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Daniel

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KeePass(XC) is open-source.

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It’s actually not uncommon for icons (and occasionally animations) to be loaded as fonts. This is why if you force your web browser to only display a certain font and go to certain websites they display strangely, or just have slightly broken loading screens.

On the web this is (mainly) for optimization. If a website has a few icons there is no problem with loading a few SVGs, or (if there is a very small number) raster images can get a pass. Although, if you’re building an application with a large number of icons (think most hyper-interactive data-driven sites) for every SVG you load that is (unless embedded directly in HTML) a single HTTP request, computers (generally, in most cases) take longer to complete several smaller operations than one big one — these means that compiling your icons into a font is much more optimized than loading them individually.

Now, considering this is Windows (where they don’t particularly seem to care about heavy optimizations and fine tuning) I’m sure it was just easier for them to write a single thing that renders a font instead of something that renders a font and another thing that renders images/animations.

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It’s actually an antipiracy method.

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Also, Darktable for any of my fellow photographers.

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Bears in Minecraft? Is this modded, or did I miss something?

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Any sports games. My brother has been a longtime player for years, but the database of players never gets updated.

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The only reason I wanted to was because my sister had some comments about it.

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Yeah, I know. E-Book DRM is super lame, because nearly every version of it has already been cracked. It’s just frustrating.

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I really love Onnivore, but my only issue is that RSS feeds are mixed in with the things you add to it. That being said, they’ve had a few updates that make it a lot better.

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