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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Don't you think it is a bit of an overreaction to say that "Audacity is now joining the ranks No. I do not. They now have the ability to take any data they want "accidentally". They can now give that data to whomeve
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> but there are so many doing it. Really? That's a weak argument if ever I heard one. Perhaps it's time to take a stand and say "no more!" What's to stop them adding in something else later that "accidentall
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
So is the UX unusable right now? Edit: >but if you want UX improvements to Audacity You insinuated that the only way to improve the UX (your comments insinuates that it needs improving) is to use telemetry
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I'm not sure this is overreaction. Don't get me wrong, I've grabbed my pitchfork at times in the past and some of them have been massive overreactions but I think this is people saying "Oh ffs! Is nothing sacred?" A
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I thought it was more about the fact that it's opt-out (if I understand it correctly!). Companies have existed for centuries without needing constant telemetry... we have many methods that do not require telemetry: surveys, emails, for
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
For me, the errors were rarely major although I do remember an update breaking access to my printer: that required reinstallation. I sometimes had network issues after updates. Things like Outlook not being able to connect as the icon in th
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
My $0.02 I've been on Windows forever. Since DOS 3 or 4 I think (giving away my age there!) and until recently (last few years) it has fulfilled every one of my requirements, that is, games, development, consumption. I'm a .NET de
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I built a kanban board with two goals: 1. Dark mode by default 2. Dead simple I am looking to make a couple of WPF projects over the next couple of years and wanted to track them but found all the online Kanban tools missed the mark by mile
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Look ma! I improved the autopilot in my Tesla!! I see where you are coming from but right now, if autopilot kills someone, then Tesla are on the hook for it (ok, there may be grey areas but ultimately, they made it so that has to point
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Try disabling Windows update... Also, almost every patch has issues these days: that hardly ever used to happen. Their quality has taken a dive. I am not saying that is isn't the perfect tool for many people: it has been for many years
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
It's about having choice: Microsoft used to be quite good at making stuff usable but the underlying geekery was still there and could allow control to the max if you wanted it. It worked for mom & pops and techs alike but corporati
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
This x 1000! I remember back in my DOS days as a kid tinkering with autoexec.bat, himem and all that just to get an addition 10Kb or memory to run a game. Now, with Windows in particular, they're slowly removing my ability to dick abou
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Can someone explain to me the point of having a law that says "if you do this bad thing and we find you guilty, we'll fine you a tiny fraction of what you made from doing that thing"? There is no disincentive from what I can
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
>He's responsible to the Board and shareholders, so if he promoted, demoted, fired, or otherwise exercised that authority unfairly, he could be held accountable, so that power is limited. All true, but he could say to her boss &quot
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I dunno... I think they have their place. I'm working on a personal project right now and in order to see how things look, if they work etc, I've got a bunch of vanilla js frontend code and //TODO in a few places to call
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> Think of any baller software project you use. Is it VS Code? Chrome? GitHub? NGINX? Do any of these use DDD? That's a fantastic question. Something I've often wondered too. I'm a fan of DDD but it's like saying &quo
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I disagree... can you honestly tell me that you absolutely require to have an Amazon device? Or a smart TV? I can understand if they were putting microphones into the electrical sockets when your house was being built... you need to have el
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
I've read recently about a fair few sites and browsers and whatnot that are not going to play along with FLOC. Out of curiosity, what would be the kind of figure that would make Google stop using it? I mean, at what point does the data
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Anecdata, but the company I moved to a few months ago have 18 staff: only 3 of us have a dedicated work space (from the morning standups that I can see). My brother works from home now and he's either in his living room or kitchen and
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It appears I can't edit my original comment to add in a mea culpa! No idea how I managed to get it so far off the mark there... :( For anyone reading this, downvote my original comment up the top please to
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Ok, so let me see if I understand this correctly: I run a website with no trackers, no ads, nothing at all to do with Google or any other company in any way. You come along, with Google Chrome, and visit my site. Google adds the fact that y
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
> I live near an air force base and over the last few weeks have seen (and definitely heard!) an almost daily fighter jet exercise. This hasn't happened in years. Funny you should mention that... I live in the UK and a few weeks ago
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Haha, that's crazy! I will say that running natively on Windows is still faster but the VM of Windows 10 in VMWare Workstation on Linux is noticeably faster and smoother than running that same Windows 10 VM on VMWare Workstation on Win
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by _Understated_ 5y ago
Here are my thoughts on Linux... I used Ubuntu on my sole/main machine for a month up until recently: i9 10900K, 32GB, 1TB NVMe SSD, GTX1080, MSI Z-490-A Pro, 3 x screens. In my day job I'm a .NET developer so I created a Windows
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by _Understated_ 6y ago
>How hard is it to change to a new app? Three minutes maybe? That’s not hard is it, come on. If that's all it took, then no, it's not hard. However, they all require you to login, provide email/phone details, prove who you
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by _Understated_ 6y ago
I'd be more than happy to see the likes of Facebook and Twitter go down the drain: I think they have had a negative effect on society. However, this display of authoritarianism by the gov is chilling and should not be allowed: this is
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by _Understated_ 6y ago
I heard it was deliberately scuttled by the right-wing owner of a competing canal... just sayin!
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by _Understated_ 6y ago
My take on this is that Nvidia knew fine well that their code would be broken. And in short order too. I reckon this was just lip-service to consumers, and possibly their investors, that they're "doing something about those bad cr
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by _Understated_ 6y ago
You know, in some ways I'm actually glad that Azure AD is down: I ran a SQL update and right after it I started seeing errors and thought I'd done something wrong... I've been shitting myself for an hour :D
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by _Understated_ 6y ago
> That's the kind of change that turns an unviable business into a viable one. What, like going from 1 in every billion people clicking on your ad to 1 in every 100 million? I'm sure that in some niches there is going to be a p

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