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by koalaman 5y ago
Nope. As long as the litter is around he uses it and I've been reluctant to remove it in case using the toilet stresses him out.
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by koalaman 5y ago
I left my cat alone in the house for a few days with my housekeeper popping in to feed and entertain him. He had a little over 2 day spell on his own at the end when my housekeeper couldn't come in. When I arrived home I discovered t
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by koalaman 5y ago
Call me cynical, but I’ve always assumed these and the european efforts are bought by companies that are threatened by Google.
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by koalaman 5y ago
At every level of education I was required to show evidence of vaccination to attend. This has been normal for many decades, and as far as I'm concerned makes complete sense. It's unclear to me what's dystopic about public h
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by koalaman 5y ago
"Facebook _could_ still fingerprint users using BlueTooth" This article's title and narrative makes it sound like Facebook is using bluetooth fingerprinting to geolocate users against their wishes, and that Android's new
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by koalaman 5y ago
Not in Montreal. Rents and house prices are up up to 50% since COVID started.
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by koalaman 6y ago
I read most of the article but couldn't quite find how they do analytics without tracking people. Did I miss it? How are they more privacy preserving?
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by koalaman 6y ago
As an IntelliJ user since 2003 I've heard this comment from Eclipse users multiple times, and always been puzzled about it. I think there is an IntelliJ "problems view" or something like it.. but in my entire career I don&#x2
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by koalaman 6y ago
You're right of course. We're all susceptible. I still maintain that ignorance is the dry kindling to misinformation's fire, while a well-educated populace is more like damp log.
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by koalaman 6y ago
I do agree that there's room for improvement. There's always room for improvement, but there are also limits to the transparency one should provide for an anti-abuse system. It's difficult for anybody except for an expert in
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by koalaman 6y ago
(Googler) You are only focusing on the negatives while completely ignoring the positives here. Here are a few questions to consider that may give you better perspective: 1) Do you know the magnitude of financial and psychological damage cau
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by koalaman 6y ago
I think 'Social Networking' is really just a bad name for an internet identity and sharing model no different from the same problem in Operating Systems. The internet is the computer but it's missing identity and acls. With
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by koalaman 6y ago
thanks for the pointers from you both
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by koalaman 6y ago
What are safer options out of curiosity?
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by koalaman 6y ago
examples?
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by koalaman 6y ago
Don't you need to be at least 13 years of age to register a Facebook account?
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by koalaman 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... Last time I checked Russia had a smaller GDP than Italy. Hell of a geopolitical presence for such a small economy.
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by koalaman 6y ago
I guess Microsoft is timing some negative Chrome PR for their launch. I was gob smacked by the way they jammed Edge down my throat in the last Windows update. Nothing has changed at that company.
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by koalaman 6y ago
One of my favorites, which I didn't think to look for for years, is 'Ctrl + Shift + Enter'. This completes your statement for you. Very convenient and lots of wasted punctuation characters skipped.
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by koalaman 7y ago
I did this recently and am extremely satisfied. For years now now I kept on buying games that I never played because I just couldn't get into it them like I did when I was young. I recently put together a rig with fanatec csw 2.5 wheel
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by koalaman 7y ago
google.com is ad supported. I pay a ton of money for Windows.
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by koalaman 7y ago
Couldn't help to respond to this just to provide a contradictory opinion on Parisian restaurants and nightlife. I personally am a big fan of the quality of food, service, and fun to be had in Parisian establishments and I find them to
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by koalaman 7y ago
How is this different from the telemetry that VS Code is collecting? The "community" seems to have swallowed that pill with much less complaining.
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by koalaman 7y ago
Facebook's argument that this data actually belongs to the friends and not the profile that's being exported, while convenient for Facebook, has to be acknowledged as a reasonable point of view on this matter.
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by koalaman 8y ago
I use it daily for work. Haven't used it at home for years. My main blocker games wise is Battlefield series which I don't believe works on linux.
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by koalaman 8y ago
I am writing this from my personal Windows 10 machine and I am not a big fan. Random things that have aggravated me just in the last few days: * For some reason I suddenly had to create a pin a few days ago to login instead of my passw
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by koalaman 8y ago
This is not true. Google pays better than pretty much everybody except for fintech and Facebook.
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by koalaman 8y ago
There are really a host of reasons why it's a good idea. Off the top of my head here are three that I think justify the weight: 1. A Jar includes your app, but not your runtime or your applications native deps. Docker containers let yo
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by koalaman 8y ago
They could have, but it certainly wouldn't have been as much fun, and they wouldn't have learned nearly as much.
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by koalaman 9y ago
I don't think that they do this anymore, but under Balmer this was a key part of their strategy to compete. https://www.aol.com/2009/08/28/microsofts-secret-screw-googl... http://techrights.or

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