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Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble
So how much do I have to pay to boost the Fakespot rating of my product listing?
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Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble
So how much do I have to pay to boost the Fakespot rating of my product listing?
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New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease
The research is interesting, but I don't appreciate the bullshit clickbait headline.
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I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade
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Wasn't OP complaining about the Windows desktop client? What has that to do with the server setup, Docker, etc? People can have the exact same issues on the client side even if the Nextcloud instance is professionally managed by a large organization.
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Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use
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What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?
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I concur. I've been in restaurant kitchens and most of them were more sanitary than the average home kitchen. They almost always have better ventilation, and they are cleaned regularly.
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How to handle being international contractor?
Usually not. I was in the same situation and had to register a company in the EU. That way I pay my own taxes, insurance and pension contributions. If you do that, make sure to calculate the extra cost for insurance/taxes and raise your rates accordingly.
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Lemmings, why did you decide to never confess to someone that you liked so much?
Because there are so many easier, safer, less awkward ways to check if someone likes me back or not. And if it turns out they do, I don't need to confess anything, I just set up dates, or do nice things for them and see where that takes us.
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Chinas Außenhandel bricht um mehr als zwölf Prozent ein
Laut Artikel: USA -24%, Deutschland -15%, Russland +90%. Das ist schon eine krasse Verschiebung.
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Recommended something to a co-worker yesterday
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It's more difficult in Europe. For example, when South Park: Post Covid released on Paramount+ in the US, there was no legal way to steam it in Germany or Austria AFAIR. And these are not exactly third-world countries.
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Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearly limitless batteries
The "could" in the headline is extremely speculative. It says in the article they managed to power a few LED lights using a small slice of electrified cement.
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Anglizismen auf der Arbeit
Ich bin Lehrer in der Oberstufe und die Jugendsprache der 15-19-jährigen hat viele Wörter die aus dem Englischen kommen. Z.B. "lost" sein, oder etwas "cringe" finden.
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Der soll sich doch bitte aus der deutschen Politik raushalten, die ist so schon schlimm genug
Ist das echt? Ich finde den Original-Post nicht mehr
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Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine, LLMs and printer enshittification
I can print at my workplace, and there is a library 5 minutes walking distance from my apartment. These huge commercial printing machines are so much better than anything you can buy for your home, and I don't have to maintain them. I'm very grateful I don't have to own a printer.
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What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?
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I've been a game programmer for >10 years and I would be fucking miserable if I spent most of my free time with video games as well. Isn't that what we call work/life balance? And from my experience, most game devs either stop being "gamers" at a certain point, or they burn out and quit the video game industry.
That being said, almost everyone I know from gamedev is really excited about video games, and they have a ton of experience, even if they are not playing games in their free time anymore. It could be because I've only worked for indie projects and small publishers.
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Is it wrong for 25M to date 19F?
IMO the age gap doesn't matter as long as both parties get what they want out of the relationship. I would give it a chance, but try to find out if your relationship goals match up. I'm currently in a relationship with a bigger age difference than that and so far we are doing pretty good.
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Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools
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Good for you I guess but good luck with commercial software development when your whole toolchain is Windows only. Same for video games, and Proton only works properly if you have a new GPU which supports all the Vulkan features.
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Wer als Kind Captain Planet gesehen hat ist heute - zumindest auf dem Papier - erwachsen!
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Kabinett bringt Cannabis-Teillegalisierung auf den Weg
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Es wäre wahrscheinlich besser, das EU-Recht zu ändern. Das würde dann wirklich einen Unterschied machen. Traurig wäre, wenn die Teil-Legalisierung in D bleibt und sich sonst auf absehbare Zeit nichts ändert.
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I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade
I've used both self-hosted Nextcloud, and an instance set up by my school. I have the client on two different Windows machines, and I can confirm the update either tries to kill explorer.exe, which doesn't work half of the time, or forces a restart, so you're not alone with this issue! I also hate the client UI and how it displays conflicted files when multiple people are accessing the same folder. The whole file sync thing feels like a poor attempt to copy Dropbox. My school discontinued Nextcloud support last year because hosting/maintenance took too many resources, they switched to Microsoft i.e. OneDrive and it works much better.
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20 years of Gmail
From the article:
When you have enough storage that you never have to delete anything, you can keep an infinite record of your life. Packages, receipts, itineraries of past trips, messages from loved ones, photos, appointments, documents — you can just label them, archive them, and search for them later.
I don't want Google to have that information for free, to analyze/monetize/sell to 3rd parties. That's one of the reasons why I quit GMail. It was difficult too because I was registered to literally 100s of websites with that address.