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by pndy 2mo ago
The Orange Telefon app? So far it's good but I had some reverse situation where my outgoing call to bank call center was marked as "unwanted". I wonder why Orange so far doesn't support built-in iOS SMS/Call Reporti
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by pndy 2mo ago
For me it stopped working suddenly yesterday (2026-08-10); some "proxies" are still getting in but heavens know for how long.
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by pndy 2mo ago
Poland isn't any better in that matter; we're still facing huge property development and housing "abnormalities", or as is being said here - pathologies.
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by pndy 2mo ago
That commitment probably won't change anytime soon but more and more people are dissatisfied of the church here - how it interferes with politics, tries to dictate what is morally right and of course covers up pedophilia cases. During
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by pndy 2mo ago
They'd have to gave up on huge amount of own bloat to make system work fine again under 8GB. I'm not sure how that can be achieved with Microsoft attitude towards desktop users - they're just a... data cattle for them.
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by pndy 2mo ago
Hard to call Windows an operating system nowadays when its main only purpose nowadays is to extract personal data from whoever uses it. I don't expect anything changes positively for the users - at least for those who are aware of all
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by pndy 2mo ago
Mozilla removed DNT as of Firefox 135, after 13 years since introducing it in 2011 with Firefox 4 In 2024 Mozilla acquired Anonym from former Meta executives and decided to introduce PPA: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=privacy+pr
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by pndy 2mo ago
Extensions; plugins are nearly dead nowadays anyway
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Fallback Font(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pndy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pndy 2mo ago
I won't be surprised if MS patches workarounds quickly and won't shed a word on the whole situation. Or worse, pulls the "this helps fighting evil hackers" reasoning.
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Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pndy 2mo ago|1 comments
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by pndy 2mo ago
Mentioned in the article video from inside of the detector captured by Australian ABC: https://youtu.be/aE6vRfCp4E4
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by pndy 2mo ago
IIRC that was also done in a fear that they'll start using comments to train AI. And some users claimed that their manually removed comments from weeks to years ago reappeared again.
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by pndy 2mo ago
> Logging in retains your subscriptions I'm sorry, is that something that happen recently? Because when I had an account there, subscriptions were permanent
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by pndy 2mo ago
I've ran once on some streamer who along with the CGI animation also wears some full body suit of anime girl with helmet, wig. That looked like a blend of two ideas. But that's still nothing new - there were always people on youtu
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Meta's 'digital experiences for kids' worker busted in undercover NYC sting(nypost.com)
3 points by pndy 2mo ago|1 comments
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by pndy 2mo ago
Original title: Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting . Modified due to field limitation
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by pndy 2mo ago
Was good? I've seen cases of hostile take overs of already established fan wikis when Fandom was still Wikia
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You don't understand why wikis are leaving Fandom(medium.com)
2 points by pndy 2mo ago|2 comments
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by pndy 3mo ago
Nearly a month ago AUR malware happen, now this - it starts to feel like there's some organized attempt to paint Linux distros as dangerous.
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by pndy 3mo ago
Desktop could some attention as well because both Organic and CoMaps have a rather basic custom interface that feels imo off
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by pndy 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_God?useskin=vector have fun
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The Pains of Installing Windows '98 on a "Modern" Machine (2014)(nostalgianerd.com)
3 points by pndy 3mo ago|0 comments
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by pndy 3mo ago
Pedagogy covers this widely within theory of education and particularly in errors and failures topics (e.g. educational mistakes, pseudo-upbringing)
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by pndy 3mo ago
I dare to say that this market change works both ways. Software is now created by people who have little idea about UI concepts, or even who don't want to bother themselves with these. Because the dominant type of a device is no longer
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by pndy 3mo ago
It's over a year for me with CachyOS now after endless issues with Manjaro after bigger updates, and after Mint getting hiccups-freezes randomly during operation. And it's also a return to KDE for me, after many years with Xfce an
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by pndy 3mo ago
Somehow related: there's browser extension called "Ukraïnsjka Latynka" [1] that transliterates on the fly Cyrillic script to Latin using various systems. It's quite helpful (especially nowadays) for someone who never had
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by pndy 3mo ago
Dirty summary (not involving AI): Just like Christianity arrived in Poland by marriage of Mieszko with Czech princess Doubravka/Dobrawa in 10th century, we also adapted Czech alphabet (and thus Latin) from Jan Hus efforts of codifying
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by pndy 3mo ago
Remember how alt+c used to launch ATI Catalyst Control Center instead of "ć"?
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by pndy 3mo ago
I had Xubuntu, Lubuntu on mentioned above eMac and frankly, it was awful - only OSX and OS9 were making that machine somehow usable. I had fun running that computer during mid-pandemic with all sorts of gems found in macintosh garden.

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