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by remir 9y ago
You can find some documents from https://foipop.novascotia.ca in Google cache, so should Google be sued too?
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by remir 9y ago
The Gov of Nova-Scotia shut down the site, but you can still find some documents on Google (they're cached). The subcontractor of the site fucked up and they're blaming this kid.
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by remir 9y ago
As alternative to Fb, there's MeWe and Vero. Both of them will not display ads and mine user info.
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by remir 9y ago
To be fair, Google and Microsoft are also quite secretive about their products.
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by remir 9y ago
This is a good idea. I don't want to subscribe to 20 different web sites and journals, but on the other hand, I would like to be able to pay for article that are informative and important.
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by remir 9y ago
Intellectual property is not just code. It can be patents, a product, a specific design.
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by remir 9y ago
"How will MeWe make money? With optional services you can add such as its extra data storage option (up to 500GB) and picture printing via Walgreens, for instance. On tap is a MeWe app store, and eventually, a subscription-based enter
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by remir 9y ago
It depends how you look at it. Wasting time gets on my nerves so to take Sam's example: what do you prefer: a 20 minute meeting or a 2h meeting where there's a lot of wasted time?
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by remir 9y ago
"Caring a lot", in this context, means you have the intention to get better at planing your day, improve your workflow, are not afraid to reconsider your methods and find what works based on experimentation. This is what Altman
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by remir 9y ago
Like a lot of people here, I learned English by reading articles online and books in subjects that interested me as well as watching TV shows/movies with English subtitles. What helped me was to avoid translating every sentences to my
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by remir 9y ago
When I think of Microsoft, I think of "Windows", "Office" and "Enterprise". They essentially have a corporate image and beside a small group of people, the general public is not passionate about Microsoft. Saty
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by remir 9y ago
Most people outside the "tech bubble" don't care about decentralization or open source software. These ideals are not enough to convince them to use a new platform. At this stage, I don't see how a new decentralized soci
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by remir 9y ago
It's not the end of Windows. The title of the article is a bit click bait-y. Without the "we need to dominate the market and be everywhere" people pushing devs to implement feature nobody wants and have to deactivate anyways,
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by remir 9y ago
Solus is great for gaming, and very user friendly, too.
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by remir 9y ago
They took risks with Windows 8 and I give them credit for that, but yeah, I'm glad they changed course because it wasn't working.
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by remir 9y ago
And this is what trouble me with the so-called "internet of things". No regulation, no standards, nobody cares. How long until you TV or microweave oven is part of a botnet?
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by remir 9y ago
More like : 2008: profits from TV sales are declining rapidly. Manufacturers are panicking. 2018: TV manufacturers partnered with some shady organization that pays them big bucks to install spyware into their Smart TVs.
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by remir 9y ago
First day I used my Pixel 2 XL I saw ads in the Gmail app. I mean, this is not some $100 phone. I paid 1k for it and Google still showed me ads in Gmail.
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by remir 9y ago
Well, there's 9.9.9.9 (Quad9.net) which is global and secure, too.
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by remir 9y ago
It's great to see all these companies working together on this.
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by remir 9y ago
Imagine teaching these voices to sing. Something like DeepMind WaveNet Song Generator. You upload your music to the cloud, set some parameters (genre, tempo, emotion, etc) and a bunch of lyrics and the thing will spit out awesome vocals for
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by remir 9y ago
It's getting more and more human sounding. Take a look at this research (also from Google): https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/expressive-speech-sy...
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by remir 9y ago
Anti-capitalism? Anti-americanism? Please. How many people in Germany use American-made software and services? How many use Windows, macOS or Android? Amazon? Netflix? Uber? Snapchat? Instagram? I see many Europeans talking about "anti
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by remir 9y ago
Microsoft tried to compete against Chromebooks with their Windows S version that could only install UWP apps. I don't know how the market has responded, but from what I can see UWP is pretty much a flop.
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by remir 9y ago
Bitwarden is open source and IMO a very good alternative to LastPass and 1password.
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by remir 9y ago
Before they were acquired by FB, WhatsApp charged like 1$ per year for the service. Since they were mobile-first and most people had entered their credit card info to join the App Store/Play Store, the transaction was friction-less for
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by remir 9y ago
I guess it's about the dopamine rush of the always flowing new content and never ending notifications.
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by remir 9y ago
Wow! I gotta say, this looks fantastic. Thanks for the link!
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by remir 9y ago
Netlify CMS solved the problem you described. https://www.netlifycms.org/
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by remir 9y ago
If by "our society" you mean the US, I seriously doubt it will reach 1 billion people any time soon.

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