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by whyoh 5y ago
>decline in human sperm count and sperm quality over the last few decades Dogs too: "Study demonstrates rapid decline in male dog fertility, with potential link to environmental contaminants" https://www.sciencedaily
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by whyoh 6y ago
I also switched to ANSI (with a custom software layout) after using ISO for most of my life. I prefer the wider/horizontal Enter key on ANSI. I'd sometimes accidentally hit the key above it (\), but over time it got better and now
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by whyoh 6y ago
You can use other software to remap the keys to your liking, for example MSKLC on Windows.
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by whyoh 6y ago
>but I can't really NFC back to my PC as easily It should be doable with an NFC sticker switch. (With NFC Tasks on Android, for example.)
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by whyoh 6y ago
>It’s a magnificent tool for staying up to date with a narrow topic like a niche technology. A blog/website with an RSS feed is even better, IMO. And for in-depth discussions traditional forums (or even subreddits) beat Twitter easi
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by whyoh 6y ago
Right, if the invite link is publicly available anyone can join. But a Facebook employee would have to join the group and they wouldn't have access to older messages. It's not like with Telegram, where all the content, including o
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by whyoh 6y ago
Well, one technical reason is that WhatsApp groups — unlike Telegram groups — use encryption. So Facebook doesn't know what goes on inside them.
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by whyoh 6y ago
I'm trying to see the benevolent aspect of these major updates that happen every 6 months, but I don't see it. Do they have to be so frequent? Do they have to be so massive (several GB downloads)? And yet, 5 years after RTM, Windo
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by whyoh 6y ago
>That's exactly why you want to use something like Telegram if you're in the West: it's not controlled by a Western government. Telegram has headquarters in the UK, a Five Eyes country. It's not unreasonable to assume
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by whyoh 6y ago
Or rather just give the money to the author directly. Giving it to Amazon effectively means you support what they're doing.
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Tutanota replaces Google's FCM with their own notification system(tutanota.com)
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by whyoh 7y ago
Ok, but this is not what I was getting at. When PG says that the left and right are equally "wrong", he's suggesting that they are both trying to arrive at THE solution, but just taking different paths. I don't think thi
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by whyoh 7y ago
>the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong. I don't think you can reduce political arguments to who is "right" and who is "wrong". Politics and moral questions are not mathematical problems. We fundame
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by whyoh 7y ago
>People here always cry for 'voting with your wallet'. Well, people did and here we are. Did the SE sell poorly?
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by whyoh 9y ago
>Windows 10 adds some shortcuts to the start menu during the bi-annual updates, they're annoying but once they're deleted they don't come back. They also have an add in Explorer for OneDrive that also goes away permanently
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by whyoh 9y ago
BitGrail had bugs in their exchange code, which have been known for a while. Many people reported that they deposited, say, 1 ETH and it showed as 3 ETH on the BitGrail account. Or they withdrew some XRB, but then the same amount was still
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by whyoh 9y ago
>Despite its imperfections, which in my cursory understanding are largely academic 1) no video calls 2) voice calls just now being rolled out 3) encryption is opt-in and limited to one-on-one conversations 4) requires a phone number for
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by whyoh 10y ago
I just did a fresh install of the latest stable version (1703, no insider build). Full is the default. Although the change from previous versions is that you get the "Full-Basic" switch on the initial setup screen. edit: it's
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by whyoh 10y ago
>Cortana doesn't even exist on this version. This used to be the case, but it's no longer so. The latest version of Education (1703) includes Cortana.
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by whyoh 10y ago
Yeah, that can happen, it's one of the reasons why I don't recommend Google accounts anymore. Hardware/software factors ("new devices"...) trigger their automatic security checks and can easily lock you out of your
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by whyoh 10y ago
>It's not that rare. It happens anytime the other user gets a new phone, or re-installs WhatsApp. That, and the messages also have to be sent while the user is offline, otherwise there is no vulnerability--assuming you enabled the c
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by whyoh 10y ago
>the (potentially compromised) server would know who has enabled notifications/blocking and who hasn't. How would that be worse than the current situation, where everyone is vulnerable and we all know it?
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by whyoh 10y ago
>if WhatsApp actually did what you expect, data would be lost when a person switched phones in the middle of someone sending them a message Only temporarily lost. WhatsApp could ask you: "do you want to resend the message(s) to the
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by whyoh 10y ago
It does [if you enable it], but in special circumstances (as described in the video/article) the warning is only displayed AFTER your messages have already been delivered to a new phone.
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by whyoh 10y ago
It's an "intentional vulnerability". It's there to prevent users from being annoyed. Which is a bit of a lame excuse, because users would only be "annoyed" in very rare cases and special circumstances, namely:
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by whyoh 10y ago
>implementing this in a way that maintains Signal's ease of use for all participants isn't exactly trivial (contact discovery is a big one). I disagree, as long as it's an OPTIONAL and non-default method. Many people (bil
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by whyoh 10y ago
>firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false That doesn't always work. Some videos don't play at all (even when clicked) and some others play automatically anyway (rare, but it happens).
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by whyoh 10y ago
It was already evident from the Anandtech review, where the 12 core model was reaching around 100 C (CPU and GPU) under stress load. Anand tried to downplay the issue somewhat, but the numbers speak for themselves, it's not a computer
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by whyoh 10y ago
It says nothing about encryption, so I assume it's not encrypted.
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by whyoh 10y ago
Wire, maybe. I haven't used it much, but it's supposed to be end-to-end encrypted and supports audio/video/text. No phone requirement either. Still a centralized service, though, so they get access to metadata.

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