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by signal11 5y ago
There's also the cookie prompt (yes, headline in capitals) > BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER: BRIEFLY ABOUT THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA But... that said, as someone who's only done a bit of German on Duolingo, I don't mind, espec
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by signal11 5y ago
> In India, only the caller pays for the call. The callee pays nothing. I say this because I was surprised to learn that in USA, the callee pays. This was killing telcos like Airtel and Vi until they too adopted Jio’s model: every SIM ha
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by signal11 5y ago
> I have one line on Verizon and one on T-Mobile for better coverage, robustness to congestion. For cost & complexity reasons, this is a very niche need.
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by signal11 5y ago
The big reason they were popular in India was that one had to pay for long-distance calls (yes, even on mobile) if you called interstate (or more accurately, inter-telecom “circle”), and many people had lives that spanned two or more circle
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by signal11 5y ago
My Indian friends complain that despite being on the DND list, the unsolicited commercial message situation in India is pretty bad, due to the lack of data protection laws. > do people not use multiple phone numbers in USA? The e-SIM is
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by signal11 5y ago
> Only America (and partially Canada) use the US customary system (which is different from the Imperial system. The US armed forces use metric, right?
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by signal11 5y ago
The English-language convention I was taught is that 12am is midnight — the rationale I was given was that 02:00:00 is 2am without ambiguity, and 00:00:01 is 12:00:01am without ambiguity, so 00:00:00 gets to be 12am. I have no idea if that
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by signal11 5y ago
> see how popular dual sim phones are Having multiple SIMs in India will go away, or at least become something only the rich have, it's only a matter of time. This is because having that second SIM is no longer cost-free. Multiple S
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by signal11 5y ago
Worth noting that if you can , don’t stay on LTS. It adds cost which many modern teams can avoid[1]. It doesn’t mean enabling Java 18 on Production on day 1, but certainly it means adding a Java 18 compiler to your CI, running tests using
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by signal11 5y ago
This has got to be an Apple mole attempting corporate sabotage in the Windows team, right? right? :-) This comment is a joke, to be clear. But the idea of irrelevant infobars / ads in Windows Explorer is ... pretty daft.
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by signal11 5y ago
I agree, it’s very personal, and that’s key to keeping one’s mind happy and motivated, otherwise one would be wolfing down ice cream before long. I enjoyed reading your strategy. The thoughtfulness that it came out of is clearly important
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by signal11 5y ago
The key to losing weight is to maintain a caloric deficit. You can do this and have the occasional celebratory meal. You don’t have to eat like a monk. Some people use strategies like IF (intermittent fasting), but just being sensible and
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by signal11 5y ago
Note that email on your domain opens you up to a different sort of risks along the lines of domain hijacking / registrar account takeover. However, if you pick a good registrar you should be okay, and also there are commercial/leg
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by signal11 5y ago
For products like the Mac Mini, which don’t have a battery, does this mean that a loss of mains power will cause data loss? Because brownouts do happen occasionally…
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by signal11 5y ago
> Most pdf editors will put a square over the text Redaction is usually a "Pro" feature in commercial PDF editors. People who use PDF's annotation feature to draw a big filled shape over the text/image to be redacted,
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by signal11 5y ago
> if you're using software that supports layers ...then really you should know how to flatten? Not understanding the tools you use for sensitive tasks like hiding/redacting data is a recipe for disaster.
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by signal11 5y ago
This story is oddly similar to the Maersk cyber-attack in 2017[1]: > The virus, once activated, propagated within just seven minutes. And for Maersk, as with other organizations, the level of destruction was enormous. > As well as aff
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by signal11 5y ago
> it uses Electron Teams v2 won't use Electron[1]; but for now you can get a small performance boost by just opening Teams using a modern web browser (Edge, Chrome, Firefox) at https://teams.microsoft.com/ -- you ca
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by signal11 5y ago
Ironically, Facebook was great back when MySpace and Orkut wasn’t a great experience. I suspect that’s because it wouldn’t just let anybody in. Looking back, the decision to open Facebook up to everyone was (in my book) a bad one. I’ll use
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by signal11 5y ago
Also to add: the chances of most people binging on fresh fruit are pretty low. (Processed fruit like raisins and fruit juices are another story.)
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by signal11 5y ago
> You're complaining that a service you use all the time for a decade for free now might cost the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month? It’s easy to paint customers as frightful moaners, but that’s a surefire way to lose customer
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by signal11 5y ago
A more reasonable approach would’ve been to offer custom domains as part of Google One, whose pricing is far more family-friendly. Eg, Google One provides 100GB of storage (shareable with your family Google accounts) for £16/year. Ju
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by signal11 5y ago
Is there an equivalent of Microsoft’s Home Use Program (HUP) for Google Workspace? HUP gets you Microsoft 365 (Office apps, OneDrive, ad-free email with a 50GB quota and one custom domain) for your family, with 30% off list price for people
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by signal11 5y ago
I thought getting a Chromebook to boot Linux was pretty easy (e.g., ChrUbuntu). Is that for Intel Chromebooks only?
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by signal11 5y ago
It does appear to be handcrafted HTML, generated using [1]. > This is a static website generated using a Common Lisp program. See github.com/susam/maze for the source code of this website[2] > Just like the original website,
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by signal11 5y ago
That’s one point of view. The other view is that it has trained ordinary people to unthinkingly just click “accept cookies”. Consent != Informed Consent. The medical community is very well aware of this, it’s time tech realised it as well.
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by signal11 5y ago
Thank you, yes that’s pretty much it. Except instead of “consent modals must be legal” I’d say “consent modals must be *established practice*”. There is in fact case law which interprets the legislation and says explicit consent is required
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by signal11 5y ago
The problem with these is the cognitive overload that comes from dealing with cookie prompts on every website you visit, aka “cookie consent popup fatigue”. Regulators need to do better. Cookie popups such as these wouldn’t be a problem if
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by signal11 5y ago
I’m not sure they’re illegal. If they are, EU institutions should be taking action against ... themselves. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en > This site uses cookies to offer you a
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by signal11 5y ago
The EU legislation that mandated cookie consent popups has to take some “credit” for this state of affairs though. Custom cookie-consent UI per website has limitations. After years of experiencing cookie popup hell, I’d say that a better wa

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