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salsadip

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    Comment #33732473

    Its definitely not in my bookmarks. when i start typing, its under the section titled "top hits". google maps is right beneath it, but never first place

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    Comment #33729850

    Recently safari (on macos 10.15) started auto completing „maps.“ to „maps.apple.com“, although I only tried Apple maps once and always use gmaps. Maybe google noticed this and trie…

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    Comment #31179942

    I‘m really not trying to sound snarky, but - is this the supposedly high quality treatment that U.S. citizens get that is so much more expensive as opposed to the „socialized“ insu…

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    Comment #27313964

    nice, thanks for sharing! for anyone having trouble configuring the shell execution: use /bin/sh/ for launch path and "-c" (without quotes) for parameter. Otherwise BTT will autofi…

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    Comment #27028863

    In case you use macOS and own a M1 mac, check if your bank's 2fa app works on macOS. Your bank can deactivate it but iOS apps default to being runnable under macOS.

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    Comment #26671617

    What’s dangerous in a PDF besides JS which is not executed in macos Preview.app?

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    Comment #26081790

    Really cool what you did there! One idea that comes to mind: Would it be possible to implement wake-on-(W)Lan so that the image updating can be triggered by the device that generat…

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    Comment #25904756

    In Europe, iPhones are less common than the US. Italy has between 23-27% market share [0], in Germany it is at about 20% [1]. Just FYI [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/62275…

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    Comment #22309712

    > But it insist of using AFP+ as its Filesystem. (Assuming you mean APFS) Not true. I have Openmediavault running on my raspberry pi 4 and the two drives i use for dual-backup are …

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    Comment #21968363

    Exactly my thought. It has been like that for a long time and will continue to be. Maybe the author's thought would be better phrased as: Trust online is continuing to decline due …

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    Comment #21968343

    I don't think the situation is as dramatic as the article suggests. Trust online is at an all time low anyways: 1. youtube reviews are sponsored 2. online discussions (reddit etc) …

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    Comment #21382034

    I guess moral only exists for things which were a problem for a long time. Mass data collection is a relatively new thing. So morals around data collection don't really exist; ask …

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    Comment #21354114

    Not on a mobile device, but I read that some company is using OpenCV to judge customers reactions to ads shown to them. that is, ads shown on TVs in stores and recording the reacti…

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    Comment #21329371

    Whats the killer feature that's missing from social networks right now that a 15 year old would care about?

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    Comment #21329320

    Could you elaborate please?

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    Comment #20645275

    „Ohh Frankfurt is so ugly!“ first thing I heard when I said where i was from. Didn‘t care much for it but the bluntness dumbfounded me

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    Comment #20639629

    thanks for submitting, had a lot of fun over the last couple hours

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    Comment #20564179

    A little more info from the KaiOS website ( https://developer.kaiostech.com ): > KaiOS is a web-based mobile operating system that enables a new category of smart feature phones. I…

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    Comment #20524267

    Quote? From what I read it wasn’t about the money for the founders but they thought they had something unique going for them which they wanted to have control over instead of selli…

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    Comment #20524153

    Right. I just don’t really use telegram that’s why I didn’t mention it, although of course it is a good app! It is just doing exactly what WhatsApp is doing (feature wise) minus th…

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    Comment #20524135

    Snapchat (the app) was the only app which had stories so it was unique by definition. The main problem though is that I’m uncomfortable using Facebook‘s apps because of their disre…

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    Comment #20524024

    I am happy that we have Snapchat and iMessage as competitors to the Facebook Apps. I very much dislike their business practices of sucking up all the data they can get their hands …

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    Comment #20493057

    https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-started-as-an-online-datin... Here's a little more info. They changed it to a general purpose video site after 5 days after nobody uploaded any vi…

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    Comment #19987037

    I am really excited about this. Firewatch is an amazing game with amazing execution. Teenage Engineering's OP1 is supposedly really good hardware (from what i heard and saw on yout…

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    Comment #19699258

    Have you actually used the mouse? I haven't, but hearing from people that have actually used it (and not gotten all worked up about how bad this design is in theory) - they actuall…