Went to Google Play to complain about Hulu. I noticed Google advertising that over 300 reviews had the verbatim quote “watch and movies that you love”. It’s always confusing that buggy corporate apps have >95% 5 star reviews until you see that the majority are just completely fake, and no one cares or is doing anything...
I assume you mean languages that are either spoken as a first or second language, because if you just look at native speakers, more people speak Mandarin than English.
The uxtheme thing was great because it was pretty powerful, and since it was just the standard theming system built-in to Windows, it was more reliable than theming systems that required third-party apps (WindowBlinds being the most common one).
Apparently uxtheme patching still works on Windows 11, but I haven’t tried it.
In my opinion, it peaked in Windows XP. XP’s themes were way more customizable than 98’s. You could patch the uxtheme DLL (disable the signature check) to allow third-party themes.
And they all have different apps, mostly written from scratch, all of wildly varying quality. Some of the pirate apps like Weyd and Syncler have a significantly better user experience compared to most streaming services.
I love netboot.xyz. I use it all the time when setting up VPS systems. A lot of KVM-based VPSes have iPXE as a boot option so you can chainload directly into netboot without having to use an ISO.
I prefer installing the OS myself over using any images provided by the provider, so that I know exactly how it was set up.
Netboot.xyz has tools to build your own custom version of it too, with your own options. Useful if you want to host it on an internal server. It’s essentially just a set of iPXE scripts.
I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars....
The FCC seems to have grown a spine given they’ve reinstated net neutrality and rolled out the Broadband Labels that require ISPs to be upfront about all fees, so maybe they’ll tackle this eventually.
In Australia, ISPs have to advertise the “typical” or average speed during peak times. See the plans here for example: www.tpg.com.au/nbn. It’s still not a guaranteed speed, but listing an average speed during the most congested time (evenings, since everyone is streaming movies and TV shows) is significantly better than listing a maximum speed.
Supermarkets maximizing profit: put ads everywhere and hide the most commonly bought foods!
Many supermarkets already do things like putting the milk and bread at opposite sides of the store, so you have to walk through the whole store to get both. You’d often be walking past the end caps while doing so, which are essentially ads (companies pay to have their products displayed at the end caps)
apparently has been using Bing as it’s back-end now.
A lot of stuff uses Bing to search, as it’s the largest search engine with an official public API that any developer can just sign up and use. Voice assistants like Alexa use Bing too.
Some of the ads are charged by CPM (cost per 1000 impressions), meaning Google get paid just because people see the ads. That’s similar to how ads in traditional media are billed - TV, billboards, newspapers, etc.
Not all ads use CPM though. Some use CPC (cost per click) and some use CPA (cost per action).
It wouldn’t help with the URL though. Maybe I could write a script that uploads the image then puts the right URL on the clipboard, and “share to” the script.
My understanding is that 64-bit time fixes are only needed for 32-bit architectures, based on Debian’s notes about the time_t migration project: wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time. 64-bit apps already have a 64-bit time_t, at least in Debian (and I assume Ubuntu too) with their standard compiler settings. It’s mostly for 32-bit ARM CPUs. 64-bit architectures still need to be tested since build/code changes can unintentionally affect them too.
That’s what I need most of the time, though. I don’t see these AI things as replacing programmers or writing large chunks of code. I just see them as an improvement over the autocompletion/IntelliSense features we’re all using already.
I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn’t see anything relating to it and I’m kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see. ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.
Right in the middle of that range (1990). I started learning about computers when I was around 8 years old. My mum bought an old 486 second-hand, and I spent most of my free time using it. We didn’t have a lot of money, and the computer was a great way to entertain myself without needing to spend anything. I had a bunch of shareware/freeware games, but something that really interested me was the Visual Basic system built in to Microsoft Office. In Excel, I’d record macros then look at the code to see how they worked.
Eventually, I did some web development work when I was at school. I built quizzes for some teachers - back when Internet Explorer was used by practically every one, and code was often in VBScript rather than JavaScript. I learnt web development by looking at the source code of the sites I used - that’s not really possible these days due to how large and minified/obfuscated CSS and JS files are now.
I’ve got a copy of one of my sites from 2003: www.dansoftaustralia.net/oldest/. Unfortunately a lot of the images are broken. I need to find a copy of them… Maybe in the internet archive.
I went to university from 2008-2011, with a one year work placement (like an internship) in the third year. After I graduated, I started working again at the same company. In 2013, a recruiter from a tech company in Silicon Valley reached out to me over LinkedIn and asked if I’d be interested in applying. I didn’t think I’d get through the interview process, but I did, and moved to the USA. 11 years later, I’m still working at the same company.
I’m sure there’s things you’ve done that I haven’t done. You should focus on things you’ve accomplished rather than things you envy about other people :)
Corporate astroturfing is the norm
Went to Google Play to complain about Hulu. I noticed Google advertising that over 300 reviews had the verbatim quote “watch and movies that you love”. It’s always confusing that buggy corporate apps have >95% 5 star reviews until you see that the majority are just completely fake, and no one cares or is doing anything...
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EDIT: I ended up using epoxy. Thank you for the help.
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Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs (lemmy.world)
I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars....
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who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)
I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn’t see anything relating to it and I’m kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see. ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.
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