Comment Re:Tomorrow's News (Score 2) 133
Too bad I can't mod this to +1 Sad, but true
Too bad I can't mod this to +1 Sad, but true
I would be interested using Rust if it weren't for the poorly chosen language syntax. Same goes for Kotlin and Swift. Coming from C/C++ background I don't care for declaring variable names before their types. val/let, fn (instead of say "func" or "function"), etc... I hate implicit types and operations instead of being explicit.
fn plus_one(x: i32) -> i32 {
x + 1;
}
Ugly as hell compared to
int plus_one(int x) {
return x + 1;
}
it's also far more explicit as to what's going on in the C version that it's returning a value instead of just automatically returning the result of the last expression (implicit operation) in Rust which I definitely hate.
Posting to undo accidental "overrated" moderation.
Slashdot moderation needs a less clusterfuck moderation UI.
And yet it'll still have less options than Windows 3.1 for GUI color customization. Pretty fucked up that the "colors" setting is just a choice of contrast (light and dark) and a single color used for accent. Can't even change the stupid bright white window title bar non-focused color, that is a huge source of eye strain when using dark mode in a dark room, without having resort to weird registry hacks.
Need to bring back the full color customization options that Windows used to have from 3.1 through XP. Cause since Vista it's all been piss poor choices. Well in terms of Windows 10 basically no choices at all.
My about:config settings that seem to work so far on various news sites, netflix, youtube, and etc
media.autoplay.ask-permission true
media.autoplay.block-event.enabled true
media.autoplay.default 5
media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed false
It does however somewhat break web-based media players that use queue's such as amazon music where you'll have to explicitly play the first and second song before firefox then allows auto playing the rest of the queue/playlist. And have to explicitly play the video twice on amazon prime video as first video is an ad then next is actual requested show/movie.
In Windows XP and earlier you could add/remove such programs via Add/Remove Windows Components menu. Apparently that changed in Vista?
It's a sign that more viewers are not logged into YouTube, of which is required in order to Like or Dislike videos. Most likely means majority of them are mobile device using viewers. While others, like myself, are possibly those who view videos via Private/Incognito mode so it makes it more difficult for tracking who's watching.
Just something to give you some perspective as to why Like/Dislike sum is so disproportionate to view count.
It took Google Chrome doing this to have websites like Netflix fix their broken video player when you have autoplay disabled (in firefox my case).
Vimeo is still broken though, even after countless bug reports to them over the years about it.
Wonder when Google will fix YouTube where you have to press play twice in order for it to start playing a video with autoplay disabled.
Except the fact that Arduino IDE uses C++ not C.
I've been using a HDHomeRun dual-tuner since 2007 with mythtv on my home linux server, a schedules direct subscription (since 2010) for guide information, and basically just using VLC and MPC-HC for playback via "Direct Download" URLs from mythweb interface. The setup has worked out very well for me.
Mozilla has been pushing hard to make Firefox to be exactly like Google Chrome along with its limitations and lack of customizability. By Firefox v57 there will be no reason to ever use Firefox anymore because of Web Extensions won't allow users to install real extensions that allow them to actually change Firefox's behavior and UI as they want it to instead of Mozilla's ideology of having Firefox be a Chrome copycat. The pathetic Theme options in future Firefox versions is just as awful as Windows 10's themes and limited color choices, meaning no real options at all.
So I find it hilarious that somebody from Mozilla is concerned with Chrome becoming the only web browser in town when it's Mozilla themselves pushing the remaining Firefox users away towards Google Chrome because of their behavior and border-line user hostility. Because why bother using a gimmick when you can use the real thing?
They even stopped supporting devices like the first generation amazon FireTV Stick as won't show up in app search and going directly on amazon's appstore website says both netflix apps are incompatible with it. But of course netflix's support site doesn't mention this. Along with them only allowing up to 720p on Firefox, these arbitrary changes netflix has been doing is making me reconsider keeping my subscription.
So... did you ever wonder, do garbagemen take showers before they go to work?