purplemonkeymad

@purplemonkeymad@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the sale issue for me, is that I sometimes already own these deep discount games. It makes it feel like there are less good deals.

  Also some new games have what I consider to be really high base prices, so a 60% discount is still not near the impulse buy range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real easy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least those are not contradictory. Imagine being told that someone was dusting a room. Well that is removing small particles! But if you are dusting some icing sugar on a cake, you are adding it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nanaimo barius

  Good job Canadians, they are nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They keep multiple old passwords. You’ve done this whole stick before and you tried to use that same password last time. You use it for everything, and every time your new account gets “hacked.” You keep using that password even when we show you that it’s been in multiple leeks and is associated with your email.

  “But I like the password, it’s my favourite football team!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not worth pirating, will still run like crap.

  Forgetting about it is probably the best insult you can give it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always assumed it depends on what your context is. If your perspective is the country that the immigrant is from, then they would be an expat. If you are in context of the other country they are an immigrant.

  Ie

  “My friend is an expat who went off to The Netherlands.” “My friend is an immigrant that came here from The USA.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, shit.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they don’t, that’s something you can’t blame on a new start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Server '03 was also pretty solid, didn’t have some of the weird aspects of xp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨number box o number box⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But a grid can just be a number with a list of numbers. A tensor is just two numbers with a list of numbers. A n-tensor is just two lists of numbers. Two lists can be combined with a number to indicate when they split. If we put that number at the start of the list, then we just have a list.

  Everything is just a list of numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frances Ryan: Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t help that the Tories were “stressing” the NHS for years, which makes it harder for things to get back on track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think ofcom expect to get any money. It’s either to just be a precursor to requiring a DNS/ip block by isps. Or just as they have told that they have to do this anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that was a predictable outcome of commercial vpns. The “protect your data from isps” line never really answered the “what about the VPN provider” question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water Snek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah sorry, I was slightly off, they used their own embedded browser in the app. So your external browser does not save the history as it was not used.

  krausefx.com/…/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook…

  Yea didn’t realise it was just an image, I was responding to the “doesn’t show in history” comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water Snek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In case you are interested, facebook now opens links in a site of thier’s, but it contains an embedded window of the site you were linked to. This means that facebook can follow any other links you follow while on that site. It has the site effect of you not visiting that site but instead facebook’s “hidden window” shows in the history.

  It has no practical reason to exist other than allowing them to gather more data.

  Some mobile browsers might have an add-in to auto-break you out of the window.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They no longer require authy for time based codes, so I would update to use an authenticator app when you next get in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You still need to send the acks when downloading. If the upload is saturated then you will still have issues downloading stuff, as either the acks are delayed or dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So is this the reason that I see massive full page ads saying that WhatsApp is secure? They are worried that introducing ai will make everyone worried it can read all the messages? Or is it that just that they now have a way to read your messages?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dots!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  According to your table, it’s not as bad as that, just not a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give them props that they are going to refund owners for the bit they can, I would have expected most stores so to go “oh well! we have been ordered to remove it, sucks to be you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finally gets a gf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have a look for a local one, you’ll probably have an upfront cost for analysis, but they should be able to give you a cost estimate after they look at it. Good ones will always give you the opportunity to say no and stop trying, either due to cost or if you want it back.

  I would think you can get the analysis for less than 150 USD or equivalent.

  That said, if it was grinding or screaming when you turned it on, the data is probably already gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The printed sheets on the wall looks a bit too good as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saving it for what? If they are not using it anyway it’s not going to get used later either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see people be like “can we use b: for the backup drive” and it just feels wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually looks like an anti removal screw. The inner edges of the plus are sloped, but only in the direction to unscrew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, and added.

  Although it would have been nice if I could “upgrade” from email based 2step instead of having to disable it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always use info@ and then whatever domain I’m visiting. If they want to send emails to it, then they best be putting up with it themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only by very badly designed systems. Most are not truncated but hashed. Those hashes are much longer than 8 characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some other ways posted in the comments, but I used an Extension called Stylus and added the following to youtube.com:

  @-moz-document url-prefix("https://www.youtube.com/") {
      ytd-rich-item-renderer{
          --ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 5;
      }
  }
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got this a while ago, it made me find the css variable and set it back. I have 5 across now, but could set it higher if I wanted.

  You still get a few gaps where the shorts would be, if I didn’t block those as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This not a Meme but the spectral view of "Barcode Brothers - Tele" a song from 2008, how many DTMF code tones can you find?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, if you use a non-linear scale, it comes out properly as his face.