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Comment #37037335
Darktable supports it under JPEG2000: https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.0/en/overview/suppor... (Darktable also supports JPEG XL)
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Comment #28084621
Why do you need the API key? Why not just do it like a traditional escrow service: you receive both the money and the item traded to a steam account you own. Then once both are rec…
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Comment #28057999
I would say self hosting is best. At least if you lose your domain name you still have your emails.
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Comment #28034774
Not updating a web browser is a fantastic way to make your computer very insecure. I understand the desire to keep things the same but personally I would value security above that.…
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Comment #28018626
And what is safe? C has well defined, tested, and documented specifications which layout exactly how to use C safely. Languages like Rust are more safe but nothing is just safe. If…
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Comment #28016248
Oh I see, I thought you were comparing it to the printf style methods but compared to methods that do not take a format string that makes sense.
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Comment #28016066
Why is snprintf slow? I am surprised that it would be slow especially when compared to methods like asprintf that allocate the buffer.
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Comment #27970725
Yes, this is certainly easy to cheat at, but the point is to have fun
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Comment #27970705
In Tom’s videos (which this post is based off) he says that you just have to reach sea water
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Comment #27970602
C++ can be safe r but that does not mean it is safe. The fact you have out of bounds accesses, even if it is rare, is not really acceptable in a language that would like to be cons…
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Comment #27949761
I believe it’s about which numbers it ends with, not starts with
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Comment #27911675
A flat price certainly does not mean no more people want to buy it, or even that a significant number of people no longer want to buy it
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Comment #27904039
> nobody wanted any more Tethers Can you provide a source on that? I certainly don’t want any Tethers but I know plenty of people that do.
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Comment #27903818
Could you clarify what you mean by “coming through education”? I would’ve thought that population representation is the definition of underrepresented because it shows they are und…
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Comment #27903774
Your comment assumes that the parent commenter was male worrying about females taking their place. It could equally have been a fear that if more than 50% of women are qualified fo…
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Comment #27900280
I imagine they use one exploit to get code execution in iMessage, then another exploit to escape sandbox and execute code in kernel.
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Comment #27831447
Which network do you connect it to? Do you connect it to your home network which all your other devices are connected to and through which all your internet traffic is sent? Do you…
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Comment #27804551
It was a while ago but the ones I remember were email subscriptions, custom javascript, and custom instance support in the iOS app. Thank You for clarifying the reasoning. That doe…
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Comment #27801870
I self-hosted a writefreely instance for a while but I found many features were proprietary and only available in the paid managed hosting (write.as). All features that I didn’t ne…
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Comment #27775915
How will it find the “correct” license? Will it check the LICENSE file? Simply having a LICENSE file is not a declaration that all the code in that repo is under that LICENSE. What…
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Comment #27769573
He provided reasons for not providing pictures on the github discussion: > I'm not posting pictures, because I'm certainly not going to compromise the ongoing investigation of the …
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Comment #27761427
I’m surprised by the inclusion of Kraken here as Kraken has very strong AML checks if you want to deposit from a bank account. My conspiracy theory is that banks are using this as …
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Comment #27761291
Well Switzerland is not completely EU so I’m not sure if it has the same data protection laws.
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Comment #27751129
Many companies do not want to take that risk and will ensure they comply by the license. And anyway, what does it matter if someone steals your code? The point of the GPL is not to…
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Comment #27750512
I was allowing for cases of different legal jurisdictions or future changes to copyright (which I hope will happen).