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by Elfener 9mo ago
When you use Whatsapp, you're trusting a single entity to handle your messages (plus your ISP I guess). When you use RCS, your messages go through your mobile operator, google, and perhaps someone else in an overly complicated way that
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by Elfener 9mo ago
This is definitely a thing (though sometimes comes with a fee): https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles/texting-on-a-cruise-7-...
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by Elfener 9mo ago
The fact the even simple encryption with walkie-talkies is basically illegal might be problem (though I have no idea how/if that applies to at-sea ships).
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by Elfener 9mo ago
It seems so, stealing copyrighted content is only illegal if you do it to read it or allow others to read it. Stealing it to create slop is legal. (The difference, is that the first use allows ordinary poeple to get smarter, while the secon
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by Elfener 9mo ago
> are they just freeloading on the "pi" suffix to confuse people? Yes, but that is normal I guess: - https://banana-pi.org/ - http://www.orangepi.org/index.html - https://radxa.com&#
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by Elfener 9mo ago
I like the android way of security, where "rooting" your device to install updates is insecure, but using a horrifyingly out-of-date android (because your manufacturer, the only one who can update your device, didn't bother)
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by Elfener 9mo ago
In Hungary, where the central bank created the same rule about not allowing banking apps on "unoffical" devices, they do, but you need either the app or SMS for 2FA. Apparently they consider SMS secure...
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by Elfener 9mo ago
That link is to a page in that thread, but I guess it's supposed to be to this specific post: https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-the-root-and-mod-hiding-f...
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by Elfener 9mo ago
It has been renamed for a while now. In this modern world, companies no longer need brands that consumers know, since they aren't selling products. Instead they're trying to sell the company by showing that they're a leader i
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by Elfener 9mo ago
Unforunately they're "downscaling" their operations in Europe, so I guess they're having trouble competing with other phones: https://www.gsmarena.com/is_sony_pulling_its_smartphone_busi...
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by Elfener 9mo ago
Most phones that cost less than ~300 USD still have a headphone jack and microSD slot. I've never understood spending more than that on a phone anyway, you can't exactly use all that processing power on a phone operating system. U
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by Elfener 10mo ago
You don't even need to do a certain aesthetic to make your website fast. Just send your entire content in the HTML, instead of needing extra HTTP requests for JS and then more HTML before having all the stuff for your first render.
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by Elfener 10mo ago
Why does a site even need a light/dark toggle, when you can just use prefers-color-scheme in CSS, and the user can select that in their browser settings? (Also, technically, alternative stylesheets can be defined in HTML, except every
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by Elfener 10mo ago
One should avoid "smart" "app"-controlled products (especially when the functionality, network printing, already exists) Also I think it's illegal to make a working printer.
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by Elfener 10mo ago
I got stuck in an infinite loop. Try opening HN -> it's down, better check HN to see everyone talking about a major website being down -> Try opening HN -> loop
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by Elfener 10mo ago
I've reproduced issues with Unifont's glyphs being invisible in firefox and chrome (at different times, on what seems like certain versions), with much confusion. There are a few issues on the nixpkgs issue tracker about this, inc
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by Elfener 10mo ago
> YouTubed simply deactivated their social features? No comments Youtube already decides to mark some videos as "for kids" which disables a quite a few features such as comments (I guess that makes sense), the ability to add th
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by Elfener 10mo ago
> I wonder if allowing browsing without an account is compliant with the letter or the spirit of the law Haven't read the law, but I don't think they considered this, since the most popular social media sites make it very hard
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by Elfener 10mo ago
That was also the title of the HN post, before it was changed.
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by Elfener 10mo ago
My favourite thing about the "Copilot" branding is that Microsoft had to rename their existing Xbox feature named "Copilot": https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/accessib...
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by Elfener 10mo ago
I was thinking the same thing about people seemingly not knowing about Publisher. And I always found those memes about photos moving around your text annoying, because that it literally what you want when making a document (you know, what W
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by Elfener 10mo ago
It doesn't (but it seems pretty much every Windows install has it installed, and if you try to open it, it just tells you that there's no Cortana anymore.)
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by Elfener 11mo ago
The answer is (also confirmed by other replies) Windows. It seems in the Unix world, everyone uses UTF-8 (without BOM of course) and text encoding mistakes don't exist. When you involve Windows, which likes a random mix of UTF-16, UCS-
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by Elfener 11mo ago
I had no performance problems on my Thinkpad T410. Oh wait, it's because it is too old to have WebGL support so the background crashed and thus consumed no processing power.
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by Elfener 11mo ago
It may not be banks themselves doing this. For example, my bank here in Hungary, Erste Bank has announced that the central bank requested that they stop allowing their android app to run on "modified" devices. They even have a wor
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by Elfener 11mo ago
think that comment was saying that they don't like the new steam controller
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by Elfener 11mo ago
The worst bluetooth pairing experience is with devices featuring "quick pair" "fast pair" and similar. The best pairing experience is with devices that have a pair button or let you hold down the power button to enter pa
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by Elfener 11mo ago
Same. Although I have a few physical calculators, I rarely use them, because although for a simple calculation they're faster, when I'm already at a computer/phone, using that is faster, and when I want to do anything involvi
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by Elfener 11mo ago
> except this feels a bit more artisan The difference (as far as I know) is that Numworks (and Casio, etc.) are mainly used by students, while SwissMicros (and HP) are used for very quick problem-solving on the job.
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by Elfener 11mo ago
I've switched to watching youtube videos using mpv. yt-dlp thankfully works, and this way, I can watch the video any way I want.

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