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Re:MacOS 10.14 Mojave Reviewed on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:52PM (#18070373)
I've installed mojave on that same computer model and the font smoothing switch is there, and the pixels look the same as before, which is great. Nothing has changed.

Maybe they only removed the switch on retina macs.

Re:Why I’m done with Chrome on Sunday September 23, 2018 @10:57PM (#18054712)
One thing I don't like is having a 30% chance to have to wait 2-4 seconds whenever I swipe to go to the previous page or click the back button.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:18PM (#18025300)
You can use goaccess to create a log every day to json, excluding IP while retaining stats for geolocation.

For this you can logrotate daily and run goaccess before rotation. I believe you can keep the server logs for a week for debugging while respecting GDPR.

For today's "realtime" data you can use goaccess on today's log on demand and use a cache.

You can write your custom stat viewers or use goaccess to view time range data from multiple json files.

Re:GIMP receives a $100K donation on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:25AM (#17926516)
Affinity Designer fits somewhere between PS and AI.

I find it better than both for doing web design and game graphics.

YouTube used to have an open feed for any search term, but they took it away. This seems to have search but I don't know if you need to authenticate first.
Because on iOS Safari any touch on the lower area reveals the autohidden bottom toolbar, so now the button has moved up, and now you have to click on it again for it to work.
Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend on Thursday July 26, 2018 @07:40AM (#17616636)
You can do that by building it with only the modules you want: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/README.md

There's also an official slim build without ajax and effect modules.

I remember reading google was doing the same experiment some 10 years ago.
I didn't say that. The "if it exists" I wrote came from "women may be biologically" from the parent. I'm disputing the statement that it's biological. The burden of proof is on whoever is making that claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_education#H...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_education#C...

I dispute that the difference in interest, if it exists, is biological. There are so many societal factors that come into play here from early age, and they all influence the outcome. It's an unfair world from the start.
There's a license for you, but it's nonfree:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#JSON

Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:11AM (#17225896)
And windows really went downhill after 7.
Re:I put all my personal data on eBay on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:04AM (#17177530)
Print in lighter shades of grey.
Re:NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:14AM (#17177284)
> you can't get away from it if you're doing client side development (not even by switching to yarn).

Explain yourself better or top spreading this nonsense. What do they give you that you couldn't develop without them?

Re:NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:08AM (#17177249)
> you basically cannot do serious client-side development without one of them

You're going to have to explain that better, otherwise you're just perpetuating that dumb lie.

You absolutely can do serious (whatever that means) client-side development without yarn or npm.

Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best on Sunday May 27, 2018 @09:13AM (#17166762)
It helped me learn english and programming at the same time.
Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:50AM (#17039974)
Desktop skype has also enabled a sound volume limiter or background filter that's awful and for that reason alone we still use an older skype version.
Re:What happened, Gmail? on Sunday April 29, 2018 @11:12AM (#16952320)
It's also slower. The scrolling is choppy and I shouldn't need a top of the line computer to scroll smoothly through some emails.
Re:Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:15AM (#16911563)
That's what feedburner was for and looking back it's so obvious why google bought them.
Re:Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:02AM (#16911496)
Youtube used to have an rss feed for a search term, it was very useful.

Now we have to web scrape the results page because their api requires authentication and who wants to use that for results that are public anyways. I sure don't.

Rss worked great and they removed it. Boo.

Re:Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video] on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:37AM (#16866181)
> ride a bicycle without holding the handlebars

That's because you're pedaling. If you stop pedaling, you can't.

Re:New WebKit Features in Safari 11.1 on Friday April 13, 2018 @09:48AM (#16829919)
Will we ever have a way to tell the browser engine to shrink images to some maximum dimensions before uploading them to the server, without javascript?

Is there any work being done in that direction? Javascript implementations like Pica - http://nodeca.github.io/pica/demo/ are slow even with wasm. It'd also be nice not to rely on javascript for such fundamental things.

Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:32PM (#16815279)
Not even Half Life, the best movie-game would be a good movie. But it was damn great as a game.
Re:YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:21AM (#16809348)
Even great channels like computerphile and numebrphile do it.
Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities on Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:49AM (#16780343)
It's way worse than that.

Instead of just assuming, if you don't want to read it all, read just pages 2 and 3 (summary).

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...

Re:Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:17AM (#16773377)
Not true in Europe.

Also my bank issues me temporary debit cards for online purchases.

I can chose if the card is for one purchase or for multiple purchases with the same entity, over a period up to 12 months.

I can set a monthly or a total limit.

I can request as many cards as I wish and they are free. I use a new card for every online purchase.

Re:Extra Technical Obstacles for Facebook Quitters on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:16AM (#16772171)
That means that they either store the password in plain text, or store an extra hash of the lowercase with the only purpose to mislead and trick people.

People who work there are con artists.

Re:Extra Technical Obstacles for Facebook Quitters on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:19PM (#16769269)
If you're in Europe and want to delete your fb account, wouldn't it be better to wait until GDPR activates, so your data actually gets erased instead of hidden?

I'm going to erase quite a few accounts I'm no longer using on various services, I really hope they won't cheat.

Are you talking about the second video in the story, in which the car veers towards the divider?
Re:Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:54PM (#16624107)
epilepsy warning

The demo is amazing on its own as a piece of art, let alone it's done programatically, let alone it's rendered in real time, let alone it's just 4k.

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