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I have a side project where, for some years now, I've supported an app built using F# with Xamarin.Forms and the Fabulous MVU framework. Before .NET 6, things were generally pretty…

> I've seen people report that they have reduced spam to near nothing already with just a honeypot, but of course I can't verify those claims. Can verify from personal experience. …

I remember watching that segment and thought it was a great illustration of the problem of people not truly caring about their privacy unless given a highly visceral and easy to un…

It's not the touchpad that annoys me, it's the fact that I generally seem to have to enter the address in the most non-intuitive order for it to find anything, e.g. first postcode,…

Yeah true. Seems like the more feature complete assistance systems are making their way down to even some of the more low-end brands these days. Level 1 autonomy is getting pretty …

My car absolutely uses the break when required to maintain the set cruise control speed, I've watched it happen. The car I owned before my current car didn't use the break to keep …

> turns out when you crush the competition with the world's best logistics technology you end up with a whole bunch of systems from the 70s/80s that are hard to update. I hear Walm…

Any rough idea when you might have C# support?

Same. Massive reason why I watched the show. I remember watching the first few episodes and Elliot is doing one of his monologues about the technology he uses and his hacking activ…

> but then upload speeds slowly rip at your soul I know the feeling. I'm relatively lucky in that I live somewhere that has had VDSL for some time and my download speed is adequate…

Windows 10 and so on. Yeah I know, I get it and it's not OK. They're obviously not alone in the exploitation of their user's data, however. I say that not as some kind of equivalen…

It's not that cut and dry for me. I do see objective differences in the Microsoft of today. * Visual Studio Community is now free. * Visual Studio Code is free and surprisingly awe…

I have a new MacBook Pro, got two new LG 5K monitors with it and ran into this issue: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/271120/connect-2-lg... I haven't had any issues so fa…

Perhaps "resupply" would have been a better word.

"While these companies have said they would comply, when legally obliged to, with handing over information on their users, they say they believe that creating technological back do…

Sounds like a commandeered/re-jigged version of a quote attributed to Râshid bin Sa`îd Âl Makṫûm[1]: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my so…

A bit of data feedback for you, getting to this page on your app: https://askizzy.org.au/category/have-your-say/in/2601-Austra... Suggests that the Commonwealth Ombudsman does not …

India is on the verge of finally becoming an internet-connected country. There’s already millions of Indians on the internet, obviously, but it’s still a tiny proportion of the pop…

It is however, quite hypocritical that Indonesia has lobbied for their own citizens to be taken off death row in other countries[1] yet they refuse the same for foreigners in Indon…

Earlier this month, FBI Director James Comey gave a speech arguing that the "post-Snowden pendulum has swung too far," There's a post-Snowden pendulum? And it's swung too far? In m…

Maybe it's a generational or geographical thing within our country? Because I'm also Australian and I've never heard "lush" used in conversation around me, with this meaning. Altho…