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by vezycash 6y ago
They are talking about the fear of their account being terminated without warning. Turns out the fear is not unfounded see a confession by an ex GCP Googler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24572131
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by vezycash 6y ago
Moore's observation.
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JavaScript – Disable ``Console.clear()``(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by vezycash 6y ago|0 comments
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A New System for Cooling Down Computers(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by vezycash 6y ago|1 comments
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Remembering Roger Boisjoly, Challenger disaster whistleblower (1938-2012)(whistleblowing.us)
3 points by vezycash 6y ago|0 comments
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by vezycash 6y ago
"Boisjoly and four other engineers tried desperately to convince management that the launch should be scrubbed. They warned that the cold would cause rubber o-rings to become brittle and fail, allowing hot gases to leak at the joints.
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by vezycash 6y ago
>The account-less app alone tracks way more than what microsoft could ever track with all their account systems. I'm using TikTok lite. TikTok only requested STORAGE permission when I wanted to save a video. That's all. Tubemat
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by vezycash 6y ago
I was looking for an android app to make my phone contacts on Outlook available on my phone. The official app screws up with my share menu. I'd see one set of share targets and just before I hit my choice, outlook will place two contac
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by vezycash 6y ago
Used the app for a few days, and realized that keeping TikTok out of the hands of US tech companies is best for the users. 1. Registration not needed - without nagging. First thing Microsoft would have done is to require signup to use. 2. (
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by vezycash 6y ago
Placing S3 above Netlify? I sincerely hope they are earning commissions from that biased rating.
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by vezycash 6y ago
One more reason why adblockers are a must install for everyone especially non technical people.
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by vezycash 6y ago
>On iOS, if you have the Facebook application installed, the Facebook Login user journey opens the actual Facebook application. If you don’t have it installed, it will open the Facebook website in Safari. Can someone else confirm this? T
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by vezycash 6y ago
You can buy reviews. Same would be possible in any other store.
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by vezycash 6y ago
Basically anything that's been added to play services. Here's an old - outdated list. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
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by vezycash 6y ago
Internet explorer also added features at a pace others couldn't keep up with. Then came the lawsuit that threatened to break up the company over a free product. That's what made Microsoft stop work on internet explorer rather than
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by vezycash 6y ago
If mobile web becomes significantly worse, Google will have evidence to back AMP. Intentionally releasing a virus to sell the cure their cure.
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by vezycash 6y ago
Two real reason for this: 1. Ads 2. Make the mobike web worse to shove AMP down our throats
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In Poznan, Poland, eight clams decide if people in the city get water or not(zmescience.com)
29 points by vezycash 6y ago|1 comments
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by vezycash 6y ago
Wonderful article. Made me realize that I had this TSR program running in my brain. "If it's important, serious, embarrassing, difficult or just uncomfortable, do it later."
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by vezycash 6y ago
Understood. When the gag order on 3-5% fee, it's business. But on 30%, it's mafia level extortion.
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by vezycash 6y ago
They take 30%? More like 3% or less.
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by vezycash 6y ago
Mozilla is acting like Microsoft right now - Step 1: Replace a working app with a shinier UI with less features than the original Step 2: Promise to add missing features in the future Step 3: Put off adding missing features existing users w
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by vezycash 6y ago
It's hard but take a few minutes off before responding to snarky comments. Please answer their indirect question: "Did you replicate every of the react app's functionality in the app?"
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by vezycash 6y ago
We already have a surefire low tech mosquito killer - mosquito bats or zappers. They work well, no chemicals just electricity and batteries. We however don't have sharp eyes to track the movement of the stealth suckers. Nor the reflexe
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by vezycash 6y ago
Okay. There's also a download manager called xdm. Wasn't a typo.. https://subhra74.github.io/xdm/
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by vezycash 6y ago
Maybe they don't know of fdm. Found out about xdm last week, time it's open source too
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by vezycash 6y ago
The pricing looks very straight forward to me. The lifetime option is less than $20 for either windows or Mac. Mipony and jd shouldn't be compared with IDM. They don't do the same thing. Mipony's reason for being is downloadi
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by vezycash 6y ago
Personal Blocklist (not by Google) - has both chrome ext too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...
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by vezycash 6y ago
>Google's acquisition of double-click should have never been approved by the SEC. It seems obvious in hindsight that the acquisition would kill competition but at the time, it didn't seem so. Like right now, in hindsight, Faceb
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An irresistible scent makes locusts swarm(phys.org)
2 points by vezycash 6y ago|0 comments

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