I'm using Lively Wallpaper[0] to show an audio visualizer (trough CefSharp). The CPU load as shown in Task Manager is around 1.5-2% on my Ryzen 5800X. Therefore I tend to activate it only when I actually play some music and have it show.
Readit Newspph commented on Octos – HTML live wallpaper engine github.com/underpig1/octo... · Posted by u/underpig1
Second, having a list provides a reward structure: if you get a thing done, you get to tick a box. And then the list is shorter
It also provides unmatched satisfaction when you see a THICK stack of past todo papers in your drawer.
> unmatched satisfaction (if they were done)
pph commented on QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system qubes-os.org/... · Posted by u/TheFreim
pph commented on Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant? wideangle.co/blog/is-reca... · Posted by u/openplatypus
So hosting an ad is now illegitimate? How about embedding a video? And why should you not embed stuff from a CDN?
It is not a problem to load a static (not changing based on user data) ad from your own server. Using a CDN is likely legitimate interest when it is not using private data for other reasons than serving the content.
(I'm not a lawyer.)
pph commented on Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant? wideangle.co/blog/is-reca... · Posted by u/openplatypus
In addition to spam, preventing bots from buying up all the GPUs and PS5s in the recent past would have been nice.
Though in the end you're the one clicking busses and bikes and bridges and busses again and when you're through that charade, everything is gone anyway because the bots were faster/better at that..
That sounds like it applies to cookies and local storage, not all tracking. It doesn't sound like it applies to IP-based or device fingerprint-based tracking.
It's two different directives:
- ePrivacy Directive which is about local storage
- GDPR which is about information processing
Now he has -700 Elo. Did good faith just win or did the owner of the website intervene?
#589 -12579 Vladimir Putin
#588 149 Adolf Hitler
#587 658 Satan
pph commented on I moved to Germany and regret it businessinsider.com/us-ge... · Posted by u/marvinblum
While I generally agree that small cities with elderly population are more problematic, and Otterberg might be an instance of that, I found it interesting, that they definitely vote left-leaning[1]. The red "SPD" are the social democrats, "CDU" are more conservative christian democrats.
While local politics are difficult to judge from afar, I generally wouldn't consider the SPD left for a long time now. I'd recommend not putting too much weight on the (local) voting results.
pph commented on Two years of teaching high school CS blog.charliemeyer.co/what... · Posted by u/csmeyer
When I was a teenager first learning the basics of coding, I usually found programming books that focused on actually making things to be the best tools for learning. Books like "Beginning C++ through Game Programming" and "Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours" were way more engaging and picking apart the code samples probably taught me more than what most of my peers did in the intro to CS class in college.
When you can actually see the changes to things and have a real interesting project to work on its way more engaging that just going over the theory of things. Obviously, one should follow up with actually learning the theory as well to get a deeper understanding, but I often just can't grok things unless I can play with them.
I started "programming" by taking a game server script (template) and building my way around:
> Let's spawn a car there! > Let's make a multidimensional array of car types & location to spawn! > Let's load the data from another file! > What is this "database" thing I just heard of?
And down the rabbit hole they go.
It's also a fun example of the futility of DRM. The spec includes password-based encryption, and allows for different "owner" and "user" passwords. There's a bitfield with options for things like "prevent printing", "prevent copying text", and so forth,[3] but because reading the document necessarily involves decrypting it, one can use the "user" password to open an encrypted PDF in a non-compliant tool,[4] then save the unencrypted version to get an editable equivalent.
[1] "More than just transparency" section of https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/01/31/20-years-of-tra...
[2] https://blog.didierstevens.com/2008/05/07/solving-a-little-p...
[3] Page 61 of https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandard...
[4] For example, a script that uses the pypdf library.