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Comment · 3 years ago
I've talked about Ruffle to a few people over the past couple days, as they haven't heard of it and how it's capabilities are able to bring flash games back to the browser. But my favourite party trick is opening these flash games on my iPhone, a future that Steve Jobs would never have imagined
Comment · 3 years ago
a number of staff already have taken their applicable usernames. the api for username migrations already return correct errors for names being taken even if a user is unauthorised to change theirs yet
Comment · 3 years ago
You can also just do this with Circle posts, the permalink to the video is always just going to be avaliable, the client/server just prevents unauthorised people from retrieving content that displays that. While it wouldn't be too much to prevent twitter from protecting content, there are far greater security concerns if people are access the intentionally restricted content
Comment · 4 years ago
Took two whole years to arrive according to PCGAMER, appearing online for preorder in June last year
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Checked caniuse which led me to resources on bugtracker. Both have closed the tickets with wontfix. Firefox is focusing on AV1, and not budging on this until the patent situation is no longer a barrier. Chrome's reasoning feels like it relies on old data (these tickets are 5-6 years old), additionally citing firefox will not support it, with further reference to similar performance in other codecs (VP9). Because of the patent, there's zero interest in it's adoption, no matter the cost of implementation
Comment · 4 years ago
webm has an alpha channel. Just waiting on Apple
Comment · 4 years ago
After reading a number of comments that seem to be like this is the norm, it makes my experience odd because every bank I've been with has cycled my card number with every new card.

once got locked out of my Amazon account for what feels like a year because my security gateway way the 16 digits for a card that expired in 2019, which I had without a doubt already shred

Comment · 4 years ago
With an attitude like that I'm not surprised
Comment · 4 years ago
I haven't used the native token switcher at all, but I've never had an issue running multiple instances of discord on the same machine to login into multiple accounts simultaneously (3 canary instances)
Comment · 4 years ago
GFWL tied saves to the account email rather than the unique ID. If you changed the email associated with your LIVE account, the game would look somewhere else for saves. As a teenager, this is how I 'lost' my red faction saves
Comment · 4 years ago
Assassins creed games as far back as AC2 on PC had uplay bundled on their game discs. Physical copies don't get around DRM, only distribution
Comment · 4 years ago
>"What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate."
Comment · 4 years ago

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