PieUser··on One simple design fix for the Olympic medal tallywhy not just have 3 tables? one for gold, one for silver, one for bronze.
PieUser··on Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reportingI don't see anything wrong with telemetry or crash reporting in open source software
PieUser··on There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemicRegardless 7million is a huge number of people...
PieUser··on Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOSand microsoft probably collects 200X from windows...
PieUser··on Turntable.fm is back from the dead – and now there are twoComes at an interesting point in time: plug.dj was shut down just last month [1].[1] https://twitter.com/plugdj/status/1359210486798114819
PieUser··on Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace testIt's the same guy from this video [1].[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k1-ui-hOOs
PieUser··on 2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]So Google Cloud is still losing money. Anyone know if Azure is profitable?
PieUser··on NYSE backs off delisting Chinese telecom firmsThey reversed this decision today! https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/nyse-will-delist-three-big-c...
PieUser··on AWS CloudShellI don't think there's a better name... Azure's is Cloud Shell (with a space)
PieUser··on Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft this is terrible!
PieUser··on Show HN: Scratch.js – Interactive JavaScript ScratchpadWhen you paste something it keeps the formatting, intended?
PieUser··on YouTube DownInteresting how Instagram was also down for multiple days just recently [0]..[0] https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/instagram-down...
PieUser··on Google disabled my husband's accountThe victim probably did some shady things that the husband didn't know about... Something so terrible that Google would disable their account :O
PieUser··on Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address barMy concern is that Google will eventually remove this flag and make this the default behaviour without any way to disable it. Safari, on the other hand, has an option to turn the feature off.
PieUser··on What’s new in the Windows 10 May 2020 Updatehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-p...
PieUser··on Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5I remember the JB scene during the early days, iOS 3-6. Those were good times...
PieUser··on Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cupI like Earl Grey more than any other kind.