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3,140karma·1,202submissions·December 12, 2023
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Apple (or anyone else) should not be allowed to violate / subsume consumer rights for its own business interests. Consumers should have access to the system literature of a device and be able to …
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The iShittification of the Mac platform continues ... I predicted this a long time ago when Apple released its first Mac mini with soldered SSD. Then the ones with security chip. And now we have sol…
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Consider PaleMoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ - it is multi-platform and has support for an older version of uBlock Origin and that works fine.…
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It may still be not available / accessible in Israel under other laws. > No footage of the police interrogation has ever been aired in Israel due to privacy laws, and it is unclear if the film…
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> I don't know, does apple ignore it? No, it doesn't. I know because I had issues once enabling it and Apple customer support asked me to talk to my carrier if tethering was enabled for m…
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Then people will start worrying about low blood pressure, as potassium helps lower your blood pressure. :)
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How much MSG do you use? I've noticed that just a pinch or 2 is enough to flavour the food (and I am talking about for around 1kg of meat + rice). (A pinch may be roughly equivalent to 1/3rd…
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It's Tor for android and ios. Not really a VPN in the since most understand it. (Difference between Tor and VPN - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/72679/diff…
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Is this an Electron app? I wonder why it can't be just a browser extension instead?
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> micro-transactions are not possible given the huge banking fees Look up papers on UPI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface - it is heavily used for mic…
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Unless laws exist to prevent this, you can bet that ALL BigTech are doing this, to varying levels. If they are not doing it in your country, you can bet they are doing it in other countries. The US go…
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Interesting - we've been hearing about a "database file system" for some time now, and it's exciting to see it popping up slowly. But DBOS still has a long way to go - runs only on…
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A really long time ago, I had once visited a police station in Tamil Nadu (India). One of the lower level officials there had the rank "SSI". I was perplexed as I had never heard of this ran…
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Seems more a NATO intelligence operation - apparently, there are rumours that he met recently Putin, and had extensive discussions with Kremlin officials - https://archive.is/8sdYQ . …
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Thanks for the tip ( open -a 'system preferences' -n worked for me ). Though, it's still irritating when you have to switch to command line to do so ...
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> According to the French authorities, Durov, who is estimated to be worth €13.9 billion by Forbes, is being charged as an accomplice to crimes including drug trafficking, fraud, terrorism and cri…
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I was complaining about the same thing yesterday (to nobody) about the macOS System Preferences - it is irritating that when you are working on the Network Panel and want to fiddle with some other sys…
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The moral of the story is: If your country has oil, don't piss off the US.
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> don't advertise wooly claims about performance and security And about privacy ...
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If Beirut and Tehran get involved in the ongoing war (rather massacre) in Gaza, they will be fools as they will be walking into a well-laid (but short-sighted) trap laid by Netanyahu and his religious…
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> But doesn't this CLA in particular (and most CLAs out there generally) assign the company behind it a license to distribute all contributions under any license they wish? Yes. CLA requirem…
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If your business depends on some form of closed-source codebase, than yes, an AGPL codebase will not suit your need. But from an opensource developer perspective it doesn't matter. For example, i…
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Note that they can't "take it away" completely. The AGPL ensures that the community AGPL licensed code will always have to be open source, and that anybody else can use it too. So a dev…
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I am currently watching Mr. Selfridge - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310212/ - a drama about an American who established a department store in London during the Victorian…