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by _abox 5y ago
That monitor is much too expensive for just gaming and movies anyway.. You could nearly get a whole 27" iMac for that price. LCD tech has really come a long way since then (not even to mention OLED :) )
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by _abox 5y ago
This is what we did in the Netherlands. Anyone could afford to study if they wanted to, and pay equalisation kept the gaps low. Social housing provided good and cheap places to live. Until neoliberalism hit though. Then everything was about
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by _abox 5y ago
The problem is that GDPR didn't go far enough. They should have added a provision that if the user has Do Not Track turned on, the site may not present a cookie barrier and may not serve any cookies except essential ones. I know many b
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by _abox 5y ago
One thing that comes to mind about Ceausescu, when I visited his 'palace' (the people's house) was how many escape routes and hidden exits there were (including apparently a network of tunnels under the city) For a man who is
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by _abox 5y ago
He basically aims to reinstate the Soviet Union "glory" days so reinstating the iron curtain isn't a big stretch... I still hope this can be settled. If Ukraine gives up the areas that were basically constant civil war anyway
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by _abox 5y ago
Yeah I remember we used to run it as a joke.. On our HP-UX systems with VUE at the time. The sysadmins hated it when we made our terminals look like what they viewed as an inferior system (which to be honest it was, at the time with its DOS
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by _abox 5y ago
This won't work at all. They'll just attack from a point of presence inside our borders. Any cyberattack that can be traced to a country is because they want it to be traced (eg to send a message) It'll be a possible sanction
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by _abox 5y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. I've had many positions where I felt like I belonged including my current. The ones where I didn't were very depressing and stressful. I hope you will find more fulfillment in the future! By the way I
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by _abox 5y ago
Not really. GDPR preparations predated the Brexit vote. It was even completed and passed several months before the vote even happened (back when everyone still expected it to fail, even Cameron who initiated it has no expectation it would p
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by _abox 5y ago
This is why Do Not Track was a great idea. No popups because the browser indicates your choice proactively. The problem was the legal framework to enforce it didn't exist so the industry was just using it as a suggestion. The EFF'
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by _abox 5y ago
Android has always had a file manager and doesn't hide the filesystem from tools like adb. You still can't access the OS files and app private storage but when you download a file you can actually choose where to save it :) IOS hi
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by _abox 5y ago
MacOS called them folders from its very start. Windows until 95 was really just a shell on top of DOS. 95 was too but it was much more of a full featured OS in its own right. I guess they just wanted to use the metaphor that made sense visu
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by _abox 5y ago
Floppies had directories. Except in the very earliest MS-DOS versions 1.x which didn't have subdirectories. They were added in 2.0 I know people often didn't use directories on floppies but the complexity was replaced by another o
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by _abox 5y ago
Well... Apple did. The rest just followed them. And Android still has a visible file system.
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by _abox 5y ago
WhatsApp is not GDPR compliant because it sends your entire address book to Meta. https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/02/whatsapp-faces-267m-fine-f...
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by _abox 5y ago
It did, the earlier ones like the VT05 (and perhaps the VT50/52) didn't as far as I recall. They had a ton of boards with a whole lot of discrete logic! A bit like the early computers where the 'processor' was not a chip
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by _abox 5y ago
As an employee I would definitely not like to mix my personal things in my work password manager :) However for those who are so inclined I can see the value.
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by _abox 5y ago
With the bullying I refer to the tax service employees celebrating "afpakjesdag" ("taking away day"). It sounds like anything but normal professional behaviour with the citizen's rights in mind. It sounds like burea
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by _abox 5y ago
These are the guys that want us all to rent our stuff instead of buying it. "You will own nothing and you will be happy". Uh no. I'm not going to buy bug burgers nor rent my stuff. What we should do is more population control
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by _abox 5y ago
Still that would leave one of my favourite add-ons out :( (the bypass paywalls one). Mozilla has refused it in their store. Would love to have that one on mobile.
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by _abox 5y ago
I don't really believe in win-win anymore when it comes to mixing FOSS with Corporate. The need for monetisation always wins in the end for big corporations. Whether they openly admit it or not. For example: A lot of patches contribut
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by _abox 5y ago
Good question. I had several reasons. - I had used it until 7.0 in the past and missed the simplicity of having one single platform (rather than Linux with its kernel and the many distributions all doing things differently). - The excellent
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by _abox 5y ago
I did the exact opposite. I was on MacOS since 10.2. But lately I felt things have become way too locked down (both hardware and software), too dumbed down (too many apps resemble mobile apps with limited functionality) and too opinionated.
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by _abox 5y ago
But does the phone say "charging"? This is the indicator of slow charging (as opposed to fast charging, warp charging or whatever buzzwords they come up with). Regular charging is only 2.5W so it is technically possible for the ph
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by _abox 5y ago
Yeah I stopped running my own. I kept getting blocked by Microsoft in particular (mainly consumer recipients at live.com and outlook.com, strange enough not corporate O365 users!). I'm 100% sure I did not send any spam, the only emai
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by _abox 5y ago
Crowdstrike is one the best and most expensive EDR systems on the market. I doubt he'd put their name in jeopardy with misinformation. Personally as a European I wouldn't mind if Eastern Ukraine (Donbas in particular) rejoins Russ
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by _abox 5y ago
Yep the integration with Yubikey is amazing. Both on mobile and desktop <3
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by _abox 5y ago
That was already called full speed in the USB 1 days though. There's a mode called low speed too which was 1.5mbit and meant for low throughput devices. Full speed was 12Mbit. This way stuff like keyboards and mice didn't need to
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by _abox 5y ago
Paywalled article so I could only read the first paragraphs. Do websites really think I'll subscribe to read one article??
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by _abox 5y ago
If they'd care to publish it on F-Droid they'd have reproducible builds. But alas they don't.

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