They turned around a 3-0, and won in penalties (6-5, went to sudden death)
I think more leagues should have relegation playoffs. One last chance of salvation for the upper team, one last chance of promotion for the lower team, and a thrilling game for the neutral fans.
Crazy! I guess those head-to-head deciding factors are useful to avoid having to decide via coin toss or something. But I kinda dislike when they take so much precedence, even more than total goals scored
Me and my friends used to play a lot this shooter game called Time Splitters. It had some wacky characters and crazy guns. Good memories
This would be the best way. Unfortunately they made it the other way around. A screen at the door shows the code, and you scan it with the app.
In my previous gym the code was on the app, but I'm not sure anymore if it was static or it changed over time. But the reader on the door was awful, I used to spend a good 3 minutes trying different angles with my phone to make it recognize the code.
So I joined a new gym last year and was pleasantly surprised. They gave me a smart card to get in and out, that's it, no app, no accounts, no nothing. Well, today I got to the gym and saw the announcement that they are phasing out the access with the smart card and starting to use, you guessed it, an app.
Now, I know this is not such a big deal in the grand scheme of things. But I'm just tired of this trend of replacing perfectly functioning systems with apps (public transport tickets come to mind). Just more ways to harvest people's data, I guess...
Ah and by the way, in my previous gym they not only required an app for accessing the place, they also incentivized people to track their workouts, meals and bodyweight using the gym's app (of course I never used any of these features).
Ohh. This is exactly the side project idea I've had on the back of my mind for a few years now. Something minimal and straightforward, just to sharpen my programming skills and learn a couple of things along the way. Maybe I'll get around to building it some day.
Yeah I've been saying this to people. Don't get mad at GDPR, get mad at companies who harvest your data
I like to use cash. Used it all the time. But now I've fallen for the bank-card convenience... (especially self-checkout counters).
I've been considering to start using cash more again, but also I've noticed a bunch of places that don't take cash anymore :/
Yes that's a good point. I don't have a lot of time to play so I try to stick with shorter games as you said in the post. Even if there is replayability I just drop it after I finish it the first time. For that reason I don't play stuff like Minecraft and also rarely open worlds, I've played a few but try to stick to the main story
Am I the only one who just plays any given game once?
"Your friends and family understand what you do"
I've used Exportify (https://github.com/watsonbox/exportify) to get CSVs of my playlists. I do it for kind of disaster recovery scenario, so I've never actually had to re-import my playlists. Judging from the readme it seems it's possible but tedious. And as for importing to a different service, no idea.
It does require you to log in with your Spotify account though. But I think it's trustworthy enough and also you can self host it.
Context: the creator of Linux is from Finland
Yes I was surprised too! It runs smooth and physical condition is great. The battery is dead tho haha
And I think it doesn't have a parallel port unfortunately.
They keep this 20+ year old laptop around because it has a serial port and every now and then that comes in handy.
You can't really see it in the picture but the laptop is pretty thick and heavy.
Ohh yeah I'm following the exact same video haha but didn't know about the game, looks really cool! Thanks for sharing
Not a technique per se but I'm trying to memorize the notes on the fretboard
It’s been a while since I wrote an “attack of the week” post, and the fault for this is entirely mine. I’ve been much too busy writing boring posts about Schnorr signatures!…
The news was already posted here last week, but I found this great technical explanation of the flaw. Long story short: Apple is using bad cryptography. They got alerted by researchers back in 2019 but didn't fix it.
Hmm yes maybe. I do remember a paywall bypass extension was removed from there because publishers were complaining to Vercel. Worst case scenario I guess your website gets taken down
You can create a simple static website and deploy it to Vercel for free. You can buy a domain name and attach it pretty easily, but it's not needed (by default website will have .vercel.app domain).
Recently stumbled upon the PhD thesis of a researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology from ~2 years ago. I haven't read the whole thing, but I thought it might be of interest for someone here. It's freely available for download on the link.
Excerpts from the preface:
> The sheer number of the surveillance systems that we document in subsequent chapters reflects the industrial scale of data collection in the twenty-first century. We hope that future researchers will take up the challenge of addressing each covert program as a research subject to fully and completely explore, and to freely share their findings with the wider world in the spirit of open academic discussion. This kind of basic research is crucial to anti-surveillance software and hardware development.
> The machinery of mass surveillance is simply too dangerous to be allowed to exist. We must work to ensure that no one will be able to say that they did not know, or that they were not warned. We must use all of the tools in our toolbox – economic, social, cultural, political, and of course, cryptographic – to blind targeted and mass surveillance adversaries.
Thanks everyone!! This is more than I expected. Lots of promising stuff! I will look into each and every one of your suggestions.
(Since it's a bit silly to reply to every single comment the same thing, I'm just putting this one here)
So recently I was thinking how games with pixel art graphics are popular nowadays, and I was wondering if there are new games being made with other kinds of "retro" graphics, for example, games that look like the PS1 or PS2 eras.
Any recommendations?
I wouldn't say it's a bad thing. If it works for you, good. But if the book is in your native language, my advice would be read it in that language.
I tend to favor my native language for a few reasons though. I live in a foreign country so it helps me keep in touch with my language. Also if the book is old (like 100+ years) a translation in my language would make it easier to understand. Finally if it's an audiobook, I find it easier to follow without zoning out if it's in my language.
On Dream on (Aerosmith), I've always wondered if the couple "missing" notes from the arpeggio in 2:33 are intentional or a mistake.
Context: this is a legit screenshot I took on my workplace around 1.5 years ago. Hopefully it's been patched by now? Completely ridiculous behavior
Had it saved on my hard drive for years and recently re-discovered it. Seems to be from 2011 (!!)
Google is getting worse by the year, but it seems even back then some people were already seeing where things were going.
(Credits to the original author whoever it might be)
I've been following this account for a few years on Twitter and it's awesome. I was out of the loop since I stopped using Twitter, but now I found that they launched a blog and also started to be active in other social media. Thought you might appreciate it like I do!
Hello. I sometimes receive images in HEIC format and I use an app to convert them to JPG. However I realized that this app uploads the images and makes the conversion in the cloud, so I stopped using it.
Does anyone know of an app that does this conversion offline?