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by plushpuffin 4y ago
This is called EDDM (Every Door Direct Mail) and it's impossible to opt out of it. It's super annoying. You used to be able to opt-out, but not anymore: 1) opt out with the DMA (note: there used to be an opt-out form at http:&#x
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
I don't remember exactly what we did but I think we used even more obviously fake course names like "FAKE COURSE" and "THIS IS A DEMO"
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
My first programming-related job was for a company that handled instructor evaluations for colleges. The UI we showed to the instructors when setting up their evaluation questions for their students included a demo table showing some fake c
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Also, if you have multiple Minecraft accounts, the official launcher is much slower to switch between them than it used to be with the old Mojang accounts. It was so annoying that I finally bit the bullet and switched to the MultiMC launche
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
You’re right, it isn’t. I haven’t used the iOS Firefox much but I did notice some ads were blocked. I thought that was AdGuard but it might be the privacy/tracking settings in Firefox.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
It can sync your history and bookmarks with desktop Firefox. I think it's also affected by any ad blockers used by iOS Safari such as AdGuard, so there's very little disadvantage.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
That's happening to you because sound is refracted by the atmosphere at night and bounced back toward the ground. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43154773 > "What we managed to show is the combination of th
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Yeah, the balance of sweet and tart that you would expect from an eating apple is missing from Granny Smith, because that would be lost when you dump it in a pie crust with a cup of sugar. It also explains why the apple is so firm, because
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Granny Smith is a baking apple. I don't know anyone who eats it raw. It's great for pies and crumbles and apple crisp.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
The books are a little strange. Interview with the Vampire is the most normal one. As I read through the rest of the series, it became more and more obvious that she was madly in love with her own character the vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise in
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
You're not kidding, I just opened Edge to see if I would notice any prompts, and it immediately threw up a popup in the middle of my screen asking to set it as the default browser and change my search to Bing (with "yes" sele
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
I just checked my task manager, and it was running in the background. I never manually launched it. No idea what it was doing.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
This has apparently happened with birds. Some bird species have evolved shorter wings for better maneuverability near traffic. https://www.npr.org/2013/03/22/175054275/birds-evolve-shorte...
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
I've used this trick on a Roku 3 and a Roku 4 and it worked on both. If there's no "reset / clear cache" option for you on the secret settings screen, it might take a little while for any downloaded ads to expire.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Also, it's possible to disable that home screen ad, if you mess around in the secret settings screen. Hit Home 5 times. Hit Up, Right, Down, Left, Up. You're now on a secret settings screen. I don't know what its purpose is,
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Eggs Good For You This Week - https://www.theonion.com/eggs-good-for-you-this-week-1819565...
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
What you described is actually closer to Apple's strategy for moving from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, with a virtual machine for running classic apps on the new OS.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
It was like the early days of WoW, when nobody knew what they were doing, not even the developers!
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Microsoft got in trouble for bundling, that is, using their Windows monopoly to unfairly advantage IE over Netscape. They still arguably have a monopoly position on the desktop and they're using the exact same tactics they used in the
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
They successfully took over a New Hampshire town a few years ago. It didn't go well... The Town That Went Feral | The New Republic - https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
I believe that PRC doctrine for an invasion of Taiwan is to launch preemptive strikes against US bases in the region. So unless they change their strategy before they invade, the US will definitely get involved.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Kitboga is a scam baiter (a guy who messes with phone scammers) on YouTube. He once set Windows RG to fullscreen in a VM and had a Windows tech support scammer connect to it and try to go through his scam script in the Windows RG flash app.
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
I'm not going to cancel my banking account and move to a different bank just because they don't want me accessing their website with a particular browser. It's not a big deal to bypass it and it's far more of a hassle to
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
For some reason, Key Bank won't let me login using Firefox unless I spoof my user agent. They claim it's due to security issues with the browser. This is more of an active check though. when I pretend to be Chrome using as differe
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
It's hard to search for this kind of thing to back me up, but I vaguely remember IE 5 on Mac not only being better than Netscape, but also being the best implementation of IE across all platforms. It had a ton of unique features and it
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
I can't speak for the two novels, but I've read the short story First Contact by Murray Leinster referenced near the beginning of the article, and I have to disagree regarding it being clever. Maybe I'm just nitpicking, but I
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
There was a way to disable it. You could revert to an earlier version of the Twitter app on Android. Version 8.68.0 was the latest version without this feature. As soon as they added it, I uninstalled and then side-loaded the older version
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Well, yeah, I wasn't seriously suggesting a matchmaking service for old people to chat with each other. I don't think that would work because I imagine this service is less about starting a conversation and more about ensuring a c
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
I think they do it by running background checks and meeting the job applicant in person. That wouldn't work very well for remote-only work that recruits people from anywhere. I don't see how you could vet people with anything appr
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by plushpuffin 5y ago
Are you planning to operate as a for-profit company? If so, it seems exploitative to consider utilizing children as free labor.

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