georgiecasey

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by georgiecasey 3y ago
this is the answer, Stremio is the easy-to-use solution that I setup for my parents and forgot about. the comments above with their complicated usenet setups reminds me of the famous hackers news comment when dropbox was released.
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by georgiecasey 3y ago
should you not have disclosed that you're a Hex employee in the blogpost?
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
poor dang
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
everyone giving their opinion in this thread should disclose whether they've tried cocaine. proper fishscale cocaine, not stepped on washing up powder. the problem is it's too damn good. way too addictive and harmful
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
all things aside, it'd be a great ego-boost if someone thought me good enough to impersonate on Upwork
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
surely they're talking about the opening only, where the best moves have been analyzed to death. once you're in the middle game and it's a position that's new, you play the best moves.
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if someone responsible for verifying accounts in Indonesia took a bribe.
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
so Apple and Samsung get most of the profits, and Google has to pay a huge fine for doing the open source thing and letting 3rd parties build handsets. If Google just built their own handset, kept Android closed-source and charged €800 a ph
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
That's a serious lichess rapid rating. Are you a titled player?
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
> What is broken is installing a custom CA into the system store on a rooted phone and making it work with all apps (apks) and Chrome. yep, that's what I do. still seems to work here though. I'm scared to reboot
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
so this breaks charles proxy HTTPS sniffing as well? I haven't encountered the problem yet even though my Android Chrome is version 101
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by georgiecasey 4y ago
Surprised nobody's mentioned the Telegram Android app yet. Their ChatActivity.java is 27, 720 lines! https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DrKLO/Telegram/master/TMes... Thing is, there's a great knowled
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
I always wonder why Google don't start charging for Gmail accounts for non-OECD countries or other countries where the ad rate means they make a loss.
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
> You'll rarely win in the court of public opinion and you'll probably never get hired anywhere again I thoroughly disagree with both these points.
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
I'm kind of shocked, I know Gates was a ruthless businessman but I always had him pegged as squeaky clean in his private life.
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
Was this because license revenue dropped? They want to do the same in Ireland
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
It taught me to never get involved in the drugs business in Mexico or Brazil or never drive in Russia.
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
I notice Ogrish.com redirects to this new vanilla site as well. What a relic from the turn of the century Internet.
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
the youngest is 18 now. maybe the marriage is gone for years and they were waiting for the kids to come of age? pure speculation
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
> since it is the de-facto SMS standard in my country. Same in my country, I don't think Americans (or the American tech culture) realise how ubiquitous WhatsApp is in Europe and around the world.
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
I like it as well, whenever there's some breaking story of some scandal and I want to see 'pics', DailyMail always seem to have the pics first. Like a kid, I look at the images more than I read the articles.
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
I think they compromised Teamcity, or at least I've heard a lot of mentions of Teamcity related to this hack, I could be completely wrong. But it's possible they just got admin access to the Teamcity build server and added their c
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
New Google accounts start off with little trust. New apps start off with little trust. Established apps should have good trust along with Playstore verified developers. Android is destroying a lot of great file manager apps with the new sco
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
We don't need a security standard for apps from bluechip companies, we need better vetting of apps uploaded by nobodies to the app stores. And the Chrome plugin store while we're at it. I always thought Google should have a score
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
Looks great but these services have a tendency to come and go. Bad actors just end up hammering it. But I've been using icanhazip.com for years and it's still going strong.
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
I wonder are they doing this because of a resources issue; do including all the unique words put too much of a hit on their servers and it's way cheaper to give generic results?
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
so do i, and you look at related searches and adding wiki is the top one. surely this is a signal to Google?
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by georgiecasey 5y ago
I wouldn't object to all product review searches to be Google ads now because it's all spammed anyway
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by georgiecasey 6y ago
Wasn't there a thread on this just yesterday?
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by georgiecasey 6y ago
James Damore must have read that book as well, he lied on his CV saying he was a FIDE master. I'm always fascinated at the esteem chess is held in for some reason. I don't have a high rating (lichess rapid ~1900) but to me, improv

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