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phit_··on PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

* Licecap

* Greenshot

can be both replaced by the IMO far superior ShareX https://getsharex.com/

- Text Crawler

you can do the same thing with notepad++ and it's free

phit_··on Africa needs more data centers

unrelated to this post, this account seems to just automatically post all new posts from that specific website? isn't that basically just spam

phit_··on IPFS, Again

As a native German speaker, who is basically at the same level in English now, I also started doing these weird mistakes native English speakers do. I never had this issue in German not sure what it is about English, I think it's just the random spelling vs pronunciation in English. Your brain just can't keep up matching your vocal thoughts to the right spelling when typing quickly.

phit_··on Brave Privacy Browser Is Whitelisting Trackers of Facebook and Twitter

looks like it is? https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/components/b...

phit_··on Open source Molten salt nuclear reactor design

context: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/transatomic-to-...

phit_··on Explore ISS on Google Maps

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/

phit_··on Slow Software

resource monitor in windows can do that

phit_··on Building a live video streaming website – Part 3 – DRM

https://benwilber.github.io/nginx/rtmp/live/video/streaming/...

phit_··on Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition

nothing, both these projects have been deobfuscated from the start and then recently released on Github

phit_··on Teens who refuse to use social media

I have noticed there is quite the difference between born 2000+ and 1993+, due to the older of these groups still remembering a time where not everyone had a computer in their pockets. By the time someone born in 2000 made it to school almost everyone had a phone/smartphone.

phit_··on Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

you can still do so with most drm free singleplayer titles

phit_··on WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May

thank god, tired of paying extra for "whois privacy" that various registers offer

running a hobby project should not require you to share your private contact details with the world

phit_··on So You Want to Compete with Steam

They bought Curse instead. Using it's former Curse Voice client and turning it into a games store.

phit_··on Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

hope you don't live in Germany then http://www.mth-partner.de/wettbewerbsrecht-anwalt/cyber-law-...

phit_··on Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

putty.org links to the official downloads nowadays

phit_··on Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

chocolatey

phit_··on Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF

FF59 Win10 went from 1.7gb to 6.2gb

phit_··on The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde

Odd coincidence how this "news" article popped out of nowhere, after this video just had brought the Tu-144 into the focus again.

phit_··on KeePass 2.37 has been released

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keepasshttp-c...

source: https://github.com/smorks/keepasshttp-connector

phit_··on AIM will shut down after 20 years

Skype used to do P2P until like 2 years ago, now all files shared are uploaded to their servers.

phit_··on Roamer: A Plain-Text File Manager

Having tabs is a big reason for a lot of people that use a different file manager in Windows, at least for the people I talked to about this.

phit_··on Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have two weeks to appeal

so Patreon plus content hosting?

phit_··on Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013)

no it does not, it launches the vanilla client in which you enter your username and password so it goes directly to Mojang! the launcher (technically a wrapper around the normal launcher) was recently rebranded to Twitch Launcher since Amazon (Twitch) bought Curse

https://mods.curse.com/client

phit_··on Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013)

is it? 99% of the mods nowadays can be downloaded from Curse [1] without any ads and for easy mod management you can even install their launcher

those that can't, can be usually found on this site with their official download site linked [2]

[1] https://minecraft.curseforge.com/ [2] https://bot.notenoughmods.com/

phit_··on You think you can't be phished?

F12 > View Certificate

well at least if you have had selected Security in the dev tools last

phit_··on Open Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

the browser version of blogger doesn't render without javascript, so I actually prefer the mobile link

phit_··on Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

they block known vpn and vps ip spaces, it's been a cat and mouse game for the past few years between vpn providers and netflix

currently working providers can be usually found on /r/NetflixByProxy/

phit_··on Let’s Encrypt 2016 in Review

so does plesk!

https://www.plesk.com/blog/lets-encrypt-plesk/

https://ext.plesk.com/packages/f6847e61-33a7-4104-8dc9-d26a0...

phit_··on Cuberite – A FOSS Minecraft Server Implementation

The official client is closed source and releases are obfuscated, but there have been mappings (MCP) for quite a few years now.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Programs_and_editors/Mod_Code...

The protocol is also well documented: http://wiki.vg/Protocol

phit_··on Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon

twitch can do 60+ fps, lots of people on twitch stream 720p60fps, it's arguably the best balance between quality and bandwidth cost

the only limiting factor is the bitrate limit of 3500 https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1253460-broa...

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