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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

> That's not a problem on commodity LCDs (maybe the one you're using) because "black" is fairly bright, but on OLED especially that's almost infinite contrast.

Therefore, instead of having your browser enforce a lowered contrast for yourself, you prefer that the majority of the rest of us, with commodity LCDs, suffer too little contrast by asking for the colors to be changed on the website.

uuoc

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Note:

    quite adverb
    \ ˈkwīt How to pronounce quite (audio) \
    Definition of quite

    1 : wholly, completely not quite finished
    2 : to an extreme : positively quite sure —often used as an intensifier with a quite a swell guyquite a beauty
    3 : to a considerable extent : rather quite near

The word you are looking for is "quiet".

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vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> I find it disturbing that the overwhelmingly US neo conservative liberal media companies slap the label 'far right' on just abut anything that doesn't fit their world view and agenda. Any sort of recognition there are center right or moderate conservatives appears to have been cancelled.

This is because "far right" has become a code-word for "neo-nazi" and/or "white supremacist/racist", so labeling everything that does no fit their preferred world view as "far right" automatically sets it up to be something so obscene that it should be banned in the minds of their viewership.

And of course, what you see is the beginning of the banning happening right before your eyes.

uuoc

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

In many jurisdictions there is also a legal minimum speed stated within the statutes, often based on some value below the posted limit. They are often unknown to most drivers (and cyclists) because the minimum speeds are almost always not placed on signage on the roadway. But legally, there is often a minimum speed as well as the more well known and visible maximum speed.

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vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

No, they are "the same crime" (failure to stop for a red light), it is one and the same law that applies to both, therefore the "crime" is the same. Therefore the penalty should be the same amount as long as the same statute applies.

Now, if you prefer the penalty to differ due to the potential for injury, you need to get the politicians to change the laws so they are not the same crime, or so that the penalty scales due to some formula in the law related to the potential for injury.

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vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

While the cyclists might have very valid reasons for breaking the law, the fact is that at present, the law classifies them as "vehicles" and classifies them as subject to the same rules as the other vehicles (the cars).

Regularly watching cyclists flaunt the rules that the car driver would be cited for breaking, and never seeing a single cyclist cited for the law breaking, leaves a foul taste for cyclists in the mouths of many motorists. They don't get to run stops or red lights with impunity and without punishment.

So as long as the law says cyclists must obey the same rules car drivers are also supposed to obey, the subset of cyclists that break those rules on a regular basis do not help, in the least, the arguments to try to convince car drivers to be more respectful of cyclists.

The start should be the cyclists obeying the same rules as the cars (which would help with not pissing off numerous car drivers daily) while working the politician angle to change the rules for cyclists to something safer for cyclists (and at which point the car drivers will no longer have a way to rationalize their hatred of the cyclists as just "law breakers").

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vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Yes, that would work, but then that does not provide the marketing department with the same level of invasive tracking and push notification as "an app" does. So guess which option gets built....

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vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Step one, learn how to use punctuation correctly:

This: "college ,any" - incorrect, the correct usage is "collage, any".

This: "collage,ran" - also incorrect, the correct usage is "collage, ran" (space after the comma, comma adjacent to the previous word).

This: "coding.Freshman" - incorrect, the correct usage is "coding. Freshman" (you sometimes find two spaces after the period, that is also acceptable).

The rest of your post is riddled with errors of these kinds. That and spelling/grammar errors, all of which make you appear sloppy. And a sloppy language using programmer is often a poor programmer. So step one is to begin correcting these issues.

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vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

    rest /rest/
    verb

    1. cease work or movement in order to relax, refresh 
    oneself, or recover strength.
    1. be placed or supported so as to stay in a 
    specified position.

    rest /rest/
    verb

    remain or be left in a specified condition.

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vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

The author is right about one point. Apple fears the low cost Chrome books/pads encroaching on their educational sector.

But the author misses the reason why. It is not the money they might lose now that scares them. What scares them is that they lose their "in" to impressionable young minds such that they can manufacture legions of fanboi's who will forever unquestionably pay a price premium for apple hardware in the years to come.

That's what scares their 'money folks'. That lost future revenue from someone who's first real contact was in school with apple hardware, and was turned into a fanboi who will now line up hundreds deep at "the store" to buy the latest massively overpriced apple 'thing'.

uuoc

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Seconded. I knew exactly what concept was going to be introduced the moment I read "tab warming".

uuoc

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

That symbol's history far predates its quite recent re-definition as a hate symbol in the western world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika (a wee bit of emphasis added below):

> The swastika is an ancient religious icon used in the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and Southeast Asia, where it has been and remains a sacred symbol of spiritual principles in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In the Western world, it was historically a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck,[5] but in the 1930s, it became the main feature of Nazi symbolism as an emblem of Aryan race identity, and as a result, it has become stigmatized in the West by association with ideas of racism, hatred, and mass murder.

> Some of the earliest archaeological evidence of the swastika in the Indian subcontinent can be dated to 3,000 BCE.

3000 BCE by far predates the last ~85-90 years of its redefinition.

uuoc

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

> Why would people value an SD card if the apps all refuse to use it?

Valid point, but the apps may just be refusing because most phones don't have an SD card anymore, and the authors are either being lazy or don't care (I don't know which) and simply failing to code in support for something they think seldom exists anywhere.

Although in my case, all my apps that I care about using the SD card are using the SD card. But then again I have 98% FDroid apps installed, so those may just be better behaved apps.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

> Pixel 2 doesn't have a jack and no one cares.

And this is exactly the problem. That no one cares. If enough cared, the first phone without a jack (iPhone, right?) would have been a sales flop, and maybe the message would have gotten back to leave the jack in the phone.

Instead, it sold, which tells the makers that dropping the jack was no big deal, people still bought it anyway.

uuoc

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Motorola Moto E4 (unlocked version).

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

> It's a shame that phones keep losing features like micro SD.

Phones keep losing features like micro SD (and like end-user replaceable batteries) because too many purchasers do not value those items highly enough to refuse to buy any phone that lacks an SD card slot or a user-replaceable battery.

Start refusing to buy any phone which lacks a micro SD slot, and the manufacturers will bring back the micro SD slots (granted, purchasers need to send the makers feedback that they refused to buy phone X due to lack of a microSD (and lack of a user replaceable battery)).

But buying a phone (any phone) which lacks one or the other simply signals to the makers that it is ok to drop those features, because the phone still sells.

I bought a brand new Android phone about 4-5 months ago. It has both a microSD slot (now holding a 128G SD card) and a user replaceable battery. I picked it because it had those features and I valued their presence. If enough others would get fed up with the lack of one or both, and start refusing to buy any phone without one or both, things would turn around.

uuoc

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

While you are at it, here is how your little blog looks to those of us who browse with javascript off for security reasons:

https://pixady.com/image/0jab/

Even though all the text content is present (this image is disabling CSS and scrolling down a little):

http://pixady.com/image/0jad/

Requiring javascript for rendering what basic HTML already renders is not a very inviting or inclusive way to go with the blog.

uuoc

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Same here. I actively refuse to click on any url that goes to slashdot anymore.

I've only been back, by accident, a handful of times when a "short link" actually expanded out to slashdot, and every time, I closed the page as soon as I realized where the shortened url was really headed.

uuoc

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Ah, slashdot. Things were good in the beginning. Then they sold out to Dice. And Dice took it in a bad direction. So bad that a bunch of us abandoned it for the comp.misc Usenet group.

And in my case, I have simply not returned, and don't plan to return, even though they 'claim' to be past the Dice era now. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

uuoc

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

> First, no one gives a crap about security until something like this happens to them. The incentives are not in place to require it. Time and resources spent on security are time and resources not spent on beating the competitor.

Exactly. I'm reminded about the tale about the two hikers and the bear. Two hikers are out hiking one day, when off in the distance they see a bear running their way to attack them. One starts to run, but the other stops to change his hiking boots to running shoes. The other says: "What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear!". To which the running shoe changer replies: "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you".

Same goes here. Don't have to really spend on security, just enough to not actually be the one of the two (or three or four) who suffer a breach.

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