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by pndy 2y ago
> a flood on unsolicited spam from pages I’m not interested in or want to see Dunno what kind of weird experiment they were conducting last December but once I start scrolling, I was getting AI generated images of really poor quality ac
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by pndy 2y ago
> It's actually amazing how old Windows is, and how many vestigial bits of ancient GUI versions are still a part of the OS. This popped today: https://pr0gramm.com/top/6301382 This is all modern examples but th
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by pndy 2y ago
> The question is, can you convince Seen recently few sites which blocked access unless you agreed for vicious tracking - so much for convincing readers , I guess. I'm afraid that it's a new trend to paywall everything and giv
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by pndy 2y ago
> the Microsoft AI screenshotting backlash I think I've missed this - what happen?
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by pndy 2y ago
My backpack in primary school times was about 3kgs on worst days - school lockers aren't a thing here. We carried our books, notebooks, exercises, PE suit, boots and lunch day after day; home to school and back again - a scoliosis stor
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by pndy 2y ago
I'd guess it's because even small thing as band can provide some of kids distraction. It's not about if you can play games on such device but play with it, touch, wander around the interface - had enough distraction to not fo
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by pndy 2y ago
Try 2FAS - it works without cloud, can import from few other apps (sadly not from Microsoft one) and can export from and import to a file. Works on Android and iOS https://2fas.com/
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by pndy 2y ago
Can user enhance it with extensions?
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by pndy 2y ago
Yeah, I can't see any deep meaning - the story is simple and provided in digestible way, visuals are good and they even were praised for the scientific accuracy. Cast is pretty fine as well tho I personally didn't like Hathaway in
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by pndy 2y ago
Considering the platform this "revelation" was published, I'd rather say that this guy tries to get views on his channel and 5 mins of the Internet fame, and well, he got it from the Independent. I find more fascinating what
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by pndy 2y ago
Speaking of the corporate advertising, I just saw an ad today that basically grooms kids into credit card concept. This bank has a prepaid card and app that's being managed by parents. The ad story is "charming" : busy paren
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by pndy 2y ago
I've seen bots accounts influx mid pandemic and shortly after Russian invasion on Ukraine praising particular countries, politicians - some of these were registered within hours apart. Then there were cases of accounts who deliberately
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by pndy 2y ago
Wasilewski's blue triangle design was ridiculed as an unaware call to polandball and few memes spawned here and there. Personally, I think that the saddest thing is that govt still doesn't have an unified visual identification for
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by pndy 2y ago
For last 3 years it feels like clothing with worm logo is all around - there are tshirts, hoodies, pretty sure I even noticed socks and backpacks. NASA managed to promote itself quite well and its branding raised to the range of a popcultur
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by pndy 2y ago
Yep; considering news from 17 days ago [1], I wouldn't be surprised that Apple is trying to have own slice of ads revenue/data from maps segment [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908310
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by pndy 2y ago
Parent commenter doesn't suggest that, just brings up the fact that there's indeed a large Vietnamese diaspora living in Warszawa.
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by pndy 2y ago
I think Gliński's could add some more elements to his article: Nazis had plans to turn Warszawa into a provincial but yet a model Nazi town in Pabst Plan [1], by completely demolishing it and rebuilding anew. But after the Uprising, th
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by pndy 2y ago
Figured out that I had an account there so I went to the site to see if I can log in (I also noticed that my local spare mail box has catch all incoming notifications from photobucket as spam...). I had to change password but once I did, a
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by pndy 2y ago
There ain't no such thing as a free caves!
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by pndy 2y ago
> they are doing something wrong but are trying to cover it up That's what most of folks says in this sub-tree
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by pndy 2y ago
> asking people to pay for Firefox I do expect that's the next step at Mozilla - locking features behind paywall with some premium plan. Cloud sync probably will fall into that basket. And if that eventually won't work - they&
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by pndy 2y ago
> What isn’t clear, in retrospect or otherwise, is why companies/apps/services need to keep learning this lesson. Please. This is never about learning and better communication. This is universal corporate English for: "you
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by pndy 2y ago
Thanks Michiel - your cursors fits with any theme and wallpaper for me
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Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)[Posy][video](youtube.com)
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by pndy 2y ago
Sadly that's the common approach nowadays - you can't have an opposite opinion to anything. "I am right and you're morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely . . . wrong and thus, let me educat
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by pndy 2y ago
Still happens to me on Linux - despite of the distro and browser used, and extensions. I guess it's account based thing independent to some degree from browser cookies
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by pndy 2y ago
Honestly, I believe that facebook is already on the myspace path of slow and long decay. And their nail coffins will be all the shenanigans with content. There are unbearable ads on instagram - whenever I have a chance to glimpse what happe
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by pndy 2y ago
Right innit? It's not just Apple using BeOS but wondering how everything else would be different. You actually need to... think different at this point, aye?
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by pndy 2y ago
That's still the same NT line tho they changed how versions are called after Windows 8.1 which was NT 6.3. Initial Windows 10 release was bumped to NT 10.0 but further versions use year-month and year-half year formats [1] - https
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by pndy 2y ago
> Another powerful use would be in emergency response situations. Assuming this would eventually become platform-independent feature because if this remain Apple-specific then whole idea is kinda defeated. Still, this idea sounds like so

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