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by octacat 4y ago
Two things happened to Opera: - nobody wants to pay. - google breaks their web apps on Opera (and many companies don't test stuff on Opera).
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by octacat 4y ago
EU should've mandate that providing the header is enough. And no window should be shown in this case (you can still ask to allow on top of a page, but it should not be overlay). And yea, it should _never_ be an overlay, because overlay
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by octacat 4y ago
Also Vanced stopped working recently.
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by octacat 4y ago
Probably because they have agreement between these companies. They don't really need marketing once they sell their machines.
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by octacat 4y ago
They at least lost some money from ads from new possible products, if everything is doom and gloom. But these cost-cutting measures are just to be in the news and protect the price of their stocks (look, we are decreasing our costs). Becaus
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by octacat 4y ago
that is sooo bad. Basically anyone can give you support with some open source code (i.e. consultancy, they fix a bug/deploy/tweak for you and go away) except the authors of the code. Because if the authors do this, they are liable
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by octacat 4y ago
This seems like something which can only benefit: 1) very large corporations Same was with GDPR... It will benefit companies, who have money to do audits (and companies which do audits).
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by octacat 4y ago
So, if you work for a commercial company and wanna contribute something back to some open source project - you will not get a green light from your lawyers department once this is enforced (it is already pretty hard to convince them).
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by octacat 4y ago
Pretty much that. After GDPR many small shops refused to work with EU IP addresses and just redirect to a page with some disclaimer. But big players (who were consulting politicians when GDPR regulations were written) only won from GDPR, th
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by octacat 4y ago
and another paywalled article
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by octacat 4y ago
"Made for kids" YT is a terrible idea, cannot even add to favourites. Triggers each time when I see such video
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by octacat 4y ago
Forums are pretty cool there, a lot of nice info for old camera equipment. That move is like a burning a library. Kinda dark irony to see it from a company that sells books.
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by octacat 4y ago
They would keep info, so they could feed it into their AI someday. That one of the reasons they stop providing public access. And they still holding copyrights for it. So, to do nothing from their side is the smartest decision.
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by octacat 4y ago
idk, it probably cost them more in reputation damage already. For example, some programmers could have a photog hobby and would take it personal when choosing between platforms where to host a new project.
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by octacat 4y ago
Except photography is not changing that much. Many creators are still using retro lenses. So, reviews for the current glass would be relevant the next 40 years.
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by octacat 4y ago
Oh, cameras are not that dead yet. And many people said they would order new stuff not from Amazon because of it. Good that there are other shops. Because removal of DPReview pissed off the whole camera community.
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by octacat 4y ago
From when has HN became a paywall article aggregator?
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by octacat 4y ago
Monetising by adding ads to a content, they fetched from other sites was a questionable back than. So, they couldn't just add ads to the reader easily. They were believing google plus would be popular. So, having a closed social networ
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by octacat 4y ago
Just unglued my samsung to replace battery/usb c. The mobile network does not work now. I guess getting something repairable is not a bad idea. Probably shorted, because you cannot disconnect battery without removing mid frame (and oh
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by octacat 4y ago
There are so many other options besides a football size open space (hello, facebook) and corpo cubicles. For example, each agile team could perfectly fit in a small room + shared areas. And put a couple extra desks for monads like managers.
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by octacat 4y ago
Basically every bad thing we've seen and tried with gacha games economics.
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by octacat 4y ago
Oh my, 2.8 is "great". Time to reread the service terms. And it is in the times of API-s (and 20 years since ajax). Otherwise, this means that we can use workers for some stuff but need to use another provider for other stuff. Com
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by octacat 4y ago
More like cutting down the alternative clients. Kinda reminds me facebook limiting API access to "protect privacy" (and kill the way to scrap posts, so you can make an app with a different feed ordering). Though, still instagram i
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by octacat 4y ago
> don’t have the workforce to go through all these fake listings Oh, so maybe not firing workforce is a good idea? So, someone could go and check the listings of SSDs (very common scam). And what's about less obvious fakes? Like a
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by octacat 4y ago
idk, if it does not hurt revenue. I cannot trust their reviews anymore, so I don't shop there for a long long time. And prices are the same as everywhere anyway.
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by octacat 4y ago
You can in C/C++. Though, the point is that erlang has a strategy how to clean and recover from such error (some data can be lost, rarely we can crash the whole system for some errors). I mean, you can write erlang-way in almost any la
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by octacat 4y ago
gen_server is a serializer, it is the point of it to begin with. Could be called gen_serializer ;) Because we need to update the state inside of it without locks. It is usually fine, for parallelism just use a pool of gen_servers or many g
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by octacat 4y ago
cool, in this case. OK, they have refurbs on their site: https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished Though something like 2015 year models are not listed.
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by octacat 4y ago
Many parts of new devices are serial number locked or soldered (or both). Makes the repairs hard though.
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by octacat 4y ago
Looks like some of these "broken" notebooks are actually stolen notebooks. If you buy online, you can contact the seller to solve the issue. It is actually the point of the feature. If someone knows they could not do anything with

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