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Eh, otherwise the "ultradumb" facebook ranking algorithm totally doesn't know.

Onlyfons? Ok, it's rated appropriate for children, and pad the post with some porn ads that the algorithm totally "accidentally" missed

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40,000 bottles of eye drops across the US recalled over issues with sterility of product

It happened also before

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/fda-details-slew-of-failures-at-plant-that-made-eye-drops-linked-to-deaths/

The facility, it seemed, was primed to produce contaminated products. FDA inspectors noted that Global Pharma didn’t verify that components of the solutions, bought from suppliers, were sterile to begin with. And the areas of the facility where the solution was supposed to be made aseptically—contamination-free—weren’t fit for producing sterile products. That is, the walls, ceilings, and floors were not smooth, hard surfaces that could be readily sterilized as they should be. Instead, there were cracks, protruding nails, and holes in the wall. But, even if the area was cleanable, the company’s protocols for cleaning were also deficient, the report noted.

FDA inspectors noted problems with cleaning and maintenance of machinery, which could have led to cross-contamination from other products manufactured in the facility. On the second inspection day, an inspector also noted a “black, brown colored greasy deposit” on parts of the filling machine, and the facility’s equipment logbook noted that it hadn’t been cleaned in nearly a month. A few days later, a manager told the inspector that there was “no procedure for cleaning” the filling machine.

Main reason: in order to make more money they outsourced production from the united states to the cheapest facility that they could find in India

In this way they saved $0.15 per bottle, who cares if hundreds of people lose vision

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Oh, I forgot that there are people that like to split the hairs here.

Let me fix my sentence.

It was not an actual nuclear weapon test that happened a week ago, it was for the missile designed to carry such nuclear weapon. Totally different intent. Unthreatening and respectful.

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Coin-Operated Elevators in Condominiums and Apartment Buildings Are Becoming More Common

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Well at the fifth floor there's an asshole that's renting the whole floor on Airbnb and I'm contributing to that, with all the up and down traffic of tourists. Would you be happy? Before the Airbnb I spent way less than that

The coin was just a token, 100 lire (0.05€ + 50 years of inflation, let's say 50 cents). It doesn't cover maintenance but it avoids assholes repurposing a residential apartment as hotels. And it had a key to bypass it (example: wheelchairs and such)

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Coin-Operated Elevators in Condominiums and Apartment Buildings Are Becoming More Common

It was like this in the 70s in my building

TBH I would prefer if it was still like this, because now that is free and everyone is using it, I'm paying €200/year for electric and maintenance for an elevator that I take once a month (split bill between all apartments)

Edit: I take it once a month because I live at the second floor and it's faster to take the stairs, not because I'm renting to someone else

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Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

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They don't care about email scraping (which would be illegal)

They simply want people to install the app because it exfiltrates a lot of tasty data to them.

An email might "only" contain ab invisible image to track views and unique links for tracking clicks, while if the user opens the app they way more data.

From the APK I see they can get stuff like

  • All the contacts of the user, all email addresses and phone numbers
  • GPS location
  • Camera and photos
  • Microphone
  • Your phone number, your device IMEI and your unique advertising id, for cross tracking you better around other sites
  • Send push notifications for FOMO promotions like "OMG it's the last one buy now before it gets sold out!!!"

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Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it

Unlike traditional web apps, OneDrive Photos is actually quite well built. It has a Windows 11-like Acrylic design for the context menu and does not take up a huge amount of resources, as RAM usage stays under 1GB

Excuse me, a photo gallery that takes 1gb of RAM, especially in this economy, doesn't seem "quite well built".

This fucking web app wrappers, Picasa had 100x more features while using 50x less resources

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LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

The headline doesn't match the article, but indeed onlyoffice it's not real open source.

In my language onlyoffice has several typos. Went to GitHub to submit a PR and... there are no translations to translate.

I open an issue and they tell me to send the fixes to someone by email. I send them, they are ignored and 5 years later it's still with the annoying typos.

This is a program where they pretend to be open only for marketing but they aren't actually open