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Netflix selection has been dwindling in my country while prices keep going up...

I think the TV and movie industries haven't felt the effects of piracy like the music industry did in the heyday of P2P, there's a big difference between the behavior of the music industry who'll sign a contract with any reasonable streaming provider and that of say, HBO or Disney who want full control of their content.

I can already smell the studies about how that'll be mostly bunk science in a few years, just like hand writing recognition or fiber analysis now.

Well, a week later and I think I'm a convert. I didn't like the look at first, but after using it in my IDE and actually typing with it, it's quite nice.

Thanks.

If you comment out that line it'll be on by default - Debian fixed it for you with their own default configuration file, because 99% of their users would only be annoyed by it.

This is why we have distro vendors, to build a system that works in the real world with software from developers with opinions that... differ to say the least.

It's about being able to use more pixels to render things like curves and serifs in fonts mainly - things that subpixel hinting attempted to address on lower DPI displays can now be done much better and without the blur tradeoff by using more pixels. At the very same size, fonts look noticeably better because more pixels can go into those tiny rounded edges.

The main point here is to gain improved resolution on text where it's quite noticeable going from 140 PPI to 280 PPI - many developers will appreciate it.

It should be fine for the kind of work you're doing though, are you using tools that don't support DPI scaling?

This article is a bit of a joke "It's software so of course it's buggy" isn't a great argument when you're replacing something that didn't suffer the same issues.

I just count my blessings that runit is widely packaged in every major distro because it can just happily sit on top of sysvinit, systemd, upstart, pretty much any init system and does things in a very simple shell script style, I really wasn't a fan of the weird ini-like format for systemd or several different tools I'm expected to learn just to read my (now binary) log files competently.

If you're sick of switching init systems constantly or don't want to have to write separate scripts for your linux box and your freebsd box even, I highly recommend checking runit out.

I'm sure I'll give it a serious shot eventually... in about 3 years once they work all the Poettering kinks out, just like PulseAudio. They're doing some cool things with cgroups and stuff, so I hope it gets there eventually.

Not to mention by pushing malware to people via IDE addons, pretty good strategy for training those datasets.

That sucks, I'd like to involve as few parties as possible in my emails. Right now I just have a direct IMAP connection that it can push over even on mobile.

What about for desktop purposes? What would a proper client like Thunderbird or Outlook do?

Unless I missed something, there's no evidence of actual bugs in their gear though, right?

You can argue an update could deliver one I suppose, but the same is true of just about anything if you want that standard.

So, you say that it doesn't maintain a persistent connection, but that poses a problem - it needs a way to do push notifications still I assume? Those need an open socket somewhere - does JMAP allow for it or does it make you rely on a 3rd party?

I must be missing something here - How would this impact SEO? Blackhat SEO is primarily about generating false backlinks to your site, often through blog and comment spam. Search queries to Google will have little if any impact, especially using fancier operators.

Maybe it was after release but I seem to remember the prices matched of the title and the season pass, I'm not in the states though so perhaps an international pricing difference, you get the point though, $50 is still nuts. I've edited the parent appropriately. I suppose the ~$100 range is more correct than the $120 range for a full game these days.

What? No where did I suggest that content was ready to go - I'm simply stating that a finished game now has less quality content for the same price than it used to.

Fallout 4 on release had a $60 season pass - last one I ever paid for. But many games are still doing it, I see black ops 4 has one of similar price, as does Civ 6.

Multiplayer games are often particularly brutal about this though - if you want to be able to play with the largest population you need to buy the latest content expansion - this didn't used to be the case, compare Call of Duty 4 with the newer Black Ops series for example.

I care about quality play time over just about any other metric. How long is a game actually enjoyable - maximizing that seems like it should be the clear goal, no?

Horse Armor was basically the start of the bullshit, I'm not referring to additional free content, - but to match older games in terms of quality play time you often need that season pass.

Except now they have an additional "season pass" for nearly the same cost of the game for what used to be included for free.

They don't restrict it across the board, I use many of these operators all the time without issue, the only time I run into difficulties is doing very specific "Google dork"-like queries repetitively.

The main reason they block this is because it's used by malware as in infection vector - makes it easy to find vulnerable hosts running outdated webapps for example.

I've had some smoking and a bit of rancidity using olive oil to do roast potatoes at 450F (230C) - 400F and lower usually works no issues.

Isn't that a good thing? Eating for the sake of enjoying eating seems more like a problem than a solution here, eating should be more something you do because you need to rather than something you do for fun.

If you want something beneficial, teach people to enjoy cooking rather than eating.

Some quick RE work:

sqlite_rekey_v2 is at 00CA1C13 on the Windows version of 1.19.3

Hooking it with Frida or similar should allow you to drop the 3rd parameter and set pKey to NULL allowing you to create a database which can be read by standard sqlite.

Keys however appear to be account-specific - I haven't looked into the full algorithm yet, but it's fairly pointless as you'd need a copy of sqlite3 with SEE support (which costs $2600 or so) to decrypt it using that method anyways, I tried briefly but was unable to come across a stray copy of sqlite3 with SEE enabled, the above solution is probably better for now anyways.

Yup, if you want to see the state of the art in this, here it is from libsodium:

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsod...

They sum it up in their docs like this:

- On Windows systems, the RtlGenRandom() function is used

- On OpenBSD and Bitrig, the arc4random() function is used

- On recent Linux kernels, the getrandom system call is used

- On other Unices, the /dev/urandom device is used

Unfortunately here's the catch - while it's probably trivial to reverse engineer enough to extract the key for the SEE database, it means that Zotero would need an SEE license to be able to handle the file still.

As an alternative it should be quite possible to produce a hook using Frida or similar that would disable database encryption on the Mendeley side so it can be imported through the usual channels. Not pretty though.

Yeah, this sounds like an interesting reverse engineering challenge, do you need any special accounts to use Mendeley or can it be freely installed by anyone? It'd likely just be a hard-coded key, you wouldn't want to restrict people from copying their own databases around... probably.

I think the issue is that many people use eBay less than sites like Amazon or AliExpress where you're out to pick a product - I used to use ebay quite often for buying things like phone cases and electronics components directly from China.

Now I choose AliExpress when I want it cheaper and Amazon when I want it faster. eBay has lost a lot of marketshare in this space - yes, there's business in auctioning collectibles and second hand stuff, but it's much smaller than that direct purchase market and they'd likely have to scale back the site in some respects.

Ah Bethesda, great games but holy shit, if it weren't for the mod community fixing them every time I swear I'd hate them.

Not quote the ones I was referring to - many services just look at DNS and get the A record for every domain then offer reverse lookup - complete lists of domains are purchasable for all major TLDs. The only defense to this would be to host your content on a subdomain.

DNSlytics, DomainTools, W3Advisor and others offer this.