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- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 3 days ago:
It’s certainly not a universal thing either, no other language I know does it.
Once I asked on linguistics (or maybe English language) stackexchange about the origins of it, but it got deleted as duplicate of a related but definitely different question. Most satisfying stackexchange interaction
- Comment on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 2 weeks ago:
It solves encrypted RCS being a Google extension. Hooray for standards.
- Comment on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 3 weeks ago:
RIP bozo. I should play this soon before they get nuked legally, huh. I’ve heard it’s good.
- Comment on It works for anything 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 4 weeks ago:
You can install AdGuard on iOS, it will at least block ads in the browser.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 5 weeks ago:
The server list is still there fwiw. But yeah the matchmaking update was awful.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Swift is pretty close. I’ve been trying it out recently after writing years of Rust and it’s been great so far (and pretty much completely eliminates the big tooling complaints I have about Rust…).
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 5 weeks ago:
It’s slow but stagnation is a disingenuous way of putting it. www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
NAT brings no security, especially in this scenario. If you want to prevent malicious software from opening ports, you use a public facing firewall on your gateway. Which you should have for IPv4 as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I can speak a bit, I’ve been learning Russian for a bit more than a year at uni. I actually wanted to take it in high school already but they didn’t have it where I went, I had to take French.
Я немного говорю по-русски, учу язык немного более, чем год в универе. В гимназии на самом деле уже хотел принять класс, но там не был а вместо должен был принять класс о французском языке.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
All of the names containing “rus”/“русь”^1^ ultimately come from Русь from where Russia and Belarus both inherit their names.
So, the name of the country Belarus literally means “White Rus”, and it seems like the Dutch word I assume you’re talking about for the country (Wit-Rusland) was borrowed from the Russian word белоруссия and (incorrectly, I guess?) translated as white (бело) + Russia (руссия) despite the “руссия” also in this word referring to Rus and not Russia (spelled differently as Россия).
^1^ the word Россия, too, but from what I can find it is borrowed from Greek and the others including Русь from Arabic, hence the different vowel
- Comment on New social experiment 2 months ago:
Documents and Settings
- Comment on New social experiment 2 months ago:
nix
- Comment on New social experiment 2 months ago:
Macintosh HD
- Comment on Did Apple kill iTunes for windows? 2 months ago:
As someone has already written in another comment, the Apple Music app.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 2 months ago:
Also, they
- Fucked over Unreal fans by dropping the new Unreal Tournament the moment Fortnite took off (this one is personal, I was looking forward to that)
- Fucked over people who bought Fortnite Save the World (the original paid PvE mode of the game) by dropping that the moment the Battle Royale mode took off (this is objectively worse than UT because people paid for this)
- Comment on You stand at the edge of a ruined town square. (Textpocalypse.art) 3 months ago:
pick lock on door
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
okay ❤️ yay ❤️
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 months ago:
The only game on my phone! Great game.
Probably not nearly close to top hours though. I haven’t even beaten it once yet.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 4 months ago:
They do actually, the iTunes store still exists. I haven’t used it though since while it’s DRM free at this point, it’s not lossless.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 4 months ago:
Ah, alright. Thanks for looking!
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t even know how to hold a local music library on macOS these days. The app that used to be iTunes is now just called Music right?
Yeah. I have a local library consisting of some albums I bought, some which aren’t on streaming services, and some other stuff such as game soundtracks + also use Apple Music streaming. They complement each other really well.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 4 months ago:
Interesting. I can’t find anything about the FLAC licensing issues. Do you have a link?
(Also, correction — Wikipedia says macOS in general can play FLAC. I guess it’s just the Music app that can’t import them.)
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 4 months ago:
Yep. Lack of format support is usually to blame on the one who doesn’t support the format. You can absolutely blame Apple for this too though, their apps can’t open e.g. Matroska video or FLAC.
And perplexingly, they don’t support uploading HEIC, their own image format of choice, on the web iCloud Photos. So there’s that too.
(At this point my music library is stored as ALAC because it’s well supported in both Linux and Apple’s OSes. Really wish it wouldn’t have to be that way though. Someone needs to tell them about ffmpeg.)
- Comment on I'm tired of every game being live service 5 months ago:
- Comment on Google as Darth Vader: Why iA Writer quit the Android app market 5 months ago:
Wow, I didn’t know there was so much piracy on Android. At least much more so than on desktop computers (or Windows specifically I guess). Enough to make a dev stop even, not just the usual “oh no a few people are pirating our software that would otherwise not have bought it anyway”. I assumed it would be a relatively small percentage of more experienced users.
By mid-September, the iA team claimed to have spent five months making 55 updates to its app and privacy policy and was ready to scan its passports and verify its payment accounts.
Google then requested a CASA Tier 2 assessment. This needed to be done annually, either through an intensive self-directed process or through a corporate partner, like TAC Security or KPMG. By iA’s estimation, the labor and fees to do this would cost “one to two months of revenue” for "a pretty much meaningless scan,” iA suggested in its post.
This is just absolutely crazy. I feel like Google absolutely had it out for them because why would they make them go through this arduous bullshit process for what seems to be described as a text editor app here.
But giving up Factorio is a bridge too far.
Factorio has an ARM port, it runs great on my M2 MacBook. But even if it didn’t, Rosetta works well enough so that x86-only games are playable.
- Comment on Does leaving a single board computer caseless can be a problem or not? 5 months ago:
I killed 3 Raspberry Pis by putting them onto a metal surface while turned on (first two times I didn’t know what was happening and the third time was accidental). Do not recommend.
- Comment on U.S. to ban Chinese, Russian software and hardware used in autonomous vehicles 5 months ago:
I’d trust a chinese vehicle over a Tesla any day.
- Comment on "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy" 6 months ago:
People paid for that original game too, it wasn’t free. I don’t assume they got refunded. It was basically a massive bait and switch.
