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3,140karma·1,202submissions·December 12, 2023
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There are some studies that claim there is a link: - Associations Between Online Pornography Consumption and Sexual Dysfunction in Young Men: Multivariate Analysis Based on an International Web-Based …
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https://archive.is/6jpxJ
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Automation. It can be used to automate tasks in an app. For example, a common task in a Photo Editor app is to resize photos. But resizing 100's of photos manually can be a pain. If the app has s…
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Not really. The political growth of the BJP is all artificial and due to external factors - from the loss of institutional political knowledge that the Congress suffered due to its split and the back …
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Linux and *bsd run crippled on M series chips as Apple doesn't provide the hardware specifications or device APIs for system programmers for utilising the GPU etc on its SoC. Linux developers are…
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Oh, it is going to be a huge issue in the future. Look at Bangalore. Once farmers too start facing water shortage, the shit will hit the fan. The Modi government is not known for its long-term thinkin…
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You are absolutely right, most home users don't care about power consumption when it comes to desktop computers. All this negative shilling about power consumption of Intel and AMD desktop CPUs s…
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> There's a separate "WiFi scanning" setting that's enabled even when WiFi is switched off. Really? What is it called and can it be disabled? That kind of data collection seem…
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The worry with any language dying is the loss of knowledge that accompanies its demise. CPAN has a lot of great libraries that once used to power the early internet. Decades ago, it was in a Perl grou…
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To converse with somebody you need to improve your vocabulary. So make it a habit to daily read a good English newspaper (you can also read the BBC online daily at https://www.bbc.com ). Wh…
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It is already widely supported by all the major browsers except Chromium that powers Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. And the lame excuse they give for that is "Chromium has actually decided …
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Correction: It's an enterprise tool to make http requests. Would you be questioning OP this way if the tool was from Oracle? ;)
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> Just that right now there are no other phones that meet the requirements specified And that highlights the main goal of GrapheneOS - a security hardened mobile OS. (Note that better 'secur…
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Disappointed that this is a web application. But great work. The user interface is very intuitive and easy to use. Feature request : Add 'Export to JPEG-XL' option (JPEGXL - https:/&#…
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Yes, Opera was sold to the Chinese. I am talking about the days when Opera was owned by the Europeans, and didn't use Chromium / Blink engine.
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True, I understood that the userbase was more important to them as my extension code was already released under GPL open source license. I was concerned about the following: 1. It was a grey area if t…
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Just sounds good in theory: - More malicious apps found in Mac App Store that are stealing user data - https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/09/07/more-malicious-a…
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One of my Opera (Presto web engine, European owned) extension was featured on the front page and became very popular. Somebody wanted to purchase it from me for a good amount. During the negotiation, …
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"I don't ever want us ever to have to beg for food grains." - (former indian PM) Indira Gandhi
Perhaps the western nations, especially former imperialist ones, need to study i…
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I am not surprised and believe this is a deliberate political tactic (by both US political parties) - as the US has outsourced intelligence gathering to BigTech, it is in their interest to kill the ol…
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Sometimes, yes, it is. Real cheese is in a way a creation of a new food item as one raw ingredient (milk) is used by microorganisms to create another food product. Skimmed milk though can be considere…
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The biggest constraint of the US military is manpower / personnels (active duty). That is why the US strategy after the Vietnam war has been to first economically weaken a country with sanctions …
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You can question and fight your democratically elected government. You can't do the same with an MNC who may have more money than your own country.
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> “Indian companies will comply – for now. But what India needs is an App Store/ Play Store that is a part of Digital Public Infrastructure – like UPI and ONDC. The response needs to be strat…
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Electoral autocracy - India’s Demotion To Electoral Autocracy Is Fair, Repeated Dismissal Of International Surveys Unhelpful, Global Ranking Expert Explains - https://article-14.com/…