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Comment #32426320
Great to see the proposed fix in ffmpeg. Using a remote gateway should really not be a default but something the user has to consciously and deliberately configure.
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Comment #32426261
I am not a mailman though, who surely have special protection. If you want an analogy, I would rather go the "carry a closed package for an anonymous stranger through airport secur…
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Comment #32424931
> you download a block of data containing what you're looking for and some other data That IPFS does NOT put data I did not explicitly requested on my storage is exactly why I feel…
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Comment #32411762
There exist countless sites for any product category in any language. With zero quality assurance or heart but filled with nothing but useless text and affiliate links. Affiliate p…
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Comment #32340515
Where?
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Comment #32306805
I like the idea of a mesh network but anyone considering doing something like this, please be super aware of fire risks and rather don't do anything if you are not 100% sure that w…
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Comment #32303203
Why does it need updates?
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Comment #32053411
Steam should not allow such schemes to be sold in their store.
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Comment #31860673
What does it use for archiving the pages and how capable is it? What does it do e. g. for a dynamic web map?
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Comment #31860654
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31848210 was on the frontpage just the other day with lots of solutions to this problem.
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Comment #31834587
There are many word combination switches in close proximity in What3Words too. And if you consider sound-alikes it is worse. What3Words is very much unsuitable for emergency situat…
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Comment #31791125
For "valves" there would be a stray underscore "_" on the right bottom corner of the second "v". To me it clearly is "values".
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Comment #31791114
Eggdrop is a bot for IRC. IRC is a low-fidelity text-based real-time chat system. There are many IRC networks (there were many more 10-20 years ago) and on these networks there can…
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Comment #31692993
And you can switch folders with the search staying active and only showing the matching mails in the folder you switched to! It drives me mad that Thunderbird insists of clearing t…
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Comment #31692980
Is that a problem though? Claws is great and I hope it will not get a dumbed down Gnome interface by someone on a Mac who does not even use the software they redesign, with buttons…
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Comment #31559678
A scientist working on this topic should obviously not disregard anything like that. They should know how to interpret and filter such events. I was speaking as and for random peop…
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Comment #31558183
You made it sound like it was anything meaningful. There is a lot of research into side effects by big and respected institutions, funded by governments. It is a very popular resea…
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Comment #31558099
That "study" has a n=1, a single "73-year-old Japanese woman". You can safely disregard this.
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Comment #31476935
That site is nothing but a ad-ridden, affiliate link stuffing, spam site with zero quality. A good search engine would not list useless garbage like that.
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Comment #31447197
Are you referring to one specific connection? Two? Five? A significant fraction?
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Comment #31444850
The US is about 40 times bigger than the UK, according to Wolfram Alpha.
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Comment #31285240
And the romans before that. Heck they even made just about to Aschaffenburg, where this relic was stolen.
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Comment #30856293
I wasn't talking about the results and relevance of this particular paper but I was replying to a cheap, offhand generalisation. No doubt that one needs to be cautious about animal…
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Comment #30843034
This is a thought of science denial. Using mice as proxies for human biology has been a tool in medical science for decades and has led to many great discoveries. Is there a specif…
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Comment #30776479
> Are you claiming that this NFT, which everybody knows passed the hands of Shaq, will be worthless in the future? That's very likely, yes. It's just some digital trading card that…