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Holiday tech support, the gift that keeps giving(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by fbelzile 8y ago|0 comments
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by fbelzile 8y ago
They seem to acknowledge it and explain: > High volume of device requests predominantly due to stolen devices investigations. > High number of financial identifier requests predominantly due to iTunes Gift Card and credit card fraud i
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On Productivity(louderthanten.com)
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It looks like they are waiting on WebAssembly Threading. I agree with you though, Google should help develop WebAssembly vs just creating a Chrome only solution: "Our 3D rendering engine currently uses a Chrome-only technology called N
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by fbelzile 8y ago
Ah, as a Canadian not living in a major city, I didn't know this existed.
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by fbelzile 8y ago
It sounds like they've got a plan up their sleeves for their own grocery delivery system.
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by fbelzile 8y ago
> Now it's Amazon selling bootleg crap at scale. What's their excuse? Some variant of "move fast, break things", no doubt. Competing with Alibaba. Amazon seems to have decided to increase product variety (through incr
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Google accelerating demise of Plus after new security flaw affected 52M(cbc.ca)
3 points by fbelzile 8y ago|0 comments
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by fbelzile 8y ago
> MS also decided to tie Edge extension to the Windows store. I think this was a big mistake. I hope they mirror what Google is doing with the Chrome store. As a developer, I had to: 1) Port my Chrome extension into a UWP app 2) Embed an
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by fbelzile 8y ago
Does anyone know what the extension ecosystem of this new Edge will look like?
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Video: Facebook’s Ad Tool Lets Us Buy Ads “Paid For” by Mike Pence and ISIS(youtube.com)
1 points by fbelzile 8y ago|0 comments
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by fbelzile 8y ago
Western Canada is most known for it's energy sector and most energy companies are based out of Calgary, AB.
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by fbelzile 8y ago
I am fortunate enough to run a lifestyle business in this space. I market it as personal productivity software that lets you pick what to block and for how long, then prevents you from changing the settings until the time is reached. It&#x2
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by fbelzile 8y ago
Yes, I use one called Sendy ( https://sendy.co/ ). Subscription-free, one time payment of $59 and emails sent through Amazon SES. As a small business owner, I have no idea why someone would use MailChimp over this.
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by fbelzile 8y ago
And the default PDF viewer... Apparently some Windows updates change the user-defined PDF viewer to Edge.
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by fbelzile 8y ago
Very interesting how "pride" returns the colors of the rainbow in order: https://picular.co/pride It might be ordering the results by hue.
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by fbelzile 8y ago
> It appears to me that if cannabis was a food additive or sweetener with the same risk profile, no one would think it should be legal. It's not. It's a drug similar to alcohol and will be regulated as it should be.
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by fbelzile 8y ago
Right, which is why my Canadian business doesn't have to follow COPAA /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
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by fbelzile 8y ago
I think you've got it backwards. GDPR is bringing civility back. I think it's great legislation that favors peoples privacy over business profits made by invading that privacy. As a business owner myself, I'm glad something l
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by fbelzile 9y ago
Agreed. I have no problem paying for subscriptions when warranted (content such as Netflix, utilities, etc...) The issue I have is when this model is applied to certain software that doesn't directly provide added value over time (like
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by fbelzile 9y ago
Most people aren't Econs [1], which is to say, we aren't naturally well suited to (constantly) freely choose, switch and combine products. How long as it been since you tried to optimize the cost of your cellphone plan based on yo
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by fbelzile 9y ago
Windows 8-10 users that use Windows Defender will notice that some hosts file entries will be ignored (like popular domains like facebook.com). You will also need to add an exception to the hosts file in Windows Defender.
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by fbelzile 9y ago
That's what that was! I was up late last night trying to debug my app because of this.
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by fbelzile 9y ago
Access to root accounts on some ArcSight boxes only involve challenge-response codes that we were supposed to get from HPE support. Because of how annoying this was, a clever ArcSight colleague of mine was able to create a simple Java progr
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by fbelzile 9y ago
Sendy - https://sendy.co/ Saves me a lot of money vs using something like MailChimp.
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by fbelzile 9y ago
Agreed, I try to only use Facebook to chat with friends. The news feed is designed to be addictive, so I decided to create a simple Chrome extension that lets you blank out posts: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta
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by fbelzile 10y ago
There's a link at the top: https://getcoldturkey.com/pricing/
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by fbelzile 10y ago
I started Cold Turkey about 5 years ago and it's just recently started to generate enough income that I can work on it full time. Cold Turkey temporarily blocks websites and applications to help you focus on your work: https:/&#x
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by fbelzile 11y ago
Similar idea, but I created a text editor that simply blocks you from everything on your computer until you reach a goal: http://writersblock.io
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FORCEdraft: A text editor that will not exit until you reach your goal(forcedraft.com)
1 points by fbelzile 12y ago|0 comments

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