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How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
Tldr: It's just better compression
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How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
Tldr: It's just better compression
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Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'
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Even if you're an actual software dev, it's still pretty much impossible to guess how much work something is without knowing the codebase intimately.
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Apps can now block sideloading more easily and force downloads through Google Play
Not a single app on my phone was installed through Google Play, it's all Aurora. Guess if apps really do this i'll just have to stop using them, cause I'm not installing the play store.
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Itch.io games site taken down
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Also, while we're at it, reform the DMCA to disallow automated copyright related takedown requests without some sort of human reviewing it at the other end. It's been abused to hell and back by big business.
Itch.io shared on hackernews that they apparently sent a report for fraud and phishing, not copyright infringement. So sounds like funko was abusing the system even if automated copyright claims weren't a thing.
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Why are we still fighting smartphone bloatware in 2025?
It's 2024 though?
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How people react when they see me work.
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To be fair, Kate isn't just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.
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iPhones Seized by Cops Are Rebooting, and No One’s Sure Why
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On grapheneos it's a setting, 18 hours by default I believe, but adjustable from 10 minutes to 72 hours.
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YouTube Processed a Billion Content ID Copyright Claims in Six Months * TorrentFreak
calculations copyright claims
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Running a business using linux
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Firefox also has a built-in list of user agent overrides for websites that don't work on Firefox for no reason.
You can create an issue here, and maybe they'll fix it at some point. Not sure what the normal turnaround is for fixes like this though, could take a while.
You can see the list in about:compat btw
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Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Poland, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experience
Based on everything we learned about coreboot, we think you can port a laptop board in 40 hours or less. There are tools that you can use to dump most of the code you need. For instance, the GPIO can be done in 30 minutes, as opposed to the 30-50 hours that was quoted by several developers.
OK, so why didn't you just port it yourself in 40 hours? Apparently it's super easy.
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European iPhones are more fun now
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Did they say that? Cause it looks like there is at least some work being done on this:
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Bootloader equivalent to Rufus
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+1 for ventoy. With that you can just flash ventoy on it once, then copy iso's over to the usb drive without reformatting or reflashing anything.
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What were you surprised to learn wasn't actually normal?
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Don't you have different sized feet?
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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 fixes 'the most common Plasma crash', now down to zero very high priority bugs
For Plasma 6.3.4 the "most common Plasma crash" is finally solved, which could happen "when unplugging screens, especially with a dock involved in the process somewhere".
There's more to the article of course, but that's what the headline is about.
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Ahh, was wondering what was up with those comments on an issue I made.
Pretty much immediately got 2 comments with shady mediafire links in them.
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Ok maybe a very stupid question but
The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday announced
Isn't that gramatically incorrect? Shouldn't it be "The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders announced on Thursday"?
I see this kind of writing a lot in news articles so surely it's not actually wrong, but that's not how I was taught English writing.
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Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions
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If you find any websites that don't work with firefox, you should report them to Mozilla. Firefox has a list of known bad websites, and has fixes for them, usually just a user agent override.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews
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There is a nearly zero percent chance that the game developers are also cloud experts
Well yeah, that's why you would put some cloud experts on the project besides the game devs if you're doing things like this. It's not just game developers working on the game.
Doesn't even have to be people feom the Azure team. Microsoft has plenty of resources to teach someone to be a cloud expert in other branches, they even offer certifications for outside people, surely they can manage a few of their own.
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Android Has Five New Features Out Today
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Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's
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I think we're looking up at a drinks dispenser, one where you push your cup against the metal thing to start filling.