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Deebster

@ Deebster @programming.dev

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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • Ferris and Corro wallpaper

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  • Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory

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  • Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature... user error

    Gotta love the Register

  • [Kronk voice] The Picard Maneuver, it's your cakeday?!

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  • Nobel Prize to Be Awarded to Forum User From 9 Years Ago With Same Niche Problem

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  • Huh, I never knew there was a mobile version of the site.

  • [Forever-Free Friday] The Powder Toy

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  • I've just had a quick poke around, and you can load up other people's work - there's a massive variety which shows just how much is in this simulation program.

    You can load up simulations with the bottom-left icon, then hit the pause button that's bottom right to start them off. If any talk about "sparking" they mean use the SPRK tool to put electricity in the thing they're talking about - you can search for SPRK using the search tool above the pause button, or find it under the Electronics menu (second one in that right-hand side with the plug icon).

  • The time I spent three months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixed it in 1 line of code

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  • A great read, thanks for sharing.

  • N.Y. couple finds safe filled with over $130K while magnet fishing in lake.

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  • At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.

  • Finally: ‘Fresh Kills’ Is the Best Mafia Movie in Ages

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  • Its IMDb page is a bit sus: the reviews are an almost unbroken stream of gushing 10 star reviews, but there's plenty of people voting it 1 star too. Astroturfing or just polarising?

  • A cool guide collective Nouns for animal groups

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  • What's the collective noun for a group of politicians?

  • “You Got This” Assures Father Who Doesn’t Know How To Help with His Son’s Algebra Homework

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  • When Khan Academy was a big thing, there was talk of flipping teaching - having the homework be watching instructional videos (when you can pause, rewind and rewatch without embarrassment) and doing homework in school hours. It sounded quite good (at least for motivated kids (wasn't me)), but I guess it died on the vine.

  • Free speech enthusiast now up to three boycotts a week

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  • DIY store Waitrose

    I don't get this joke - why is this (decidedly non-budget) supermarket a DIY store?

  • Paged Out! is a free experimental technical magazine

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  • I really hope this is successful, it's really got the spirit of what made the early internet great.

  • Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

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  • That performance cost seems to be negligible in uBlock Origin and other popular ad blockers that have focused on optimization [...], but there were probably other extensions not doing that well.

    The article goes out of its way to not do what you're accusing it of. I don't understand how you've managed to read the article as having the opposite slant as what it actually does.

  • Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang

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  • I assume you're in the US? Are you saying your iPhone customers were so prejudiced against green messages that they'd go with a different supplier/partner/whatever? Was it the friction of not having all the messaging features, or just that they thought all serious businesspeople used iPhones?

  • The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

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  • I started but then I noticed the scrollbar and realised it's a lot longer read than I have the attention for right now - to the "read later (yeah right)" pile with you!

  • Is Science Fiction Inherently Hopeful?

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  • I think a lot of sci-fi is a warning, e.g. almost every distopian setting - I don't think that's hopeful, unless you argue that we're sensible enough to heed said warnings.

  • I made a tool to measure the battery impact of different Android web browsers - here's what I learned!

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  • I'm curious to know the impact of ad-blockers - I didn't see you it mention in your post or blog, so I'm assuming you tested with stock browsers. Also, did you clear history and data from your Android install since it sounds like you'd normally use that?

    I'm assuming that ad-blockers would be a net benefit to both battery and performance, given that in a way it's an optimisation. The boost from removing data and computation (that the user doesn't want anyway) must be far higher than the overhead of the plugin, right?

  • Study Finds Midnight Is Perfect Time for Cat to Do 14 Laps of Room Really Fast

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  • banging the feeder with their hands

    Where I'm from, cats have paws. (Also, I opt out of AI images showing human-handed cats, don't you dare)

  • Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git

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  • So they're switching from using both Mercurial and Git to just Git... How did they end up using both? Was it just that each had its supporters so they just compromised and made everyone use both?