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I use Video Background Play Fix [1] (along with uBlock of course). "Firefox for Android can continue playing video even if you switch to another tab or app. However, sites can dete…

I'm not sure if I picked it up from a documentary or book, but worth noting that the photographer Frank Hurley dived into the ice water and chopped through a wood wall to rescue th…

I didn't get past the pricing page to be honest. Podio costs $20/seat for premium, your product costs $48 for pro (with enterprise price not even listed)

> 1080p at 240hz with a fancy graphics card On manufacturer's website [0], both the 15" and 17" Stellaris are listed with WQHD IPS-Panel (2560 x 1440 pixels) - I was looking at the…

I have seen it a lot of code over the years, sometimes referred to as "shorthand ternary" or the "and-or-trick". In Python and/or do not return a boolean, but one of its input argu…

Python also has "shorthand ternary" which uses and/or: a = bar and foo # "or None" is implied b = bar and foo or baz It does almost the same but not quite. In the latter example, i…

I cut my teeth on Perl back in the day, and while I have stopped using it completely by now, I am no hater. But this article does not contain the word "bless", and I wonder why it …

In case anyone is interested, the $N-Protractor algorithm was ported to Python for use in the Kivy framework [0]. Unfortunately it's tied to kivy's clock among other things, but ea…

My interpretation is $1 reads as "unistroke"/"singlestroke" while $N = "multistroke"

The FAQ suggests that NFS is problematic for concurrent access: > But use caution: this locking mechanism might not work correctly if the database file is kept on an NFS filesystem…

The subreddit is /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza and still in operation. /r/RandomActsOfPizza was a copycat started with the explicit purpose of bartering nudes for pizza (forbidden in the…

"Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment" - it was candidly named, if nothing else. > Indeed, Goebbels initially opposed the term propaganda, recognizing that in popular us…

I like the idea and the execution, nice job!

> Nobody's speed-reading code. That doesn't make sense. Well, I speed-read code all the time.. it's a necessity in my role as independent consultant. Clients have a lot of half-bak…

There was a lot of issues with the "new" Yahoo Groups web frontend. A feedback system was set up, but virtually all the reports were ignored. They removed it altogether at some poi…

I assume that's total, including apps? Or are you saying that between old, mobile web and new, 75% of hits are from new? If so that's quite different from my traffic stats, copying…

> The question is whether or not the abuses that might occur as the result of analyzing publicly available information are worse than the harms that might come from not doing so. H…

Nice work! Please add a LICENSE file

> I'm actually amazed that they still bother to maintain this legacy versions. According to my traffic stats (moderating ~400k subscribers), old + mobile web frontends make up abou…

I came across Tauthon [0] a while back, it seems quite active. I have a codebase that has proven difficult to port, so this is the backup plan.. "Tauthon is a backwards-compatible …

> very few companies will pay for their source code to be audited, because it's expensive and time-consuming, and most only do it if they're required to. And even when they do, in …

> So I create a local repo with dolt, and now I want someone else to collaborate on this dataset with me, without using dolthub. How I do this? The best I could find is utils/remot…

> My battery is still strong. Probably around 10-12 hours of use. Mum bought new last year because pads were worn, I got her old set - uses a single AAA battery and lasts across th…

Ahem well, random story time, I also used VNC about 10+ years ago. I was visiting a friend, and somehow we ended up wondering how many open VNC servers were still out on the Intern…

Well in that case you are using a cloud-based service, it makes sense that you have to authenticate. But I was writing and building C++ code just fine locally, and I could have con…