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by mcsofake 3y ago
ChatGPT for iOS is available here in Germany, so I doubt they would restrict the Android version.
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by mcsofake 4y ago
> Also wild how this post is singling out Safari when Android seems to somehow be even worse My guess is that it is selection bias. Older people are probably more like to use iOS devices, since they are marketed as being simple to use an
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by mcsofake 5y ago
Edge shares literally every single website you visit with Microsoft, even in InPrivate (= Incognito) mode. [1] The worst part is that you have to disable a genuine security feature (i.e., SmartScreen) to prevent this. No other browser makes
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by mcsofake 5y ago
This fully coincides with my experience. Every once in a while, I hear about how much DDG has improved and how its results are now better than Google. I switch to DDG for a few days, get fed up with the (low) quality of the results, eventua
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by mcsofake 6y ago
> I've skimmed a couple of books written by Fetullah gulen and what he preaches peace, love and cooperation amongst all. He's a lovely fellow indeed: https://twitter.com/kyleworton/status/1086084532393
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by mcsofake 6y ago
> BSD peoples like the BSD2/MIT/ISC/FreeBSD-License, but have no problem too import the CDDL the Apache or the GPLx (at least in the pkg), whatever works. If by "BSD peoples" you mean the FreeBSD/NetBSD comm
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by mcsofake 7y ago
Additionally, a report from Amnesty International: Syria: US ally’s razing of villages amounts to war crimes: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/10/syria-us-ally...
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by mcsofake 7y ago
Archbishop Hindo: violence and intimidation of the Kurd militias on Christians increase in Hassaké: http://www.fides.org/en/news/60791-ASIA_SYRIA_Archbishop_Hin... Kurdish YPG/Asayish Forces Once Again Kidnap
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by mcsofake 7y ago
Turkey has spent more than $30 billion on refugees and was already host to 2 million refugees in 2015 (i.e. before the deal) [1]. So, no, that deal hasn't brought any meaningful change. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/c
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by mcsofake 7y ago
> they seem to be doing ok Japan is not really doing OK. They are literally going extinct, have an awful and destructive work culture and have a ton of problems with sexism, to the point where it is necessary to have gender-segregated tr
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by mcsofake 7y ago
> The EU paid 6 billion to help Turkey with its migration crisis Turkey has spent more than $30 billion on refugees [1]. 6B just doesn't cut it, unfortunately. [1] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-con
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by mcsofake 7y ago
> It’s trifling for Europe as a whole, as shown by the fact that Turkey managed to process them alone. Considering the fact that 1 million refugees were enough to revitalize Neo-Nazi parties and cause a wave of right-wing terrorism and p
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by mcsofake 7y ago
> in the Middle East. FTFY: in the EU. Or to be more accurate: in whichever country you reside. Because the VPN is local.
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by mcsofake 7y ago
> Right, so the correct conclusion is to never use It depends on how you "use" GPL'd software. You _can_ run proprietary software on Linux. Clearly, using GPL'd and proprietary software together is legally possible. &
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by mcsofake 7y ago
useless to you != useless to everyone. Linux is GPL'd and very useful. Just ask Red Hat if you don't believe me.
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by mcsofake 8y ago
> Treating users like children, not listening to users, rolling releases without regard to stability or consistency, adding features nobody asked for instead of fixing bugs, inconsistent UIs... None of these are unique to open source. IM
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by mcsofake 9y ago
AFAIK, SUSE doesn't employ any KDE developers but they do donate to KDE e.V.
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by mcsofake 9y ago
Minor correction: It's the default on openSUSE. On SUSE (the commercial version of openSUSE), GNOME is the default.
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by mcsofake 9y ago
Not to mention that there are modern languages with fast compilers too. D is an example.
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by mcsofake 10y ago
I don't think that will help. After all Windows can patch the bootloader to cache the encryption password too. Even secure boot won't protect you since Microsoft has the signing keys.
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by mcsofake 10y ago
I don't think that will help. Windows can patch the bootloader to cache the encryption password. Since Microsoft controls the secure boot signing keys, they can sign the patched bootloader too, so even secure boot cannot protect you. H
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by mcsofake 10y ago
> Compare the quantity of libraries available for Rust and yet another 'overly verbose' language, Go. We can find Go wrapper for almost anything, and often a few to chose from. Rust was stabilized last year, while Go was releas