kivlad

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by kivlad 1y ago
They rebranded the app designed exclusively for that (Meta View) and added the chat features.
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by kivlad 2y ago
The new Outlook desktop client is awful, but there's one silver lining and it's the retirement of the even more awful Word HTML renderer.
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by kivlad 3y ago
It gets worse though, the app actually split into "Google Pay" and the new "GPay", where the latter was originally an India-only app they reworked for the rest of the world. In old Google Pay you'd see messages that
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by kivlad 3y ago
A few things I noticed, as I'm seeing the variety of SKUs becoming more complex. - Note that memory bandwidth is down. M2 Pro had 200GB/s, M3 Pro only has 150GB/s. M3 Max only has 400GB/s on the higher binned part. - Jus
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by kivlad 3y ago
I remember when Instagram started asking for your date of birth in order to use it, which prompted me to take a nice break from it. The next time I checked in, they made it so that you could have a "shadow birthday" tied to your a
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by kivlad 3y ago
The hot button issues with people having to use Reddit's official app also include the trackers it uses. I'd certainly suggest getting rid of Google Analytics here and replacing it with something more privacy concious.
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by kivlad 3y ago
I found that it's only useful to browse sites that don't have dark mode (built-in conversion without any extensions) since they actually put some effort into making it work.
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by kivlad 3y ago
For anyone using Samsung Internet, be aware that if you try to go over 99 tabs, it will close your oldest tab.
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by kivlad 3y ago
I'm saddened by the sudden and intermittent disappearance of ReviewMeta, which prided itself as not inserting affiliate links into their site/extension. Reading this news leads me to believe that this is a perfect fit in accordanc
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by kivlad 3y ago
Instability aside, Windows 98 marked the point where Internet Explorer leeched itself into the operating system to the point of no return (only to be finally reversed in the past year). The complaints of social media apps being "preins
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by kivlad 4y ago
I know that a few pieces of software distributed on floppy showed a warning if it detected it was previously installed (which wrote to some file on the disk, given it wasn't write protected). Which basically amounted to a sternly-writt
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by kivlad 4y ago
Here's a Gen 2x2 SSD [1] but I can't seem to find a reliable listing for a cable, the general consensus is just to use what comes in the box. At this point I'd only buy cables that come with the right logo stamped directly on
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by kivlad 4y ago
The person in the video mentions it's not connected to Xbox Live. Here's an example I found that has 2 ads in the "Xbox Live" tab as well: https://i.imgur.com/B983dJf.jpg
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by kivlad 4y ago
Have to point a couple things out I found. The USB versioning table needs some corrections: - USB 3.1 Gen 2 is the same as USB 3.2 Gen 2 and is only found at 10Gbps. - The 40Gbps entry is wrong, the real spec name is USB4 Gen 3x2. But it wa
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by kivlad 4y ago
This remains a hotly contested topic. Not the overall interface, because that seems to be well-liked. Rather, "Was the blades UI fast?" Some say yes. Others complain about the guide taking longer than 10 seconds to appear while in
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by kivlad 4y ago
My favorite part of Maxthon was the rendering engine switching, where you got to change between Gecko and Trident, and it looks like even Webkit was supported at one point. This was back when you basically needed to use Netscape/Mozill
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by kivlad 4y ago
I've tried this before, and you're right about it not being easy to follow, at least compared to previous incarnations. The above documentation is for a much older version, and the latest I found is here: https://mozill
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by kivlad 4y ago
Google used to let you block domains a long time ago. I'm not sure why that was removed, but I have a feeling it had something to do with giving the expectation that you can block ads from a specific domain.
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by kivlad 5y ago
While on one hand I definitely stand corrected and not really floored that they decided to go against this, I don't know how marketing wouldn't have the foresight to see that a never-changing number would keep themselves evergreen
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by kivlad 5y ago
That wasn't an official statement from Microsoft.
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by kivlad 5y ago
I've done something similar once to find Dell iDRAC [0] and Exchange Outlook Web App [1] instances open to the internet. Just goes to show how forgetting a simple robots.txt (if it's even an option) can expose something you don&#x
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by kivlad 5y ago
I'd go a step further and recommend https://grapheneos.org/ with a Pixel phone.
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by kivlad 5y ago
Bots are officially sanctioned as such and have an application ID in the developer console as well as a label in the client. Alternatively, nothing's stopping someone from taking a user account's authentication token and making
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by kivlad 5y ago
https://www.compuserve.com is the same thing. Oath/Verizon is keeping these sites on some kind of life support to this day.
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by kivlad 5y ago
Surprisingly enough this gives it more credibility in my book. I refused to use it for a while until a revenue stream was introduced (Nitro) and still gave me an unsettling feeling with all the data harvesting - I still won't download
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by kivlad 6y ago
This gives me a nostalgic reminder of when I used to watch Nickelodeon GUTS. Whenever a countdown timed challenge was about to end, I would hear the audience count down starting with "10" at maybe 10.7 seconds, "9" at 9.
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by kivlad 6y ago
I see people calling for an all-in-one service for movies & TV shows, but that isn't likely to happen since the licensing and pay distribution for those work on a much different scale than music. A big reason is that in most cases
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by kivlad 6y ago
The X1 Carbon/Extreme series used to be the only products labeled Gen x instead of a 2/3 digit code, e.g. T490. Starting this year they rebranded all ThinkPad products to use generation numbers (presumably because rolling from s
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by kivlad 6y ago
Release announcement: https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-v15-0-0-is-here-deb00750f...
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by kivlad 6y ago
I would consider making the HTML tags uppercase, at least that's how I learned how to do them back in the day. Also it's funny that SEO for a while almost felt like creating a successful webring because it's all based on how

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