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randy408

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About randy408

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #34154022

    https://www.usb.org/products

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    Comment #31908692

    You mean half a dozen add-ons are available

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    Comment #30591061

    Let's not kid ourselves, if there was such cryptocurrency the sanctions would have been drafted differently and the end result would have been the same.

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    Comment #30518936

    There has been a response in another ticket that they're harmless markers that have been around for a while, but it's hard to tell if they actually went through the data to confirm…

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    Comment #30518516

    original post was deleted https://support.google.com/maps/thread/152809911/terrorists-... https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t4copf/they_are_us... Someone with a line to the…

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    Comment #29771360

    Google does not own .lol either.

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    Comment #29662445

    An average user would download "Eurovision GP" expecting the voting functionality everyone and their dog knows is a major part of the experience and instead they get a gallery app.…

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    Comment #29661857

    Obvious trademark infringement.

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    Comment #29542351

    This needs more detail, what is the body of the mail supposed to show? Did you run an experiment? How was it run? Is this between protonmail addresses?

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    Comment #29535130

    Obviously you haven't played online video games.

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    Comment #29480055

    Based on my experience Microsoft Store will kill the app to update it.

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    Comment #29032040

    FizzBuzzCoin?

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    Comment #28891421

    Surely you know by now that Elon/SpaceX will get its fuel no matter what, even if it means trucking the fuel there, seems to me your best case scenario will increase net emissions.…

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    Comment #28742749

    Doesn't USB4 also introduce its own optional PCIe tunneling spec which isn't exactly the same as Thunderbolt?

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    Comment #28243190

    It makes sense to treat it as an error but the ISO standard is too vague on this and the libpng developers never "fixed" this[1], it issues a warning but otherwise just masks off t…

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    Comment #28242263

    > bKGD overflow, tRNS overflow This is one of those awkward parts of the standard, the samples always take up 16 bits and decoders are expected to mask off the extra high bits, any…

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    Comment #27813640

    This reminds me of Google hiding ProtonMail from their search results: https://protonmail.com/blog/search-risk-google/

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    Comment #27568369

    Moral rights are part of the Berne Convention, it's not limited to Europe. This is only an issue when someone 1. is very negligent with redistribution 2. has enough negative implic…

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    Comment #27567988

    Moral rights are unalienable in Europe, I'm not gonna quote a full paragraph from Wikipedia[1] here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights

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    Comment #27567893

    Not a lawyer, but I _highly_ doubt the MIT license makes any difference when it comes to the author's demands in this situation, he has moral rights (legal term) to the software. Y…

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    Comment #27068434

    Could this method be used to image exoplanets or is that still in the theoretical realm of the Solar gravitational lens[1]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_l…

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    Comment #26560733

    The RPi 400 only has 4GB but the board is integrated into a keyboard with a power button and a big heatsink, if you go for a (m)SATA SSD + USB3 adapter you still have a second USB3…

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    Comment #25104227

    Dual-license typically means (A)GPLv3 with the option for a commercial license.

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    Comment #25056465

    Writing a naive PNG parser is easy, but handling all the corner cases is harder than it should be, e.g. text chunk fields can be variable- and even zero-length: 1. https://github.c…