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Fuzzeh··on Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
I have no idea when they last used nvidia. I'm just answering the question "Which apple product had Nvidia in it"
Fuzzeh··on Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
My Mid 2014, 15" Macbook Pro has both Intel and Nvidia.

Chipset Model: Intel Iris Pro

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

This Macbook pro was a free upgrade from Apple after I'd had 3 mainboard replacements because they'd had faulty GPU's on my 2011 MBP ( see https://web.archive.org/web/20170119031155/https://people.ca... for background) - Basically after I found out what was going on I took my 'repaired' machine home and stress tested it until it failed. After the very quick repeated failures Apple decided to replace my machine completely.

Fuzzeh··on Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”
It's harder because mastodon (it's not even mastodon, it's the fediverse) users wont all be on the same instance and whichever instance you are on might not know of the one they are on. In order for you to appear in a search, someone, somewhere needs to have made 'contact' with you or someone on the same instance.

'contact' because boost / like is included, not just replies.

Fuzzeh··on Rasperry Pi hires former police surveillance officer as Maker in Residence
Upton is just as bad.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspb...

Fuzzeh··on Rasperry Pi hires former police surveillance officer as Maker in Residence
The issue was that Raspberry pi responded badly, and any criticism or concern was met with "Unfollow us or we can block you" responses from them.

#fediblock isn't a requirement for any instance to take part in.

The problem was made worse because the Raspberry pi team wouldn't engage with other instances to try and resolve the issue.

Yes there are going to be issues with the #fediblock, bigger instances will always have more power to silence others.

Fuzzeh··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
And yet I continue to get "Walmart Confirmation Receipt" or "Verizon Confirmation Receipt" all coming from addresses like "verizon_info_nlAT2Q7uf0d@zfgfdyyqsckxbvwg.linenight.com" which means google are't even trying for some.
Fuzzeh··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
..or imagine if google just shuts down your account. Gives you no reason and suddenly stuff on your phone, your email and all those related services stop.

The issue with greylisting happens when you receive a lot of email from Google or Outlook servers. Different one each time, unless you're whitelisting them all - which defeats the purpose.

Fuzzeh··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
SPF and DKIM no longer have any real value. Just look at SA and the values it assigns by default to mail with those headers. Couple that will the fact that spam now has valid SPF and DKIM - just makes them pointless.
Fuzzeh··on Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer
It's not even close to being complete. Best described as "My First Spreadsheet". Excel (even libreoffice) are better by factors of 10.
Fuzzeh··on Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer
"Numbers" is an abysmal product.
Fuzzeh··on Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
I got paid twice 24th and 25th but didn't have to do anything. They just took the money back when they realised. I bank with a different bank to my company.

"Can't get it back" is a fallacy.

Fuzzeh··on Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites
And facebook...
Fuzzeh··on Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use
That's because this thread is specifically about the license.
Fuzzeh··on Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use
You don't have the right to use it, even in a testing environment. The license denys you the right to use it.
Fuzzeh··on Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
Courier companies DPD/FedEx/UPS request one. Sometimes it speeds up the process is a location is difficult to find.

With DPD it's certainly down to the individual driver because they're calling on their own phone ( many just wont because of thst).

Fuzzeh··on Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
If the item isn't full-filled by Amazon (ie my stock isn't in an amazon warehouse) then I need their address details and phone number (for the courier) to ship the item.

Dealing with Amazon, as a seller, can be a terrible experience. Using their full-fillment service more so. They don't check returns so the next customer night get only part of a product, or in lots of cases a bogus product when a buyer fills the box with other cheap junk.

Fuzzeh··on When will we get secure desktop OSes? (2018)
You want https://www.qubes-os.org/
Fuzzeh··on K-9 Mail is back
Wait... where did it go, I've still got it on my phone and it's the only mail client I use.

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Fuzzeh··on Google no longer requires AMP, but the replacement might be worse
Core web vitals is a joke. Literally 4 days ago it started bitching to me about breadcrumbs telling me that data-vocabulary.org schema deprecated

Google ; New Breadcrumbs issue detected for site xxxxx 24 Jun 2021•Breadcrumbs

So I look into it, knowing I'd fixed that ages ago....

Google ; Last crawled : 13 Nov 2019

Triggering stuff because you eventually got round to looking at it 19 months later? and it's all like that full of massive holes that make zero sense.

Google; "This product doesn't show how many reviews it has"... Me; "It has no reviews" Google; "ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! zero is not a valid number!!!!" Me; "Fuck you Google" Google; "This product doesn't show how many reviews it has"...

I'm not even going to get into how shitty pagespeed insights is* - it's not even close to lighthouse. It tells you to increase your caching but doesn't use caching in performance measurements. I presume google has a giant ass that it pulls most of the figures out of on each run. I live in an area of the UK with one of the worst mobile phone signals known to man, pages load in < 2 seconds google consistently claims at least double.

I really don't enjoy spending hours of my days having to check that Google haven't moved the goalposts yet again.

* I lied, I am.

Fuzzeh··on Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source
"The creator expressed these concerns by way of a social request instead of a legal threat because part of living in society is being able to resolve disputes without going to court."

Is simply not true. The creator made a social request because there was no way a legal challenge could succeed, not because they wanted to avoid court.

Fuzzeh··on I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff
LOL No!

IRC is still alive and well thanks.

Fuzzeh··on Google is going to turn on 2FA by default
Why do they need your phone number?

They already have Google Authenticator. (Although authenticator plus is better imo) and they use your email address for that.

Fuzzeh··on How pharmaceutical companies find sick users on Facebook
You only have to look at the ads Signal ran to expose this, to see the sort of information facebook will give advertisers.
Fuzzeh··on Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment
Looking at this in a bit more detail. Any aibag using the In&Motion controller suffers from the same fate. Furygan, RST etc.
Fuzzeh··on Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment
I ride to work.
Fuzzeh··on Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment
There are 2 options for buying the product, yes. It's the same product, so it can be remotely deactivated regardless of which option you selected.
Fuzzeh··on Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment
It's only an adventure vest if you pay the extra $8/mo...

( https://www.klim.com/Ai-1-Airbag-Vest-3046-000 down near the bottom)