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by foepys 5y ago
I was under the impression that Apple doesn't allow ad blockers but only request filters that are maintained by the OS and have an upper limit. How can one browser be better than another if that's true?
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by foepys 5y ago
Chrome is free to download. I click a link and get Chrome, done. Why should I go through the hassle to register, give out my CC info, and pay?
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by foepys 5y ago
How could Mozilla ever compete in technical merit nowadays? Google is siphoning nearly all talent by paying them insanely huge amounts of money. Web is part of Google's core business and they will pour every little penny into it if it
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by foepys 5y ago
The end of XUL was necessary to make Firefox faster. Doenload an old XUL Firefox version and surf the web. If you don't notice a difference in page load speed, startup time, and overall responsiveness, you might have a very, very fast
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by foepys 5y ago
No need for snark. All evidence points away from your point. Why should companies like Apple, Amazon, Google want their employees back in the office if they could get remote work for cheap? VW made a multi-billion investment against off-sho
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by foepys 5y ago
> FB only works when you and 99% of your social group are on there. You can choose whatever social group you want on social media. The days of physical presence and limited supply of peers are over. Your IRL friends don't believe th
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by foepys 5y ago
This is already possible with the German ID card (nPA). It can also verify if you are over a certain age without giving out your data. You also cannot read the nPA without a PIN code. It even includes a pseudonymity function where every ser
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by foepys 5y ago
Just to be clear: I never made a statement about quality of software. It's mostly because of timezones, cultural differences, and language. I specifically mentioned India because more than one consulting firm told me that India would b
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by foepys 5y ago
In Germany the market decided already. After years of propaganda by consulting firms how India will develop all software for pennies soon, companies in Germany are abandoning near and farshoring to eastern EU countries and India en masse be
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by foepys 5y ago
People talk a lot of bad things about German ISPs, but I have IPv6 on my DSL connection since 2015 and on my phone since 2019 (maybe earlier).
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by foepys 5y ago
I once lived in an apartment where I saw 45 simultaneously active wifi networks. Not even in a skyscraper, only an ordinary 3 story building in a residential street. It wasn't fun, even on 5 GHz it constantly disconnected.
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by foepys 5y ago
> It's alwys going to work That's a hope I currently do not share. There were multiple cases where Microsoft employees proposed features for WinForms that were only stopped by community members because it would have broken WinF
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by foepys 5y ago
To the people downvoting this: WPF is complete, done, never to be changed again according to Microsoft. But nevetheless they have recently started fixing bugs for .NET 6. Notably not the one where returning from the Windows 10 lock screen m
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by foepys 5y ago
With the current state of .NET I wouldn't either. Once Microsoft makes up its mind about which way it wants to go for UI and distribution of desktop applications, maybe. I don't want to use buggy, incomplete WinForms, deprecated,
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by foepys 5y ago
For an example see this article, worth reading: https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-in... The sequel: https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/02/de-cecco-bucatini-shortag...
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by foepys 5y ago
That is entirely the applications fault. Win32 supplies APIs for the clipboard and drag and drop. The application developers chose to not implement them.
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by foepys 5y ago
They probably rewrote the entire taskbar because reasons and when the deadline neared, they cut features. I would not rule out the possibility that the team that rewrote the taskbar does not include a single person who wrote the original ta
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by foepys 5y ago
I think what a lot of people call the flu is actually "the sniffles" which desensitizes people to the danger. Influenza like you had is really, really bad. It takes weeks to recover and the first 1 or 2 weeks are hell.
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by foepys 5y ago
We are using Defender at work, too. There is a group policy that lets Defender do a full system scan once a week. To not interfere with the user there allegedly is a group policy setting to limit the CPU usage and it is set to 15%. The thin
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by foepys 5y ago
As far as I'm informed, Reddit shadowbans downvotes from new accounts and accounts with low karma. You can downvote and the GUI will tell you that downvoted but the karma system will just ignore it.
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by foepys 5y ago
While most paid firefighters have to be out the door in 60 seconds, voluntary firefighters usually have 10 minutes to do the same. That's a trade-off that has to be made since not every small town can pay for a fully manned 24/7 f
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by foepys 5y ago
The only way to solve this is to break up Google (or rather Alphabet) but I don't see this happening. Anti-trust got way too soft.
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by foepys 5y ago
There is no difference. You use Tesla's patents and Tesla can use yours. Nobody will take it to court to test this out. Tesla will always come out ahead anyways as Tesla's revenue and production numbers are just too small compared
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by foepys 5y ago
> They did, tho. They did give away their patents under the condition that everybody using them cannot sue Tesla. It's a bad deal for every other automaker because they either have far larger and far more specific patent pools or if
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by foepys 5y ago
You can add the 2 kernel packages to the ignored packages list of pacman and update them manually if needed. Pacman will warn you that it ignored a package update including the currently installed and new package version. You will not get s
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by foepys 5y ago
If you just say "no" and don't show signs, they can't. If you say "only in my bloodstream", they can and will.
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by foepys 5y ago
Bad answer when you are the one driving, even if consumption was 2 or 3 days ago.
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by foepys 5y ago
I get your point but there is definitely a difference between creating a platform where everybody is the same and a platform where engagement algorithms and recommendations push certain messages (or hashtags) to the top to be seen by millio
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by foepys 5y ago
Nuclear waste is a lot worse than any other type of waste. It's dangerous for tens of thousands of years and we don't know if we will be able to tell a civilization 10,000 years in the future that the stuff we buried deep in a cav
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by foepys 5y ago
I bet all EU car makers would be very happy to do that. The only problem is: where do you get the batteries and renewable energy from?

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