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thomond··on Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products
What country/continent was this?
thomond··on Apple ditches the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C after 11 years
I don't think that'll change any time soon. The directive is for the socket on devices to be USB-C not the socket on the "charging" end.
thomond··on Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
It uses wxwidgets so they can just compile that to webassembly too.
thomond··on Buffer Overflows in Notepad++
I can't tell if this comment is sarcasm or not
thomond··on Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator
There's usually no bar for FOSS games. It's sort of the point, the makers are doing it for themselves.
thomond··on The Homepage of the Oldternet
Look at the source. All tables and center tags. The only javascript is for Google tag manager.
thomond··on Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API
It doesn't look like it's buzzing with activity. Six posts?
thomond··on Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
I can click through to post and view the replies. I'm in the EU so I can't create an account, that might explain the difference.
thomond··on Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
But it does have a website:

https://www.threads.net/@zuck

Is the website read-only or something?

thomond··on Macron floats social media cuts during riots
> I believe he said this to satisfy his audience

So Macron being Macron.

thomond··on Htmx Is the Future
I had no idea Yahoo
thomond··on MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry
> at this point Edge is interchangeable with Chrome

Then why would MSFT release Edge at all? maybe they should default to Chrome.

thomond··on We could have deleted any LinkedIn Post
Seems they've changed it? as I'm getting a banner with "decline"
thomond··on Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
Neither of those links are direct for me, they both redirect to imgur.io
thomond··on How the Good Friday Agreement created an ‘all-Ireland’ economy
You need ID going from NI to Britain so he may have used his passport for that.
thomond··on GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
Considering the "soundtrack" zip files are all a little over a MB each, you shouldn't expect much.
thomond··on Amazon to close Book Depository online shop
Are books VAT free in NL? If not that's probably why.
thomond··on Amazon to close Book Depository online shop
Are books VAT free in Finland? They are in the UK and Ireland so I have never had customs either (in Ireland). Perhaps they are not VAT free in NL.
thomond··on British government mocked for advertising head of cyber role with £57K salary
If that's what "head of cyber" does it really demonstrates they don't take cybersecurity seriously.
thomond··on Tweak New Twitter
Am I the only person this works for?
thomond··on Internet Archive takes down upload of BBC’s Modi documentary
It all seems to be old VHS uploads so for sure it's not official.
thomond··on PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
It looks like something someone threw together with placeholder images in a day. The one I remember was alot more boring though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZ0DxwRm-0

(I had an EU PS1 bought ~1997)

thomond··on PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
My favourite is the UI used by emulators today, it's so ugly:

https://fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/images/epsxe-memory-card4-t...

thomond··on PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
This looks more like FFVII.css?

There wasn't really a unifying UI on the PS1 anyway except for the BIOS

The cursor here seems inspired by it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZ0DxwRm-0

thomond··on Linux Desktop Environments System Usage
Yeah, it's a bit old fashioned IMO. It comes with CD/DVD ripping software and an Office suite for example. It seems to be aimed towards Office users rather then home users. I always uninstall most of the default software.
thomond··on Linux Desktop Environments System Usage
He's included screenshots of top. It appears he has akonadi installed which from my experience is a huge memory consumer. It's the first thing I uninstall on new builds.
thomond··on Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
AoE runs fantastic. Controls are an obvious issue but you can connect up a keyboard and mouse
thomond··on GB National Grid Status
> Doubly so now electricity prices are through the roof.

Electricity prices would still be through the roof. The prices are all set on the international markets.

thomond··on The Twitter Files
This wasn't even the Biden Admin as it was 2020 so it was just the campaign team.
thomond··on Manx is experiencing a revival on the Isle of Man
It's disputed, it's also allegedly named after the Gaelic/Celtic god of the sea, Manannán.
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