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by elaus 9y ago
This generally sounds resonable, but I'm somewhat concerned about that part: > Apport would be configured to automatically send anonymous crash reports without user interruption. Crash reports could easily contain sensible and priva
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by elaus 9y ago
I started using such an app (pings you each evening to choose your mood and select some tags that describe your day). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.daylio (not affiliated in any way)
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by elaus 9y ago
That's not the issue here though. I had this happen to me with the old 'type these two street numbers' captcha as well: it would just present a new captcha after the old one was solved correctly. Makes me give up instantly wh
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by elaus 9y ago
> Criteo is the only good employer in France […] I feel like this needs some additional specification/limitation to make it a believable statement. The only good employer in the ads/data selling business?
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by elaus 9y ago
Google Maps is much more than just a map display though: Things like routing, current/expected traffic or business info (opening times, busy hours, ...) are so much better than anything OSM-related services have to offer right now, esp
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by elaus 9y ago
They got screen time on the TV series and apparently some "sponsored by Firefox" metioning in the credits (?). So the whole "unpaid" thing is a bit misleading as they did get something in return (which has direct cash va
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by elaus 9y ago
Really? I know a ton of people who talk to their phones (Google Assistant, Siri, navigation apps, ...) or have something like Alexa in their homes and I don't live in an english speaking country.
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by elaus 9y ago
I really doubt advertisers will make their ads less resource-hungry (and therefore less noticeable/appealing) when they detect low battery levels just because it would be better for the user (albeit worse for themselves).
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by elaus 9y ago
I've been waiting for ages for better tiling in Gnome - at least something like Windows 7 does would be great (resizing after half-tiling), but this looks even better! :)
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by elaus 9y ago
I'm always confused by comments like these - they seem almost intentionally misleading, but of course it could also be just a mistake while quickly scanning an article.
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by elaus 9y ago
I don't think Apple does "fine grained controls"
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by elaus 9y ago
To be fair: "trimming as much as we can" doesn't mean you have to be the browser with the smallest file size on the market...
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by elaus 9y ago
I don't think it's a good idea to publish an article now (August 2017) that contains information already outdated for more than a year ([no] detection of gravitational waves) without any kind of notice/cue…
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by elaus 9y ago
.ng domains cost a few hundred bucks per year, the times when they cost >10k are long gone
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by elaus 9y ago
Solved the first puzzle on "easy" in 53 attempts. The first 20 attempts were me figuring out that the 4 dots beneath each try are not in the same order as I drew the pattern, so I can't directly deduce if a single dot is cor
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by elaus 10y ago
I'd say simulating a human mind or body would be about equally complicated than simulating any other object/thing with the same amount of particles?
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by elaus 10y ago
I too first learned of the Facebook browser when a client complained that his websites has some issues with it. Kinda weird how we as developers (that like to keep up to date with web tech) can be completely unaware of a browser that appare
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by elaus 10y ago
But isn't it sad if MacOS has to be compared to Windows to relativize its flaws? People were using it because they felt it was BETTER than Windows, not because "both are meeh". Also arguably, selecting text in a dialog box (
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by elaus 10y ago
It did not work on my computer (Ubuntu 16.04) with Firefox and Chromium: For some reason, Firefox showed about 10% more system fonts.
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by elaus 10y ago
I like that kind of joke that is on both side's cost – not only the punchline about the KGB is funny but also the parts about the FBI and CIA play with the respective stereotypes in a funny way.
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by elaus 10y ago
Different shortcuts are a HUGE issue for me when switching between different products. It made my exodus from Eclipse and Photoshop so much harder and made me come back to both products for a few month. The frustration because of the lost p
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by elaus 10y ago
VR needs 90fps with only a few milliseconds of latency between moving your head and seeing the movement in your headset. Both can't be achieved by streaming from a remote server…
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by elaus 10y ago
How does this work if a person that is 500m away from me is currently chatting with someone 1.2km away… will it seem to me like that person is talking to himself (because his chat partner is out of my reach)?
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by elaus 10y ago
This reuse of "Daydream" has been bugging me for month whenever I read about the VR project. Seems like not many people ever took notice of (lockscreen) Daydream or otherwise Google wouldn't just recycle the name.
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by elaus 10y ago
Interestingly, many of the longest passwords follow the same principle: A sentence repeated three times with two scrambled letters in one word each.
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by elaus 10y ago
Someone doesn't get satire. This article is clearly not meant to be taken serious and the number of car parts is therefore by far not the only incorrect fact.
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by elaus 10y ago
> BEWARE OF ONLINE TROLLS […], they are everywhere. Tbh a posting from a new account named "mi_sucks" raises some flags for me as well…
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by elaus 10y ago
I find it really astonishing that law enforcement is using IP geolocation to raid homes or investigate. In western Europe this would be unthinkable as police or state agencies solely rely on requesting customer information from providers (b
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by elaus 11y ago
> […] I look at the average comment there and I can get a feel for what moderating there must be like. And I have to say, it looks like paradise compared to reddit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you're seeing in the commen
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by elaus 11y ago
Just in case anybody hasn't heard of this before (like I did): the Homo floresiensis is an extinct species that was nicknamed "Hobbit" after its discovery in 2004. Besides its small height it has nothing to do with Tolkin&#x2

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