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by mastazi 4y ago
> Would you want a command line interface on your Smart TV using only a remote? How about XFCE? Or GNOME? No Yes. After struggling with every single type of Smart TV platform (Google TV, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV). I settled for a Linux H
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Home Affairs Minister says Optus ‘left the window open’ for cyber criminals(abc.net.au)
1 points by mastazi 4y ago|0 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
> But seeing from the inside how Google treats user data, I'd be 100% ok with the data going to Google instead. how does this make the following OK? > No Pebble user ever consented to their health data being sold to Google, but a
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by mastazi 4y ago
I agree with your second paragraph, but I don't understand the point of the first? Are you saying that Google can be forgiven, since its competitors do the same?
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by mastazi 4y ago
I keep seeing sentences like "MV3 is approaching", "when MV3 drops in x months", but the reality is that MV3 is already here and affecting extensions! New extensions that use MV2 have been prevented from being added to t
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by mastazi 4y ago
The Internet Archive is your friend: https://web.archive.org/web/20200702165629/http://www.jonnyg... It had a total score of 9.8 out of 10
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Chess Is in Chaos over Suspicion That a Player Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen(wsj.com)
1 points by mastazi 4y ago|0 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
If you used an immigration lawyer to apply for permanent residency, you can't use the portal to make those updates, because the original visa is not associated to your portal account. So your only other option besides emailing the form
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by mastazi 4y ago
The address 929@homeaffairs.gov.au, which must be used by Australian permanent residents to update their personal details, refuses to accept email messages unless they are from big tech. Shame on you, Australian Department of Home Affairs.
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by mastazi 4y ago
I'm Italian and we have a similar situation, things like e.g. heated rivalry between two towns that are 15 km apart. This can go very deep because as you know (but may be surprising to our American friends) in Europe we have much less
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by mastazi 4y ago
> There wasn't some pre-Chromium version of either that was killed.* Not true. Brave was initially based on Gecko https://brave.com/the-road-to-brave-one-dot-zero/
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by mastazi 4y ago
> We never announced an extension store. OK, but IMHO that makes the situation worse, not better (and by the way, some of your employees did say publicly that work was being done towards it)
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by mastazi 4y ago
that's what Brave staff keep repeating but in the meantime all other extensions that need v2 are a pain to install, for example this one https://libredirect.github.io/ requires you to enable dev mode, load the extensio
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by mastazi 4y ago
> with the new security standards (which are good), banks insist on having you install their proprietary app since you say this, I assume you are in the EU or UK? I've heard that several EU banks offer a second 2FA method besides th
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by mastazi 4y ago
> "we recommend to turn off AdBlockers in case of any issues" this is the web-era equivalent of "we recommend you turn off the antivirus during installation" that some of us might remember from the old days
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by mastazi 4y ago
it would require some time to properly describe the various issues but they are mostly related to 2 thematic areas: window management/snapping in place when in multiple screens and using specific features (e.g. dock, full screen apps)
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by mastazi 4y ago
Like most people here on HN, I have experienced all 3 major OSes (Win, Mac and various Linux distros/DEs). One of the points where MacOS struggles when compared to other OSes is, in my opinion, multi monitor support. I'm not sure
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Joey DeFrancesco (1971-2022) – Hammond USA(hammondorganco.com)
2 points by mastazi 4y ago|1 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
OK, now I see what you mean, yes I agree with you then. But I think you are trying to generalise my comment - it wasn't an absolute statement, I was just trying to tell parent that in my opinion they misunderstood the grandparent'
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by mastazi 4y ago
> it can be profitable to crash the price even though you're holding the asset at the same time. in that case, the less you hold the more profitable it is. I'm not sure I get your point...
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by mastazi 4y ago
> I think it’s naive to believe that greed is sufficient protection. I never said that, I actually agree with you. I was just explaining GP's point to parent who in my opinion missed it.
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by mastazi 4y ago
not really, in that case you have two separate positions, one long and one short.
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by mastazi 4y ago
thanks, I work at a financial institution, so I "Googled" it a few times, short selling is based on borrowing the underlying securities - not owning them - or alternatively owning a(n often bespoke) derivative, related to those se
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by mastazi 4y ago
If you own a large amount of a currency, you want to ensure that the currency in question is trusted, or otherwise that currency would end up losing its value. It is your greed that is guiding you, not your benevolence.
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by mastazi 4y ago
the difference is that there were perfectly good distros for the PinePhone, but then it was decided to start shipping it with a half-baked one. It's as if Apple went back from those later iOS releases to the earlier one. The original &
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by mastazi 4y ago
Some apps are "too simple" but at the same time, something along these lines is OK by Apple's standards: "Thanks for purchasing the Acme Kettle! In order to boil your water, you need to download an app! But don't wo
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by mastazi 4y ago
yes, good point, USB tethering would probably save power. The "feature phones" I have in mind, don't run Android. For example these ones https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/feature-phones some of th
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by mastazi 4y ago
Thank you for this! Just a question, have you been using the same model as the OP - GPD Micro PC?
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by mastazi 4y ago
I wanted to ask the HN community if anyone has tried this kind of handheld pc as a smartphone replacement. It doesn't have to have a sim card slot, my idea was to use a feature-phone with personal hotspot functionality in conjunction w
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by mastazi 4y ago
They ship devices with a completely broken OS[1], I could never recommend their products to anyone, except maybe someone who is a technical type and comfortable going through the process of installing another distro + happy to spend time do

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