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by nokya 3y ago
Simple: 1) Simpletons want an iPhone/MacBook and end up with Safari or Chrome. 2) Those who can't afford one got an Android/Windows and either use the native browser or Chrome. 3) Everybody else uses Firefox, at least on the
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by nokya 3y ago
This could be specific to French speaking culture but I am often contacted by individuals who start online conversations with either: "hi, I hope you're well." "hi, what's up?" These introductions clearly tend
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by nokya 3y ago
My employer has a 40% WFH tolerance policy and asked us (team leads) to relay the information and control office presence. As team lead, I decided to relay this message differently. I instructed my team to do as they wish and come when they
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by nokya 3y ago
"I’ve never trusted Facebook either. But..." aaand, window closed.
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by nokya 3y ago
I noticed. But I don't care. Currently, I use Microsoft products on a daily basis for my work, I only use Outlook for access the company email. Honestly, I'd never plug a personal email account in it, nor ever browse personal cont
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by nokya 3y ago
In Xiaomi smartphones it's even worse. You have the option to disable the feature (settings -> password & security -> emergency sos) and once you disable it...then it turns on the feature. Great, isn't it?
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by nokya 3y ago
Lol. That post made me laugh. One of the main reasons I never up/down a comment is because the arrows are too easy to misfire.
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by nokya 3y ago
If you welcome criticism, then here it is: I find your generalization particularly silly ("Hackers like dark modes"). You could have just asked (begged) for a dark mode without invoking a fallacious argument.
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by nokya 3y ago
I also notice the shift you are mentioning. But I'm still a bit hesitant about its causes. Wether degraded search is an intentional feature or not, I think there is another and simpler explanation to consider when we discuss this topic
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by nokya 3y ago
Thanks a lot for sharing this, I've been procrastinating doing an aggregated news feed with the simplest html possible for years and seeing this live just made me happy. Thank you!
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by nokya 3y ago
Fully agree, HN's basic/simple UI is of paramount importance to me. The "modern" UI proposal is clearly aimed at an audience that I have never felt part of. I have wondered several times how come has HN not yet abandoned
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by nokya 3y ago
Probably. Everytime I installed a new Windows I tried using the latest Paint software, but it always felt more complicated for simple operations, whether it was more clicks needed, missing keyboard shortcuts, or one of the few features I us
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by nokya 3y ago
Facebook was exactly built on the same premise: stealing massive databases from others (i.e., women profiles and photos hosted in student associations and sororities websites). Look how justice responded when MZ was sued: first, by his univ
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by nokya 3y ago
Thank you for sharing your view, you put words when I couldn't. Shared values is precisely the best explanation to my relationships that wore out in the past, I don't think scar tissue was the reason. The analogy of scar tissue co
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by nokya 3y ago
History is written by men and selectively erased by other, more privileged, men. Once we acknowledge this and everything it implies, we can only assume we know what someone allowed us to know.
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by nokya 3y ago
I still use Paint Shop Pro 6. Purchased it in 1999. I still use it today on a daily basis (screenshots cropping, resizing, cleaning, censoring, etc.). Basically copy-pasted the folder to every new laptop/computer I used since. I tried
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by nokya 3y ago
I see many people mentioning the number of passwords in their KeepassXC. I can't find the option for that. Where is it?
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by nokya 3y ago
This not only goes for cars but for almost all devices involved either in human movement or health: vehicle dashboards, headphones, lamps, public transport interfaces, avionics, medical devices and equipment, etc. Any device that involves m
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by nokya 3y ago
That's a definitive blocker for me, too.
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by nokya 3y ago
I think Meta had two problems to deal with. One that could be solved at anytime but we have no idea even that time will come, and another, which I believe can only be resolved through taking consumers hostage. The first problem is finding a
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by nokya 3y ago
Yes.
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by nokya 3y ago
Many users report being filered out when connecting from a VPN: https://community.openai.com/t/access-denied-you-do-not-have... This was typically a blocker for me, I do not surf with direct connections...
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by nokya 3y ago
Microsoft is a schizophrenic company. For each employee who tries to do things well, clean, and respectful of privacy, there is another one with the same amount of power who won't hesitate engaging in the worst tactics (dark UI pattern
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by nokya 3y ago
It depends on what kind of software you need to assess. In the case of client side encryption, which is the market in which Proton positions itself, you can verify the security of the implementation by just looking at the client-side code.
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by nokya 3y ago
Although the company has good credit in terms of developing secure services, the idea of putting my passwords, my VPN and my emails in the same basket doesn't align well with my threat model. I'll stick to KeePassxc.
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by nokya 3y ago
The problem I see with anti-cheat technology is that editors are also forcing these rootkits on games that can be played solo (either solo exclusively or multiplayer games with solo campaigns). While I can fully understand being forced to r
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by nokya 3y ago
It seems to me that the security mechanisms you described already exist. But Microsoft can't prevent the installation of legitimate anti-cheat software while still letting users install whatever they want to. It is a double-edged sword
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by nokya 4y ago
Watch this scene: https://youtu.be/LXaHbJhKWLc I think that what he says pretty much applies to almost everything that seems sophisticated to us such as health tech, privacy tech, fin tech, anti-terrorism tech and of course
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by nokya 4y ago
I for one am very glad that they are doing this: the more they insist on forcing people to create accounts the more they get people interested into switching to alternatives. The sad (and quite ironic) thing with Microsoft is that while it
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by nokya 4y ago
Both. You are getting older (and it takes your eyes more time to adjust), and headlights are brighter (because, well, why wouldn't my drive be less comfortable when I'm legally allowed to blind you?).

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