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OP wanted to be able to print in B/W mode when out of color ink. Ostensibly, the tracking dots' purpose was to stop currency counterfeiting, so they were only ever added on color printers (not B/W ones). Therefore, not being
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According to that article, the tracking dots only apply for color printers/printouts, so they wouldn’t apply in GP’s scenario (out of color ink).
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I feel like often article-writers miss the fact of people like your boss: some people just legitimately like being in an office and there's no conspiracy to speak of. As someone who likes being in an office, I personally feel that
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I'm sure this will make the user experience even worse. It seems we've the wrong lessons from Windows Vista's constant "Cancel/Allow" prompts.
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I like the idea of spinning Chrome out, but how would that work in practice? Seems like making a browser isn’t profitable at all, and so the hypothetical Chrome Browser Corporation would probably quickly turn to evil tracking schemes as wel
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Agreed — this seems like a fundamentally solvable problem with enforcement of existing laws.
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Sure, but that ignores how the process is actually working in practice. The number of successful Supreme Court impeachments (only 1, over the course of more than 100 years) should tell you that the system as-is isn’t working.
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Really this should be a bipartisan issue. Lifetime appointments are a perfect fit for ethics violations.
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The Twitter API changes seem to have no real reasoning behind them whatsoever, except "well maybe we could squeeze more money out of the developers", which isn't likely to result in sympathetic attitudes. In contrast, one cou
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The US State Department also warns about this: > "Reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bans, and the risk of wrongful detentions." https://
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> counted word occurrences and presented statistics about them. I don't think you even need fair use for this, because this is something you obviously are allowed to do, without any permissions You're pretty much describing e
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For a great example of an almost-native feeling PWA, I definitely recommend giving Voyager (Lemmy client) a try: https://vger.app/
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Yup; the fact that humans can't be expected to be ready to intervene at a moment's notice is a well-known problem in human factors engineering. GP's assertion that Tesla's strategy is good is consequently laughable.
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Or, the Tesla simply just plows into a barrier at highway speeds, which also solves the problem! Progress!
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That's like demanding that Rand McNally pay a fee to each city they print onto their maps. Or demanding that World Book Encyclopedia pay a royalty fee to every entity they write an article about. Noting that something exists and includ
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Then ban that , don't ban linking.
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Don't worry, random internet commenters have assured me that it's only because literally every country who tried communism didn't do it correctly . If we try again, it'll definitely lead to a utopia.
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Making up excuses instead of telling the truth is an issue with everything CEOs tend to say. They never tell you the real reason for anything. During the various tech layoffs, I honestly wished CEOs would just lean into the "I am do
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And after he became CEO, he has presided over exactly zero successful Google products!
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It's good to see them adopting a stance instead of weird half-measures. Remote vs in-office tends to get wrapped up in all kinds of narratives: it's a thrilling tale of the Evil Corporatocracy vs the Common Man, or perhaps it&#x27
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Sadly Shortwave pretty much ruined their desktop product, turning it into a two-pane Outlook wannabe. It's unfortunate, because for a brief moment I had Inbox back.
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I'm still convinced it's the Japan Postal Symbol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_postal_mark
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I think this applies to every operating system -- most people don't "choose" operating systems, they just use whatever came installed on the device.
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As you note, the politicization of it makes it difficult to point out the flaws without people assuming you like hate the environment or something. The problem is, like any score, it's easily gamed. That's how we get companies lik
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Some people do and some people don’t. It seems to me it’s largely a matter of personal preference. I worked from home before the pandemic, hated it, and vowed to never do it again. Then the pandemic happened.
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> “staggering 76% of employees stand ready to jump ship if their companies decide to pull the plug on flexible work schedules” People always say this, but I’d bet that the vast majority of those 76% would begrudgingly go in if it was dem
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Exactly. People often get lost in this "we must save the planet" argument, but realistically, the planet is gonna be fine. Preventing climate change is about saving humanity , not the planet.
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> Well - I'm not blaming the user, but that's how it's on any federated service. There it is! It’s absolutely fixable, and pretending it’s some defect inherent to federation is just lazy. If you want to see federated con
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I think the biggest problem is the Mastodon devs (and community's) complete aversion to doing anything other than blaming the user for any flaws. Onboarding didn't make sense? Well that's just because you're stupid, you
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I agree that some of their tactics were questionable, but they were up against IE, and Microsoft's bundling of it. Would you rather everyone still be using IE? Because that's exactly what would have happened otherwise.

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