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MerlinDE

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About MerlinDE

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #48255493

    This move has nothing to do with usability or device capabilities or software support. The only reason for turning them off is to remove a hole in their DRM. These old devices allo…

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    Comment #45576734

    There are several useful apps available for iOS that work as Safari extensions handling that kind of stuff. Banish is very useful, as well as Hush. In addition Opener allows you to…

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    Comment #44233821

    I have tried it and must say it just doesn’t work well enough. Too high latency, video calls are impossible and you regularly run into arbitrary issues. I ended up buying a standal…

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    Comment #28245986

    Anti child abuse measures are regularly utilized to push for measures you otherwise can‘t establish. Most of the time surveillance and censorship. Just look back 10+ years to Germa…

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    Comment #24858714

    The chair is only one part (e.g. the formidable HermanMiller Cosm only works if you have a table at the perfect height for you). The table is also super important. I‘ve recently sw…

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    Comment #18282301

    Most of the points in this article are just wrong (e.g. font size asked for and configured during initial setup; WiFi alerts are not enabled by default). Apart from that, I agree t…

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    Comment #11791121

    Why not just revolutionize patent laws? Make it only applicable if the patent is used for a real product available on the market. That would make patent trolling unattractive.

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    Comment #1534606

    Would be great, if you could include whole articles in the RSS feed. Making it easier to read it offline, on the go. Also a more flexible layout, better suiting devices with limite…