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alexiaa
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About alexiaa
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Comment #35895857
mpv is cross-platform.
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Comment #35637871
Their help page technically says you can use the same phone number on up to 10 accounts, but that hasn't been the case in 4–5 years or more. It's more like 2–4 accounts per number …
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Comment #34946292
You can use AdGuard to block ads in Safari.
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Comment #34833381
Archive link for people in the EU: https://archive.today/2023.02.16-222817/https://www.ktvb.com...
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Comment #34644995
I suppose it does raise the bar somewhat, but there are many websites that sell access to phone numbers that specifically work on major services like Google for as low as 10 cents …
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Comment #34298450
yeah, they avoid any gplv3 software on macos, not sure if ios has any that's even gplv2.
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Comment #34298438
it's unix (bsd), not linux. also, the minimum is actually 4 digits. you can tap "passcode options" when setting/changing passcode. not sure how much better that would be though. i …
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Comment #34291502
I knew about `:x`, but I had no idea there was an actual distinction beyond just being a shortcut for `:wq`.
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Comment #34262213
It's common for them to not include more than original and/or English audio, but most competent groups will generally include all available subtitles at least.
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Comment #34205819
it does, but to use hashes you'd have to pin exact versions of every dependency, which is generally undesirable for a library
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Comment #34189024
i don't understand why you're being downvoted, that's exactly what it is for. android users can use do not disturb as well.
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Comment #34185379
how exactly does it violate your privacy to be merely allowed (not forced) to discuss your salary?
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Comment #34184697
it definitely should be possible at a router level, why should i be forced to configure each device individually? that said, obviously it should be possible to override on the devi…
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Comment #34184647
https://xkcd.com/1357/
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Comment #34180836
it seems to me like systems like these are the exception rather than the rule. you can always turn off nagle's algorithm if you have something really latency-sensitive, but it shou…
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Comment #34148753
I think this could be avoided by using this syntax instead: bash
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Comment #34023669
it's generally a good idea to do echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for benchmarks to avoid disk cache speeding things up, i'm surprised it wasn't mentioned
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Comment #33998762
the title is misleading, it makes it sound like tutanota had an age restriction and three blocked them because of that, but instead three put it behind an age gate.
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Comment #33976038
the "use android" argument is getting really tiring. as someone who used to be an android user for years and still somewhat keeps up with the ecosystem, ios and most apps written f…
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Comment #33972291
> They recently got rid of recurring subscriptions because they said they didn't want to store any PII. as much as this may be a noble goal, as a user i want to have the option of …
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Comment #33972180
you may have a point about amplification attacks, but that's not the main reason DoH/DoT exists. simply using legacy DNS over TCP will not magically make it encrypted.
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Comment #33971603
why does not having any nyc employees yet exempt them if they are hiring nyc-based people?
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Comment #33971353
> if you advertise a job respond to applicants quickly - as in within minutes of the application i mean it's nice to get a response as soon as possible but this seems completely un…
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Comment #33927144
that was a thing with openid but it pretty much died out.