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Comment · 3 years ago
The permission field can also lead you down the rabbit hole of discovering noncompliance to its specification in some PDF writers and workarounds for these that may or may not be present in different PDF readers/libraries.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
> unmatched satisfaction (if they were done)
Comment · 3 years ago
xfreerdp works just fine, however it requires some fiddling if you want to use it on multiple monitors.
Comment · 3 years ago
It is not a problem to load a static (not changing based on user data) ad from your own server. Using a CDN is likely legitimate interest when it is not using private data for other reasons than serving the content.

(I'm not a lawyer.)

Comment · 3 years ago
Though in the end you're the one clicking busses and bikes and bridges and busses again and when you're through that charade, everything is gone anyway because the bots were faster/better at that..
Comment · 3 years ago
It's two different directives:

- ePrivacy Directive which is about local storage

- GDPR which is about information processing

Comment · 3 years ago
#589 -12579 Vladimir Putin #588 149 Adolf Hitler #587 658 Satan
Comment · 3 years ago
While local politics are difficult to judge from afar, I generally wouldn't consider the SPD left for a long time now. I'd recommend not putting too much weight on the (local) voting results.
Comment · 3 years ago
I started "programming" by taking a game server script (template) and building my way around:

> Let's spawn a car there! > Let's make a multidimensional array of car types & location to spawn! > Let's load the data from another file! > What is this "database" thing I just heard of?

And down the rabbit hole they go.

Comment · 3 years ago
The estimate-confidence relation is not linear. In my experience it follows some kind of S-curve, with 0% confidence approaching impossibly short times and 100% approaching infinity (like a logistic function).
Comment · 3 years ago
The UK left EU a while ago.
Comment · 3 years ago
The only thing holding me back from doing that is that anti-cheat and (iirc) also nvidia not playing nicely when used in VMs..
Comment · 3 years ago
I suppose the current situation is that buying is disabled in the app because it is not allowed by Apple (without going trough them and pay the 30% cut), but in an app outside the store it could be enabled.
Comment · 3 years ago

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