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utucuro··on Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?
This implies that there are meetings you actually like...
utucuro··on DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Thought
I think I have it, though I never really found a need for it since I have DDG set up as search engine on mobile firefox anyway. There is no point to that app...
utucuro··on DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Thought
Sensational stuff sells... Better to focus on the twitter conversation linked from the article instead.
utucuro··on No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
Here's one better: just disable the watch history. Your subscriptions then have a much bigger influence on recommendations and you have more control.
utucuro··on You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search
Hi, a bit of late feedback: at this point, I would expect to be able to prevent at least the contact information pertaining to my own Google account from being searchable. My phone number is already known and verified to be mine by Google, it should be trivial for me (prominently displayed in account privacy settings) to delist this pre-verified information from search.
utucuro··on Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)
2 decades later, I do not remember what I did with TCL, but I remember that I enjoyed it... This may explain things...
utucuro··on Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)
Having learned Basic (Commodore as well as Qbasic), Pascal (not Delphi) and TCL in my youth, TCL is the only one I used in production. TCL is fairly simple to learn, it only takes a few concepts really, and it is quite a joy, if memory serves right. Of those I mentioned, it is the only one that I would touch again, for any reason, whether for fun or profit.
utucuro··on Netflix hints at password sharing crackdown as subscribers fall
There's some logic behind non-automatic removal: you get reminded about new seasons for things on your list. If you remove something and there's a new season, you will not be notified about it.
utucuro··on Netflix hints at password sharing crackdown as subscribers fall
You should really try Amazon Prime Video on Android TV; you'll learn to appreciate Netflix, a LOT at that... Netflix is definitely guilty of mishandling "continue watching" though, not even showing everything I've watched recently while insisting on keeping things I haven't touched for months easily accessible. The noise thing, I believe, has to do with your settings though, because the only thing I hear, other than what I'm watching, is the app opening sound with the NF logo.
utucuro··on Show HN: It is pants or shorts weather?
It also used a 14th century name that was from the byzantine era for where it (wrongly) guessed me to be, and then the Malaysian name for my city (not Malaysia) once I actually entered the correct name for where I am, so the geolocation is more than a bit wonky I guess...

That, plus it thinks 12C is shorts weather!

utucuro··on Russia demands Google restore access to its media YouTube channels in Ukraine
The Pepsi armada was the result of one of the trades with the Soviet Union. Since the Soviets didn't have internationally valid currency, they paid Pepsi with 20 ships... Pepsi did not operate them, they sold them for scrap. Interestingly, the previous trade had Pepsi selling Stolichnaya vodka in the US...
utucuro··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
Quite a few devices experience this though. For the record, I use an S9, and used to have 50+ tabs with no issues on older versions of Firefox - now I cannot have one tab remain open without a reload if I lock my phone with Firefox focused and turn unlock it a minute later. And that's with Firefox explicitly exempt from each and every kind of battery/memory etc. "optimization" by Android...

Here's the issue itself on GitHub: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731

utucuro··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
I no longer have a need for that, my Firefox ALWAYS refreshes each and every tab whenever I look away from it for 5 seconds, so maybe it's a feature?
utucuro··on Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?
Fastmail handles the whole thing admirably as far as I'm concerned.

Get your custom domain, create a mail user with Fastmail: username@mydomain.com

Set things up nicely (do read the docs), particularly look at catchalls, wildcards and aliases

Give out separate email addresses to each and every service you use: service@username.mydomain.com

Bonus: You can easily send emails back from each address you give out and if you create a label called "service" for the example above, mail coming to that address will be automatically labelled without needing to create a rule.

I used to use spamgourmet and used to get some resistance from sites using misguided email validation considering it a spam service (oh the irony) - now with Fastmail, everything just works.

utucuro··on Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
The correct answer is simple: there is no profit in it and therefore no reason to do it. Any work or addition to the BOM of a phone for this purpose is therefore a waste.
utucuro··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
One objective fiasco is the inability of FF on Android to keep multiple tabs in memory. Older versions were capable of it without issue, ever since the tab unloading feature, Firefox has been reloading tabs at the slightest pretense.

Switch apps? Tabs get reloaded when you're back.

Lock & unlock phone with Firefox in focus? Tabs get reloaded

Switch tabs in Firefox? Tabs get reloaded...

I wish I was just ranting, but all of the above happens with a single active tab loaded...

utucuro··on Interview questions to ask your interviewer
It is bad to be a cultural fit in a company where critical thinking is discouraged.
utucuro··on Show HN: An AI program to check videos for NSFW content
Mind elaborating on Pokemon?
utucuro··on Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?
A 12GB Download? The mind boggles - just what do they include, HD tutorial videos?
utucuro··on Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high paying remote job?
What would be a good source for non-faang fully remote jobs in Europe? I keep looking at various sites, but most companies seem to abuse remote postings by posting partially remote, on-site or only-remote-within-the-same-country jobs on sites for fully remote jobs.
utucuro··on Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube
Curious; when did you get started with your career?
utucuro··on How to grow monosodium glutamate (MSG) crystals
Powdered sugar is produced by grinding, as is table salt... So, add trying to achieve a specific texture, or melting property to things with essential oils and you're fine (Though I cannot help but smirk at the idea of using a sugar grinder for your tea)
utucuro··on In praise of the European drying rack (2017)
For perspective, about one billion people live on $30-60 dollars a month and out of all of humans, only one billion make more than $32 per day.
utucuro··on Meta sued for £2.3bn over claim Facebook users in UK were exploited
All good ones, I would hope. Otherwise what is the point of being an independent country for any of them? Due diligence requires nothing less than a fair attempt at assessing a case for the local laws as there might be differences after all.
utucuro··on People behave more sadistically when they’re bored
Some guy did something similar a few years ago, livestreamed himself sleeping, allowed watchers to wake him up. Can't remember if he monetized it. Also, found out that people actually do livestream themselves sleeping while looking if I could find it to link to it - unrelated & weird.
utucuro··on Ask HN: What's a Good Gift for Programmers?
So what's the upside compared to devdocs.io? Seems restricted to macs for a negative...
utucuro··on Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
Used to use Archive.org's own extension, but I encountered way too many false positives over time to continue using it. I'd recommend One-click Wayback instead - no automatic activation.
utucuro··on Firefox 94 has No Visible Border on unfocused tabs
This is golden; seems to consolidate and in at least one case improve the best parts of at least 3 of my addons from what I've seen and I have not seen half of all settings yet... You have just made my day.
utucuro··on EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Considering that the P in GDPR stands for Protection, not Privacy, the scope of the legislation is significantly broader. If we look at the ISO standard for information security, ISO 27001, apart from the confidentiality and accessibility of data, it considers integrity as one of the three things to consider when classifying data and similarly, the GDPR expect PID to be handled in a manner that assures correctness at the very least.

In the specific case of this bank, like everyone else, they were expected to update systems unable to comply with the legislation within the grace period and yet it seems that they were unwilling or unable to update or replace a system that is incapable of achieving data integrity in a matter as basic as the name of a customer.

utucuro··on Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
This has a lot to do with your present listening habits, unfortunately. 7 years in, I still get new stuff in discover weekly, though there are also a good deal of repeats which are frankly "discoveries" as far as Spotify is concerned, but nothing new from my perspective. Basically, Spotify is also recommending I listen to stuff I used to listen to a lot before I started using it (and could therefore afford to listen to more than just whatever was loaded on my phone at the time)...
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