Markoff

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by Markoff 4mo ago
no extensions, cant live without uBlock Origin and few others
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by Markoff 4mo ago
producing 25-50 prototypes and launching mass production are two very different things edit: just for the record I am their fan and wishing them well, but I am too old for fairy tales unless the product is in market
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by Markoff 4mo ago
I will believe when I see it, until then it's just vaporware, let's see the price if they ship at all by the end of 2026/beginning 2027 maybe.
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by Markoff 4mo ago
Actually the main killer feature of UbO for me is cosmetic filtering with element picker, if I wanted just any ad blocker I could use various browsers with built-in adblockers supporting lists. So much for blocking at network level.
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by Markoff 4mo ago
only reason I can think of is synchronization among devices since you can't find same decent browser you could use on Android phone and desktop, Firefox ain't decent browser on neither of those, on desktop Vivaldi with customizati
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by Markoff 4mo ago
went from Firefox to Vivaldi, never looked back for many years on Android phone tried many, most recently was using Kiwi Browser, then for some time Firefox until they fucked up UI, so moved to Cromite, though my phone broke (never buy Goog
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by Markoff 4mo ago
oh please, I lived in China 5+ years, plenty of Chinese breakm various laws and nobody is sending them to detention or beats to death, that's more like US thing maybe visit China to have clue instead parroting someone's propaganda
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by Markoff 4mo ago
there is, pretty much every single smartphone brand offers parental controls nobody stops you from limiting your kid to bunch of whitelisted apps, for instance whatsapp (it has parental controls as well), duolingo, wikipedia, phone, SMS, ca
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by Markoff 4mo ago
I think here in Czechia they must guarantee 60% of paid speed, so with 1Gb internet the worst you must get is 500-600 Mb I saw yesterday some German ads while watching F1 and the prices were insane like 8-30x higher than in Czechia and they
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by Markoff 4mo ago
not accessible, right, VPN in China cost less than a dollar, truly inaccessible service tell me you know nothing about China without telling me you know nothing about China besides parroted propaganda
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by Markoff 4mo ago
/s yup, me and my whole family using VPNs on there phones were arrested and placed in labor camp, I'm writing this now from camp, sending it to gateway on pigeon... but seriously, these people fear mongering arbor China are comple
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by Markoff 4mo ago
I have 1Gb for 12€/300CZK per month in Prague (it could be 10€ but fiber infrastructure is not directly from my carrier, so they gave to pay fee to other company, but I know in other places they can go down to 10€/250CZK), why wou
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by Markoff 4mo ago
it was already cancelled and they can return back to normal operations
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by Markoff 4mo ago
that's already solved problem, just no country had balls to completely abolish PAYGO (Chile was closest, but they backpedaled a bit) and rely on IRA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Chile
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by Markoff 4mo ago
you can still grow even with smaller richer more productive population, actually you are encouraged to be more productive with smaller population than vice versa population growth ≠ wealth growth
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by Markoff 4mo ago
basically helicopter money, but not from the local gov, but from Samsung (if there is a difference between these two in SoKo) "The event was arranged to share with the public the profits that have grown on the back of the semiconductor
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Samsung to Refund 20% of All Purchases in South Korea in Onuri Gift Certificates(en.sedaily.com)
1 points by Markoff 4mo ago|1 comments
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by Markoff 4mo ago
more like bot farms trying to raise their image in Europe with this PR campaign, I would really like to see vote statistics
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by Markoff 4mo ago
there are tons of them in China, you can buy them on AliExpress, though that are expensive there for 1/2-1/3rd of Lego but you wouldn't believe if I told you how much it cost in China, you can buy sets with hundreds of pieces
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by Markoff 4mo ago
why not if it's the same thing for 1/3rd to 1/10th of the price? I mean you can buy some of them for one tenth, at that price is no brainer, I wonder why nobody imports them to Europe, it's same fun, no matter the brand
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by Markoff 4mo ago
it's already a thing in China, you can buy Lego clones for 1/10th - 1/3rd of the original one it's crazy how much ask Lego for few order of plastic, I couldn't believe how cheap rest clones are in China, it's s
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by Markoff 4mo ago
you could not be more wrong https://rebrickable.com/sets/alternates/ you just enter the number to find alternate builds, some sets can be built into dozens various creations
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by Markoff 4mo ago
well Australia at least shares some cultural values with Europe, while certain genocidal Asian participant...
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by Markoff 4mo ago
For people like me first time hearing aout blue zones: "Belgian demographer Michel Poulain and Italian physician Giovanni Pes coined the term “blue zone” in the early 2000s to refer to the converging ink dots on the map they were using
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by Markoff 4mo ago
It's robot from 1990 and no, there is no video of the robot actually walking.
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by Markoff 4mo ago
less than a month ago: Cognizant could be heading toward one of the biggest tech layoffs of the year, following cuts at companies like Amazon and Oracle. Reports suggest the IT services firm may reduce between 12,000 and 15,000 jobs globall
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Cognizant CEO is hiring 20K+ graduates and says AI tokenmaxxing is vanity metric(fortune.com)
2 points by Markoff 4mo ago|1 comments
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by Markoff 5mo ago
Swedish source SWT: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/fhms-nya-uppmaning-till-f... DeepL translation: Public Health Agency on Screen Time: New Advice for Parents On Monday, the Public Health Agency of Sweden rele
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Put your phone away: Sweden urges parents to restrict screen use around children(theguardian.com)
4 points by Markoff 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Markoff 5mo ago
better be safe than sorry I don't think screen free kids won't miss anything by not watching Bluey for 20 mins, OTOH not so great parents will keep pushing those 20 mins further and further with worse and worse content, so I guess

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