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Apple's Journal App for the iPhone Truly Surprised Me After a Month
No export! This should raise all the red flags.
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Apple's Journal App for the iPhone Truly Surprised Me After a Month
No export! This should raise all the red flags.
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My brain hurts
Wenn wir weiter so viel Solarenergie verbrauchen wird die Sonne in nur 5 Mrd. Jahren ausbrennen!!
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Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return
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March 2023 they sold 20M Quests. Half as many as PS5. That counts as "taken off" in my book.
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Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation
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I would guess they implement the check against the response, not the query.
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Sideloading won't be enabled where I live
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Google does indeed use Google Play Services to gate-keep the Ecosystem while keeping Android technically FOSS. Still better than Apple in this case, but hey... would you rather be hanged or beheaded?
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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech
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One week in NL and I'm wondering what we're even doing over here.
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Na da kommt doch aber ordentlich bias rein, wenn du die Umfrage in einer auf einer obskuren, föderierten Platform von Technikfanatikern postest.
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What do you think about Apple and its ecosystem? (And a little conversation I had with a colleague)
So Apple is obviously an evil, profit seeking company that exploits users and developers, maintains a monopoly and actively hurts efforts towards openness.
But bro, what else am I gonna use? Do you think Google is any better.
And, as you already noticed, most open source alternatives suuuck. (Man, I'm gonna regret saying this on an FOSS community) With some research you'll get a usable desktop OS for some use-cases, but phones such as Fairphone and Purism are another story entirely. Don't even think about watches or tablets. I love the Purism Firefox demo, where they enthusiastically say: "With Settings unusable in Portrait, it's time to switch to landscape mode".
The "you think ... yet you buy ..." argument is pointless, because it ignores the realities of monopolies and globalism. I'm sure his T-Shirt that day wasn't made from ethically sourced cotton or whatever.
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The reason for Android's Notification system being better than iOS, is solely due to the ability to turn off individual aspects of an application's notifications.
Also they're just visually bad. The bubbles have way too much spacing. The low-contrast blurry bubbles make everything feel cluttered. When expanding a group, you'll see the same app icon repeated 20 times, while the headlines are clipped. The typography doesn't feel right: headlines are too large, text styles on individual notifications are too similar and the line heights are too small. The scheduled summary was a nice idea, but again it's blurred background on blurred backgrounds. And if all of that wasn't cluttered enough, let's make everything overlap at bottom.
Apple is usually really good at this, I don't know what this particular design team was smoking.
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Apple's Journal App for the iPhone Truly Surprised Me After a Month
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Can't believe this has to be explained, but a Journal is almost by definition something that you want to keep forever. Do you want to lock yourself into Apple devices forever? Have you ever heard of Nokia?
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Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final
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Very amusing. I still know barely anything about him, but I'm thoroughly convinced.
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Flagship gaming website loses its video team as star of ‘Zero Punctuation’ resigns
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3 Minute Reviews were good, but reviews are relatively easy to shovel out. Their essays were so bad, I started to actively avoid them.
The Anatomy of Sekiro comes to mind in particular. Competently structured but devoid of any meaningful observations.
It feels like these guys where working to meet a quota.
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Schade, daß Beton nicht brennt.
Ich liebe es wenn Dokus wortlos Kontext geben.
[Der Protest] ist ein Karneval. [...] wer sich vermummt kann nichts gutes planen.
~ ein Passant, kurz bevor die Doku zu einer Nahaufnahme von einem vermummten Polizisten schneidet.
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Reminds me of grace lees excellent essay on how dystopian absurdity like this happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7O5bBHLnCo
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Habt ihr Empfehlungen für wirklich gute Handyspiele?
Es gibt eine kleine Datenbank mit genau solchen Spielen: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
Mein persönlicher Favorit: Data Wing (kostenlos)
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Digitaler Nachlass, Passwortweitergabe nach dem Tod
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Ich weiß nicht wie Bitwarden es macht, aber man kann trivial Schlüssel so verteilen, dass zwei Parteien nötig sind um den Tresor zu öffnen.
Naiver Ansatz frei aus dem Kopf: Verschlüssle deine Daten synchron mit Key A. Dann verschlüssle Key A mit Key B. Gib Key B an Bitwarden und den verschlüsselten Key A an deinen Notfallkontakt. Bitwarden kann dann Key B rausrücken sobald dein Notfalkontakt sich ausweißt.
Bitwarden macht das mit Sicherheit cleverer, aber das Beispiel sollte ausreichen.
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The color blurple
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My guess is that this tactical tornado here didn't know the difference between a span and a div
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More Samsung phones get a taste of Android 14 with the One UI 6 beta - Android Central
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This referenced Video is probably a better source. Changes start at 2:40
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Windows Lizenz kaufen
Die Enterprise Version, die die ganzen nutzerfeindlichen Funktionen abschaltet, ist sowieso nicht mehr frei im Handel verfügbar. Recherchiere mal nach Windows Enterprise Activation Scripts.
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Digitaler Nachlass, Passwortweitergabe nach dem Tod
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Kannst du aber meines Wissens nicht.
Bei BW weiß ich es nicht, aber zumindest bei Apple braucht man das Todeszertifikat und einen ausgedruckten Schlüssel.
Edit: Jetzt wo ich drüber nachdenke: Die Vertrauensperson muss ein Bitwarden Konto haben. Also denke ich, die verschlüsseln einfach asynchron die Zugangsdaten mit dem Public-Key der Vertrauensperson und laden das Ergebnis bei sich hoch.