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PawgerZ

204 karma · joined June 22, 2023

Hardware repair, OSINT, terrible programmer :)
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PawgerZ··on German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
Hope it goes well!
PawgerZ··on A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
> but this is a forum for start-ups who often have to send out legitimate business emails

If those "legitimate business emails" can be put as Gmail ads, then they're not legit business emails, they're spam.

PawgerZ··on German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
Oh, very cool. Thanks for sharing -- glad to know I have this option if I want to go back. Now that I have Thunderbird set up, I'll probably never use the UWP Mail and Calendar app or this Wino Mail app.
PawgerZ··on WindCon2024: A Joke Too Far for Many
That's why most coporations are very serious and "professional" -- Windscribe doesn't want to be a faceless beaurocracy. If that's what you're looking for, go with Nord or something. Not every company is for you.
PawgerZ··on WindCon2024: A Joke Too Far for Many
It's an april fools joke. It's not supposed to be about being a VPN. It's meant to entertain.
PawgerZ··on WindCon2024: A Joke Too Far for Many
Not only are they talking about the free VPN space -- as the other comment mentioned -- but they also make a lot of jokes about ProtonVPN. I'm not the most informed about their community's inside jokes, but I think this is one of them.
PawgerZ··on WindCon2024: A Joke Too Far for Many
They don't do much advertising and don't "take themselves seriously" which usually leads to a smaller, tighter community.
PawgerZ··on German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
I used the default Mail Microsoft Store app for the past 2 years at work. The past 6 months, it's been telling me to move to Outlook desktop app. A couple weeks ago, it wouldn't allow me to use the Microsoft Store app anymore, so I installed the desktop version, tried to login, and got an error message that my account would only work on the webapp.

Set up Thunderbird on my work desktop that day, and haven't looked back. Wish I would have way sooner, to be honest.

PawgerZ··on A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
If your email can be displayed in a gmail ad, then it is spam/marketing.
PawgerZ··on Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
This would be super cool as a browser extention. Turn news articles or hacker news into a language learning tool.
PawgerZ··on Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu
Reward them with our patronage? Do you know what the Streisand Effect is?
PawgerZ··on Stardew Valley 1.6 Changelog
This update allows for up to 8 people on the PC version!!
PawgerZ··on Waffle House's Magic Marker System
In any large city, yes there will be a palce to get kebabs. Most college cities, too. A lot of times it's just a tiny restaraunt with 4 tables in the back of a grocery store, but that's when you know it's gonna be good.
PawgerZ··on Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment
You have. They're just cussing you out in their cars, where you can't hear them.
PawgerZ··on Why jalapeño peppers are less spicy (2023)
If bitter = poisonous, then the plants that evolve to be more bitter will be eaten less. Thus, non-poisonous foods that evolve to be more bitter have a genetic advantage over their less bitter counterparts.
PawgerZ··on If architects had to work like programmers (1995)
I don't think you read their comment.
PawgerZ··on Piezoelectrics enable displays to provide both audio and touch feedback
It always surprises me how seemingly indestructible and simultaneously fragile phones are.

I've broken two phones in my life; both of them had on robust cases. The first time, I knocked my phone off of my desk at work. It fell three feet to the carpet and shattered the screen. The second time, I missed my pocket and dropped the phone 2-3 feet. Completely shattered the back glass and sent a hairline crack through the screen.

I've dropped my phones so many other times, in much worse ways (sometimes with no case), yet in these two instances they break. I'm almost at the point of not using cases, but I know my anecdotal experiences don't reflect reality.

PawgerZ··on Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)
This might be the coolest site I've discovered on Hacker News in a while. Thanks for sharing!
PawgerZ··on DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
Which private sector businesses would you say have top notch security?
PawgerZ··on Infinite Craft
Yes, that's the confusion I was talking about. Sorry, I meant to say the image generator was confused. The confusion how I came to the assumption that it was an LLM hooked to an image generator.

Interestingly, I did break it on flower + eclipse.

PawgerZ··on Infinite Craft
Very cool. I combined 'double rainbow' and 'ocean'; thought I broke it as it loaded for like 20 seconds; then got Atlantis. Eventually I got to 'mermaid', combined it with 'fire', and got 'siren'. But the emoji was a police siren, not the mythical creature. I can see how the LLM would be confused, though.
PawgerZ··on How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)
You couldn't tell that this article was about the US? "FBI" and "JFK assassination" didn't tip you off? Did you read the article?
PawgerZ··on The Link Between Birth Control Pills and Sex Drive
But, by giving the choice of when, many will choose never.
PawgerZ··on The Hacker News Top books of 2023
A couple political subs, all of the conspiracy subs, most of the religion subs, some of the drug subs, some of the economics subs.

Most attention paid to:

r/askhistorians

r/cyberpunk

r/philosophy

r/religion

r/technology

PawgerZ··on Culture Change at Google
New words are bad in general? How so?
PawgerZ··on Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
Most right-to-repair legislation is singling gaming consoles out as excluded while general purpose computing devices are not. Legally, gaming consoles are not general purpose computing devices at the moment.
PawgerZ··on Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
It is in right-to-repair legislations going on right now. "general purpose computing devices" and "gaming consoles" are two legally distinct classes of electronics.
PawgerZ··on Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years
Samsung Notes is the only thing that I miss after switching to Pixel. It was everything I needed in a notes app with seemingly no bloat.
PawgerZ··on The Hacker News Top books of 2023
I may have browsed this for 2 hours during a meeting this morning. I also may have added 20 new books to my wishlist
PawgerZ··on Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
I agree with everything you said, yet I still believe HN comments are regularly the most high quality on the internet. Do you know anywhere that has better comments than HN?
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