GekkePrutser

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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
I don't know, it's a form of extrapolation IMO. The 1984 of our time. That was also not realistic back in the day but reality overtook it. However it feels like the time of social media is already coming to an end. With the compan
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
One thing that not many people know: you don't need to have a Google account to use GCM/FCM even with official Gapps. You can simply not sign in to Google play and push will still work. It's still running tons of spyware yes
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
I don't want to be protected from myself. As the admin I should have full access to the stuff I buy. Disabling it is ok but the problem with that is that you lose all security. There should be a way to add our own signing keys to persi
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Huh, I don't have Pull to Refresh under Settings > Customise > Gestures. I wish I did. I only have "Scroll to hide toolbar" and "Swipe toolbar sideways to switch tabs" This is in Firefox 108.1.0 which is the l
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
I'm from the Netherlands but I don't like IRMA. I respect what they're trying to do but they're lowering the barrier. Right now most platforms don't do ID validation because users hate sharing their details. By maki
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
elting it down doesn't make it less radioactive. It's still a significant health hazard to work with, making new construction with the remolded materials prohibitively expensive.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
> Fukushima by the way, despite repeatedly ignoring warnings of the risks of not being prepared for realistic tsunamis and earthquakes it might experience, survived relatively well all things considered. Yes most nuclear incidents involv
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Yeah the book "The Circle" (now of course a major motion picture :) really captured that culture well, I thought. A lot of these companies are really like that.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Death tolls aren't the only impact of a nuclear disaster. Denial of land use for tens to hundreds of years, cleanup costs, mutations, denial of water supplies if it reaches ground water (the prevention of which was one of the things th
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
> The numbers are in and they're excellent. Those numbers could have changed a lot this year if Russian shelling at Zaporizhzhia had worked out a bit differently. And this was a military adversary that wasn't explicitly trying
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Wow that's pretty bad yeah. Routing cables differently and some pull release adhesive tabs would have made this easily doable and hardly cost any extra.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
That was an amazing machine for its time. I remember it well. In those days a laptop was a luxury, I was a computer science student and only 1 of the fellow students I knew had a laptop! We just used our own PCs at home and the computer roo
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Does the 1150 take into account all the oceans full of NaCl? It sounds a little low.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Maybe you mean the club mate drink popular in the hacker community? (Incidentally it displaced jolt cola in that role)
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
But you are running WebKit in all four on iOS :) Because right now Apple doesn't allow other engines. So whatever it is that consumes batter, it's not blink or gecko.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
The rewrite was pretty bad yes but it's good again now. I never use chrome anymore on my Android devices. Only things that still bother me on FF is not having access to all extensions and not having pull to refresh.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
You can actually make adult only rooms in Horizons now. I don't think full nudity is allowed yet but they do seem to grasp that human interaction isn't all glossy and family friendly.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
But with a big privacy risk if anyone ever gets their hands on the root CA (which I hope is generated fresh in every install). Also, Android blocks user-installed CAs by default now, apps have to opt in to accept user-added ones. That makes
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Not really as far as I understand? It's a deterrent?
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Oh yes this is the incident I was referring to, actually. I thought it was the same. Somehow I remembered the troop buildup of Able Archer confirmed the invasion fear for the Soviets. But it sounds like that played no part in it. I must hav
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
> O'Shaughnessy advocated before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services for a layered space capability with lethal follow-on that incorporates machine learning and artificial intelligence to gather and act upon sensor
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
The strange thing with Sony is that they don't even seem to try in the mobile market. For years they're putting out phones that are overpriced, have very poor software support duration and focus on gimmicky features like 4K screen
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Hmm yes but I don't believe people willingly pick nicotine to deal with that. Most of us just grab an espresso. It's the people that were already smoking that go for the nicotine. And if it were that harmless, why wouldn't th
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
I agree with your points except for this: a Cray-1 is much less powerful than my desktop yes. But that doesn't mean we take advantage of that power. Most of it is wasted drawing transparency effects and YouTube videos. I'm sure th
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
No not really. When everyone does it, untargered ads will be the norm and will just be more valuable. Just like they were before adtech happened. Also, 50% less doesn't have to mean not to exist. I do wish they had mandated the existin
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
For me as a user it's not about the payment thing at all. It's about being able to do with my device what I want without the manufacturer having to approve it first.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Ah that makes sense. Yes Reddit is pretty good at not showing you NSFW unless you actually go and look for it. But when you do it takes you all the way down the rabbit hole ( figuratively!! - I hope ), this is why I found it a bit surprisin
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Agreed, there should be rules for all of them. This is not startups trying stuff out anymore, these apps have huge influence on the course of civilization.
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Sounds like it'll be a bit like on Mac with that whole notarization rigmarole.. But on Mac you can bypass it by jumping through some hoops. I guess on iOS you won't be able to until the EU catches up and forbids that too. I'd
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by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Oh trust me it's way way lower than 5%. More like 0.05% :) I was until recently a corporate admin of (among many other types) tens of thousands of BYOD iphones.

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