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by pndy 3y ago
I'd say it's arrogance with genuine belief that they have this breakthrough idea about web browser UI/UX - hard to say technology because as others spotted, this thing is based on Chromium. And this belief perhaps justify e
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by pndy 3y ago
This is the 12th link from this domain over last 10 months and it finally got enough attention to reach the main page with over 150 comments. About 7 months ago browser page had nothing but a field for an email address to put you on waiting
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by pndy 3y ago
> Hell, a new word in Polish was coined for them, "zodiakara". Sounds like a sub-genre of madka
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by pndy 3y ago
Does that come along with fighting demons and being saved by mysterious masked man wearing tuxedo and a big cylinder hat?
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by pndy 3y ago
That is indeed total bollocks as you say but there's something going on regarding astrology in this half-year. Some two months ago after finishing configuring my first Android phone I'm seeing this weird banner at the bottom of Pl
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by pndy 3y ago
Is this a two-sided thing? Like we can expect appointing an European for head of the FTC? /s
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by pndy 3y ago
Durov brothers left Russia few years ago; Pavel seems to be moving around while Nikolai stays in Saint Kitts and Nevis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Developmen... https://en.wikipedia.or
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by pndy 3y ago
I wonder if the other device present on the account could be causing this - the one that isn't compatible with this Advanced Data Protection. Or as in comments in this 3 months old thread, it could be caused by some maintenance issue.
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by pndy 3y ago
Teddit suffers the same issue with API rate limits - most of the time it's impossible to view anything but every now and then content load as it used to.
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by pndy 3y ago
Pity that his Avenue 5 burned out - it was light-headed and stupid - in a funny way, but still a nice addition to the space operas series that are a thing again
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by pndy 3y ago
So far still it didn't replaced it for me. All the subs I was participating, lurking around didn't become that much active or even moved to fediverse. Mastodon for third time, doesn't seem that much active or perhaps it'
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by pndy 3y ago
Maybe it's their new approach to marketing. To reach people on popular sites in " look, we're using this site too - we're cool and so modern and no different than you ordinary human " way
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by pndy 3y ago
> Is this just pure fashion churn? Has to be. I stopped believe long ago in visual changes in software being anything else than marketing done in "we do improve things" fashion. I mean, just look at this video of Office icons:
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by pndy 3y ago
> Si Daniels > Principal Program Manager for fonts and Typography, Microsoft Office Design. Formerly Senior Lead PM for fonts and icons, Microsoft Operating Systems Group.
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by pndy 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Calibri is included with Windows since Vista (along with Segoe UI)- they wouldn't just simply stop bundling it. But if that would happen for whatever reasons then probably Office would ask user if missing font shou
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by pndy 3y ago
Edit: should be 07-13, not 07-12
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by pndy 3y ago
Seems so; I'm seeing same error all the time now - tho, some instances are able to pull hot posts listing but not new . But refreshing doesn't work for 2 hours (2023-07-12 23:50 CEST/UTC+2 atm)
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by pndy 3y ago
That reminded me that almost 10 years ago ghacks [1] instructed people to add _nomap to their Wifi networks name to avoid these being harvested by Google and Mozilla. I wonder if that ever worked or still does and if companies stopped colle
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by pndy 3y ago
> since a fingerprint or a retina scan makes a fine good two factor as well Last year I was making new IDs for myself and my mother which in the newest version require fingerprints being provided beside the biometric photo. The office cl
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by pndy 3y ago
SargeDebian bit up there explains why they decided to deploy their Mastodon server - the reason seem pretty valid.
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by pndy 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430752 - previously on Feb 22, 2022, 88 comments
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by pndy 3y ago
Would be fun innit but in short time there would be hundreds complaining posts and deconstruction videos taking on why "monetized influencer crap" is problematic .
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by pndy 3y ago
I'd like to believe that this is some kind of bad joke or an error but it doesn't seem it is.
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by pndy 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36594916
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by pndy 3y ago
Once again I'll mention "A Time Odyssey" series by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter and to be exact, the second book in the series Sunstorm . In which Earth is preparing to mitigate - as much is possible, a massive solar
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by pndy 3y ago
> No offense, but this article looks like it was written by an OpenAI LLM? https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=foxbyte and there are only two other submission from this domain done by two other accounts (incl one with 1
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by pndy 3y ago
I'm often checking activity of submitting account and look up for other submissions from same domain. This thing here is not worth attention at all
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by pndy 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338321 - from Feb 15, 2020
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by pndy 3y ago
Beside the things the other user listed: these sorta give you a way to experience Youtube before it become Google's plaything. In case of piped and freetube you can subscribe to channels without Google account (freetube does that even
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by pndy 3y ago
> 2. People don't have their phone on them all the time (and some don't even have a smartphone). Even if people have their phones all the time there's always a possibility that components on the device might suddenly fail.

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