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China seizes 60k maps over 'mislabelled' Taiwan(bbc.com)
3 points by jakub_g 1y ago|0 comments
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by jakub_g 1y ago
On Android at least, you can toggle "desktop view" in any browser. The UX is crap on some websites, but you can make things work enough to not need the app. For example I use Opera to browse `facebook.com/messages`. It's
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Not sure if any other high level languages have it, but Node.js has just added command line flags to trace precisely all env var accesses and modifications: https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#--trace-env Since you can set
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Recent Node.js Features That Replace Popular NPM Packages(nodesource.com)
3 points by jakub_g 1y ago|0 comments
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by jakub_g 1y ago
[September 29, 2025] > Over the next five weeks, we will: > Revoke all existing legacy classic tokens for npm publishers. > Disable legacy classic token generation on npmjs.com permanently. > If you use classic tokens for npm, y
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Classic npm tokens sunset due this month(github.blog)
6 points by jakub_g 1y ago|1 comments
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by jakub_g 1y ago
I started my first full time job out of college a bit over a decade ago, in an old-school boring EU "midtech" company. I didn't know this back then, but I was very lucky to have landed in a damn strong team. Fast-forward to t
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by jakub_g 1y ago
I can only imagine how the test suite looks like. Wild. This made me think about the fuel itself: is aviation fuel globally standardised and the same quality in every single airport in the world?
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Three weeks ago in Nice, France it was a fraction of a second away from two A320s crashing [0] and possibly hundreds of deaths, similar to Tenerife disaster [1]. Investigation is ongoing and many factors are at play (bad weather, extra work
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by jakub_g 1y ago
It's both true that Ryanair has very good safety record, and that in the past there were incidents with them landing on low fuel. https://www.eurocockpit.eu/news/mayday-mayday-wins-over-ryan... > In 2012 and 20
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by jakub_g 1y ago
How many go-arounds and alternates are usually accounted for? Assuming EU, high-airport density etc, typical 2h flight. Does the estimation change depending on weather forecast, season of the year etc?
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by jakub_g 1y ago
In Italy, for regional trains, since 2025 Trenitalia gives the reimboursement automatically to your credit card if you purchased the ticket electronically. [1] [1] https://www.firstonline.info/en/trenitalia-rimborsi-aut
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by jakub_g 1y ago
In Poland a while ago, a basketball club submitted an opening to local labor office, looking for "basketball player with 5 years of NBA experience". Update: source: https://radioszczecin-pl.translate.goog/1,116784,
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Semi-related: reminds me of reports that public tenders in Russia had to be submitted into a central portal according to law, but to prevent anyone from finding them, various Unicode tricks would be applied to the document to replace charac
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Dependabot now supports "cooldown" config for this case: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-01-dependabot-supports...
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by jakub_g 1y ago
The "can not turn off" part is the most jarring. Seriously, did none of Californian PMs hear about the concept of "being multilingual" and not needing to translate non-English content? --- By the way, this reminds me als
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by jakub_g 1y ago
There's a wind farm next to his golf course in Scotland which "ruins his view". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo
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YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission(bbc.com)
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by jakub_g 1y ago
I'm afraid you might be right. Former user of 3a, I upgraded to 6 but it was way too big and heavy, and had a weird mass balance. I'm now on 8 and it has perfect size and weight IMO (using it with a recommended Spigen case). Looks
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by jakub_g 1y ago
> The difference here, is that it’s a subscription, not a one time upgrade, and as a result, not an upgrade you can sell on. From the article, if you buy "lifetime" subscription, it persists. > Auto Express, who first report
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by jakub_g 1y ago
To my understanding, most people who do leasing (at least in EU) do it because it's much cheaper due to tax regulations (if you buy a car for the company you own).
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by jakub_g 1y ago
Several years ago, GitHub started moving certain features like "code search on public repos" behind login, likely due to issues like this, to be able to better enforce rate limits. And this was before the era of LLMs going wild. (
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by jakub_g 1y ago
In my current job we do have force-Chrome setting enabled. I can't log in to Gmail through any other browser. Neither SSO login to GitHub via Google.
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by jakub_g 1y ago
FYI: Google enterprise workspace admins can enable policies which e.g. prevent login ability to google.com properties to only Chrome browsers. I wonder if this is header is not connected in some way to that feature.
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Volkswagen ID.3, ID.4 getting physical buttons and knobs(autopostglobal.com)
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by jakub_g 1y ago
One thing unclear: While I understand they want to transparently replace passwords with passkeys for websites that support it, what happens with passwords for websites that don't support passkeys? Also, if someone sleeps over this, the
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by jakub_g 1y ago
FWIW: latest Chrome ships built-in AI APIs https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api so it should be a matter of time to have a replacement extension using this local API. However the built-in model is Gemin
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by jakub_g 1y ago
You made me double check, actually it's 8th gen (came out late 2017). It was 2y old at the time of buying (I wasn't really paying attention to the processor tbh). So actually, not sure which Windows 11 prerequisites are not met, I
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by jakub_g 1y ago
I bought my parents a Dell laptop in 2019/2020. It has 7th gen i3 so just below the Windows 11 threshold. The machine is in perfect shape as it's used a few times per month max for watching YouTube or some online banking, or occas
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by jakub_g 1y ago
If you're interested in the subject, let me introduce you to GCMap. GCMap can plot a line between any two IATA airport codes; actually you can put arbitrary number of pairs comma separated; and best of all, they can be passed as a URL

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