Line-Dancing Community Doodle Taking Up Resources
Unsure what page to suggest, but while trying to watch a video, the page was lagging. I found that the tab was taking 40% of my CPU and several hundred MB of RAM according to my sy…
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Comment #47360484
I thought this was entertaining, getting AI generated header images and then discovering the actual tool below. Plus the verbose descriptions.
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Comment #46686841
It may just be me or my internet, but I tried this specifically to see the effect and it was a very slow escape (seemed delayed starting to load, and then loading the escape page).…
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Comment #46682566
Alternatively, the back of your knee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkLfAG0AAzQ Though this is more for the coughing/sneezing rather than the door opening.
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Comment #45624444
This occurred without an update to Firefox, and against my explicit wishes in my user.js: user_pref("browser.search.update", false); Not impressed.
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Comment #45613573
I used https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/income-tax/personal-... (or an equivalent page, in case it's shifted around) to look for options a couple years back. I was glad I ha…
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Comment #44373388
How does one get the combined effects of multiple subdomains? For example, no AI, safe browsing, html, lite, as proposed by others?
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Comment #44357548
If you don't use Private Browsing (or the equivalent) or otherwise clear your browsing cache, DuckDuckGo's AI assistant can be disabled by: - clicking the little gear to the right …
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Comment #43368925
I remember being thrown off by this. A user.js entry may help. user.js runs on startup of Firefox/Librewolf, so keep this in mind for your usage application. the setting is: "priva…
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Comment #43207004
I had stopped using Waterfox in 2020 because of their association with System1, an advertising company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338321 I learned today that Waterfox …
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Comment #42799085
Would you please name the bank that had/has this issue?
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Comment #42313384
I found that damage to either my character or the opponent occurs before what looks like the damage animation (red fill) occurs. This is neat, thank you for sharing!
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Comment #40574247
Users are noticing: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to... https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://answers....
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Comment #40574245
Users are noticing: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to... https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://answers....
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Comment #39431957
Seeing some other comments about unfair power dynamics: Parking. Parking lot fines where you are accused of misusing a lot and fined: https://globalnews.ca/news/10217661/bc-man-pri…
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Comment #39377792
I found an application called Alovoa through F-Droid, but I see you don't need an phone application to use it: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.alovoa.expo/ https://app.alovoa.c…
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Comment #38675204
As a heads up, Goodreads was also subject to fake books by authors back in August of 2023, though these were removed. https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated..…