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Tomasz_Papkaon Why this might be a bad idea: APPL MSFT and Google want you to go passwordless

Arguments for why this might be a bad idea.

Tomasz_Papkaon Firefox 89.0 Beta brings a new look

After they f*cked up mobile version I stopped caring. This should die already or it should be taken over by someone who actually cares eg. Open Office ---> Libre Office

Tomasz_Papkaon Caltech Awards 10,000th PhD Degree

Order french fries & a coke and we will add a Phd from Caltech for free!

Tomasz_Papkaon George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter

Are there any videos of morons destroying private property, looting, stealing, burning?

Tomasz_Papkaon Is Stack Exchange in violation of NY labor law by using volunteer moderators?

Is this being inspired by a bunch of former moderators?

Tomasz_Papkaon Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Upgrade Warning

The reason I disable Windows updates is because it eats up A LOT of computing power. When you notice that few minutes after turning on your laptop fans are working like crazy for 30, 40 minutes, you know there is something wrong. It's better to just remember to update your system once a month and manually turn on and off the update option. But now you can't even do that. The moment I hear fans are working like crazy I know that Windows somehow overwrought my setting and the 'updates' are running in the background. Cheers!

Tomasz_Papkaon Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Upgrade Warning

Interesting... Microsoft is forcing everyone to update their machines for quite some time... I've noticed that MS is forcing updates on my machine about a year ago and out of frustration I asked about it on this forum four months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029216) Please try it. Go to Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services and then stop and disable Windows Updates. It's a matter of days before it will be back and running again. My next machine is going to be Apple.