phil9909

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by phil9909 6mo ago
I'm just not buying their explanation, that's just an excuse. Why? Well my wifes grandmother (80ish woman living alone) showed us something on her phone a few months ago: Big red flashing text that her phone was somehow infected a
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by phil9909 11mo ago
Assuming the Anti-Cheat won't be GPL licensed (which would probably make it useless), the Linux kernel does indeed refuse to cooperate: https://lwn.net/Articles/939842/ Sure, there are technical solution arou
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by phil9909 1y ago
Power Shell is not a terminal, it is a shell (hence the name). Yes, you are using Power Shell in a terminal window, but that is a different program. And it is called a terminal emulator because what we now call a terminal or terminal window
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by phil9909 2y ago
The important catch here is "paying attention". I guess the way Tesla is marketing their "Full Self Driving" technology leads to people paying less attention. If you market your technology as "Emergency Breaking Sys
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by phil9909 2y ago
This could be placebo, but it could also be "self-healing" effects or just natural variation over time (which would cause a similar amount of patients with worse results) or a combination of this or something completely else. Mayb
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by phil9909 2y ago
Ignoring the ridiculous trajectory the world (well mostly the USA) has taken here and just assume it is a necessity to always be able to GPS locate your kids: Kids are smarter than some of the involved parties here seem to think. And they a
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by phil9909 2y ago
Sounds like some OS dependency / shared library problem. Maybe caused by MUSL libc vs Glibc or different versions of e.g. libpcre2. At least if it is not something as simple as an uncomitted file. Disclaimer: I have never used CloudFla
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by phil9909 2y ago
That's how they talk in the USA. Everything is bigger there and if it isn't you better make it sound like it is.
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by phil9909 3y ago
I guess that dependends on your definition of a power user. Some might see someone spending multiple hours a day with a given software sufficient to be called a "power user". If I had to make up a definition right now, I'd go
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by phil9909 3y ago
What do you mean by "still"? It's a quite recent development. They didn't have a king for decades.
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by phil9909 3y ago
If you want to be extra cursed, you can also place a bunch of 1x1 `<rect>`s next to each other and color them individually. For extra points, you can combine consecutive pixel of the same color into a say 2x1 or 1x5 rects. Or make use
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by phil9909 3y ago
In both these cases the search engine provider could easily store your identity together with your token while issuing it and recover the identity once the token is used without any way to prove this from the outside. They could even issue
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by phil9909 3y ago
One example: `apt install firefox` installs the snap variant (which the user probably just uninstalled to replace it with the apt variant, as it is installed by default.)
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by phil9909 4y ago
There is a big difference between taking a risk to make a profit and taking a risk to provide something for free.