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Doesn't Microsoft use a thousand different domains, most of which look sketchy? What if you receive an email from microsofts-support@live.com? Could you immediately tell that it is…

I did not know about PublishTrimmed and will try it out. Thank you.

I think a standalone "Hello World", built with .NET Core, is around 60-70 MB large on both Linux and Windows. The startup times are alright - slower on Windows than on Linux in my …

Same, except I used Chrome's classic colours: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/familiar-blue... The only thing I'm really missing is how easily you can set up and swi…

Signal-Desktop works even when your phone is turned off.

I was planning on looking into how to best document it the next time it happens, and whom exactly to report it to (i.e. the national or European data protection authority). Not sur…

I did the same thing, and yet every couple of years some of those deleted items reappear on the news feed of my second account that I only use to double-check my privacy settings. …

If you revoke location permissions, Google still guesses it accurately, for me at least, "from your search history", as it says at the bottom of the search results page - even when…

It's more of a notification than a question dialogue. It tells you that Windows 10 is a "recommended update" now (instead of optional which it was before). That means no matter how…

How many of the hundreds of millions of people using Windows computers are affected like this that don't have someone tech-savy to ask for help? There's no possible way Microsoft d…

Thanks for the warning. I'm not sure if they're being sleazy or just unthoughtful and incompetent. I already lost an afternoon with family, which I don't get to see that often, bec…

I think they'll bring it back in the summer, but didn't find a more recent source than this: https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/o...

We've read the speech in school in Germany. Not from a textbook, but simply a copied text, from the internet I presume. Was that illegal? I think every class did. A relative who wa…

If your titlebar has a dark background color, text and the minimize/maximize buttons are still unrecognizable. Is it so uncommon to use a dark color scheme that no one who works on…

Win+W lets you search Settings directly instead of Apps. You can also press if after you've already typed your search term. (In case you don't want to reach for the mouse)

Take a look at the HN circle on Google+. That's definitely not just 77% male.

It wasn't a login, you had to have at least one file on your skydrive before the recent merge to keep the 25GB. Effectively you now can get e.g. 45GB for 10$ a year. Dropbox' old 5…

Windows Live Calendar nowadays is very similar to Google Calendar. It should be possible to sync it e.g. with Android via ActiceSync. Some time ago I managed to do this with Androi…

Well, other Linux distributions show a similar trend for "$distroName linux" search terms: http://goo.gl/lTewt Even "linux" alone seems to have a downward trend by that measurement…

I've noticed something very tiny: Using the Windows Classic theme on Windows 7 x64, the close button of the Favorites Bar (the black X with the mouseover text "Close the Favorites …

The period supposedly is 270 days now, according to this Hotmail Dev team "interview": >> we have a policy of deleting emails after 270 days http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e…

Hi, one quick question: If you use @jdoe.net because it looks more professional, what would you use for the local part of the address? Does e.g. contact@jdoe.net look better than j…