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spixy··on Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
it is nice when you are at work, nobody is at home, so you trigger it
spixy··on Gail.com FAQ
> My husband registered it as a birthday gift back in 1996.

This is the strangest gift I ever saw.

spixy··on I Lost All Faith in LastPass
> there's no authenticator app

> I just use Authy

isn't Authy an authenticator app?

spixy··on The IE 11 user-agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its user-agent string
agree (as Edge user)
spixy··on AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
Do you have link to the API? I found only http://gltr.io
spixy··on More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey
Operating system in which you use your IDE / work tools. Don't complicate it.
spixy··on 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
2015, for a year or so on insider builds, upgrated i5 to ryzen, migrated primary partition from SATA SSD to M.2 SSD

no registry cleaning, only cleaning temp files with built-in app in Settings

spixy··on New Chrome features to save battery and make browsing smoother
> Apple sells ads

> Microsoft sells ads

> Mozilla sells ads

what?

spixy··on What is a black start of the power grid?
It is similar how planes starts. First small turbine engine (APU) starts. When APU fails to start, they use specialized airport cars with compressed air. Then the turbine helps to start first main engine. Then the main engine helps to start second main engine. Repeat until all main engines are started. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzhdxSsoT0g)
spixy··on Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory
arent you mixing Airbus A380 with Airbus Beluga?
spixy··on Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released
wait this is not WSL1? what is it then?
spixy··on Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make cities greener and less car-centric
what about visitors?
spixy··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
> Chocolatey already supports Brave in its packages for Windows.

also winget (it is preinstalled on W10/W11 now)

spixy··on How Wine works 101
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624
spixy··on Linux Kernel 6.0
Well you could count to 31 with one hand (5 fingers = 5 bits) and to 1023 with two hands (10 fingers = 10 bits) but not as conveniently :)
spixy··on iPhones and action discoverability
yeah all main browsers on Android (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) support that since forever (almost)
spixy··on Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
Slovakia: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20017344/three-strikes-system-to-...
spixy··on Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box
because its expensive (installation) and depending on country solar panels grands can be difficult to get and are practically non existent
spixy··on Europe's Newest Nuclear Reactor Eases Finland's Power Problems
greetings from Slovakia which just finished one reactor (launches in december) and will finish another one in 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochovce_Nuclear_Power_Plant#U...

spixy··on Most books don't sell only a dozen copies
classic 20-80 rule
spixy··on On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services
What do you mean? What is NSA already doing?
spixy··on Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
Ok? I am using same Win10 installation since ~2016. It survived migration to another SSD, upgrade from Intel to Amd CPU, motherboard and RAMs, migration from MBR to GPT...

Only time when it crashed was when I OCed CPU too much and when using insider builds.

spixy··on Unity is laying off hundreds of employees
Fun story: once I decompiled some mobile game written in Python I think and they shown Unity logo on loading screen
spixy··on I've locked myself out of my digital life
> sending their old phone back

What does it mean? Where back?

Why do you need to log into a password manager on other device (desktop)?

spixy··on I've locked myself out of my digital life
Try Microsoft Authenticator, it can backup to cloud.
spixy··on The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)
housing shortage is a political will shortage (at least in USA with zoning laws)
spixy··on List of school shootings in the United States
buying gun legally is apparently too easy
spixy··on HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023
Well Firefox has also exceptions.
spixy··on Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession
Thanks for you submission. I think it is not up to HN standards to draw conclusions from n=1 as OP did.
spixy··on Dark pattern: how YouTube makes sure you don’t always “skip ad”
and yet they are not doing it
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