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  1. Comment on Nostalgia -- what programs do you miss? in ~tech

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    Ah, the control we had. Today i need a dozen tools/extensions to even scratch the surface of what it could do.

    Proxomitron

    Ah, the control we had. Today i need a dozen tools/extensions to even scratch the surface of what it could do.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Please help me pick an eReader! in ~books

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    How is the situation with updates now? A few years back it was terrible and is one reason i wouldn't buy them again.

    How is the situation with updates now?
    A few years back it was terrible and is one reason i wouldn't buy them again.

  3. Comment on Twitter is now forcing us to create an account. Here's another way of viewing tweets without an account. in ~tech

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    Yeah i liked that too but sadly the creator passed away. So that meant no support or updates anymore. I also had a bug where some sites caused heavy cpu use. @cfabbro thx for that. Seems like a...

    Yeah i liked that too but sadly the creator passed away. So that meant no support or updates anymore. I also had a bug where some sites caused heavy cpu use.

    @cfabbro thx for that. Seems like a great alternative

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Beginnings of a new category of clients I've been working on for Tildes! in ~tildes

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    I generally find the idea great. But I'm kinda conflicted on the idea of the Middleware. It seems to me like another external service you'd depend on, on the one hand i like that i can selfhost...

    I generally find the idea great.

    But I'm kinda conflicted on the idea of the Middleware. It seems to me like another external service you'd depend on, on the one hand i like that i can selfhost it.
    Or am i missing something and the api translation could work on device without the service?

    6 votes

  5. Comment on What browser extensions do you absolutely love to use? in ~tech

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    The cookie stuff is gone but iirc most browsers block 3p anyway nowadays. The selective blocking works exactly that way You go on example.com and it lists you all domains which it would've made a...

    The cookie stuff is gone but iirc most browsers block 3p anyway nowadays.

    The selective blocking works exactly that way
    You go on example.com and it lists you all domains which it would've made a connection to.
    The first column is the global one the second site local. An allow and block column each. If you have blocked all 3p resources it'll block both. But you can just enable cdn.jquery.com for that site. This is only temporary until you press the lock icon for persisting.
    There is a big list in the interface with all your rules and you can add them there comfortably too.

    It's not umatrix but it works well and is supported

    Edit: as katana mentioned press the ... button on the list if something is collapsed. And of course the more button a few times to get the full list

  6. Comment on What browser extensions do you absolutely love to use? in ~tech

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    For anybody already using Userscripts you can translate from userstyles to userscripts

    For anybody already using Userscripts you can translate from userstyles to userscripts

  7. Comment on What browser extensions do you absolutely love to use? in ~tech

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    I've converted to the uBlockOrigin blocking modes which is almost the same

    I've converted to the uBlockOrigin blocking modes which is almost the same

    2 votes

  8. Comment on FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal in ~games

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    Well if something changes afterwards I'd change my stance on this. But if the deal doesn't go through and it's just business as usual than it was not very significant imo.

    Well if something changes afterwards I'd change my stance on this. But if the deal doesn't go through and it's just business as usual than it was not very significant imo.

  9. Comment on FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal in ~games

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    If stuff works under mac/linux I'd not call it exclusive because with the steamdeck that's basically everything except for two silos. And Nintendo already has a deal so there's that. The publisher...

    If stuff works under mac/linux I'd not call it exclusive because with the steamdeck that's basically everything except for two silos. And Nintendo already has a deal so there's that.

    The publisher part is somewhat true although currently it doesn't look like much changes. Maybe Playstation is forced to make deals but I'm all for it.

    Nevertheless i think this is a market/political problem and this is just an insignificant battlefield because the root cause is something else.
    Megacorps are a drag but until something changes we can only hope they act in good faith. Banning this deal won't change that. It's not like sony is dragging their feet as it tries to buy bungie for 9billion

  10. Comment on FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal in ~games

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    i see it the same and would say it's worth to keep them in the market because sony as a company isn't a nice player either. now they are on the edge to not f erveryone over. valid and i did...

    I think the thing to keep in mind here is MS has zero skin in the game, the Xbox division could be shuttered tomorrow and their stock value would dip for a few weeks then shoot way up when people realize they shed the money pit that is Xbox. Could the same be said about Sony’s PlayStation division? Probably not.

    i see it the same and would say it's worth to keep them in the market because sony as a company isn't a nice player either. now they are on the edge to not f erveryone over.

    The other thing is Sony can’t monopolize the space, they don’t have the capital to do that. I feel like the exclusive/game studios argument is thrown around without remembering that at no point could MS not do the same thing, they chose not to. In the instance of Act/Blizz it is completely impossible for Sony or Nintendo to be involved in the conversation.

    valid and i did address this in my ps. but for now they acted in good faith and that makes me want to trust them. a little.

    It gets observably worse because Sony nor Nintendo can compete. How does Sony counter offer ~70 billion dollars? How does any company compete against buying power like that? This isn’t a game studio, this is a publisher which houses tons of game studios.

    but with that kind of power that deal doesn't really matter. it's only done because it's a safe play. they could invest that money into a small studio and make them AAA big. but success as ms has certainly noticed isn't guaranteed. And this is also my problem with these arguments. because they make it out like the problem is going away when the deal isn't done. because as long as not all players have to play fair the game is skewed

  11. Comment on Testing how a post works [1] in ~test

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    this is a personal project for me because i dislike the address bar of the pwa. and this is fun! who needs a tan when you can do debugging in your free time. don't want to be mistaken for some mba...

    this is a personal project for me because i dislike the address bar of the pwa. and this is fun! who needs a tan when you can do debugging in your free time. don't want to be mistaken for some mba dude ;)

    2 votes

  12. Comment on FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal in ~games

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    why does it have to get worse? and for whom? playstation players? and especially how? what if microsoft leaves the market because it's in it's current state a money pit? Doesn't a Monopoly of Sony...

    why does it have to get worse? and for whom? playstation players? and especially how?

    what if microsoft leaves the market because it's in it's current state a money pit? Doesn't a Monopoly of Sony sounds a lot worse!?

    i'm not a fan of consolidation and megacorps but this seems just like ms is buying a big gamestudio and all ps players throw a fit because they fear the get the same exlusive treatment sony currently practices. aka projection

    ps: always assuming Microsoft acts in good faith in the feature. but evidently they not always do

    1 vote

  13. Comment on FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal in ~games

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    What if Microsoft leaves the console market because except for gamepass they have not much going for them? Extending my answer #1 with the fact that multiple big players including google tried to...

    And I'll throw this out there...So what if Sony dominates the console space?

    What if Microsoft leaves the console market because except for gamepass they have not much going for them?

    Does making the #2 console player even larger actually help new entrants into the console market? If not, you're not giving customers choice, you're helping lock in the duopoly.

    Extending my answer #1 with the fact that multiple big players including google tried to enter the market and failed that there is some secret sauce. And my guess it's having games that players want on your system. Here is imo Microsoft the most open in the console market (meaning the least exclusives)

    Microsoft dominates the PC desktop, and their Xbox division is plenty profitable. They are a viable competitor to Sony, in the same was Google is to Apple.

    is it? i've only ever found revenue posts but nothing on profits. care to share?

  14. Comment on Testing how a post works [1] in ~test

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    Sadly. My "app" seems to not let me delete stuff although everything else works normally. Might have to roll back some changes

    Sadly. My "app" seems to not let me delete stuff although everything else works normally. Might have to roll back some changes

    2 votes

  15. Comment on FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal in ~games

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    I always see these posts and think to myself how is this worse then the current market where there is no real competition and for example Sony dominates the console market. Even most arguments...

    I always see these posts and think to myself how is this worse then the current market where there is no real competition and for example Sony dominates the console market.

    Even most arguments seem like projection because most stuff is already done by someone.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Phasing out passwords: Apple to automatically assign each user a Passkey in ~tech

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    Deimos was aperently involved in creating that sub

    Deimos was aperently involved in creating that sub

  17. Comment on Phasing out passwords: Apple to automatically assign each user a Passkey in ~tech

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    No it's more like: calculate a unique key for this website with this device. On the same website you may be traceable but passkey is there the least significant point and on different websites its...

    No it's more like: calculate a unique key for this website with this device.

    On the same website you may be traceable but passkey is there the least significant point and on different websites its a totally different key so no correlation possible

  18. Comment on Phasing out passwords: Apple to automatically assign each user a Passkey in ~tech

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    Keep in mind that it's kind of loose what passkey means. Because not everything is really needed to comply with the spec. Eg.: it's not really necessary to make it passwordless but that's what...

    Keep in mind that it's kind of loose what passkey means. Because not everything is really needed to comply with the spec. Eg.: it's not really necessary to make it passwordless but that's what marketing and the sites implementing decided it should be
    that shifted over time so old articles might have not the current notion of it

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Tildes Userscript: Tildezy in ~tildes

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    I set grants to none and deleted the settings stuff and then it works. https://pastebin.com/cQVw4SYL

    I set grants to none and deleted the settings stuff and then it works. https://pastebin.com/cQVw4SYL

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Phasing out passwords: Apple to automatically assign each user a Passkey in ~tech

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    Let's write everything with llms and generate one big user.

    Let's write everything with llms and generate one big user.

    4 votes