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Comment #37397483
The permission field can also lead you down the rabbit hole of discovering noncompliance to its specification in some PDF writers and workarounds for these that may or may not be p…
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Comment #36825495
I'm using Lively Wallpaper[0] to show an audio visualizer (trough CefSharp). The CPU load as shown in Task Manager is around 1.5-2% on my Ryzen 5800X. Therefore I tend to activate …
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Comment #36760216
> unmatched satisfaction (if they were done)
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Comment #36693171
xfreerdp works just fine, however it requires some fiddling if you want to use it on multiple monitors.
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Comment #36432700
It is not a problem to load a static (not changing based on user data) ad from your own server. Using a CDN is likely legitimate interest when it is not using private data for othe…
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Comment #36432404
Though in the end you're the one clicking busses and bikes and bridges and busses again and when you're through that charade, everything is gone anyway because the bots were faster…
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Comment #36421887
It's two different directives: - ePrivacy Directive which is about local storage - GDPR which is about information processing
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Comment #36395983
#589 -12579 Vladimir Putin #588 149 Adolf Hitler #587 658 Satan
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Comment #36375131
While local politics are difficult to judge from afar, I generally wouldn't consider the SPD left for a long time now. I'd recommend not putting too much weight on the (local) voti…
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Comment #36357079
I started "programming" by taking a game server script (template) and building my way around: > Let's spawn a car there! > Let's make a multidimensional array of car types & locati…
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Comment #36351987
The estimate-confidence relation is not linear. In my experience it follows some kind of S-curve, with 0% confidence approaching impossibly short times and 100% approaching infinit…
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Comment #36053347
The UK left EU a while ago.
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Comment #35628169
The only thing holding me back from doing that is that anti-cheat and (iirc) also nvidia not playing nicely when used in VMs..
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Comment #35607780
I suppose the current situation is that buying is disabled in the app because it is not allowed by Apple (without going trough them and pay the 30% cut), but in an app outside the …
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Comment #35546032
https://archive.is/4BRzR
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Comment #35446314
Also a typo in the alt text & wonky css that leads to weird stretching when the aspect ratio is not the same as the intern's who put up the page.
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Comment #35028782
One benefit of the flat pricing is that it saves a lot of overhead on having to check eligibility. I'm not arguing whether that's good or fair, but it does simplify the system.
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Comment #35028737
"Fernverkehr" (long-distance: ICE, IC, EC) is excluded, "Nahverkehr" (RB, RE, S, U, Bus) included.
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Comment #34325784
I suppose you could say: Vote with your sails.
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Comment #34277512
Getting the files on it is ok, but library management sucks because Kindle doesn't show the folders. Caveat: My experience is from an older model, so that might have improved.
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Comment #32842743
I also feel that "just" is very much an understatement when it means "sign up for a service that doesn't play nice with anonymous networks (Tor) and often requires to share and ver…
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Comment #32842671
What could be a greater way to start a professional relationship than some cyberstalking... /s
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Comment #32300002
Qubes OS can do that. It basically starts a disposable vm just for printing the PDF.
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Comment #32161629
> it's all reasonably well subtitled It's not bad if you want full subtitles, if they're available in the language you want. The lack of forced subs however is quite annoying.
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Comment #32130213
> I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch. Only to realize that it's not in their library (anymore).