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  • Thats pretty reasonable. I'm sure there are a ton of orphan accounts just lingering out there. Including accounts that other people may like to have.

    All of these companies are tightening their belts. Those interest rates going up are sure making companies reassess their business models.

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    New poll shows record number of 40 year olds that have never married

    Personally, I married pretty late. I was 17 years older than my parents when I married.

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    Dev creates 32-bit computer INSIDE Terraria

    This is incredibly impressive. The level of talent here is humbling.

  • Most companies that are going back to the office are STILL HAVING VIRTUAL MEETINGS. The hybrid environments ABSOLUTELY are. So you are getting all of the shitty aspects of going into the office and all of the downsides of not-in-person collaboration. It's the worst of both worlds.

    When you ask an employee to wake up an hour earlier, spend an hour in traffic, to pay for parking, to sit in a 'hotel cube', to get on a virtual meeting that they could have done at home...you are absolutely going to have people leave your company.

    The data on people equating lack of flexibility with a 2-3% paycut seems incredible low to me.

    I think its a much more significant impact than that. I know people who have basically taken a 20% paycut (lost their cost-of-living adjustment) to move to a different state--doing the same job remotely. That's basically a way of saying flexibility/remote work is work 20% to them.

  • You cherry picked one line of my post and didn't address the entire context or intent of it. Im not defending companies or businesses using discord as a drop in replacement for forums or support pages. Imo that's a mis use of the tech.

    I think that's stupid.

    But discord isn't designed for that. It's a chat app (voice and text). I don't want my chats with friends publicly searchable on the internet. That's dumb. Having my emails publically searchable on the internet is dumb too.

    If a company started using Signal or Whatsapp for support, would you be clamoring for all signal and Whatsapp messages to be searchable on the internet?

    That doesn't make any sense. You seem more upset that companies are misusing Discord than mad at Discord.

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    IMF reports inflation driven by corporate profits

  • I game on Pop. I left windows on dual boot just in case, but I have only logged into Windows 2 times in 18 months and that was just to run updates because I realized I hadn't logged in.

    Since the Steamdeck came out, TONS more games work on linux.

    Davinci Resolve works on Pop as well. You are kinda screwed with Lightroom and PS though.

  • My hot take:

    Biden has been the best President we've had in 30 years.

    He's exactly who we needed when we got him. He got us out of Afghanistan. As much as a debacle as it was, he not Trump and not Obama pulled us out. His deft handling of the Ukrainian conflict where he used soft-power and influence to let the EU and NATO members come to decision to enact the super harsh sanctions themselves. Knowing that if the US pressed, they'd resist. It had to be their decision. He's continued to say and do all of the right things. His attempt to forgive student loans his huge. Some of the measures worked even if all of them didn't. He got the most meaningful infrastructure bill passed that I've ever witness. Neither Trump nor Obama could make it happen and Biden did it with a split Congress That infrastructure bill was also the most meaningful environment legislation that we've ever had That bill also paves the way for significant investment in our broad-band across the country Passed the Safer Communities Act ...actual gun related legislation since the Brady bill. Again, with a split congress. Gave us our first public defender SCOTUS justice. This might not seem like a big deal but I think its pretty significant given the amount of case law that exists that, so far, hasn't had a public defenders 'say' in it.

    I could go on but I gotta go eat dinner.

    People want to shit on Biden, but I actually like him. He's not perfect, but he's been insanely effective given everything he walked in to. Including him diligently and quietly rebolstering the executive branches that were gutted and had people leaving in droves in the last admin. Eg the Department of State. He's assigned quality folks into key roles and its making a difference.

    I voted for him without hesitation because well, the alternative was terrifying, but I was not expecting much from him at all. He's surprised me.

    edit: I literally can't figure out how to make this a list. Sorry for the wordblob.

  • 100% but I believe these are typically locked down to one domain, and in this case its not.

    At least thats how I understand it. So I guess the article is a little misleading in that sense, but the net effect is the same. You have carte blanche access to the web, via android system webview, thats acting as a de-facto out-of-band browser. So its misconfigured or not locked down, which means you can use it effectively as a "hidden" browser.

  • I was just about to post this article (Thankfully lemmy warns you that it might be a duplicate!).

    This guy isn't a household name by any stretch but this invention quite literally changed the world. Few people have as far reaching of an impact as he had. Almost 101 years old too. I think he did Good..enough.

    (I'll see myself out)

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    Google has a hidden browser inside the settings

    A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions.

    This is a pretty exciting "extra feature", Google!

  • BeyondPod

    I've been using it for years. I have the paid version of it.

    I'm sure I barely use any of the features. At the end of the day it lets me download my podcasts and prunes them as I listen (as I've configure it).

    I feel like I need to buy it again to give the dev some money.

  • As crappy as googles results seem to have gotten over the last year, anytime I try to set my browser default search to anything else, I end up irritated and going back to Google for 50% of my searches(maybe even more ). Bing is fairly decent, but if the goal is privacy...

    The alternative search engines just always lack the context--ehich presumably google has from me by pilfering my information for the last 2 decades.

  • That's a really solid point. I guess it depends on the phone. The low end Android market probably isn't holding up as well as the high end or iphones.

    My pixels seem to last as long as it takes for me to pay them off before they just black screen and brick themselves. I had 3 pixel threes, since two replaces under warranty and the last one died a few weeks outside.

    Meanwhile my wifes iphone was just fine. She only changed because her dad got the latest and greatest and handed down this last-year model to her. So I could see batteries being an issue over time.

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    Netflix got rid of the $9.99 basic plan in Canada

    It's like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.

    Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it's all too easy to just say "nah, I actually don't want this anymore".

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    All programs should tell you where they store config files

    I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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    1password implementing privacy-preserving telemetry system

    "We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private.

    All event data will be de-identified and processed in aggregate before it’s used for analysis. "

    It sounds like they plan on releasing the technical details in the coming days/weeks. I'm curious how its de-identified and processed.

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    "Stacy's Mom" on bagpipes

    I am not sure if this is the right community for this, but this made me chuckle.