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therealidiot

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therealidiot··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Yeah, no. Account gone in advance.
therealidiot··on VW is putting buttons back in cars
my washer/dryer also has capacitive touch and will usually pause itself this way during a dry cycle if I forget to put the keypad lock on.

it's an absolute failure of product design in my eyes

therealidiot··on Ask HN: Video calls are most effective with camera turned on. You agree?
A company that forced me to be on video calls is a company I would leave immediately
therealidiot··on The Jami conferencing system
Well I use it daily and I can't even scroll up through chat history without it getting totally janky. The search basically doesn't work, I routinely have to restart it and often text shortcuts (like Ctrl+A to select all) just stop working completely.

It's not stable at all. Audio calls are generally okay, but often screen sharing just doesn't seem to come through either.

therealidiot··on First baby beaver born on Exmoor in 400 years
It does for me too (located in the UK)

Perhaps the URL should be https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-57808517

therealidiot··on A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
I can't focus properly on bright blue things. There's a football stadium not far from where I live and its name alternates between red and blue in big text.

I know what it says but I cannot read it at night when it is blue.

therealidiot··on Amazon drops Linux support for generating Kindle ebooks
Glad you mentioned this, as I would end up returning such a device too and now I don't need to waste my time

I'm looking for a new ereader and I don't want to have to register/sign in with anything to use it.

therealidiot··on Email based PGP encrypted chat
Yeah, push notifications are an absolute shitshow.

A standardised push notifications API where you could swap out providers would be such a breath of fresh air.

That being said, the two applications I run that are doing long-polling sockets (Conversations and K-9 Mail) don't really use a lot of power, according to the battery settings screen on my Lineage device

therealidiot··on The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020
I've found that UT99 works incredibly well under wine.

However, what's more awesome is that there's an unofficial update currently in beta (v469) and I can confirm it runs well on modern Linux

https://www.oldunreal.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=15695872...

therealidiot··on Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked
For reference, the anti-cheat plugin usually used by Unreal Tournament servers is AntiCheatEngine ("ACE")

https://ace.ut-files.com/index1a8f.html?p=about

therealidiot··on The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
I don't buy this, there must be some false positive rate in some of these sites. I've been told that I've viewed too many articles on sites I've never visited before.

It's happened at home too where I live alone and have not seen my IP address change in a very long time.

therealidiot··on Rotary Cellphone
Second this, I've had no trouble ringing an old GPO 746 telephone (and very loudly) with a Grandstream HT802
therealidiot··on Ending Support for macOS and Linux
I've just submitted a refund request, I'm not sure if it will be granted but I'd hope that others who do not run Windows will also consider making a refund request (unless offline play is your preference anyway)
therealidiot··on Strava follow suggestions based on your private conversations
Can't read without signing up on Medium now?
therealidiot··on Tesla Software Version 10.0
I find the latency of these things to be really bad, and the "wide-angle" view is never wide enough (and what is with all of the parking guide lines they draw that never seem correct?)

...but then most modern cars seem to have abysmal visibility through the back windows anyway. The rear view from a 20 year old Micra I often drive is excellent, much better than any of the more modern cars I have hired.

therealidiot··on Intel Driver and Support Assistant Will Reset UEFI Settings
No, but we've entered an era where it's normal for users to have little/no control over their own machines.
therealidiot··on The World Slime Convention
Wtf? Closing the 'x free articles remaining' modal triggers the same behaviour as clicking the subscribe button (redirect)

How are we supposed to read an article with most of the screen obscured

therealidiot··on I made a smart watch from scratch
Just a heads up but your terms and conditions link doesn't work
therealidiot··on BBC and ITV in Talks over Netflix Rival
Yet another subscription, yet another proprietary app with dubious permission requirements to be installed on (supported) devices

Oh the joy

therealidiot··on Ask HN: Can we get a hide submissions from domain button?
Here's a crappy userscript that might help

(function(shitlist) { [].__proto__.forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('table.itemlist tr.athing'), (n) => { let s = n.querySelector('.sitestr'); if (s && shitlist.indexOf(s.textContent) !== -1) { n.parentNode.removeChild(n.nextSibling); n.parentNode.removeChild(n.nextSibling); n.parentNode.removeChild(n); } }) })(["nytimes.com", "crapsite.com"]);

therealidiot··on Icecast: Open Source multimedia streaming
I do something similar, using a liquidsoap script as the source to icecast

https://www.liquidsoap.info/

therealidiot··on Icecast: Open Source multimedia streaming
You can set an intro file in Icecast's mount settings

http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/config-file.html#mount...

therealidiot··on Show HN: Yggdrasil Network – compact mesh routing experiment for mesh networks
This looks really interesting, I'm currently at work but will check out in more depth later!

From a quick scan I can't understand, how does the tree work for routing with a fixed node address when the node is moved?

therealidiot··on Happy Birthday, XMPP: 20th Anniversary of Jabber
I hate it, I find the UI clunky and slow. Most annoying is having to fake an Edge user agent to get incoming calls to work (using Chrome on Ubuntu) but having to use the normal UA at other times as it breaks my messaging history otherwise
therealidiot··on Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps
This.

I had half of my face stop working and had recently moved (and not yet registered with a new GP.)

I went to my previous GP and they turned me away (no longer in the catchment area) so I eventually ended up in A&E.

It doesn't help that the local ones near me at the time seem to live in the past... No call queuing or online scheduling, have to call within a 1 hour slot for appointments (so that's an hour of busy tones, oh well let's try again tomorrow)

therealidiot··on My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
Why does the client care which filesystem you use???
therealidiot··on Ask HN: How do you donate online anonymously?
Not OP but if I wanted to donate without revealing identity to the recipient, what are my options?
therealidiot··on Spice is throwing up problems not seen with other drugs
I've reached the article limit, despite having never browsed
therealidiot··on [dead]
To me, a WAF is something that the tech guys enable blindly and without any consultation, landing the devs in hot water when nothing works :)
therealidiot··on I've spent the last two years building a new email client
Does this do any kind of telemetry at all? Looks nice, would be interested to take a look if/when a Linux build was available
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