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by Y-bar 4y ago
This is sometimes asked in jest, and sometimes as a serious question. It's a bit hard to know which leg you lean on. But in case it is an honest question I would say two major factors are: 1. The manner in which it is done and your mot
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by Y-bar 4y ago
For example, buying a 4K HDR movie on iTunes does not allow you to even cache it locally ( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251320670 ), it is 100% streamed meaning you have to have a very sizeable and stable interne
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by Y-bar 4y ago
I think these two sections speak for themselves: > "NYU had in Professor Maitland Jones a faculty member with a one-year appointment specifically to teach organic chemistry," wrote John Beckman, a spokesperson for NYU, in a sta
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by Y-bar 4y ago
The law itself. It is amending Directive 2014/53 which allowed dongles. The part which allowed dongles is made away by this new directive. It's entire raison d'être of the law is to mandate that devices themselves and their c
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by Y-bar 4y ago
The law disallows dongles as a "solution".
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by Y-bar 4y ago
I'm obviously talking from a customer and consumer perspective, but can you provide any kind of explanation why implementing USB-C is problematic in the iPhone when it already is in the iPad and desktop and laptop Macs and Apple displa
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Yes, a big finally ! I love my Apple device (personal iPhone 12 mini, work iPhone 8, Apple TV 4K with new remote, iPad Air, ...) but the lightning connection should obviously have been retired a few years ago.
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by Y-bar 4y ago
They don't need to differentiate, this is an extension of current national liability rules which handles instances where software could cause harm but had a blind spot for AI-type applications. Until now companies could shield themselv
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Old technology? In what way? Why is that a bad thing to begin with? The law explicitly includes a provision for future improvements, the USB Industry Forum are free to recommend new standards to augment or supersede USB-C.
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EU: Common charger for mobile devices will be a reality in 2024(europarl.europa.eu)
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by Y-bar 4y ago
> [...] the Italian [Data Protection Agency GPDP] reiterated that an IP address is personal data and would not be anonymised even if it were shortened – given Google’s capabilities to enrich such data through additional information it ho
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by Y-bar 4y ago
MDN considers it useful here for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ta...
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by Y-bar 4y ago
> It is interesting, that the inventor of one of the most popular computer interface devices ever in the world didn’t received any royalties for his mouse invention. As he received the patent as an assignor of SRI, SRI licensed it to Ap
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by Y-bar 4y ago
There was a story not long ago about using a device in your shoes to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32729105
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Why throw javelins when intercontinental missiles exists?
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by Y-bar 4y ago
I love Tydlig! But have not seen a single update in many years now, and there are a few rough edges in iOS 15 I wish they had fixed. Is it abandoned?
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Yes. And I’m willing to bet that biodiversity is not so good in many of these “forests” which should probably be called something like “plantation”.
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Passwords are synced to Windows via iCloud, i suppose these keys would be synced like that as well: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/icloud-windows/icwd3c1...
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by Y-bar 4y ago
On iOS you can also tap on the "search" button on the lower part of the screen above the dock. Or you could swipe to the rightmost pane where apps are sorted alphabetically.
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Nobody is kicking anybody off the internet here. Kiwi Farms are free to associate with anyone willing to associate with them, or host their own content. There are thousands of hosts. Different strokes for different folks. Why should anybody
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Freedom of association is enshrined in many constitutions and laws across the globe as a fundamental right. Why do you want to force people to associate with those they do not want to? I am member of a badminton club, we have a code-of-cond
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by Y-bar 4y ago
> Hosting providers MUST be forced to provide a platform for everyone and anyone against the will of the provider. It SHALL NOT matter how many people their customers brag about driving to suicide. Nor should the hosting provider take in
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Barely so. looks more like bare minimum life support. The slump in code contributions can speak for themselves after the acquisition. https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/contributors
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by Y-bar 4y ago
What? > Intel picks Magdeburg in Germany for new European chip factory https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-picks-magdeburg-ger...
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by Y-bar 4y ago
> the constant stream of perpetually angry/ranting videos also gets tiring at some point Hear me out here. Maybe it is warranted and we ought, instead of directing the criticism towards the messenger or those who expose problems, di
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Since the entire Privacy Shield has been ruled invalid it seems all EU-US transfers/multinational corporations which process personal data are in a tough spot. I think Max Schrems (who took Facebook, among others, to court on GDPR) has
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by Y-bar 4y ago
She's one of the true treasures of the modern internet.
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Firefox has this built-in: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/take-screenshots-firefo...
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by Y-bar 4y ago
I work with online payment processor and early during the covid pandemic we had some layoffs. They were all notices of 1+ month and everyone of them continued to work for the majority of the notice period. Nobody had anything revoked early.
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by Y-bar 4y ago
Never heard this happen (Scandinavia) other than in the cases where an employee clearly breached laws or company policy. Standard procedure here is that you as a salaried employee will be guaranteed 1-2-3 months (depending on your contract)

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