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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
Most do, at least in most countries. Not by default, but you have to enable it in developer settings, and then it does a full wipe, so if you plan to root your phone anyway, you do that when you buy it (buy, test hardware, oem unlock + fact
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
They could be, easily so, twrp backup (and clockworkmod recovery before that), you'd just create the image of the phone (all partitions, everything), dump it to wherever, and then restore it, it was a standard system for testing new an
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
You'd need n^2 "NATO"'s then, because EU has implemented many really shitty policies too and someone would want to fight back against that too. UK may do the same. And we already have an actual NATO example, where one me
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
It's also the regulation, where most systems still look at "one pirate copy" = "one sale of lost profits", especially when pirates end up in court. If the book (or game or whatever) is not sold anymore in any way wh
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
Not just notified but blocked by default. We already have similar bocks on autoplaying video (no audio until you interact) and access to microphones and cameras ("allow access.." popups). Every time an article like this comes out,
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
Is this a joke, or an actual answer? They could just set it to 12h mode for americans and 24h mode for the rest of the world, and hid the setting somewhere deep in the menus (hold this button for 3s, then press that button 5 times, and then
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
> They are great for hobbyists due to their low barrier to entry, but there really isn't a niche they serve when it comes to mass-produced electronics. This. Just programming a microcontroller is generally a pain, but a pain that ha
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
The copyright law here is broken in general. If there are only 25 copies and it's impossible to buy a new copy from the publisher, who's actually getting hurt if you "pirate" that book? How can anyone claim losses if the
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/public-editor/liz-spayd-n... It's a well known thing for years.
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
+1 for this I'd consider the facebook and mega era to be relatively new, the "old web" for me would be the one without centralization around a few giants, the era of random phpbb forums, private websites with "this site
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
Building a facebook is easy, getting people there and hosting it is expensive, and to get that money, you need ads, and to keep getting money for those ads, you have to obfuscate your code so ublock doesn't work anymore, and you'r
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
Same here in slovenia, from fancy one to cheap store brand ones. No fads here
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
3d printing to the rescue: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3107766-flock-sock-flock-ca...
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
> I guess the headline has been changed? The HN title says "illegally drills wells" but the article now says "prepares to drill". Unrelated to the topic here, but does anyone else get pissed when news sites change art
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
In slovenia, at least in most engineering colleges, every exam was a combination of written + oral, way before AI even existed.
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
You guys do know that the same thing is said about americans in "the rest of the world"? Remember the "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" thing?
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
But pretty much every US president did something like that, killed people somewhere, usually half the planet away. No US president is in jail for that. OP above me is just blaming this particular one for something that everyone has done bef
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
So have many others before him. The only difference is, is that before him we had "Iraq has weapons for mass destruction! we must attack them, before they attack us, we're in danger!", and now there's "we're go
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
Not this quarter, and this quarter matters for bonuses! What happens with the next quarter is a "then-problem". Same for politicians, 4/5 years matter, if the world collapses after, it's the next governments problem. And
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
The problem with electricity for industrial use is, that you also need electricity during long, dark, cloudy winters, when there is very little solar power available. Somehow all the "green" supporters are all afraid of nuclear po
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
Firefox is a nice example of a human-managable set of preferences in the 'settings', and "about:config" for everythig else 'those few users' might need (without the need to reompile)
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
"back then", you had to write for months to get a book out, and it sold 20 copies and you earned $20. Now you can do it in minutes, get 50 books out, 20 of them sell 10 copies, you've earned $200. (i might be exaggerating the
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
At least it didn't show the "give us your email to subscribe to our spam" the moment you scroll a milimeter down the page. I started subscribing "admin@theirdomain.com" every time i get a popup like that... maybe i
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
And your battery goes empty, and you just lost everything. Or your phone falls to the ground and breaks. And to add to payments, the store loyalty apps are the worst... Lidl over here has an app only (no physical loyalty card), and they sho
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by ajsnigrutin 2mo ago
There are adblock blockers... some sites detect the ad blocker and prevent you from visiting the site without ads... so yeah, you then don't visit the site.
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by ajsnigrutin 3mo ago
You can still make cookies out of reference and/or lab materials :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjxpZHv7Hk
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by ajsnigrutin 3mo ago
> Allowing parents to configure their children’s devices to block services that require users to be older than the specified age or that do not provide an age rating. This could be done with setting the age too. Kids don't have thei
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by ajsnigrutin 3mo ago
This sentiment is pretty popular amongst some of the younger working people... they work, pay a lot of taxes for everything, and then get outvoted by pensioners who retired under "old" laws and now get a higher pension than they e
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by ajsnigrutin 3mo ago
It's a problem that was "solved" long before that by just wearing a condom and protecting yourself against other diseases too, and even pregnancy. Condoms are cheap, widely available and decades of condom-related education ha
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by ajsnigrutin 3mo ago
I mean, if someone is willing to pay them, why not? Even hundreds and thousands of years ago, people would put semi transparent rocks onto shiny metal shapes and sell those useless gadgets for a lot of money. If customers are willing to pay

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