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by pndy 1y ago
Tbh it kinda feels like that legendary Pepsi BREATHTAKING Design Strategy from 2008 https://archive.org/details/breathtaking-design-strategy-pep...
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by pndy 1y ago
This one? https://ibb.co/RTshY7k9
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by pndy 1y ago
May I interest you in "Calculating God" by Robert J. Sawyer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_God?useskin=vector
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by pndy 1y ago
> a highly aggressive apex species I won't pretend that I'm some expert but I find this and similar approaches very anthropocentric, stained with pop-culture of image of aliens namely from the Independence Day and Alien (sic) s
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by pndy 1y ago
IIRC Vista had a HIG document to par with Apple's and it's not surprising because they really wanted to change interface and kept it unified. Which worked for the most part but event today, in flat style era there are still 9x wid
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by pndy 1y ago
I find amusing that they used this wrench and bolt symbols for their utility applications while making it harder for years to actually physically fix their devices. And for the overall style, these kinda look like taken from pling.com where
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by pndy 1y ago
Operating systems from the biggest companies are rather stable and feature rich beneath for years now but that doesn't make these attractive in long term. Certainly not for the daily consumers. So they introduce all sorts of meaningles
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by pndy 1y ago
> I started the get itchy about so much of my life sitting on Google For me and my partner was enough when Google started collecting info about purchases/delivery orders on gmail and dumping it in some separated page without any con
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Kopp–Etchells Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pndy 1y ago
Looks like it's some Windows PE release - still more real than this thing in OP
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by pndy 1y ago
It kinda does look like an external disk - maybe that's why it got vents or led indicators?
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by pndy 1y ago
Don't forget about MSN, Windows Live, Metro. I wonder what will be the " next big thing " they'll gonna push as a brand
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by pndy 1y ago
This issue is beyond any political ideology. This is about having a grip over ordinary citizens so they wouldn't become a threat to any government.
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by pndy 1y ago
Most of the European countries require registering prepaid SIM cards for about 10 years now.
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by pndy 1y ago
Gotta be some bug because I've seen a thread 4 days ago on mobile that was yesterday shown as new on desktop with comments that I clearly read already dated also as new, posted within hour.
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by pndy 1y ago
> Was the Proton community really asking for this? considering replies under the feature announcement post on bsky, their community wasn't expecting this - to put it mildly
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by pndy 1y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=avi+loeb
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by pndy 1y ago
Majority of countries around the world uses .gov top domain along with country code to provide government services to their citizens.
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by pndy 1y ago
That's my question as well. If he's so concerned about this then what about other services? Polish Allegro quite recently had to add a filter on their site to sieve out all sellers from outside EEA because they flooded it. Moreove
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by pndy 1y ago
Between '06 and '19 I was a client of bank that proudly bear the title of "pioneer of online banking" here and tbh, they actually were. You won't met anybody in Poland who wouldn't have contact with that brand
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by pndy 1y ago
I wonder if this is really about compromised packages or rather in wider view trying to paint Arch, AUR as insecure.
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by pndy 1y ago
> I ditched windows recently because it was flagging bit torrent software as malware and deleting it W10 once removed CCleaner from my system because it was an older version. I kept it that way because it was the last version at the time
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by pndy 1y ago
3 is especially ironic with that green leaf and energy recommendations slapped in settings
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by pndy 1y ago
> No more whack-a-mole MS telemetry I have to read obscure guides to find out how to turn off. My routine at some point after moving to W10 was to create/update system partition image, turn off all bypasses/tweaks that kept upd
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by pndy 1y ago
Sounds like something influenced by Doctor Who's the Silence
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by pndy 1y ago
This butchering and lobotomisation is exactly why I can't imagine we'll ever have a true AGI. At least not by hands of big companies - if at all. Any successful product/service which will be sold as "true AGI" by co
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by pndy 1y ago
You may find this article on wikipedia interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere?useskin=vector
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by pndy 1y ago
At least you got APK file. I can't reinstall a small stupid clock app I've found once (it had decimal, French revolutionary, hex, Roman format, star trek time and date) on my iPhone because it's no longer listed in library no
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by pndy 1y ago
I miss times when we could easily open backplates and replace batteries, swap sim cards at ease and these devices lasted.
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by pndy 1y ago
Aye. In last years I quite often saw comments in Apple's appstore from really angry people whose devices were left behind after one update. The developers/companies and the garden's guardians gave them unspoken "get new

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