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Re:TV backlight compensation (2020) on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:53AM (#33106076)
I have the same idea each time I read something about backlights;

How easy would be to place a cheap LCD at the back of the main screen and mirror the same output (in horizontally inverted mode)?

Technically it might require synchronizing the frame latency differences between the two devices, but would such a hack improve the perceived quality?

Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @09:17AM (#32069464)
Uber seems to have weaponized senior public officials and MPs in many European countries.

This a scandal of huge proportions.

Re:Doom RPG Ported to PC on Thursday June 30, 2022 @08:51AM (#31931741)
I remember playing Lock and Load 2 [1] in high school during that era against my classmates via Bluetooth.

It was pretty fun! Symbian has been a great OS, something I reaffirmed when I studied Tanenbaum's circus book in college.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC1xI3oGPU

Re:Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting? on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:17AM (#31245934)
At my company we are using dockerized mailcow on a Hetzner VPS and it has taken us some time to have the IP whitelisted in all major e-mail providers.

The easiest to work with have been Microsoft and Yahoo. I still haven't found a way to whitelist our IP on centurylink.net, charter.net and att.com (please let me know if you have any ideas)

Some links that might be of help to others:

[1] https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/data.a...

[2] https://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?page=confirmation&lo...

[3] https://postmaster.google.com/u/0/dashboards#st=userReported...

[4] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/supportrequestform/8ad56...

[5] https://www.mail-tester.com/

Re:Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:31AM (#30464931)
From the link you shared it looks like they are restoring the functionality:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230382

Re:The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @10:27AM (#29175629)
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Re:My rant about React on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:04AM (#28071713)
> jQuery, Prototype, ExtJS/Sencha, Backbone.js and Angular all seemed promising, but none took enough of the pain away.

I feel the same. Coming from MooTools, Prototype, Dojo I have found that modern frameworks like Vue and Svelte make my life so much easier.

The whole JavaScript ecosystem with Node.js and npm has helped such ideas/implementations/frameworks bloom and I'm grateful for that.

Re:How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:45AM (#27970116)
There's a great resource on the techniques the bots and the bot detectors use, beside rate limiting IP addresses (creepjs is a personal favorite). [1]

[1] https://bot.incolumitas.com/ Expand all Sources/Links under 'More Sources/Information'

Re:OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:02AM (#26646697)
Support for Wayland is getting up there. Just five days ago the bounty to support Wayland in Barrier was funded [1]

[1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109#issuecomment...

Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:11AM (#25857335)
They are all engineers in disguise.
Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:44AM (#25507358)
DroidCam connected via USB on my Android smartphone makes a great 1080p webcam. The latency is minimal.

It has great linux support and works great with OBS (and its chroma key filter)

Re:Gmail having issues on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:09AM (#25440184)
Has anybody ever received a reply from gmail's postmaster address?

I have good experience with them fixing issues related to their spam-related flagging for messages that are coming from our self-hosted email server, but never got any specific reply.

Re:Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:17AM (#25034997)
> [...] even if some workloads (i.e. large games) still require alternatives

Well, maybe:

Watch Dogs Legion's programming was done on a visual scripting framework like Scratch [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/WOops3301/status/1323607083913195520