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by vee-kay 9mo ago
In my apartment complex,there are 3 types of lights in the community/public areas: 1. Centrally controlled lights - security team controls them from their common control room (this is also where the CCTV feeds are monitored live on TV
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
LOL, this reminds me of that iconic TBBT episode where Sheldon "trains" Penny with "positive reinforcement". ;) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_mIEnnlF4
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Yes! Superfloppy! Iomega's awesome Zip drive disk (100MB, 250MB, 750MB capacities) , I think I still have a 250MB zip drive somewhere in my home attic. They required a dedicated zip drive (took up same sized slot/bay as a floppy d
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
I use an old Amazon FireTV Stick on an old LG LED TV (semi-smart), and neither of them bug me with such fullscreen ads, unless I opt to watch MX content on Amazon Prime (MX is basically third-party ads-funded free OTT content; Amazon Prime
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
We don't. But it looks likely, IMHO.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
I was overjoyed when I saw that Microsoft had bought out the small Winternals team (Winternals Software LP, founded by Cogswell and Russinovich, who exposed the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy-protection DRM) that gave awesome freeware "power to
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
A similar example: Microsoft's Windows Search function is so pathetic and slow, yet there's another little company who gives a blazing fast file search tool, that's available as (portable) freeware since 15+ years. Everything
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
> There is a marketing lesson there somewhere. Microsoft once had the IT world at its feet, because not only was its Windows 9x OSes ubiquitous everywhere, but it had many millions of programmers who had become experts at Visual Basic an
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Looks like some people are downvoting me for revealing that Lastpass is unsafe, LOL.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Article title is click bait. Hominin tools that are millions of years old have already been found by archeologists. e.g., recent news: Scientists uncover 3-million-year-old tools but they weren’t made by our ancestors: https://ww
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
>Some people, like me, have just stopped watching YouTube. Other are turning to blocking ads. Just use viable FOSS alternatives like NewPipe or PipePipe. They are good and clean. They allow to watch or download YT content, without ads.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Pipepipe stopped downloading audio or video when I was using it a couple of years back. I switched over to NewPipe as it was better maintained and worked well. Since past few months, NewPipe is not automatically showing latest YT videos, bu
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
NewPipe (FOSS available on F-Droid) is nice alternative to ads-infested YouTube. I disabled YouTube and YouTube Music apps on my mobile, and I use NewPipe instead. You can even download YT videos or audio from YT videos using it.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Not sure if anyone should be installing Lastpass. It's been massively hacked in 2022 and 2024, and there's currently an ongoing attack (Jan 2026).
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
You can just create a filter in Gmail for "Paypal" (keyword match or sender match) to automatically mark such incoming emails as spam. Don't expect Google to blacklist big companies like PayPal, Amazon, etc. They all have par
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
>The problem is that your local paper can’t match the product that the internet makes available. The reverse is true actually. Print-edition newspaper or magazines had better quality of content than online sites or blogs. But they eventu
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
They are defending terrorism, because they are blindly defending Proton, which is openly supporting terrorism in India. Proton has been caught red-handed openly supporting subversive activities in a known terrorism hotspot. After the Pehelg
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
My bad. I meant to say: "Emails from known Contacts are auto-dumped into Inbox (they won't go into Spam folder)" (even if you had marked earlier emails from that sender as spam, but later added that sender as a Contact, so th
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
All the major newspapers (e.g., WSJ) and magazines (e.g., NatGeo) of the world have already transitioned to online subscription model. Guess whether their reader base has increased or decreased from their heydays. Most newspapers or magazin
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Google relies on ad-revenue. And it uses automated mechanisms to read every Gmail email, so it can train its AI LLMs and to serve more focused ads to its users. So if a user receives PayPal emails and doesn't mark them as Spam or block
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Agreed. That "Mark as Spam" facility not only moves the offending message into Jink/Spam folder, it also allows the Email Service provider to identify that type of email as spam, so future incoming messages that match that ma
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Thank for the alt text-only-mode link, it's nice. 0n some browsers, Reader mode (or Simplified Web View mode) can be used to view webpages or articles as simple text. This may be need to be enabled in the Accessibility Settings of the
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
I use an old Lenovo AIO PC to dual boot Linux Mint and Windows 10. It works well from a hardware and firmware perspective, but I've deliberately avoided Windows 11 as it is crapware. I have done triple booting of MacOS, Linux and Windo
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
People living in glass houses should not throw stones on others. I am going to use your own words to show you the mirror now.. Your America and its democratically-voted (even if we can call gerrymandering such) orange dictator have become t
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
The trick is create a filter to weed out such junk. And if a company sends me marketing fluff without unsubscribe option, then it goes in the junk/spam folder, and I may eventually discontinue my account with that service provider alto
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
If you lose an account due to negligence, it's on you, not the service provider. Spam/junk folder is not "ignore" folder. You need to periodically check the contents of the spam/junk folder to see if any legitimate
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
What case discussed above? You have not discussed any case here. And the links I shared in my original comments show a dangerous situation, not a "case". Proton has been actively campaigning against police and government in a terr
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Please stop defending terror supporter companies, with such illogical statements. You have no clue what idealism means. An ideal world is one where no terror attacks happen. Proton has been actively campaigning against police and government
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Please stay on topic. J&K has long been a target of terror attacks. Long before Modi as PM. Proton has no business inciting terrorists in known terrorist hotspots to evade the government.
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by vee-kay 9mo ago
Next time there is a mass shooting or terrorist bomb blast in your neighborhood, I hope you can look at a poster of Proton VPN on your bedroom wall, and feel safe. And then when you find out the police are going door to door to investigate

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