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by signal11 7y ago
They have previously served up game wallpapers with a link to more info about the game, or a link to the Windows Store page for that game. E.g., googling turns this up: https://www.howtogeek.com/243263/how-to-disable-ad
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by signal11 7y ago
Change the lock screen wallpaper away from 'Windows Spotlight' to an image of your choice. FWIW on a Windows PC, Windows Spotlight shows me nature and city photos with a bit of info about the place. I think I've seen a game w
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by signal11 7y ago
The payments system in the US is really creaking at the seams, but overall tech adoption by people and small businesses isn't bad. In the UK, the payments system works quite well, but what amazes me is how much physical letters are s
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by signal11 7y ago
IBM and Oracle are really not in the same class as AWS, Azure and GCP, when it comes to investing in cloud infrastructure. They’re bit players at best: http://www.platformonomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05
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by signal11 7y ago
> Biometrics of any kind are not protected if the police have a warrant It is not as black-and-white as you make it out to be (which was my point -- this will likely end up in the Supreme Court at some point). Specifically, some courts d
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by signal11 7y ago
There are a few scenarios, some more pressing than others: 1) Triggering the fingerprint sensor requires an active action, 'touch this sensor', versus Face ID (even with attention-detection enabled). This is important for law-enfo
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by signal11 7y ago
There was some previous discussion about sandwiches on HN (!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895267 A lot of people clearly like eating their lunch at their desk. I suspect it’s a cultural thing — while I enjoy the
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by signal11 7y ago
Yes — it’s utterly irresponsible. Even with Android One, you get something like 2 years of OS updates and 3 years of security updates. Windows XP got better than 7 years of security updates, by comparison.
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by signal11 7y ago
I suspect it's because the light Chrome looks better to me with most web pages. Whereas for apps with lots of text (e.g. Kindle etc) dark mode looks better (to me).
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by signal11 7y ago
I don't particularly care for dark mode in web pages, however iOS apps which allow theming should allow the themes to be set independently of iOS. For instance, the first version of Tweetbot for iOS 13 wouldn't allow you to choo
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by signal11 7y ago
It's quite a common scenario for Indic-language users. I'm mainly typing in English and, depending on context and the audience, sometimes in two other Indic languages using the Latin alphabet. There are a lot of reasons for this,
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by signal11 7y ago
Android and iOS autocomplete both need to get smarter about this as well. I don't always want to switch keyboards to use a different language/script!
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by signal11 7y ago
I was aware, but 3rd party editors like Notepad2 or Notepad++ were much better than Wordpad for lightweight program editing as they also had syntax highlighting, auto-indent, etc.
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by signal11 7y ago
Yes, %Windir%\System32\OpenSSH has all the OpenSSH binaries. It also ships with curl and tar. No gzip, although tar understands the z option. PS. Most shockingly of all, Windows's Notepad reads and writes Unix-style LF-terminated files
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by signal11 7y ago
The screenshots are in the Gallery link: https://github.com/aardvark-platform/aardvark.docs/wiki/Gall...
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by signal11 7y ago
Content creators get click throughs. And while I’m not sure if this is specific to me in the UK, news.google.co.uk has no ads. Google News presents an aggregated view of online news. Because of Google’s reach, news.google gets a lot of page
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by signal11 7y ago
Also https://stellarium-web.org/ , a WASM version of Stellarium (also open source[1]) was previously discussed on HN a year ago[2]. [1] https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-web [2] https:/&#x2
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by signal11 7y ago
Although to be fair most American states have way less sales tax than the UK VAT, which is 20%. California - 7.5%, Florida - 6%, New York State - 4%. I was told there was also an EU electronics recycling levy, although I'm not sure how
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by signal11 7y ago
Pret and similar shops also sell wraps, salads and soups. There are also "build your own salad bowl" shops. Maybe "lunch as a main meal" is more of a mainland-Europe thing?
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by signal11 7y ago
This. 2 years (and 3 for security) is a joke.
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by signal11 7y ago
A fair number of them are foreign companies, but the “our records show you were in an accident” calls are very much from the UK. The foreign companies are basically criminal operations and countries like the US have taken action against the
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by signal11 7y ago
Re this specific feature — note that Bitbucket has had this for a while now, as did Gitlab. Github is playing catch-up here.
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by signal11 7y ago
Verdana is a great example of a font designed for low-resolution screens[1]. What’s interesting is that Ikea chose to use Verdana for many of their print & in-store display material[2]. To me it looks a bit blocky and unfinished, which
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by signal11 7y ago
Flickr has had a feature for a long time now that tries to defeat "Save as". Of course, browsers' Dev Tools are a trivial workaround. FWIW if you have a Flickr CDN URL then that too seems to work without any authentication. F
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by signal11 7y ago
OneDrive now supports versioning of documents, and the latest Office 365 uses this to offer “autosave” and version history. I’ve not really dug into the feature but it’s very visible on the latest builds.
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by signal11 7y ago
Isn’t the Apple TV app coming to Fire TV as well?
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by signal11 7y ago
V1 of WSL (which isn’t going to go away IIRC) was essentially an iteration/improvement of the subsystem model, but with new things like picoprocesses. This article[1] has a good overview of the design goals, which mainly was to let unm
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by signal11 7y ago
I was using "Containers on the Go" until recently, I'll try this out, thank you!
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by signal11 7y ago
If anyone from the Firefox team is reading this: containers are a great idea (I love them), it’s just that currently they’re too much work. Even on AMO, there’s now a bunch of site-specific container addons (Facebook container, Twitter cont
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by signal11 7y ago
A huge criticism of Aadhar is that with Aadhar, a court order isn’t necessary. The Aadhar act allows any lookup authorized by mid level bureaucrats. Also, given that a lot of Aadhar data has leaked (even the biometrics have leaked in some s

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