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by foepys 5y ago
GDPR also applies to EU residents, so asking for a passport or national ID is not enough to avoid answering a request.
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by foepys 5y ago
> Kazakhstan government is facing incredible amount of protest now due to rising fuel prices. It's so bad that the presidential residence was set on fire a few hours ago.
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by foepys 5y ago
You cannot create your own controls. It's impossible to integrate them with the VS designer unless you sign an NDA. I don't mean a composition of existing controls but completely new custom controls. Yes, you can continue developi
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by foepys 5y ago
VS 2022 WinForms designer for .NET 3.0+ can still not handle non-MS custom controls. If you want to create a user control yourself you need to sign an NDA with MS. The API and behavior also changed, so it's not like updating the SDK
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by foepys 5y ago
Jetbrains adds tags like "commited to VCS", "test failed/succeeded", "reverted", and much more. It's more than just a history of changes.
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by foepys 5y ago
This is all possible today, no web3 required. Logins with client certificates were solved decades ago and "owning" items digitally is something many services can do for you, see Steam, Amazon Video, Apple iTunes etc. To get those
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by foepys 5y ago
> doesn't work well with password managers, how to new team members learn the password, no easy way to rotate passwords when offboarding This is where LDAP and similar are really strong. Unfortunately a lot of companies know that an
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by foepys 5y ago
This very much depends on the protocol. Microsoft loves XML and and if the update package has an XML manifest with update information attached to it, it's very well a string that gets serialized to a number. The same applies to JSON an
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by foepys 5y ago
There are lot of "numbers" not actually being numbers. E.g. phone "numbers" are not numbers. The same as a house "numbers" are not numbers. Version "numbers" are also often not numbers (e.g. 2.1.230-r
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by foepys 5y ago
> will help make mental illness less stigmatizing Or will result in doctors not taking people seriously because only a small percentage of their patients claiming to have a mental illness actually have one. I can see it going both ways.
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by foepys 5y ago
It's incredible how sluggish animations can make a OS feel. The first thing I do when I get a new Android phone is enabling the developer options and turning off all animations. The phone feels a lot faster then, especially switching a
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by foepys 5y ago
If there is a fire indoors that you cannot extinguish very, very quickly, you need to immediately get out and call the emergency services. The longer you wait, the larger the fire gets and the less professionals can do about it. Don't
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by foepys 5y ago
This is bad. But the fact that you can post links to articles written by journalists here is proof enough that this was not okay and unacceptable. Do you have articles about similar things happening in China by Chinese media?
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by foepys 5y ago
China has no free press. Literally none. Hongkong's free press was obliterated shortly after China broke the treaties they had with the UK about keeping Hongkong independent. Try traveling to the areas where Uigurs are being detained t
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by foepys 5y ago
German corporate culture is functioning without snooping around on employee's emails and chats. It's strictly forbidden by law and only allowed in very constrained circumstances when the employer has a strong suspicion ("An
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by foepys 5y ago
VSCode has also the problem that sometimes plugins work, and sometimes they just don't. Live Share for example logs me out at random times, cannot connect, or cannot find files on the remote computer. The same kind of inconsistencies a
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by foepys 5y ago
I stopped using the official YouTube app when YouTube started to constantly show me literal porn as ads below videos. The images were distorted a little bit but you could clearly see what was going on. I wasn't able to report any ad an
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by foepys 5y ago
This is completely ignoring the fact that China doesn't want foreign companies operating inside their borders unless they form a joint venture with a local Chinese owned company that owns >50%. China is also an authoritarian regime
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by foepys 5y ago
This is whataboutism. Fast fashion clothing often falls apart after a single wash and at the latest after two. They are meant to worn once and then to be disposed. I agree that some electronics like smartphones should be made to last for
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by foepys 5y ago
Because hospital capacity is limited and despite what you might want, people will still be admitted to the hospital when they caught covid. In Germany some hospitals are postponing "planned operations" and as much as this sound li
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by foepys 5y ago
It's also the country with the largest population and manufacturing industry.
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by foepys 5y ago
I am very certain that within 10 years we will all fail at distinguishing bots from real people posting online. What that future holds is scary and I hope that humanity will be smart enough to not destroy democracy just because Russia, Chin
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by foepys 5y ago
Let's not pretend like this is an impossible task. Some EU countries already have laws that base regulations on company size and number of customers.
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by foepys 5y ago
> My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in other apps I needed to change my work password twice already because I
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by foepys 5y ago
For Teams it's already too hard to scroll up in a chat. It keeps jumping around and often automatically scrolls down to the bottom again. With this in mind I don't expect search to do anything.
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by foepys 5y ago
A company I worked for introduced Salesforce shortly before I left. The license costs are off the charts, it's insane. Lidl wanted to introduce SAP and after investing 500 million Euro into it, they stopped and aborted the project enti
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by foepys 5y ago
Using and understanding something does not necessarily go hand in hand. Asbestos for example was used for quite a few years and seen as a safe and cheap building material. Then it turned out that it gives people cancer. A similar thing happ
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by foepys 5y ago
There have been several reports about a similar problem with the Apple AirPods. I guess some people are just very sensitive to this.
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by foepys 5y ago
Why should I rely on yet another microservice when I have PostgreSQL right there?
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by foepys 5y ago
One thing I want to clarify about the rise of the far-right in East Germany is that a lot of people with far-right views moved from the West to the East, too. It's not just people from the East suffering economic hardship turning rig

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