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Raymonf··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
That is extremely illegal.
Raymonf··on Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
It's not, unless you're confusing the Pinball game with the driver called Pinball.
Raymonf··on Languages That Compile to Lua
I found this project pretty cool: https://github.com/roblox-ts/roblox-ts

It's Roblox's dialect of Lua, but it's still Lua. Probably not worth a mention for vanilla Lua though.

Raymonf··on macOS Big Sur Preview
I completely agree. Previous versions had newer Apple UI design elements (e.g. the App Store) and also the elements of older macOS versions (e.g. the Dock, comparing it to the one on the iPad). It was just a big jumble, and they're finally unifying it.
Raymonf··on Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions
> Everybody would jump to Swift [for new projects] if it meant a cross-platform GUI framework.

I wouldn't. I don't like Swift's syntax. The ecosystem would likely not be mature enough either.

Raymonf··on Back to Windows after twenty years
Chromium actually does use DirectWrite on Windows. It's been active since Chrome 38.

https://blog.chromium.org/2014/07/chrome-37-beta-directwrite...

Raymonf··on China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
Apple hid the flag of Taiwan/ROC flag for users in Macau and Hong Kong, and changed the name of Taiwan in Siri to 「中國台灣」 (Taiwan, China).

This is a new change with iOS 13.1.x and 13.2.

Raymonf··on So you think you know C? (2016)
In school, I was taught to choose the "best answer" on a test or quiz, and if you don't know something, choose the answer that looks right to you.

This test.. it reverses that entirely.

Raymonf··on Tibetan musical notation
Well, there are different variants of Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is pretty different from, say, Zen.
Raymonf··on Web version of Skype can not longer be accessed using the Firefox browser
It might be that Microsoft doesn't do testing/QA on Firefox, and thus they don't want to be responsible for any issues that occur.
Raymonf··on Wine 4.0 released
It must have to do with the lack of profitability, especially after developing an anti-cheat solution.

I'm not 100% certain if EasyAntiCheat supports Wine at all, or even Linux at all, but that's what they (Epic Games) use. If not, they'd have to write an in-house solution that probably won't work.

In the past (again, I'm not sure about the present), CS:GO was victim to having a Linux client; rather, people figured out that it was much more vulnerable to exploits due to it not having a working anti-cheat solution.

Raymonf··on Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months
"Unavailability of Electronic Search Services (e-Search Services) under the Integrated Companies Registry Information System (ICRIS)

Due to technical problems, electronic search services under ICRIS has been temporarily suspended. Urgent action is being taken to investigate and recover the system. We apologize for any inconvenience caused"

Looks like they took the system down after seeing this. Also, they're using lang=zh instead of lang=zh-hk or zh-hant... that font though :(

Raymonf··on Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
It could be that the OP was just inspired to ask about (other) books by the book's release.
Raymonf··on A million-dollar drug
On the contrary, I find that easier to read! Except for the font, that's just way too light.
Raymonf··on Sing App – Open Source Admin Dashboard Template with Stylish Design
Wow, that looks really good.
Raymonf··on GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)
I just made a new repo to test: https://i.imgur.com/tDzrdXN.png
Raymonf··on GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)
>Merge requests: squash commits feature

I can still do this as a free user. It looks like you just have to do it within the "edit" form, or when you create the merge request. https://i.imgur.com/70k53xr.png

I don't use the last two so I can't speak about those, though.

Note: I'm assuming you mean the hosted version at gitlab.com

Raymonf··on Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory
"Linux" had a bug in which you could log into a system by pressing backspace 28 times a few years ago. And by Linux, I meant GRUB[1], and in turn, (many) Linux systems.

We're comparing Linux and Windows, an operating system that contains 3.5 million files[2] (of course, not just the kernel in this case). That isn't really fair. Code is as perfect as humans can make it, and it certainly does not help that there's so much to take into account.

[1] http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-by...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/building-windows-4-m...

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