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by pndy 6mo ago
If you scroll his posts a bit you'll have idea why
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by pndy 6mo ago
Watefox, Librewolf have both plucked out all unnecessary stuff Mozilla added over the years. Both are good but Librewolf comes with history and cache disabled by default which may be bit surprising. Floorp comes with additional custom inter
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by pndy 6mo ago
Nah: Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Clippy Copilot Live Foundation with MSN .NET Framework version 2026
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by pndy 6mo ago
You prob recall this thing from 23 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459296 For me there's nothing MS could do at this point that would bring me back. And as I said in that thread, it's too late for
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by pndy 6mo ago
That's the 5th time this site is being added, most active discussion happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42419469 I'm not sure if feeding it with personal pictures is a good idea at all
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by pndy 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure that there were much more XUL and XPCOM extensions back then +10 years ago before mozilla pulled out the plug for that platform and moved to WebExtensions
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by pndy 6mo ago
Maybe financially MS is successful but at the cost of flagship product becoming adware and people fleeing slowly away
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by pndy 6mo ago
Android has both a swipe gesture or a widget that simulates buttons that used to be at the bottom of the screen
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by pndy 6mo ago
I may be mistaken but there's even atmosphere visible - that tiny translucent band on the darker photo
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by pndy 6mo ago
If the content loads fast, more views are given and more data is collected. My uBo caught 6 elements, Privacy Possum got referer headers blocked from 28 sources
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by pndy 6mo ago
You think this is some kind of hoax?
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by pndy 6mo ago
Of course - this is all the classic thirst for power and control over little people, served in digital sauce with "think of the children" crumble. The question is if there's any chance for changes or EU falls apart much to th
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by pndy 6mo ago
What about orbital mechanics? Wouldn't that create issues with/for objects in the solar system?
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by pndy 6mo ago
Office 2007 introduced it, then it was implemented in Windows Live Essentials suite and in W7 applications. If I'm not mistaken LibreOffice got it not so long ago but with a different name to avoid any problems .
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by pndy 6mo ago
It wouldn't be hard to display "remove configuration and cache files?" modal during uninstall/trashing process. But it would be hard to go against own simplicity of platform usage idea - that's the problem. KDE&#x
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by pndy 6mo ago
The EU overall either will start acknowledging that there are problems and serious reforms are needed or history will repeat once again and we'll have another fallen empire situation. It's not just the age verification and chat
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by pndy 6mo ago
Don't wanna bite but... Shouldn't this also cover the tv license in the UK?
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by pndy 7mo ago
Please. I have an extensive file with tags I've put into use to "curate" content on mastodon and bluesky. It works somehow on mastodon but the "main" server in their admins wisdom decided recently to remove live fee
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by pndy 7mo ago
Oh they tried to - in a simple "please fill out the form" way. I'll link to my prev comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425198#46429370 IIRC they tried at some point incorporating G+ on youtube bu
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by pndy 7mo ago
That's like taken from mid 2000s when Netscape did a sort of a full circle picking up Firefox and releasing own browser again. They added some own features but that didn't hold up and give them any serious amount of users to keep
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by pndy 7mo ago
That kind of supposedly successful people who you can find on "normal" platforms as well. The difference is that they wrap everything in this weird language. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar&
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by pndy 7mo ago
That'd be the thing indeed. hn is largely a technology oriented link aggregator with discussions, and probably some would also classify it as a forum. Or as social news site as goes on wikipedia among fark, slashdot and reddit. But bes
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by pndy 7mo ago
It fitted right these times when everything had that pseudo-3D gray outlook but yet was unique with these small yellow title bars (which you could move), diagonal icons and taskbar that could be placed in both corners and edges of the scree
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by pndy 7mo ago
I was searching for applications yesterday - which is something I barely do because I don't need much else beside what I have for 15 years. The search results include an ad at the top that takes half of the initial view zone. That was
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by pndy 7mo ago
I expect this will be still buried down within sub-screens of OOBE. MS won't let this go so easily. They already captured enough users with MS accounts and such users won't simply be logged out and given local offline accounts. Fo
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Consumer Rights Wiki(consumerrights.wiki)
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by pndy 7mo ago
It's possible in Polish to use "pan" in vocative "panie" form with strong vocal emphasis not followed by name or last name, to give it more rude sounding - but it won't be an insult.
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by pndy 7mo ago
You may "enjoy" this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1VRIEg2Xsw
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by pndy 7mo ago
I wonder what will become of our honorifics in upcoming decades. Our language changes so much under influence of English, imported sociopolitical trends that surely made some of our bards spin in their graves. On a side note, I find interes
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by pndy 7mo ago
These automatic restarts are just the outcome of bigger problem with how Windows Update has been changed initially in W10. Namely the removal of selective updates installing and indirectly lack of QA, are the main sources of problems here.

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