charles_f

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by charles_f 7d ago
> Competitors may have copied most of the form factor Samsung unveiled its first foldable in 2018, what are you talking about?
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by charles_f 7d ago
I never thought I'd defend apple, but that was the arguments people (myself including) were making about iPads. So I wouldn't presume this won't find a public, starting with the apple fans. I find the form factor repulsive th
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by charles_f 10d ago
I think that's because it's adding to the cost of solar, effectively making it an barrier to entry; when other provinces or states have financial incentives to install solar panels instead. This measure sounds a bit disingenuous s
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by charles_f 10d ago
I found a few websites where it looks like qbittorrent instances are communicating to conspire and download illegal copies of copyrighted material.
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by charles_f 11d ago
> Our environment will collapse and the fat cats will still deny It is, and they are. We keep hitting record X Y and Z temperatures, cyclones, etc, and they're on the brig shouting "it ain't global warming you morons"
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by charles_f 11d ago
You're assuming that we keep the same system and that no sacrificing can be made. Technology is seen as the only solution because of the primary assumption that we need to keep growth and late stage capitalism. Degrowth, relocalisation
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by charles_f 17d ago
Not op, but a common tactic is to put honeypots in a page set to be forbidden in Robots.txt. Not respecting Robots.txt is making you a bad crawler. I have marginal blog, but its somewhat indexed and it gets tons of traffics from crawlers
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by charles_f 19d ago
Couldn't agree more, but I think it's majorly a "geek" thing. I'm using i3 on my personal linux and aerospace on my work mac ; vimium in the browser, Neru on the other apps (does something similar to Neru). I recent
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by charles_f 21d ago
To this day I am still calling the website Twitter and access it every single time typing twitter.com. That rename was so dumb. So, I really love the name
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by charles_f 26d ago
I do like my BW kobo, but it's on the slow side, even just when switching pages on the stock app ; and that's annoying. Sometimes because it's stuck it doesn't register the page change, and then it will highlight text in
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by charles_f 1mo ago
You forgot the sign-up "CTA" button bold and wide, with a microscopic "Sign-in" button somewhere in the footer.
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by charles_f 1mo ago
Once again, as everytime I see this, the policy only dictates that you ask for consent to track personal information from people. The problem is not the cookie banner, it's that every fucking website extracts your pants size to sell it
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by charles_f 1mo ago
It's likely a good thing, and I don't like attacks ad ominem. But also there comes a point where the sum total of what you did becomes negative enough that you lose the benefit of the doubt. You're past redeemable, and anythi
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by charles_f 2mo ago
KOReader is one of these projects where idea is fantastic, it's impressive that it works, and the result is sufficiently quirky that I couldn't get used to it. UI is cumbersome. On kobo, it feels like it's draining battery mu
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by charles_f 2mo ago
My TV isn't even connected to power
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by charles_f 2mo ago
> Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem Is it though? Engineering is providing the cheapest solution that corresponds to what your customer asked. As it goes: anyone can build a bridge with infinite budget, only an engineer can d
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by charles_f 2mo ago
Can you not set spending limits in AWS?
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by charles_f 2mo ago
> I have to call MINI at some point and demand they fix this garbage That would never occur to me. Whenever something produced by a large company breaks, I pretty much assume there's no signal possible back to whomever is responsibl
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by charles_f 2mo ago
Also, corporate bullshit such as this should be stigmatized.
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by charles_f 2mo ago
Quite especially when the process seems to have been triggered by the head of state of that host nation
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by charles_f 3mo ago
Fixing the link: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2025-04/ed...
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by charles_f 3mo ago
I'm somewhat knowledgable on privacy topics, pasting my answer to another comment: The EDPB has explicitly ruled on that, when it comes to age verification^1, you should delete: "Trust models are crucial to prevent data breaches i
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by charles_f 3mo ago
The EDPB has explicitly ruled on that, when it comes to age verification^1, you should delete: "Trust models are crucial to prevent data breaches in age assurance contexts [...] once the user's age is verified, no record of the pe
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by charles_f 3mo ago
> Why wouldn't they? They most likely weren't allowed to keep it past the verification per GDPR art.5. Once the passport has been verified for whatever purpose they needed it ("age verified to be > 18yo on 2026-06-12&qu
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by charles_f 3mo ago
> Zero password protection on document storage systems > > No encryption for sensitive identity verification data > > Public URL access with no authentication requirements > > No access logging or monitoring systems in
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by charles_f 3mo ago
Yeah, I almost closed my tab and burnt my browser realizing that.
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by charles_f 3mo ago
> It funny to see the community here expects the human body to be treated like a deterministic function In a community largely made of people whose job it is to produce such functions, I'd say it's to be expected
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by charles_f 3mo ago
"Oh but they didn't read the fine prints so that's on them". What a great argument. To people, "buy" when in the context of a movie largely means owning the freaking thing. > we're past "the button
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by charles_f 3mo ago
> Have you ever bought a ticket to a concert ? This comparison makes no sense. When you buy a ticket to a concert you fully expect to be allowed access to said concert. If it gets cancelled because this or that studio owns some random ri
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by charles_f 3mo ago
Ah, you mean picking pst as the permanent timezone?

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