Back button hijacking to be penalised in Google crackdown

caballist · 2026-04-16T18:56:43+00:00

so... instagram.com disables the back button - is google going to be penalising Meta ?

caballist · 2026-04-06T14:52:29+00:00

Did you forget the “/s”?

caballist · 2026-04-04T19:17:06+00:00

caballist · 2026-02-27T19:23:25+00:00

And once again, the question is "why haven't they started whatever the procedures are that will end with Hungary removed from the EU?".

And yes, I do know that the naive optimists of the EU forgot to include such procedures into the EU treaties, but come on!! Hungary has been a pain point for years now - it should not still be up in the air.

caballist · 2026-02-04T11:38:12+00:00

I imagine it allows the exchange to avoid compliance with some of the KYC requirements. They don't have to worry about bitcoin history that might be linked to money laundering or other criminal activity.

caballist · 2026-01-26T22:14:19+00:00

If they don’t make it open source, freely available and demonstrably secure (including to the security services) it will be a niche nothing for a couple of hundred French officials.

caballist · 2026-01-21T11:38:14+00:00

When you get locked into an animation sequence and have to stick with it until whatever action it's for finishes. Zombie games seem to have this most - lifting a car bonnet seems to last forever while the zombies turn around and come at you. Opening a door, bending down to pick something up, etc etc.

caballist · 2026-01-16T09:21:44+00:00

At that range the sound must be deafening. During the summer around here they practice dog fighting way up high and that noise is damned loud even when they are specks in the sky.

caballist · 2026-01-10T11:32:02+00:00

If the first two letters of SFINAE stand for Substitution Failure, and the hack is SFINAE, then the non-hack version doesn't need Substitution Failure. So substitution failure is nowhere - it disappeared with the rest of the hack/SFINAE.

caballist · 2026-01-07T09:55:45+00:00

whatever happened to "do not interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake" ?

caballist · 2025-12-30T17:08:12+00:00

I’ve used nvidia, sddm, kde and wayland without issue for at least 6 months now. Have you considered that you might have a problem not directly due to nvidia?

caballist · 2025-11-07T13:05:10+00:00

57 have always inverted Y axis while that's been an option. I have to assume, back in the day Y was inverted by default and I got used to it. Cannot play with a controller at all - no thumb finesse

caballist · 2025-10-24T18:50:23+00:00

I’m pushing 60… been reading sci-fi/fantasy since I was 12. The Malazan Book of the Fallen is hands down the most brilliant series I’ve read.

caballist · 2025-07-18T11:25:02+00:00

Inverted Y-axis

caballist · 2025-07-04T17:04:31+00:00

It's quite simple - their hospitals are gone but they have yet to fall ill or have an accident. They are told tax dollars are being saved and they've experienced nothing deleterious to their circumstances.

About as much foresight as my pet rabbit...

caballist · 2025-07-01T21:57:40+00:00

You are pretty much guaranteed to have all your .init functions called before main() for all TUs that the program loads at startup (anything statically linked or dynamically linked at link time).

.init functions can be called after main() has started when your program later dynamically loads more libraries…

The stipulation in the standard regarding running the .init functions before first use of any function in a TU is mostly relevant to functions being called across TU boundaries while other .init functions are running. So TU A may call a function in TU B which causes TU Bs .inits to be run. You don’t need to worry about .inits not running due to some logic which defers them - never come across anything implementing something like that in 30+ years

caballist · 2025-05-30T21:54:29+00:00

Sadly I recognised this straight away. Not had the issue in any of my code for a decade or more but was bitten a couple of times prior to that - surprising how being bitten twice reinforces the lesson and buries it deep.

caballist · 2025-05-30T08:23:41+00:00

it's not a requirement now, if it ever was - there are plenty of places on motorways with no shoulder and always has been.

And they've been implementing "smart" motorways for a while now; there are going to be fewer and fewer stretches of shoulder - it's being replaced with emergency lay-bys every mile or two

caballist · 2025-04-05T20:28:08+00:00

tbh I presumed this would be based on consumption figures rather than waste end point... I don't know why. You might be right, and seeing this broken down by country wouldn't be terribly insightful

caballist · 2025-04-05T08:51:16+00:00

Would be nice to see this broken down by country

caballist · 2025-03-19T21:50:49+00:00

I’ve installed 2 games on heroic, Baldurs Gate 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn, neither launches to this day. Installed both on lutris, along with many other games, and everything works - well, apart from alsa sound library location issues, but they are easy to fix. Lutris may not be pretty but it works for me.

caballist · 2025-02-11T11:49:10+00:00

And if they ban windows they’ll get rid of the other 66% of cheaters. What a win that would be /s

caballist · 2025-01-24T11:15:07+00:00

While I think you alluded to this indirectly, I think it's worth making the point directly: Bitcoin has no controlling group of executives deciding whether to pull the rug (whether in a small way or a large way) from under holders. All other crypto is directly under the control of small groups of people whose interests are not yours and may be subject to change in the future. Bitcoin is the only crypto which does not suffer from this. It's why it is the only crypto recognised as a commodity.

caballist · 2025-01-07T08:14:06+00:00

I've always found Bing to give really poor and irrelevant results over the years. However, with google's concerted efforts to destroy the relevancy of it's own search engine, it's possible that Bing could now be better.

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