mihaaly

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by mihaaly 8mo ago
During a property search for rentals in the UK I created a throwaway alias email (to my regular account) as I did not really trust them with my data. This was not for those requiring me to provide credit check papers and name of children (!
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by mihaaly 8mo ago
Getting wildly and widely popular in the generic population? That's what the self proclaimed influencers try to do as well, right?
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by mihaaly 8mo ago
Goods and products must adhere to regulations banning common wrongdoings. Safety standards, health standards, avoiding financial harm, but also privacy. With this I mean, you are absolutely right! Producers and/or sellers of products v
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by mihaaly 8mo ago
Flock was not the problem. The acts of Ring was the problem (partnering with Flock and forcing opt-in, among many). People bought Ring, people return Ring.
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by mihaaly 8mo ago
When I researched a bank learning they want to use some third party never-herd-of identification service on me was the moment I knew I do not want to share any of my personal details and consumer habits with that so called bank. They do not
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
> it took Google about 15 years of pouring money into Google Docs to be almost as good as the MS offering Jesus Crist and all the saints! How bad it was before getting in par with MS then?! If it is now as bad as MS?
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
I'd argue that the optimum was in long run to migrate to the standard version, that everyone (e.g. new employees) know. Replacing the usually particular (or even weird) way implemented own flavour. I know, I know, long run does not exi
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
And too many tech workers decided to rollover for the big companies too. Accepting and advocating whatever they do. Even when it is tricky, can find the way to defend the big names, because they are big names, they know the way, they became
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
Ah! The illusion of predictability (for the organisation, of course, because that's what only counts nowadays). Then users get tired/upset of the crap and walk away. Like long lasting customers of my employer. Still, the new inves
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
What is shocking is that deception is the common. Accepted, argued for by some. Loosing trust of the site/app doing the deception is the result. Becoming common, accepted, trend, and then loosing trust in the whole industry is the resu
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
I feel that analysing details and consequences based on the article is premature and marginal. The reduction of 5-8% of medication using households is barely beyond measurable (we have higher variation by the season). Yet they use the words
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
Why did they stop this? It was parctical (just like clearly visible scrollbars). And my conviction is that computers are for practical and not the pretty things primarily. Can be pretty but not on the expense of usability. This last one is
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
I believe the heavy sarcasm is completely justified, I second it. Most of the software creeping towards complete unusability devolve through non-practical apparence tweeking bullshit, ruining usability, while the functionality is intact (ap
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
Mark is doing much more than should already, and not the good kind, no at all! This have a slight potential of becomeing a good one, if we only dream good things. Very limited details here, pure corporate self paise dominantly, can become a
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
No. 5) is Belgian. I believe both nation would be offended about the confusion of origins. Americans simply thought they are in France in WWII when they ate it. ; )
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
> If your Range Rover breaks down in a field Do they go there? I mostly see those in parking lots occupying two spaces (a white one 4, once) or cruising slowly in narrow high streets.
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
Concerning AI he is also cluless about how to use it well - or at all - for their non-AI product portfolio.
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
Care for others is an increasingly condemnable trait in public opinion nowadays, a social suicide, ironically. As history taught us it will not end well.
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
Considering all the recent meddling of the USA around the world their track record is pretty bad. Higher chance it will end worse than they began with. Worse on an unpredictable way.
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by mihaaly 9mo ago
This is agression in its purest form. They want something, they have the means to take it, and so they take it. With no regards to others, others can fck themselves in fact. They proclaimed in loud enough and often enough in the past months
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
no
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
> one young UK couple's act of kindness 50 years ago changed their lives forever. I like to think that their caring life did not really change, they were like that to begin with, they just missed a Ronni from it. : )
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
Move fast and break things? I have this feeling with almost all web tools I am required to use nowadays. No trust.
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
I wonder if architects should be prosecuted first making non-transparent building structures making the observation of people very very hard for those puny security and intelligence agencies! Architects, you bastards! You aid and abet crimi
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
You, UK regulators and law enforcement, shall learn first how to do your frickin job! Intruding everyone's privacy is not that! Should everyone hand in their full recording of private conversations and full track of movements per month
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
It had to be added: > Tyrannosaurus rex. One of the largest land predators ever, it had teeth the size of a banana
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
Interesting. There are AI professors out there already!
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
Decisions are still made by our local polititians, not by Americans, who should take responsibility for those, especially in such a serious situation as this. Pressure from Americans - who have no say in how we live in Europe -, remote or s
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
Guaranteed new deaths everyday instead of possibly, maybe, USA president will not back out from a conflict on a whim or by getting offended and go full sulky kid due to some remarks on his patheticly idiotic personality (I hope he will neve
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by mihaaly 10mo ago
I second that!

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