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f233f2··on Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
You can't realiably poll from a mobile phone. Your app may not be allowed to execute any code, let alone make a network request for hours, or maybe forever.
f233f2··on Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
It's like that because mobile clients need cooperation from the server to have push notifications, and you can't have IMAP servers cooperate in that regard :-) so the outlook servers fetch the mail for you and then send you the notifications.

I wouldn't have microsoft read my email either, of course. Thankfully in windows you have dozens of clients to choose from.

f233f2··on Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
Probably because the new outlook can only access microsoft servers, so they synchronise icloud to outlook server-side and you only access outlook client-side.
f233f2··on Thunderbird 115.4.0
Thunderbird is improving so much and so fast since they left Mozilla. I wonder if the same could work for Firefox.
f233f2··on Sky Asked Govt. To Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New Dedicated Police Unit
You buy IPTV stream passwords (or whatever is used to log in) from some guy and once he knows your card details he can use them for anything else, yes. That's how it works.
f233f2··on [dead]
Title is false. He was selected for additional screening and he doesn't have any proof that it was because of his name. Also he wasn't stopped from boarding the flight, he was just screened more exhaustively than others.

I was expecting better from the BBC... oh wait I wasn't.

f233f2··on Spain's efficient high-speed trains have transformed people's lives
Unfortunately, no, prices haven't dropped for Renfe fares.

Coupled with: https://twitter.com/el_pais/status/1716776148049285585

There clearly is a reason for all of this: they don't want you travelling if you are poor.

f233f2··on Spain's efficient high-speed trains have transformed people's lives
+1, Iryo and Ouigo are recent and they are losing money. Renfe has always been tremendously expensive - more expensive than a car or plane.

These train travel success stories are anti-personal transportation propaganda. They want to push you to using trains and then they will raise the prices - they want you not travelling anywhere if you are poor.

f233f2··on Leaving Twitter
The article does not say that he's being forced to engage with dissenting opinions.
f233f2··on Off-duty pilot allegedly tried to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight
>Federal officials allege Joseph David Emerson tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots.

Why couldn't he? Does it take a long time to press the button, do you need several people to press it at once...?

f233f2··on EU Chat Control Bill Postponed
This is pushed by people in the EU who aren't elected, so the only solution is to lobby for our countries to leave the EU.
f233f2··on EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
Rich people can hire private security. Poor people can't. In terms of raw numbers, law enforcement's job is to protect poor people from other poor people.
f233f2··on EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
Uber drivers are poor people.
f233f2··on EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
Poor people cause much, much, much more work to law enforcement and the judicial system than rich people.
f233f2··on EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
If we are to tax people because they benefit from public services, then poor people should be taxed more than rich people since they benefit from those services more.
f233f2··on My website is one binary (2022)
That website contains

    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
f233f2··on Twenty-four hours in an invisible epidemic
Not to mention forced dark theme is very hard to read for those of us with astigmatism.
f233f2··on Windows 11 Pro's On-by-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%
It's absurd that this web site is advocating for people to disable bitlocker.

Also there is no source for the 45% figure.

f233f2··on Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested
If he was making such statements (I'm not following this), does that mean that his lawyers were indeed being used by him to pass letters and that this is not propaganda?
f233f2··on Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
Correct.
f233f2··on Elephant dies after her herd became agitated from a dog running loose
Darwin probably has some theories about this.
f233f2··on Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
The title is outrage bait. It wasn't adding "terrorist" to all translation of Palestinian bios, only to those that included a very specific phrase, and also the translation didn't make it sound like the user himself was a terrorist, since it talked about terrorists in an impersonal way.
f233f2··on Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
I agree that the average person doesn't generally know how technology works. I think the solution is not to limit the use of technology but to restrict the exposure of the average person to technology until they can prove that they know how it works (some sort of internet license, if you will)
f233f2··on Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
Are we really at the point where we need a disclaimer saying "automatic translations may not be accurate"?