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rolodato

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About rolodato

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    Comment #47818525

    Being able to see stars in the night sky

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    Comment #37263762

    Good riddance. Hope it extends beyond the EU as well.

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    Comment #37228971

    One disgusting trend I see with many phone apps is notification spam with no fine-grained option to disable them without potentially disabling transactional notifications. Ride-sha…

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    Comment #35823770

    Bugs, faults, errors

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    Comment #35821245

    I think bootlicker is a stronger but more appropriate word. I genuinely cannot believe people support being sold a fully standalone physical product and being charged just for the …

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    Comment #35719276

    Stremio with torrent addons is extremely common.

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    Comment #35662246

    My cynical AI opinion is that if it truly was revolutionary, we would be seeing private companies or governments use it internally to massively boost their productivity or achieve …

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    Comment #24145457

    Drogon is similar to "drogón" in Spanish, which means "junkie" or someone who takes a lot of drugs.

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    Comment #21980909

    > - Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make…

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    Comment #18426841

    In the case of Google, not at all: $ curl -v https://google.com [...]

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    Comment #18319877

    When you get the receipt back, you can request an item be cancelled because you "didn't take it". They will pretty much accept it, no questions asked.

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    Comment #18187380

    I've seen this issue in Firefox Nightly when trying to perform the HSBC UK credit card verification, so it makes sense not to roll it out to the wider public yet.

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    Comment #18128674

    Those discussions/articles are mostly started by Americans, not Europeans.

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    Comment #17460282

    "From YouTube.com" is a massive understatement. youtube-dl can download from pretty much any video site, including porn sites: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues?q=is%3Aopen+…

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    Comment #16711657

    Streisand effect, anyone? I had not heard of Kodi before this.

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    Comment #16145712

    I stand corrected :)

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    Comment #16145662

    I was not aware of Netlify, thanks for letting me know. I've added it to the list of alternatives.

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    Comment #16145654

    It is end to end but CloudFlare does not verify the identity of the origin server. The only equivalent option would be "Full SSL (Strict)", which is not free.

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    Comment #16102712

    Alarm sound is at https://pushupalarm.com/missile.mp3 (curl/wget the URL)

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    Comment #15747303

    Is there a genuine use case for changing the default search engine from an extension? Even if it has to be confirmed by the user, it still seems like a dialog that many users won't…

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    Comment #15261275

    > e.g. I use the terms "Flag" instead of "Boolean" I'm not familiar with THT and this is a nitpick, but doesn't this contradict the first principle? Pretty much every language I've…

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    Comment #15031105

    It's not as simple as total page weight - latency and server throughput are also important. AMP pages are likely served from a fast global cache with low latency from all over the …