DavideNL

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   by DavideNL 4y ago

   Same here since i bought the Oasis, now i can finally get proper dictionaries on it...
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   by DavideNL 5y ago

   Great development, however, so annoying that you can't follow another instances feed in Mastodon :/ So you need to create multiple accounts for every separate instance which feed you'd like to follow?! sigh...
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   by DavideNL 5y ago

   I just spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how to search/follow people/toots on other instances. I still don't know. Not sure what that says about either the onboarding/ui or perhaps it's just me :-) EDIT: aha, so
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   by DavideNL 5y ago

   and, you can get an RSS feed simply by appending '/rss' : https://nitter.net/handle1,handle2,handle3/rss
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   by DavideNL 5y ago

   Agree; I stopped using Netflix a long time ago, when the "algorithm" started ramming content through my throat; I couldn't disable automatically playing previews on the home screen, it automatically started skipping over intr
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   by DavideNL 5y ago

   There seem to be a lot of scripts like [1] which basically have the same result, strip all the bloat and "spyware"...? [1] https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows
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   by DavideNL 5y ago

   I've been using https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows
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   by DavideNL 5y ago

   I think you are right, it's piracy; However i had to chuckle at " is dubious at best ", since all the spyware shipped with Windows nowadays... is perhaps equally dubious.
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   by DavideNL 5y ago

   Just click "preview channel" on the telegram page they link to and download the .torrent file with a bittorrent cient.
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    > but the school wasn't having it That's rude. I would probably consider getting the school to communicate this in writing, and then report it for fraud at some point; when the kids leave the school, or when I'd be sure it
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    > I don't think there's a way out. Well in the long run there is: laws. The EU is finally moving in the right direction at least. So what we must do is vote for political parties that support this. And support/donate to pe
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    You can just use/run all bash and zsh scripts from your fish shell...
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    What anti-virus (if any) does one recommend their 60 year old parents on a Macbook...?
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    > allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others I understand, however sharing a link with someone specific (usually you need the specific url to access this) is not the same as publishing for
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    Be careful with OneTab, something shady is going on with this addon but i can't remember it exactly; if i remember correct it is very unclear that when you share tabs with a specific person , it also posts it on the web for everyone
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    > chronological timeline Just use one of the 3th party twitter clients… problem solved. I use “Aviary - for Twitter” on iOS which has no subscription, unlike Tweetbot.
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    Although querying the root servers directly is always unencrypted right? So your ISP can see and might manipulate all queries at will?
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    fyi, free and opensource (Swift) alternative to TextSniper, works with Alfred too: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
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    Researchers find link between nerve damage and long Covid(nn.neurology.org)

    74 points by DavideNL 5y ago|39 comments
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    I agree... The first hit on Duckduckgo when searching for "Discrimination": "Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    The "Pomodoro Technique" perhaps? Don't know if it’s scientifically proven to be effective... > A goal of the technique is to reduce the effect of internal and external interruptions on focus and flow. https:/&#x2F
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    Exactly... " Dynamic filtering: precedence " : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-pr...
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    In The Netherlands there’s a group of a few 100 people using a device like this already: http://inredadiabetic.nl/en_GB/ It’s sort of in a testing phase…
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    https://old.reddit.com/ On Firefox, use Old Reddit Redirect: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    Exactly... it's also a common cognitive distortion people have in general: "black and white thinking" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    This feels like a very bad development. Out of curiosity.... what would the best alternative to Firefox be, in regards to privacy? (macOS/Ubuntu/Windows)
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    Related: https://darkpatternstipline.org/ "Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) Tip Line where individuals can submit their sightings of dark patterns online."
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    Original url: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/we-re-fin...
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    ProtonVPN has another dark pattern i found out this month; If you cancel your subscription it will be canceled with immediate effect, and the remainder of the month will be given back to you as "credits", which you're suppose
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    by DavideNL 5y ago

    I see the same error... and also on Archive.is https://archive.is/4n7Y7 Here's a link that works: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-superyacht-dutch-...