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by pndy 2y ago
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40912583
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by pndy 2y ago
Yeah but this is still one entity and setting is based on cookie, per device valid up until cache gets cleared. Browsers should handle tracking preferences in settings and it should be "deny" by default for all non-essential purpo
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by pndy 2y ago
Here we have "fruity" Wednesdays/Thursdays/Fridays... At least it's not the proverbial carrot on a stick - it would be too hard to catch and bite it. /s
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by pndy 2y ago
Long story time: There's this small web portal in Poland that for years provides a simple free email service (and an instant messenger with same login) with occasional "messages from our sponsors" in your inbox - you had to t
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by pndy 2y ago
2FAS - https://github.com/twofas and I did replaced Authy with it some year ago; I'm using it mainly on iPhone while having a backup file on desktop and second app installed on Samsung phone
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by pndy 2y ago
I'd guess that even outside the US mentioned in the article, there will be some political conditions to be met in order to get the samples
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by pndy 2y ago
Mir space station was de-orbited without issues. Tho I remember media reporting back then that Japanese govt was ready for worst case scenario - the reentry track lead over southern Japan and the fear was that biggest parts of the station c
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by pndy 2y ago
I tried that path back then but it still didn't work for me - no program I tried to put there incl Windows ones was able to launch at the login. I had just entries in the task manager's startup page. Maybe something changed in 11
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by pndy 2y ago
Endusers should have a total control over what is getting installed on their machines - just like we used to not so long ago or how some Linux distros allows you to select additional software. Each operating system coming from the biggest c
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by pndy 2y ago
Not sure about other people here but I really liked how autostart used to work in 7 and before - just drop a shortcut in the Start menu folder and you're done. In 10 at some point, in order to have 3rd party software launched at login
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by pndy 2y ago
> I think having a law to require MS to allow offline set-up by all users would be an overreach Honestly, no - it wouldn't be considering that for many decades we could use Windows without being connected to Microsoft cloud services
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by pndy 2y ago
Albatross?
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by pndy 2y ago
Remember the MS case from the 90s? It didn't bring the supposed split and instead, end-users got an option to "hide" various software. The company kept its dominant position and is abusing it as we speak. Even the browser cho
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by pndy 2y ago
Author says what I'm repeating since day one when GDPR and these so-called banner with "preferences" were introduced: this should be handled by the browsers. The idea was good but the interpretation and implementation of this
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by pndy 2y ago
The basics I'd say are still pretty much configurable via GUI so a newcomer wouldn't have hard times with either KDE, Gnome or Xfce. For majority it probably would be enough if GPU, sound and network drivers are working and it&#x2
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by pndy 2y ago
> All this fuzzy language That's not the exclusive problem to Microsoft - it happens all around us within the IT world. The corporations stopped acknowledging the permanent "No" anymore and the actual user choice. It'
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by pndy 2y ago
Rendering whole movie at ease using AI and making such creation actually interesting and "palatable" are different things, I'd say. It's enough that current CGI in the movies are at best sloppy , so I'm not convinc
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by pndy 2y ago
Oh wow; last time I was using it there was still a desktop client and web version required Silverlight client in order to work
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by pndy 2y ago
For last 2 years I'm browsing fanbases wiki's thru breezewiki "proxy" because reading content on fandom interface is beyond any usefulness - displaying unrelated stuff took over the actual content. So I'm glad someo
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by pndy 2y ago
Let me bore you with some stories: Woman whom I met while being at uni one day calls me and asks for help with installing Photoshop - I ask her why she's doing that. She never was into graphics software and in fact, constantly needed m
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by pndy 2y ago
> It seems their attitudes changed soon after, perhaps due to their almost total market dominance, I'm pretty sure Adobe went for subscription model as one of the earliest big companies and then the trend bloomed all around us - esp
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by pndy 2y ago
How this works: you need to provide a written explanation why you want to do that and detailed optional reasons for this objection. You also need to validate your request with 2fa code and additional one you'll receive via email. It se
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by pndy 2y ago
> Am I only person who's reached their threshold on companies forcing and shoving AI into every layer and corner of our lives? After a random update my bank's app has received AI assistant out of blue to supposedly help their c
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by pndy 2y ago
> there are settings implying you can hide but they never work. Same goes for hiding and reporting content outside friends circle on facebook - these features give a false sense of being in control what you see there.
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by pndy 2y ago
ICQ counterpart in Poland at some point started using gg: pseudoprotocol and that allowed more aware people to track others activity across the web as most of us included their UINs in post footers on forums
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by pndy 2y ago
IIRC GG is in 5th hands now since Łukasz Fołtyn created it
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by pndy 2y ago
Somehow I'm having Worms Armageddon flashbacks
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by pndy 2y ago
All my friends left it years ago and moved to either whatsapp or fb messenger, some opted for telegram. From what people wrote in appstore it seems that GG become some kind of social network filled with spam and scam profiles. I tried to lo
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by pndy 2y ago
A fast fix is ofc good but would be better if Apple would explain why and how user's seemingly deleted photos were restored. I haven't experienced this on my devices and neither my partner
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Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 with Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug(macrumors.com)
4 points by pndy 2y ago|1 comments

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