grishka

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by grishka 1mo ago
You fall out of society, basically. In my circles, most people expect everyone our age to have Instagram, even though it's been blocked by the government since 2022. As far as I'm concerned, the algorithmic part that shows me cont
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by grishka 2mo ago
In my own experience, you need a Windows app and a Xiaomi account, and then it will ask you to wait for days, and only then can you unlock it.
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by grishka 2mo ago
I'm sure clones are still being made.
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by grishka 2mo ago
Except apps themselves don't get backed up, only their data. So if you had any apps that are no longer in the app store or that came from outside of it (e.g. TestFlight or development builds), those won't be restored.
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by grishka 2mo ago
Those "nandroid" backups weren't "close" to that, they were literally that initially. Then, when Android phones started coming with the /sdcard partition mapped to the internal flash memory (a subdirectory of &
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by grishka 2mo ago
The core trick to making a popover, tooltip, or, really, any kind of overlay element that's anchored to something on the page is putting an element with `position: absolute` inside one with `position: relative`. You can make it display
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by grishka 2mo ago
This doesn't look like it gives websites something they couldn't do before with CSS and JS.
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by grishka 2mo ago
Opening a popup needs JS though.
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by grishka 2mo ago
Is there any particular reason these kinds of APIs are not behind permission prompts?
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by grishka 2mo ago
They're a nice idea poorly executed. If they would last something like 5 years instead of 20, and only be assignable to individuals, not companies, and non-transferable, they could work as intended.
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by grishka 2mo ago
And quite cheap and hackable ones at that.
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by grishka 2mo ago
I use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.
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by grishka 2mo ago
Why does every website even need to provide its own toggle in the first place? How often do people use these, really? (I don't get the "everything needs to support dark theme" thing either tbh)
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by grishka 2mo ago
While we're at it, let's also mandate the destruction of every general-purpose computing device incapable of secure boot or allowing it to be deactivated. And if someone dares to build a homebrew CPU out of relays, transistors, or
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by grishka 2mo ago
Tell them she doesn't own any devices that could connect to the internet. I'm sure they'll figure something out. They have to have procedures for this sort of thing.
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by grishka 2mo ago
> they told me to go to the website for my issue. And this sort of attitude is exactly what needs to change.
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by grishka 2mo ago
Then maybe everyone needs to be educated to never ever trust incoming calls from unknown numbers? Or maybe these need to be blocked at the carriers? We have all this AI crap now but for some reason we can't deploy it to detect scam cal
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by grishka 2mo ago
Then how about her not having online banking?
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by grishka 2mo ago
The society should change such that grandmas could decide for themselves whether they want tech or not, and still have a comfortable life if they choose to not use it. In our current society, smartphones and the internet are forced on every
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by grishka 2mo ago
I wish I could specify that I walk faster than most people.
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by grishka 2mo ago
Google Maps has had glitched-out building outlines overlapping rivers in my city for years . I don't trust it at all. Citymapper is nice for public transit directions in cities. But then, another Google product, Pixel Watch, has the b
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by grishka 2mo ago
What do you mean? HN doesn't have a social graph. It's an entirely different beast as far as I'm concerned.
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by grishka 2mo ago
My issue is that you can't exclude yourself from the algorithm. You post something even tangentially political, it immediately pops up in the feeds of people that have no connections with you at all and have the extreme form of views o
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by grishka 2mo ago
You can disable Samsung's system apps using adb as well. The command is `adb uninstall --user 0 com.package.name`
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by grishka 2mo ago
That's a good approach, and I do this too actually, but some people's job or occupation requires them to take calls from unknown numbers. And some people still use landlines without caller ID.
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by grishka 2mo ago
With calls, it's easier: if you get an incoming call with someone is asking you for money, you hang up and call back using the number for that organization that you've found yourself from official sources. Never trust incoming cal
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by grishka 2mo ago
And , unlike discs, they play straight off the cartridge, without installation. What a concept!
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by grishka 2mo ago
TIL that there are countries where the building code doesn't enforce the minimum number of elevators. In Russia it's one for buildings taller than 5 floors, two for taller than 9, and I believe three for taller than 16 (every 20
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by grishka 2mo ago
How often do people travel between non-ground floors though? In my own experience, whether it's a residential or an office building, 99% of elevator usage is a) someone going down to the ground floor, and b) someone going up from the
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by grishka 2mo ago
JavaScript still doesn't have proper integers.

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