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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The answer is, because Outlook is rendering your emails using Word as a browser. Only a monopoly like Microsoft could get away with that.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
On the bright side, the end result is that on Mac there are only apps that have been updated this decade.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Downstream Internet traffic. So if a provider puts Netflix’ CDN box, which they provide for free, on their network, the ‘global traffic’ is next to nothing. It’s just traffic to the customers, which the customers pay for, and no transit tha
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Yes! Tune in next week, when we blame the website for this!
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So you get asked to share a password, and if you choose to do so, you share a password! What will they think of next!
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
And then when the police violate the law, what happens? They are forced to not do it again? At worst they get to pay a fine with someone else’s money.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Obviously this person is past that, but people should be aware that quitting an alcohol addiction cold-turkey can cause very serious, potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms. Consult your medical provider.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
All I learn whenever I follow a link there is that the powers that be have decided that ‘this question is off-topic for Stack-Overflow’ and it has already been answered in a location that is now unavailable. The site is a big douchey middle
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Also many makes of thermal printing paper include BPA which is carcinogenic and disturbs your hormone levels.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Artists should create music for me to enjoy for free! It’s only fair use!
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
In addition to this, this feature is optional, there is a clearly labeled switch in the settings to turn this on or off if for some reason people have strong feelings against it.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
As named, the extensions called ‘Apple’s secret extension’ are not standard, they are Apple specific and it’s not just ‘tweak the semantics’, it’s custom and only turned on for Rosetta 2 because otherwise they would cause unexpected results
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
For code that has undefined behavior, the compiler may refuse to compile it or compile it into literally anything. A common mistake is expecting code that has undefined behavior to be compiled into something that makes logical sense. You ma
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Here’s more information: https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/why-is-rosetta-2-f...
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Why would you have it repaired by an expensive American when someone in China will do it for next to nothing?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I’m pretty sure there’s some Apple specific instructions that help with Rosetta 2.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Backblaze has larger scale statistics which show that this theory that ssds are inherently unreliable is just bs. In fact they turn out to be slightly more reliable than hdds: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-drive-st
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The reason is the same reason developers include Bonzi Buddy and similar malware with their software: Because it earns money. Money talks and bs walks.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s the same story as people building databases in Excel, while it’s small you want to look away from all the details so you choose a tool that doesn’t get in your way. Then when it grows and becomes unwieldy it’s difficult to migrate away
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
> I find it kinda wild that we are seeing article after article of people dismissing this without actually experiencing it first hand I suppose you haven’t been following Apple News for long. The cycle is always the same, everyone is exp
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If it’s not making money anyway it’s strange they pull tricks that are just another thing to make Google look greedy and bad, where they very clearly hide businesses to punish them for not taking out an ad. It makes Google look like the mob
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Alternatively it’s a way to sell bigger subscriptions
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Quite possibly with SMS as the fallback option in case the soft token is lost.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If you wait long enough you can just emulate the old system.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
> Sometimes there are external demands that require the system to always be up or to minimize any downtime Then the solution is redundancy. Especially with todays frequent downtime for security updates you can’t deliver a singular system
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Strangely back then the sky did not fall, automatic restarts were Windows’ solution to paper over its poor reliability. I think we either started demanding more from our services or just accepting worse quality. And with the mainstream acce
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Just like with Y2K a lot of things are proofed already. But to avoid things falling over, everything has to be proofed. Not just the kernel, also file formats, file system formats, programming languages and libraries and applications. Tha
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So now all of their public sites will have to implement https. Seems like a win to me.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Just wait about 15 years and we’ll see how ‘preposterous’ it can get when the 32-bit Unix timestamp rolls over. It’s going to be Y2K all over again.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
There the story is being put down because it kind of sounds like the lab leak theory so obviously it can’t be true. The cognitive dissonance is strong.

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