jimbobthrowawy

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Comment · 4 months ago
Aren't the vast majority of web pages nowadays signed? Almost nobody downloading and storing the content on websites will retain these signatures, but they exist and can be verified with enough information. IMO archive.org and archive.today should, to prove they haven't tampered with contents.
Comment · 4 months ago
mu.social is a "client".

An "AppView" is the API server that most clients connect to that aggregates data from the network and serves it in a more useful way. mu.social still uses bluesky's AppView (api.bsky.app).

The name is confusing. I thought clients were appviews myself for a while.

Comment · 10 months ago
I think there's a quote from Linus himself saying this.
Comment · 10 months ago
Wine works on windows too. It's used by the shorthorn project to get software for newer versions of windows to run under XP.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Multi talented. He also wrote the fastest standards compliant json library.
Comment · 10 months ago
Crimmas!
Comment · 10 months ago
Did you forget to double space between the lines, or put leading spaces?

Also, I had to turn off firefox's enhanced tracking protection for the font to load. Before that it was unicode tofu.

Comment · 1 year ago
Can you still buy Olestra to use in your own cooking for that purpose?

I have seen a video by Applied Science on youtube where he made some and fried chips in it.

Comment · 1 year ago
So, a "Grocery Positioning System"?

I wonder how much better this does than CCC's attempts at indoor navigation for their conferences. Those are usually pretty fun to read about.

Comment · 1 year ago
I was going to shout out Tesco specifically, for a similar feature they have on their website/app in Ireland/UK.

If you find a product's page, there's an "other items on this shelf" section which shows items that are located next to it. It's probably not intended to help you locate things, but it's incredibly helpful for it.

Adds way more things for you to notice and tell you're in the right location. Same haystack, more needles.

Comment · 1 year ago
Glad to hear something's being done with the data from the weather radar most commercial jets have. The thought occurred to me about halfway through reading the blogpost.

I hope that data's available publicly, though likely not as publicly as ADSB broadcasts.

Comment · 2 years ago
ESA isn't part of the EU. The UK and Switzerland are members of it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I appreciate that the site tells you when you create something that's never been discovered before. Especially when it happens with what you thought were pretty common combinations.
Comment · 2 years ago
Youtube has multi-stream capability and I've seen one streamer use it years ago to let you pick which multiplayer user to spectate. I assume they used separate streams inside in the .m3u8 file used for HLS, much like how you'd do different resolutions. Haven't seen it done in years.

.mkv files natively support adding an arbitrary number of video tracks, though player support is kind of rare. (it's _ by default to cycle video tracks in mpv)

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