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by signal11 2y ago
I wonder if Gmail and Outlook interop on Emoji Reactions. Gmail launched the feature in 2023[1]. I’ve personally not used the feature but emojis shouldn’t be images — they are after all Unicode code points. Not sure why MS’s implementation
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by signal11 2y ago
Gmail has had this feature since 2023: https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-emoji-reactions/
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by signal11 2y ago
Gmail now has emoji reactions too. Eg see the smiley face here: https://imgur.com/a/0cYSLMQ They launched it last year[1]. [1] https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-emoji-reactions/
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by signal11 2y ago
The most common UK First- and second-class stamps (the ones without a price on them, just a "1st" or "2nd") don't expire. Of course you don't need a stamp, you can purchase postage online.
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by signal11 2y ago
This. I see ads for DevOps roles as a signal that “this org doesn’t get it”. DevOps is about people and culture. Your teams embrace automation, fail fast, lean — all the good stuff. DevOps is about concrete business outcomes. Not Ansible or
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by signal11 2y ago
We have environments with thousands of services and it scales fine. Why would dev (or your lowest integration environment) be broken most of the time? > except that means the Kafka team That (a Kafka team, or a DB2 team) is a bit of a re
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by signal11 2y ago
> Some industries would not allow software to be released more than every few months. SQA needs to sign off. Users need to UAT. 2-week notice, 15-minute notice to log off. Downtime needs to be communicated to multiple time zones. Softwar
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by signal11 2y ago
It’s possible in many even heavily regulated domains, because there’s enough data now for regulators that it reduces risk. Releasing multiple times a day in itself isn’t the point though. The point is — adopting good practices to ensure t
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by signal11 2y ago
psql’s very good, but duckdb’s CLI made me wish psql had some of its features.
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by signal11 2y ago
I agree, and a lot of this applies to large companies as well. Of course larger orgs will have higher tolerance for a wider set of technologies, but this tolerance is not infinite, and choosing tech because that one team was a fan creates
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by signal11 2y ago
Amazing case law, thank you! I suspect OpenAI have just realised this, hence the walking back of the “Sky” voice.
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by signal11 2y ago
OpenAI claimed they hired a different professional actor who performed using her own voice [1]. If so, I suspect they’ll be okay in a court of law — having a voice similar to a celebrity isn’t illegal. It’ll likely cheese off actors and p
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by signal11 2y ago
And KeePass XC supports passkeys too[1]. Although I’ve not had a chance to try that out yet. [1] https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_passkeys
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by signal11 2y ago
You can use passkeys cross platform already, eg with 1Password or even KeePass XC. But I do agree with the point that Passkeys make it really easy to get locked in unless you’re careful.
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by signal11 3y ago
WebVibrator is a thing. No, really*: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A... *Not supported on Safari, thank goodness!
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by signal11 3y ago
Probably in response to Microsoft Stream and Zoom Recordings. Incidentally for the hackers out there: it’s surprisingly easy to build an in-house video sharing platform if you have engineers who like hackathons. I was surprised how little i
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by signal11 3y ago
Scan as you shop is already mainstream in a bunch of British supermarkets (exception: Costco UK). Definitely makes big shops easier.
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by signal11 3y ago
I thought the 1.21 cuts were for out of support Windows versions only? Eg Windows 7. You’ll have to also factor that 1.20 won’t receive security updates any more.
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by signal11 3y ago
I was responding to the parent who recommended using unpatched, out of support Android. People who’re comfortable (or can be bothered) installing alternative OSes on their phones have an entirely different view on device obsolescence. Stati
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by signal11 3y ago
> So far I don't know anyone who got hacked and suffered damages for using an Android that stopped getting updates. That’s a “hope for the best” approach to security, for me it’d be irresponsible to recommend it to even friends and
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by signal11 3y ago
> privileged access management is the proper way to manage access to a password protected systems Managing access to privileged systems at scale is hard despite these tools. This isn’t a knock on the tools. It’s a people/risk proble
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by signal11 3y ago
In a lot of “twist ending” short stories (a lot of good SF stories fall into this bucket) the key is to leave things unsaid and let the reader wrestle with the ending and its implications, which is what this is doing. It’s a “less is more”
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by signal11 3y ago
Higher resolutions (and the accompanying resource sizes) would be hell for 32-bit OSes though. Also, it’s kind of amazing that many web pages these days are larger than Doom shareware’s zip size.
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by signal11 3y ago
What’s the story around e2e encryption on RCS these days? In the past there were a few countries that didn’t allow it, no idea if that has changed. Also, will iMessage support for RCS include e2ee?
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by signal11 3y ago
This happens in India[1,2] too, and rabies cases are sadly all too common there, so I applaud Bhutan for its success. Are there any lessons for other countries in what Bhutan has achieved? Eg for India a concern is: even with a real effort
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by signal11 3y ago
> English is a pretty dumb language… I am native Hindi speaker Pretty much every one of your criticisms is true for every human language. Calling any of them “dumb” is more a reflection of yourself than of the language. Eg Hindi has gram
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by signal11 3y ago
> This is already present in EU. Spiegel.de and others are like that. Pay or be tracked. And legal challenges to that are in the works. Some have even been partially upheld. “Pay or okay” done as a binary choice isn’t okay, like anythi
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by signal11 3y ago
The actual risk is data brokers, who aggregate this data and can use it for anything. Using it to sell you shampoo isn’t terrible (it can be super annoying though). The problem is using that data to eg figure out who might be in the market
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by signal11 3y ago
Many countries allow calculators, even at board exams held for 15/16 year olds. I didn’t need a very advanced scientific calculator, in the exam it was mostly used as a replacement for log tables (remember those?).
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by signal11 3y ago
I believe it’s already being challenged in Austria[1]. [1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/news/austria-challeng...

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