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by whyoh 10y ago
>'Most people' can't distinguish 1080p from 4k from 6 ft away 6ft away (and screen size) being key. From up close, everyone can and the difference is obvious. Whereas with lossy audio, a well encoded track will sound trans
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by whyoh 10y ago
Oh, come on! There is no huge performance boost. In fact, based on most properly done benchmarks, there isn't any performance boost at all! The whole "myth" of a performance boost probably started simply because they added a
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France: Windows 10 collects 'excessive personal data'(betanews.com)
20 points by whyoh 10y ago|0 comments
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by whyoh 10y ago
Bitcoin mining is essentially controlled by a handful of people in China. Let's not use it as an example of decentralization.
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by whyoh 10y ago
>If they haven't found anything in the telemetry that makes headlines yet, most likely there's nothing to find. There's plenty to be found and Microsoft isn't even hiding it: https://technet.microsoft.com&#
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by whyoh 10y ago
>You can turn it off via group policy if you have windows enterprise. No, you can't. You can only set it to a lower level. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...
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by whyoh 10y ago
>Apple claimed it improves battery life for mobile devices Is there a source for that claim? I ask because FLAC is generally considered to be faster for decoding. My guess is the MP4 container is the only reason they went for it (that an
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by whyoh 10y ago
>its not about quantity but quality. This sounds weird to me, because Twitter seems the epitome of quantity over quality. Even with my carefully selected RSS feeds I feel overwhelmed by all the news I get in a day. I can't imagine f
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by whyoh 10y ago
>A chunk of the telemetry recorded by Windows 10 has been back-ported to 7 and 8 in updates 1. you don't have to install those updates 2. supposedly, even if you install them, they do nothing unless you also enable CEIP: http:&#x2F
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by whyoh 11y ago
It definitely should include file transfers, according to their blog post: https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000618/end-to-end-encryption . Are you sure encryption was active, both devices on the latest version? Is there a ch
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by whyoh 11y ago
This one shows an ad in IE.
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by whyoh 11y ago
There's no need to install any 3rd party software. Microsoft themselves provide the switch to disable upgrades to Windows 10: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351 (and you can also simply not instal
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by whyoh 11y ago
OTOH, it's exactly what pushed me away from Mint. I remember not long ago Mint included just about every browser media plugin ever made, including RealMedia, WindowsMedia etc., stuff that was obsolete 15 years ago. Maybe it still does.
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by whyoh 11y ago
>It polls people from some of the most culturally conservative countries Here's a poll which includes Muslims living in Europe: http://www.pewglobal.org/files/pdf/253topline.pdf#page=16
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by whyoh 11y ago
>use of the phone number is necessary to make it not shit Why? People who actually care about encrypted communication the most will just see it as unnecessary leakage of private data. One of the best things about internet based communica
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by whyoh 11y ago
No doubt a lot of people suck at password management, but with proper management it's easier for a thief to steal a hardware key. Or a phone. Which is why I hate that some new services require a phone number for authentication.
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by whyoh 11y ago
Apparently it doesn't actually limit uploads: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=414319 Also, I'd prefer to use my own custom speed value and no extra latency etc.
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Ask HN: Browser extension for limiting bandwidth (feature request)
2 points by whyoh 11y ago|3 comments
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by whyoh 11y ago
For example, the Intel 520 and 530 series have known issues. Besides the lower performance after some amount of writes, they also tend to randomly "disappear" from the system, which is much worse. Google it, it should be easy to f
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by whyoh 11y ago
QuickPar hasn't been updated in a long time. Check out MultiPar for an actively developed alternative. (And of course there are other programs that handle PAR2 files as well.)
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by whyoh 13y ago
>The phrase "The PC is over and PC sucks" appears several times with little explanation other than citing the grow of other markets. There are some non-market explanations in the article and I could personally think of many mor
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by whyoh 13y ago
Nobody really expects unlimited bandwidth. Bandwidth and other resources are limited, so it's perfectly reasonable to expect some (common sense) limitations. What is not reasonable is saying "you can use your bandwidth for this, b
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by whyoh 13y ago
And you'll need to say it again and again, because some people just refuse to understand. I don't care how "normal" it is for ISPs to discriminate traffic and how "every ISP does this" (no, it doesn't). It
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by whyoh 13y ago
>EVEN with a master password, they'd be accessible in other ways by anyone using his computer Maybe (there are simple but very effective prevention methods against keyloggers etc.), but the main point is: it's not all black and