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chocolatkey
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Comment #49206975
Here's what an email from metabase looks like for those affected: On Monday, August 3, we discovered that Metabase Cloud was attacked by someone utilizing an unknown (“0-day”) secu…
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Comment #48812168
Linux does though? cat /etc/machine-id
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Comment #48536056
I’m not in the EU so I have not, this is based on the technical changes mentioned, and what I’ve heard from people. Feel free to try if you are in the EU: kobo.com/update
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Comment #48535405
Which startech product did you end up getting? One of the hubs or chargers? I have a similar issue with various USB-C rack devices
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Comment #48535265
Kobo is actually in the process of completely rewriting their e-reader software (you can download the beta in the EU), and I’m pretty sure it’s no longer based on RMSDK. Adobe basi…
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Comment #47300190
That “compact JSON” format reminds me if the special protobufs JSON format that Google uses in their APIs that has very little public documentation. Does anyone happen to know why …
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Comment #46951517
A nonprofit I help out just moved from Slack to Discord for a very simple reason: Slack pricing was too expensive, and as the amount of people increased, the price continues to cli…
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Comment #46904864
That’s incorrect, it’s trying to load an asset (hardcoded unique per-extension path) for each extension, there is a huge list of these in the source code: https://raw.githubusercon…
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Comment #46786343
Note that Threema has had a recent change in ownership to a German investment firm. Supposedly nothing will change but I can’t help but be wary
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Comment #46605109
Where can I learn more about hardware acceleration of WebP on mobile OSes? I haven’t yet come across a resource that confirms this is actually the case. I know it should theoretica…
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Comment #45904322
I was able to use the (free) app “ReadID Me” to decode passport information months ago
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Comment #45845264
Google’s Tink crypto library had a slightly technical page to help with that: https://developers.google.com/tink/choose-primitive
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Comment #45521971
It's somewhat popular for piracy, when you know that your site could never pass the Apple/Google store reviews. I've seen it with, for example, manga aggregators
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Comment #44795579
I disagree regarding the choice of codec. Currently, I have no issues receiving, saving, and viewing H265 streams. Any modern CPU/GPU can handle them natively (I use a 2018 Intel C…
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Comment #44429705
This would break way too many websites to be feasible. And if implemented, would be something requested on so many sites that users would learn to automatically say yes which would…
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Comment #43776222
Stripe also has a version of this called “Link”, which uses SMS authentication. Based on Stripe data on multiple platforms I have access to, quite a high percentage of people use i…
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Comment #43330100
What I preferred recently when buying a used car over Craigslist was that I was able to vet the seller more easily because this was their Facebook profile. Like many other people o…
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Comment #43187244
I agree that AI translations are not close to the standards many people would expect, but there is a significant, growing population of readers (many with EN as a second language) …
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Comment #43186970
You have much competition in this space with for example https://ichigoreader.com https://ismanga.com and many more (just search the chrome extension store for examples). What is y…
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Comment #42984977
What is wrong with frequent changing of jobs? It’s one of the easiest tools for increasing my compensation. The job market ideally should be so flexible you can switch to another c…
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Comment #42957770
It’s actually still a bit tedious on the Apple ecosystem. On the web (Safari) you have to wrap it in a WEBM or CAF container, and on iOS it’s similar. That’s a lossless process, bu…
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Comment #42232986
It’s funny, I have a somewhat opposite setup - Surface Pro 7+ (Windows) as a thin client, M4 Mac Mini as the beefy machine, using mainly VS Code Remote over SSH. It works great for…
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Comment #42045226
I think you posted the wrong youtube link
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Comment #42023164
When reading https://github.com/WICG/direct-sockets/blob/main/docs%2Fexpl... , it's noted this is part of the "isolated web apps" proposal: https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-app…
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Comment #42021632
J-Novel Club LLC | Contract & Full-time | REMOTE (Worldwide) J-Novel Club is a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, focusing on the publication of Japanese light novels and manga. W…