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vmednis
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Comment #24363027
There's encode and decode latency as well, but I've been able to get the total latency to a data center about 200km from me to around 30ms or so with some solutions. Was good enoug…
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Comment #23090641
Ah, sorry about that then.
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Comment #23090630
The worst are the sites that don't have a fallback. If the new CAPTCHA decides you are a bot because, for example, you are running a VPN or something there's absolutely nothing you…
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Comment #23090596
I'm not a big fan of hCAPTCHA at it's current form. The challenges seems so much harder than reCAPTCHA ones and I keep failing them. The images are just extremely low quality. Mayb…
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Comment #23090575
Blind and colorblind people still know what color the sky is. It's impossible to live long enough to register on a website and have never heard that.
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Comment #22735958
GoToMeeting claims end to end encryption[1] and in the same sentence say it's just SSL just like Zoom. Never the less they offer call-in as well so end to end becomes impossible ri…
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Comment #22735888
I'm usually not the one for conspiracy theories and this is most likely just media outlets fixating on one topic for clicks, but sometimes this just feels like a smear campaign aga…
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Comment #22567151
You can find the links to their App on DWD Website German version[1] seems like they've already implemented the ban. The warnings are free, but you have to do an in-app purchase of…
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Comment #22546180
Seems like the number is about 7MB[1] per font, looking at a real world example. 1. https://imgur.com/a/iMHYtjB
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Comment #21091118
How is it Russian in any way? The app has been banned in Russia for more than a year now and the creator/CEO Pavel Durov is in exile from Russia.
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Comment #20766983
>Also I would like to have a mode when an amount of text, rather than the length of session would be considered because for things like this HN comment even 3 minutes is too long. …
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Comment #20756949
I'd say the redesign actually makes Reddit usable on a 21:9 screen not the other way around. I mostly browse text based subreddits so entire paragraphs becoming one long line which…
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Comment #19279027
I wonder if you could do that with macros.
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Comment #19190305
Tom Scott did a really good video [0] on it some time ago which includes some more examples than the website. 0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfdBTsyrqaI
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Comment #19155589
I really wanted to like Evolution, but I could never get it working on arch linux with i3 with gmail. Worked great back when I was using Gnome though. Thunderbird didn't have this …
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Comment #19154075
I've always thought of these glorified mopeds as suicide boxes. There's no way you could survive a crash against a real car in this thing.
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Comment #19153622
Not necessary. I think what allows "winner" apps to exist in modern world is that you can really use only one app at the time. Especially true for Smartphones. The way I hope AR to…
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Comment #19153434
I personally don't see this becoming a problem. At least the way I have imagined AR being. The way I hope to see it is that all the different features are apps that you can either …
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Comment #19093517
You can do that, it's just a bit hidden away. https://i.imgur.com/qIDu7q3.jpg
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Comment #17908998
Did a similar thing a while ago that should work on all POSIX systems. https://github.com/vmednis/2048
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Comment #17908825
If I understand correctly the "people around you" is decided purely by distance. In that case is there anything done to avoid seemingly nonsensical conversations for a random obser…
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Comment #17253853
The steam store is basically a monopoly by now. And that removes their right to be overly picky, in my opinion. They have full power to act as a censor and limit the right to free …