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xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols
  • No ``` Markdown quotation marks ```

    No „down-up quotation marks“

    And worst of all, no marks for the 「regular attack」, 『finishing move』and

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  • Please stop
  • Just do a quick simple sudo apt-get install task-kde-desktop

  • SDR+PI with flipper zero functionality
  • You can listen to FM radio with gqrx relatively easily, if you can navigate through hundreds of input boxes.

    sudo apt-get install gqrx
    

    Anything more complicated will require some coding knowledge, unless someone already created a library for that specific thing.

    There is also a ready-made package to listen to GPS signal, unfortunately it needs an external amplifier and a proper antenna, because RTL-SDR is not sensitive enough for GPS.

  • Anon saves his virginity
  • *yo'ure

  • Remote IT management provider TeamViewer says it has been hacked, allegedly by Russian state hackers from APT29
  • Because TeamViewer will set up a port forwarding and a NAT traversal for you.

    VNC and RDP only work when your host has a public IP, or you know how to set up a proxy.

  • Zelenskiy orders purge of state guard after assassination plots
  • It's the Secret Service of Ukraine. Dissidents don't join the Secret Service in the first place, and the people 'purged' got treason charges.

  • Zelenskiy orders purge of state guard after assassination plots
  • No one does firing squad nowadays. It's either poison or defenestration.

  • Spanish or Italian combination gun-spear with retractable blade, four barreled, 18th century AD
  • You don't need to worry about the accuracy of your smoothbore pistol pepperbox if you fix your target with the attacked spearpoint before each shot.

  • Forget about Windows on Arm, wheres Windows on RISC-V?
  • RISC-V is not proprietary enough.

  • Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing | Frame.work
  • So if I'm developing a garage door opener using ESP32 RISC-V module, I'm not a RISC-V developer? The dev tools and the cross-compiler only come in x86_64 variant, they simply won't work on RISC-V laptop. But at least they provide a Linux installer.

    The only use case I can think of is to build Debian packages on a target architecture without cross-compilation, because many packages do not support cross-compilation, but it's more an issue of poor build scripts.

  • Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing | Frame.work
  • Targeting developers is, I dunno, misses the audience. It would have been a great netbook, or a Raspberry Pi replacement.

    If I develop something for Risc-V arch, it is probably some embedded thing with 100 MHz CPU and 2 Mb RAM, and I am cross-compiling it anyway on my more powerful PC.

  • We need a larger one. Yes, for the last time. Pleeeeeeeeeease!
  • That's what the asteroid belt is for!

  • Michigan Republicans' bill: Make AR-15 state's official rifle
  • Go on and put AR-15 on your flag, be like Mozambique with AK-47 on their flag.

  • With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.
  • It's false that you cannot sell GPL-licensed work.

  • With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.
  • Busybox was quickly replaced by BSD-licensed Toybox everywhere for that exact reason.

    Copyleft licenses (like the Gnu General Public License) mandate that all derivative works remain free.

    This is false. It's perfectly legal to take GPL-licensed work, modify it, and sell it. As long as the work itself does not reach the general public, you don't need to release it's source code to the public (e.g. your work for the military, you take money for your work, and provide source code to them, but not release it publicly).

  • Supermarket coffee marketing is getting… intense
  • I have discovered cold infusion coffee just last week. It's a surprising way to salvage ruined coffee roast. Cool water until there's some ice in it, or just dump ice in water, then dump your badly roasted coffee powder, shake, and leave in the fridge overnight (not the freezer). Strain the grounds, reheat in the microwave and drink (or just drink it cold and with grounds, whatever works for you). Ideally you should use coarse grind size, but it's mainly because it's easier to filter it.

  • Supermarket coffee marketing is getting… intense
  • Coffee tends to not have any upper price range, you always can find something even more exclusive than beans pooped by a rainforest squirrel. So whatever marketing trend is occurring, it likely won't impact most consumers, who drink it for the caffeine content not the taste. Maybe in 10 years when the trend soaks down to the bottom shelf of the supermarket, I will have a bit differently tasting beans in my free office-provided coffee. But it's already 95% Robusta with 5% mystery beans to provide foam, not enhance the taste. They could add fried soy beans for all I care, it certainly won't make the taste worse.

    Anyway, to answer your original question, I'm not seeing any "100% Robusta char-fry" coffee ads in my city.

  • Supermarket coffee marketing is getting… intense
  • Nothing like that, just more automated coffee machines with credit card terminals across the city. It's a progress I guess.

    I never understood "100% Arabica" trend. It's just sour. The fancy expensive coffee made by a barista on a shiny manual espresso machine tastes acidic to me, and the best-tasting coffee is what our free office-provided automated machine makes from bottom-shelf beans. Am I supposed to fix it with cream and sugar? Do I have some rare gene mutation that makes me sneeze when looking at the sun and makes 100% Arabica coffee bad-tasting?

  • Jinkies
  • I first used Matplotlib 10 years ago. It was unintuitive and very slowly redrawing the whole plot each time you tried to zoom.

    I'm using it right now, and I'm happy to report that it kept to it's time-honored tradition - zoom is still piss-slow even on my fancy new PC with 12 cores.

    Maybe in the next 20 years, matplotlib devs will discover wonders of tile cache.

  • Stop comparing programming languages
  • It's made worse by the fact C++11 made a lot of solutions for the deep problems in the language. As the C++ tradition dictates, the problems themselves are carefully preserved for backward compatibility, the solutions are like a whole different language.

    And Lisp is small - the first Google result provides a Lisp interpreter in 117 lines of Python code.

  • Recommend me some Android games

    I've unlocked all weapons in Vampire Survivors, and I'm too bored to grind the remaining 14 unlocks.

    Please recommend me some proper, $10 up-front games.

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    Newest premium Android twin stick shooters

    I've alrealy played all versions of Space Marshals, Tesla vs Lovecraft, Tesla Force, Jydge, Crimsonland, Grind Infinity, Solomon Keep, PewPew, and Vampire Survivors (although it's not twin stick but close enough).

    Are there any new twin stick shooters, preferrably something I can pay for once and without IAP going up to $100?

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    Feature request: switch from list view to fullwidth view when opening individual post

    I want to open large image with comments below when clicking on a post, like in Jerboa

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    Cast phone screen automatically

    Is there a way to cast my phone screen to TV using some kind of Tasker plugin? I'm using screen cast to view one specific app on a big TV, but the screen mirroring stops whenever the wifi blinks, and I'd like it to reconnect automatically.

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    Best types of games for touchscreen

    I've encountered many, many mobile games where the character needs to perform five different actions, so the developer adds five separate buttons to the screen. Of course you will mis-tap them and die in the middle of a boss fight.

    The best touch controls are achieved when the dev designs the game around touchscreen, not attempts to adapt touch controls for some existing game.

    For platformers there are two movement buttons on the left, and three buttons on the right part of the screen - jump, attack, and alternate attack or some action like dodge. Any more buttons make the game hard to play. There is also a common mistake of making buttons the size of a thumbtack. Ideally the buttons should be as big as a 5 Euro coin, that would be a third or even a half of screen width for most phones.

    My recommendations are SuperTux and Swordigo.

    For twin-stick ahooters there are two joysticks, and maybe one or two extra action buttons above the right joystick, but not anything more.

    The best examples are Space Marshals and Crimsonland.

    Top-view RPGs and dungeon crawlers also tend to use twin stick controls. The gameplay tends to be more relaxed, because you can slways grind few more levels and don't bother dodging enemy attacks.

    Shoot-em-up is another type of game that works really well with the touchscreen. Your aircraft follows your finger no matter where you touch the screen, it's simpe and it works well. There is a wide variety of quality shmups on Play Store, try OpenTyrian for some classic DOS gameplay.

    Honorable mention to swipe controls. You can swipe up/down/left/right without aiming for a specific button and even without looking at the screen, ao it's impossible to mis-tap the wrong button. The downside is that swiping is slower than taps, so the gameplay tends to be slower. Reaper is a good example.

    First person shooters are okay for casual gaming, but playing any competitive Counter Strike clone like Critical Strike or Critical Force will earn you a friction burn on your finger, because you are swiping the screen non-stop to aim.

    I'm not reviewing strategy games here, they can have 10-layer menus and dialogs and still be playable.

    Some racing games support gyroscope as a replacement for the steering wheel, it works rather well.

    And of course there are infinite runner games. I don't want to call the whole infinite runner category trash, there are some good runner games like SmashHit or Vektor or Alto's Odyssey, but if it's three lanes infinite runner, you will watch ads each 30 seconds, and the gameplay is only fun for the first 30 seconds.

    Flappy bird. Best touch controls ever, but the game itself is garbage.

    There is a specific class of mobile gamers who are using gamepads. The gamepad is great for sure, you have a separate button for each finger, however the gamepad is more often than not bigger than the phone, so you are losing convenience and need clothing with huge pockets.

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