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Osiris

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About Osiris

Author of BatteryBar, which aims to be the best battery meter available. http://batterybarpro.com

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    Comment #44221622

    Or of just a power outage or driver causing a loss of write back cache. 95 and 98 and ME crashed on a regular basis. I specifically remember upgrading from ME to XP and being so ha…

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    Comment #44221589

    I've been a paying member for a while now. I'm happy to support a company that isn't Google or Microsoft for search.

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    Comment #43975450

    Use the GitHub CLI. You can do nearly everything the website does entirely in the terminal.

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    Comment #43861661

    The 180-page injunction outline the reason for it and the goals of the injunction. They knew the court ruled against them for specific reasons but came up with a solution that didn…

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    Comment #43861607

    At some point it has to be documented as to the decisions made and the reasoning. If there is literally no documentation up until the final moment, doesn't that itself act as evide…

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    Comment #43861516

    The end of the order says that they are referring the issue to the DoJ for criminal charges, which is where a fine would be issued if found guilty.

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    Comment #43860401

    The breach being that they offered a payment method outside of Apple Pay. That's exactly what he said.

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    Comment #43860373

    Fauci? What does he have to do with Apple?

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    Comment #43860344

    Given that the CFO encouraged Cook to violate the court order tells me that they calculated that 1. Any fines for not complying would be less than what they would lose by complying…

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    Comment #43860227

    My guess is most people are using Redis via cloud providers. Did any cloud providers switch away from Redis?

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    Comment #43794886

    I understand applying path filters in URLS and search strings, but I find it odd that they would apply the same rules to request body content, especially content encoded as valid J…

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    Comment #43759608

    It was also replaced with the Composite proposal, which is similar but not exactly the same.

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    Comment #43747783

    What do you mean by "can't"? "Can not" means "not possible", but it's clearly possible.

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    Comment #43586703

    It seems to me what they are really doing is offering a free self-hosting license to businesses that make less than a given amount in sales. This allows them to offer a free "plan"…

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    Comment #43404850

    Clearly not ALL users are happy because users of non-Apple watches are unhappy that their watch can do things with Android it's not allowed to do on iOS. It's not reasonable to mak…

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    Comment #43404696

    And yet Apple has shown many times a willingness to use vague language of their rules to block apps they don't want. Past behavior can't predict future behavior.

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    Comment #43404675

    The reason is irrelevant. Apple watches can do things that Apple doesn't allow other non-Apple devices to do. The law doesn't care why they choose to do it. The result of the decis…

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    Comment #43404656

    Really? Did you have to pair your Apple watch? Did Apple sign the software on the watch? Did Apple build special APIs and tools into iOS to support certain features of the Apple Wa…

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    Comment #43404589

    Source? What data do you have that "prohits unsafe choices" is the only or #1 reason that people buy an iPhone over an Android?

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    Comment #43404570

    Microsoft absolutely got in trouble for purposefully making other Office suites not work correctly on Windows, for using private Windows APIs in Office that other companies didn't …

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    Comment #43404538

    Wouldn't "see my text messages on my watch" be included in "works pretty well?"

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    Comment #43404503

    I get plenty of spam texts on iMessage. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "cesspit"?

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    Comment #43030705

    Looking at the top end chart, which flat lined, it seems that the biggest contributor would be a slower release cycle of the most performant chips. It looks like the score of the t…

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    Comment #43030669

    The GPU being a bottleneck over the CPU is only in very specific scenarios. Can you be more specific about what message you're trying to convey?

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    Comment #42764507

    But now they are breaking the law by turning it back on.