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by pndy 3y ago
Mastodon features a more complex content filtering based on keywords [1],[2] and you can always try to pick instance that fits your needs. Hashtag support is here since beginning if I'm not mistaken. Bluesky has a rather simplified fil
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by pndy 3y ago
> A more personalized and proactive Safety Check Safety Check for Chrome on desktop will now run automatically in the background. You'll get proactively alerted if passwords saved in Chrome have been compromised, any of your extens
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Google Chrome December update: New performance and security features(blog.google)
2 points by pndy 3y ago|2 comments
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Pretty sure it had always predefined sources
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I left it when they set a limit of devices user could be logged on in free version
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by pndy 3y ago
This reaction reminds me how introducing features to the less experienced and tech aware userbase may result in... somehow amusing entertaining show. Years ago on fotka.pl (Polish hotornot equivalent) the company tried introducing XMPP supp
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by pndy 3y ago
They did, just like Google and then both companies stopped supporting XMPP - in 2013 and 2014 respectively [1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Non-native_deployments And thus, Meta cannot be trusted not only b
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by pndy 3y ago
Matrix clients use similar way to verify login sessions
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by pndy 3y ago
This is the Project Lyra [1], where a UK-registered not-for-profit company suggest sending a spacecraft to catch-up with ʻOumuamua object that pass thru solar system in 2017, by using orbital mechanic. Spacecraft set off at right window wou
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by pndy 3y ago
Thank you; wish there would be a pinning comments feature or something that could refute, straighten things up under hot topics.
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by pndy 3y ago
For me it's the Medical ID data that turns itself on in iCloud storage devices backup details. I've noticed this last night, turned it off and it's morning here (Europe) and that switcher is set to on again. I have Health app
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by pndy 3y ago
Yes, there was such feature and I would be surprised if it would be still there; it was probably killed shortly after they introduced Messenger in place of Chat
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by pndy 3y ago
Start seems to be their "curated content" news aggregator and Bing Ai the search app with GPT-4. I'd guess that they're testing which app yields more data from users.
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by pndy 3y ago
I'll risk saying that content is dull already for years and productions that want to really show an interesting story or concepts instead of corporate "informing" are like needles in a haystack Geoblocking allows e.g. streami
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by pndy 3y ago
Now that you mention it, I do recall issues with the WiFi on my model too. IIRC after one of bigger releases I had to manually install some driver package from AUR because existing driver was for whatever reasons removed.
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by pndy 3y ago
For my macbook pro 13" late 2011 I've pick manjaro with gnome and with OpenCore Legacy Patcher I managed to squeeze macos 13.5 on in. While manjaro makes the machine relatively useful for the current day - for really simple tasks
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by pndy 3y ago
> But what about Trust I finally took off my pink-tinted glasses when I noticed they restored old deleted messages once they released the new Messenger, the one we have today which replaced old facebook chat feature. Probably it was fo
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by pndy 3y ago
A kind of related story: Polish Competition and Consumer Protection Office looked at the terms and conditions for subscriptions to various Amazon services available in Poland and in a message published in the press yesterday office chairman
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WikEM, the Global Emergency Medicine Wiki(wikem.org)
114 points by pndy 3y ago|17 comments
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> the only conclusion is that the system is flawed. There's a need for a fundamental change in approach There are attempts of creating more "professional" electronic encyclopedia like Citizendium [1] and Scholarpedia [2] b
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by pndy 3y ago
All of this Chrome popularity comes from hijacking with "additional offer" in Windows software installers where people just mindlessly click "next next finish" and then they didn't event noticed their browser chang
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by pndy 3y ago
> We really need to sabotage Chrome somehow before the open internet will forever be destroyed. Since you mention this, I wouldn't be surprised if Google planted their people at Mozilla to make sure Firefox become less competitive
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by pndy 3y ago
It's a shame this has to be done by uBO. Filtering options should be a feature here, so users could categorize and mostly clean out pages from content they don't like or find useful, or to fight spammers.
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by pndy 3y ago
Pretty sure group type can be changed from public to private or even totally hidden - perhaps people in charge should consider tweaking visibility for a while.
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PieFed – open-source Federated Forum(join.piefed.social)
3 points by pndy 3y ago|0 comments
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I think EasyBCD could find and add Endeavour as entry into Windows boot manager
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For me RSS reader in Firefox was the best idea hands down because of its simplicity and how well it was integrated with the browser: you'd click on that icon in the address bar and page with summary (originally you'd add feed dire
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I'd add that only two submissions were ever added from this domain, both within 44 days (as for 2023-11-14) and both are the same article.
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Probably just like in the most scenarios nowadays: user gets ban and cannot appeal the decision in any way Perhaps in the basic form of dealing with users who break the rules Wikipedia allows an appeal or bans are temporary - I'm just
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Haven't got a single spam in all these years I'm using it - guess it all depends on the servers you're on

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