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by Kwpolska 1y ago
[citaiton needed]
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
How do you prove that the Signal app you download from the Play Store is compiled from the source code on GitHub?
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> However, given that you can report messages to Meta for violating the terms of use, they clearly do have mechanisms to read messages. That’s not a reasonable assumption IMO. The report API most likely takes the message your phone has d
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
He was banned for 3 months for opposing a change to the PSF bylaws that would allow the board to remove members with a simple majority vote. https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/core_python_developer... ht
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It was weird to have a real person’s photo as an icon. But the new versions are much less clear. The 2025 icon is especially difficult if you don’t know the macOS camera application is called Photo Booth.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Modern Android defaults to the same random swipe experience as iOS. But you can go back to the much more usable three-button setup.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
You might be able to set a different scrollbar style in about:config.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
This used to work some time ago. They just didn't automatically enable translation and picked the default language.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Can the managers of the pharmaceutical company really be arrested in the US? Arrests are for poor people.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
IPv4 addresses are scarce. IPv6 addresses are not easy to remember, and not supported everywhere. Has the author never heard of shared hosting providers? This already exists. Those tend to be extremely cheap, often cheaper than a VPS, and d
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It was shown full screen after completing payment, as a distraction, and increasing the time for which Google Wallet takes over your screen during payments.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Google was there first. During Euro 2024, the "transaction successful" screen displayed some football-related animation.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
They’re pushing crypto and NFT scams really hard. Serious web browsers focus on browsing the real Web, not promoting "web3" scams.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
They do, if the lawnmower believes "more trademarks good" (and which corporation doesn't?), and trademarks must be actively used and defended to be kept.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Postman is just a terrible GUI for making HTTP requests. Using a REST API can be as simple as `curl https://api.github.com/repos/torvalds/linux `, and you can even open that link in a browser. SOAP requires sending
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> rewrite This is not a rewrite. Maybe it’s slightly inspired by the old thing, especially with having GUI-style clickable menus (something not seen often in terminal editors), but it’s much more modern.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It's also Rust.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
The uppercase/lowercase limitations and 80/40 characters don't necessarily prevent replacing typewriters. They weren’t typing text in BASIC, they were using Apple Writer [0], which did support uppercase letters. This wasn&#x2
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Polish has digraphs (ch, cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, sz), trigraphs (dzi), and diacritics (ąćęłńóśźż).
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
There aren’t that many HCL serialization/deserialization tools. Especially if you aren’t using Go.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
The problem with the old Android menu button was that you never knew whether or not there was a menu, and what would be in the menu. Some apps had navigation, some had actions. Some apps had different things on different screens. The usual
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Except not limited to 160 characters (70 if you want Unicode) and with rich media capabilities.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It sounds noticeably different in Windows Media Player. The video is probably using a Yamaha OPL chip, as found in Sound Blaster cards.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Oh, sorry, the modal discussion is in the Mozilla position, for example: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/908
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
That’s not the Microsoft/Roland sound.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Nope, there’s a modal in the middle of the screen.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
No idea, there was no action for sending texts.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> Interestingly, GitHub Workflows don’t support timezones! This means that, if I want to sent a text every morning at 7am, when on BST (British Summer Time) I actually need to schedule it for 6am instead. Nothing a little kludge within t
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
I quickly looked at Samsung's Modes and Routines app, and you could build a similar routine (but only with a local notification).
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It’s also the biggest software event in the Apple world. The implementation may improve, but the pre-recorded demo videos show off the bad parts pretty clearly, almost as if the terrible readability is intentional.

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