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Macacity··on During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
But it is not. the text of that legislation is very clear.
Macacity··on Mostlymatter is a fork of Mattermost without users limit
But you are probably not integrating this into your own code, so it probably should not matter?
Macacity··on Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle
But it is not doing at all what they need that cloud for.

They want to host SAP and it seems there are just a small set of providers where it is running on.

Macacity··on Gemini in Chrome
The Firefox Addon RecipeCleaner can also do that for you
Macacity··on Someone at YouTube needs glasses
Funnily, when loading the page, it still display 5 of the placeholder boxes per row
Macacity··on One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch
this sounds great! Sadly it's on discord and not publicly accessible
Macacity··on Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
This is the source the data is from: https://insideevs.com/news/707935/world-top-ev-oem-sales-202...

Plug-in car registrations in Q1-Q4 2023 (vs. previous year):

    BYD Group: 3,012,070 and 22% share (vs. 18.4%)
    Tesla: 1,808,652 and 13.2% share (vs. 13.0%)
    Volkswagen Group: 994,403 and 7.3% share (vs. 8.2%)
    Geely-Volvo: 925,111 and 6.8% share (vs. 6.0%)
    SAIC (incl. SAIC-GM-Wuling): 791,521 and 5.8% share (vs. 7.2%)
Top 5 total: 7,531,757 and 55% share Others: 6,157,534 and 45% share Total: 13,689,291
Macacity··on Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand slides
Yes, I am using only the IKEA ones and they are great
Macacity··on Amazon Pharmacy
There are already online pharmacies in Europe, so why not?
Macacity··on Update of the RDF and SPARQL (RDF star) families of specifications
The U.S. Open Data catalog [1] has all the metadata and even some data as Linked Data, same with the European Open Data catalog [2]

[1]: https://data.gov/ [2]: https://data.europa.eu/

Macacity··on Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
They could also show non-personalised ads, if that were their only goal
Macacity··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
Youtube has a Family Plan where you can add other google accounts to your family. So everyone is on their own google account.
Macacity··on Airtable lays off over 250
Google already has one
Macacity··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
He was almost ordered by a court and decided to do it before the judgement
Macacity··on The toll of dating app burnout
> I think it’s much better to have two high-quality dates than dozens of low-quality ones.

But first you have to meet the person to go on a date with.

Macacity··on I hope Apple never adopts RCS
How does that work without internet? And you can only send iMessage to a small part of the population, as only people who have iMessage can receive it, is that correct?
Macacity··on Show HN: SaveSlack – create searchable knowledgebase from your Slack community
Will I be able to remove my slack archive from this site after uploading it?
Macacity··on ChromeOS Flex is now ready to scale to PCs and Macs
From the page about the differences:

> While many non-certified devices might work, Google guarantees only those on the list.

Macacity··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
This app is for reading markdown files on your device. You can sync them yourself to wherever you want to make sure that nothing gets lost.
Macacity··on WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data to Be Shared with Facebook
they are asking you for the pin to remind you of it. When you enetered it correctly they are using a spaced repetition algorithm [0] for the next date they show that prompt.

[0] https://support.signal.org/hc/de/articles/360007059792-Signa...

Macacity··on Abusing Teams client protocol to bypass Teams security policies
The calls are pretty limited in the Browser. You only have the speaker view with one person and can't use the gridview. And firefox is completely blocked from doing any calls at all.
Macacity··on Google’s cloud business under Greene was plagued by internal clashes
Yes, but this setup with Deutsche Telekom will end in 2019 and does not accept new customers.
Macacity··on A Man Stopped Thousands of People Becoming HIV-Positive
> Donations will never be paid to an individual, only ever put back into the running costs and expansion of the website.

Just fyi. This does not mean that you should not donate.

Macacity··on Dear Al-Jazeera: Why Steal Our Code?
> And b) either Al-Jazeera has copied them before [2] or there is some mutual stealing going on... looking at the source and at what they are showing in the updated page of the eggplant story[1] they seem to be using an open source version[2].

[1] http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/gmo-eggplants-aube...

[2] https://github.com/codevise/pageflow

Macacity··on Charge, a phone company with features for nerds
no, the site on the charge website has the tld .io
Macacity··on Even virtual assistants are sexually harassed
You obviously have not read the article:

>One smart way to learn how to handle harassment is to talk to real assistants, which Microsoft did for Cortana. After all, they've been putting up with similar behavior for years.

Macacity··on Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
you might like google+, where you can follow collections in which a user posts only posts about one theme.
Macacity··on Minister No More
The Nato is not a friend of this thought and warned Greece not to save on defense. http://panteres.com/2015/06/30/nato-jens-stoltenberg-warns-g...
Macacity··on Not OK, Google
I first saw this, when i was watching an ad about this feature in the youtube app
Macacity··on Things We Still Don’t Know About Water
Should probably be blue not red
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