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Statement following the discovery of a metallic fragment of a space object(twitter.com)
1 points by sdiq 2y ago|0 comments
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by sdiq 3y ago
What happens to Spring and suite of family?
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by sdiq 3y ago
I think many people from the Global South would agree with you and not just Africans. That was also exactly my thought when i read the headline, even though he did nothing against my native Kenya. Also, the phrase "Third World" is
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by sdiq 3y ago
>Many Ethiopians speak a Semitic language (Amharic) for reasons unknown to us. Amharic isn't the only Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. We have other Semitic languages spoken both in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is just the Red Sea t
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by sdiq 3y ago
Similarly, I can no longer browse HN on a Firefox browser on Android. I am not really sure what exact settings changed. This started a few weeks ago.
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by sdiq 3y ago
Now, i am also tempted to search this but will pass.
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by sdiq 3y ago
No it isn't.
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Ask HN: What happened to HN on mobile Firefox
1 points by sdiq 3y ago|2 comments
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by sdiq 4y ago
For one to use WhatsApp to make calls, for example, one would need to provide it with permission to view the call logs without making WhatsApp the default app for calling.
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by sdiq 4y ago
The Guardian changes to the Gaurdian then to the Grauniad and then, finally, the Guarrdian. Innocent typos or there is some joke i missed. Edit: as per other comments this seem to have been a joke.
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by sdiq 4y ago
owasp-change.github.io
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by sdiq 4y ago
Winget is a new thing in Windows one could use though sometimes it has issues.
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by sdiq 4y ago
A different pet peeve of mine on iOS is the USSD menu which is center-aligned, and i find that very ugly. Maybe the usage of this menu isn't universal but for someone from a developing country, we use that like a million times a day. M
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by sdiq 4y ago
Checked MySQL and i see almost everyone pronounces it as My Sequel. Well, with the exception of Marten Mickos, who was the CEO of MySQL before same was acquired by Sun Microsystems. I guess, this would be another tomato, tomahto.
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by sdiq 4y ago
Might probably be corrected but his first name was Mehran rather Merhan.
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by sdiq 4y ago
Reminds me another short story i once read, Lexicographicide, by Taban Lo Liyong. The dictator, every year, eliminates certain letters from the alphabet, or was it words from the dictionary - it's decades since i read it. Thereafter no
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by sdiq 4y ago
Samsung has now decided that for me to use the camera on my Android phone, i must give full permission to something called Nearby Devices. Thankfully, i can live without the camera but for the first time, i mulling over moving to Apple.
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by sdiq 4y ago
7. Rinse repeat.
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by sdiq 4y ago
A few times, I almost emptied some scraps on my plate together with a spoon or a fork directly into a rubbish bin. Since observing that, I have always wondered how many other spoons I have inadvertently thrown over the years.
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by sdiq 5y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/mmnjug/status/1472480938248617986
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Does a perfect odd number exist? JKUAT student says he has solved global riddle(nation.africa)
2 points by sdiq 5y ago|1 comments
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by sdiq 5y ago
Sometimes this doesn't work like what happens on the desktop with Google, for example. English is my default language, and in country where English is also the official language but Google in its wisdom, decided that the default for go
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by sdiq 5y ago
I saw Kenyan police use it on a bus I was in. At the time, I didn't think much about it for being asked to alight the bus and be searched was already an inconvenience for. Not shocked that the Kenyan government was duped. I am certain
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by sdiq 5y ago
Firefox has been my primary browser for years now. I mostly use Chrome for Gmail and other Google services. Typing this from a Firefox browser on Android. I also mostly use a small screen laptop that has a huge collection of bookmarks (I am
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by sdiq 5y ago
Romeo and Juliet, for those that may not get it.
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How Turkey became a star of European tech(ft.com)
2 points by sdiq 5y ago|0 comments
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by sdiq 5y ago
Yes for me it is. I exclusively use a non chromium based browser with some extensions installed and always logged off Google.
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My verified fan page on Facebook got hacked. I have no recourse to get it back(twitter.com)
3 points by sdiq 5y ago|0 comments
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by sdiq 5y ago
Turkey seem to be slowly replacing China in some parts of Africa - well, at least in Kenya and Somalia - as the source of most non-electronics merchandise sold from clothing to furniture. This is just from my observation with no proper samp
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by sdiq 5y ago
5km per hour is easily doable, I believe. A group of us in high school once did that and covered about 105kms in 3 days. We walked just about 7 hours every day for those 3 days.

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