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Interestingly, you can break a lot of websites by adding a trailing dot to the URL, like twitter.com..

It's a perfectly valid URL, a fully-qualified one, and should resolve to the same place with or without the trailing dot. Some sites, like google.com. handle it correctly, but many fail completely, or fail partially, or at least don't preserve your login session.

I'm sore that they'd actually planned single player content for GTA V, akin to that of GTA IV. TBOGT and TLAD were so good, like full standalone games, but just reusing most of the map, assets and engine. However when GTA Online's success exceeded expectations, they cancelled the single player content and cannibalised it into sub-tier disjointed online junk, leaving behind unresolved single player storylines and hints, that were supposed to feature in the expansions, in their wake.

This is just terrible.

However, while it does add a layer of annoyance that'll mess things up for most, like any DRM, it fundamentally is unsound and will get cracked. Us good people have a big incentive to do so here. Reading the spec, it still relies on a trusted party (expected to be the OS) and, unlike ie. games consoles, we already have admin access to that party from the get go.

Where it could be a problem is mobile phones. They could target browsers that support ad blocking and you'd probably need to root the phone to get past that.

I liked the obsolete shim for that: cinst - save some letters.

Same with cup instead of choco update.

I've just reinstated them anyway.

Fixed it for Lemmy:

Yeah, I like vinyl too. But digital to analog conversion is always imperfect. I don't see that being too fitting for an IMAX cinema, where the aim is just biggest and best, no niche. Aesthetic imperfections are more fitting for arthouse and such I think.

However, I read into it some more now and it's quite interesting. In the case of Oppenheimer, they actually do manage to avoid the digital conversion for much of the film!

For movies shot on film, all of the film negatives are scanned to digital files so that they can be edited using AVID, and the process continues as before. The finished movie can then be "printed" back on to physical film using a laser scanner, which is how most film prints are made these days. However, some filmmakers like Christopher Nolan refuse to use this method, because it doesn't allow you to take full advantage of the resolution of IMAX film. So in Nolan's case, once the movie is finished, an Edit Decision List (EDL) is created, which contains a text list of all the edit points in the film, and which physical pieces of film negative those correspond to. Then, a person called a Negative Cutter actually physically cuts together and assembles the film negative to create the movie in the analog realm. It's a very specialized profession - there are only one or two people in Hollywood that still do it!

Yeah, but they're likely digitally editing it all now, so it loses that in the middle of the process. Can't really see why it would make sense to print a digital file back onto film.

EDIT: I did some reading, some movies have a solution for this!

Jerboa has the column separators. Looks like it also has alternately shaded rows.

There's no way to limit the amount a community appears in All. You can block it completely, that's it. Perhaps a way to limit would be good, try bringing it up on the Lemmy GitHub and see. Otherwise, you've got to encourage people to post less, which is no good for Lemmy.

Get yourself a pot on the kitchen counter and ram these awkwardly shapen fuckers in there handle down

It isn't too hard if you're willing to fail a lot first. It takes time, but I really turned my life around eventually. Even still I feel like an imposter, but an imposter with plenty friends anyway now

Though one of the major issues is that people get comfortable with that idea and assume for every open source project there is some other good Samaritan auditing it

And I'm sure there are many cases where an attempted EEE failed, but that doesn't get documented in the history, because you only notice it when it is effective.

Meta isn't even entering the Lemmy space yet, they're entering the Mastodon space. They can hardly extend and extinguish Lemmy when they are just barely feature compatible to begin with. Yes it's all Fediverse, but it's pretty different.

The audience, use cases and purposes are different between Lemmy and Threads. At least for now. Consider defederating if that changes

Yeah, but if they do try to dictate standards, then react, defederate, that's all I'm saying. I just don't think we need to be proactive here, our tools to react are fast acting and simple.

If they do go for the dreaded Embrace, Extend, Extinguish method, then let's ride the benefits of "Embrace" and lose them when they move on to the next steps.

Given that everything right now is just speculation - I say sit tight, observe what actually happens and respond appropriately if it does start to go wrong. Defederation is very easy, we can do it when we need to

WhatsApp is owned and fully controlled by Meta. The Fediverse is federated and that's the beauty of it. They can't control it

I've tried to avoid pooping for long car journeys and such. I've found that if I avoid eating solids too much, then liquids come out my ass. And it's much harder to stop them. Stop drinking and you're hit with dehydration.

However, in situations like these, there's a fine line between avoiding pissing out your backside and constipating yourself like a bricked up tunnel.