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sovok_x

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    It's what betas are released for - to check whether something breaks or not. What's the point of reposting this to a news site?

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    Comment #44580716

    This doesn't work though. I was banned there without as much as a single-line explanation after 10+ years of being a normal rule-abiding user which didn't change even up to that po…

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    Comment #42302131

    "Incompatible hardware" is their corporate speak for any hardware that weakens vendor lock-in and propagation of MSFT-centered consumerism.

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    Comment #42182186

    The comments section there says everything about how many people process such questions: - historical ignorance; - economical ignorance; - repeating mass media propaganda narrative…

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    Comment #41998487

    AFAIK there are two ways for this, neither of which is convenient to use: install all extensions from the source (you can unpack an existing crx for it or use their clonned repo if…

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    Comment #41807698

    That reminded me of how Windows abuses my HDD by regularly writing dozens of logs I won't ever need unless I'm both knowledgeable enough and debug for specific errors. And also abo…

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    Comment #41325398

    More like false advertising and platform abuse, but given that this doesn't incur any loss unless you were actually hired and then dismissed, it's also not really actionable. The b…

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    Comment #41313296

    The thing is it was pretty obvious from the update description that something like this will happen. But the update in question is cumulative so even among advanced users that know…

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    Comment #41233164

    If you have uBlock Origin installed it should already protect you from this attack vector with "Block outsider intrusion into LAN" filter list, though. And you also don't need this…

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    Comment #40996284

    Ignoring moral and sanitary considerations of accessing a dead body, it just won't work. Most modern phones use capacitive sensing during the process. Once tissue is dead, it loses…

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    Comment #40801083

    You just use bad tools for that. When using custom AutoPagerize UserJS mod that utilizes pushState, endless scrolling works like a charm for me for years already. Like I can scroll…

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    Comment #40057349

    Heads up map digitizing seem to refer to the method where computer operator digitized an aerial image map by manually tagging its features displayed on the screen, in contrast to h…

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    Comment #40056135

    This site is currently a counterproductive trash that will simply waste your time on using it. There is some promise in LLM comparison but the limits of this make it utterly useles…

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    Comment #39542371

    Also: - Allows switching non-utf8 zip filename encodings from the menu, it's a mess with 7zip; - Its context menu works inside Sandboxie without bugs; - GUI is really much better, …

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    Comment #39334766

    I will switch to it in a flash if it'll allow creating embedded recovery/par2 records for 7z and zip archives without breaking format compatibility somehow. Otherwise it's just an …

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    Comment #39253125

    Technically sites can prevent that by disallowing anything that looks like long baseXY-encoded blobs in their postable sections like pastebin does already.

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