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by pndy 1y ago
Heh. I can imagine Cook having his own O'Reilly's "We'll do it live!" moment for Liquid Glass initial backlash. Fixing this mess will surely take a while but then they use that as PR in future keynotes, saying how
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After years with Xfce and GNOME, I recently switched to distro that by default prefers KDE, and I'm overall satisfied - Qogir theme, little customization and I'm as good as I was with Win7. Plasma 6.4.5 feels way more stable than
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On paper this is a good idea but consider the current chat control issue. This fork would probably have built-in by default content, messages scanning and switching to any other Android would probably be ruled out as illegal.
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IIRC Payment Services Directive aka PSD2 in EU for banking sector mandated verification of users and transaction and one of such ways is verification through mobile app. When I login to my bank on desktop, after passing thru standard flow o
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> (...) my name, address, and phone number just to purchase the device That's a thing in the US? Here, clerks in various stores ask me for postal code but nothing else and I could refuse giving that info.
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Mastodon and fediverse despite not running on algorithms sadly aren't free of spam and bots - probably nothing nowadays is. Last year in February there was a flood of messages attacking less populated instances, with... Spam can image
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The early days of social media were indeed fun and 'innocent' - people shared stuff they liked with no ill intent but that didn't last long. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222562 - this was posted y
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I wish such programs would get updates somehow, so the hosts could give their opinions on these predictions
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Damn I have a vague memories of seeing this thing in Fedora Core
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Prometeus – The Media Revolution (Casaleggio Associati, 2006)[video](youtube.com)
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I was talking with my friend who's living in the middle of East Midlands and she was surprised that we have a micropayments platform here in Poland. She left before it become a common thing to pay for variety of goods physical or virtu
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I meant the meme! But yeah, the story went pretty much like this. I prefer that second episode much more than first one with 33 minutes theme.
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Mozilla decided to remove its fantastic live bookmarks feature that seamlessly integrated RSS within bookmarks in 2018 with Firefox 64. Someone then made an extension which was ported to Chromium, and then back again to Firefox because orig
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Didn't they tweaked this whole labeling few years ago by adding new tiers?
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Then you're lucky. I had iPad 2 and Air 1. Older one is completely dead for 5 years now and doesn't react to plugged cable at all, while newer charges whole day and keeps battery for 4-5 hours. Air 3 I've got on ebay-like sit
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You mean this one? https://i.imgur.com/PmeTa4c.png
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Pretty sure Odo spied on Quark all the time - kinda weird but useful hobby
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At least they mention it. Unlike in both old and new Battlestar Galactica. Ships there are just able to keep people walking like on a planet's surface.
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> Like, in TNG people walking around with glorified e-readers but having to go to the big computer or to ask Alexa things instead of just tapping on their screens. PADD was still futuristic enough at that time but what they didn't p
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I've seen Nuclear many times while browsing flathub - it never launched for me. And it seems that it's a common problems looking at their closed issues.
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Oh I remember that - the times that Mozilla and Firefox spawned some interesting stuff. There was Sunbird - standalone XUL calendar app before it was reincorporated into Lightning and ended up as part of Thunderbird. Flock browser that emb
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IIRC ionizing radiation that may affect astronauts on the way to Mars is also a big problem that has to be tackled down. Sadly it's not as simple as packing enough supplies and fuel, training people both physically and mentally and sen
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> When I watched the LOTRs movies, I recalled several saying that it diverged from the books. LOTR film trilogy was amazing - it was made in times when CGI was still more a complementary tool rather than foundation (sic) of the productio
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That reminds me somehow that both DS9 and B5 used same triangle-shaped pillows. Guess you can't have anything more "alien"...
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Ex Astris Scientia covers much of that and it's really cool to see how many times they reused particular stuff. Even set that screams it repurposes some real life elements sometimes gives better overall impression than CGI surroundings
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Kinda interesting that Martian regolith simulant page mentions health risks but Lunar doesn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_regolith_simulant#Heal...
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It's available as flatpak for a while - if that changes anything
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Mozilla introduced new profile manager for Firefox somewhere around May. This thing uses new storage format and ignores already existing " old " profiles, except for the default one. Data remains untouched, profiles created in the
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DS9 used plastic pallets - one type could be seen in the infirmary [1] and IIRC ceilings were made from different ones [1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/comments/twunb5
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People are free to comment however they like. Luckily we're still living in a world that doesn't default to mindless positive praising. You can count me among the other cringsters but I'm not buying this. It's just a s

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