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hulitu··on Microsoft 365 Cuts Family OneDrive Storage from 6 TB to 2 TB
Uploading the files isn't the issue. Downloading them back is.
hulitu··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
> Good for linux

Torvalds lives in the USA. Linux Foundation is in the USA. Good (luck) for Linux. /s

hulitu··on Ubuntu Currently Suffering from Sustained DDoS Attack
US: Windows updates WSL. /s
hulitu··on DRAM Industry Price Fixing
"Just the free market doing its job." ROTFL
hulitu··on US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program
No. Microsoft "innovates" since 40 years. Not even the Department of Justice couldn't stop them.
hulitu··on Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives
> why you find them worse than Google.

DDG -> Bing -> Microsoft.

Ecosia -> Cloudfare

Graphene OS -> Reskinned Android

hulitu··on Mozilla met with Microsoft to discuss their harmful design practices
> Mozilla met with Microsoft to discuss their harmful design practices

Whos ? Mozilla's or Microsoft's ? Mozilla has been copying bad "design" from Microsoft since some time.

hulitu··on Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?
None. The Phone's browser is unsuitable for games and I am not masochistic.
hulitu··on Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales
> Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales

Last time didn't ended well. See Mars Attacks

hulitu··on Borland Turbo Basic
> Wonder what their reaction would be.

"Where is the menu ?". "Where are the scrollbars ?". "I'm on the 10th page in Google search and still haven't found an example for this function that compiles"

hulitu··on "Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM
One cannot build a house without a sledgehammer
hulitu··on The future of independence is interdependence
> The future of independence is interdependence

"Resistance is futile. You will be asimilated"

hulitu··on KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely
Reinventing the wheel.
hulitu··on How a Boeing 737 MAX Survived a Nosedive Traveling at the Speed of Sound
> How a Boeing 737 MAX Survived a Nosedive Traveling at the Speed of Sound

After or before the whistleblower "commited suicide" ? /s

Boeing is now desperate to improve its image so they will pay every "journalist" willing to play ball.

hulitu··on The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
> And you can not have rule of law, when the primary state-forming institution is the clan-family

You can. See US (Boeing, Rockefeller etc), UK (Royal "family", house of lords, etc), Germany ( Porsche and others)

hulitu··on On social reality in China
> On social reality in China

> Background: I’m a “first-generation” Chinese-American who moved to the States at the age of four. The beliefs in this essay are primarily drawn from interactions with my parents and their generation of immigrants, and from consumption of Chinese media (dramas, webnovels, games, and manhua) which are not necessarily representative of the realities on the ground.

But the CIA pays well, isn't it ? /s

hulitu··on All 5 Major South Korean Banks Hit: Simultaneous 'AI Hacking' Attacks Spark Fear
> 'AI Hacking' Attacks Spark Fear

'Human hacking' attacks sparks police investigation. The best democracies money can buy.

hulitu··on A fifth of Swiss Alpine ice has vanished in five years
Maybe ask people in Davos, how much ice they consume with champagne.
hulitu··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
is it just Android. SW is hard.
hulitu··on Windows 11½
Huh ? TWM has features that Windows doesn't. Window management in Windows ended in Windows 10.
hulitu··on Windows 11½
You're holding it wrong. I have a keyboard shortcut to open Notepad. It needs 2 seconds on a 20 core Intel Cpu.
hulitu··on So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
> If you can't get 12 people to test your app, how do you expect to get actual users?

Just like Google did with its Clock and Messages apps. They have billions of people to test their app. If it compiles, ship it.

hulitu··on So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
> Because you are hobby developer. Thanks to this there are no so much junk in Play Store.

Are you sure you don't run iOS ? /s

Even Google's own apps are a pile of junk full of bugs. Malware is everywhere in PlayStore.

hulitu··on So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
> > Have at least 12 testers opted-in to your closed test.

> Run your closed test with at least 12 testers, for 14 days

If only Google would do the same with their apps. The quality of Google apps is such a mess.

hulitu··on So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
> Regulators need to wake up, issue record fines,

This is very difficult when the regulators are well paid (lobby) and sleep so well.

hulitu··on 1337x Servers Hit with Missile Strikes Today
Thank god, 31337 servers are fine. /s
hulitu··on Stupid Over-Reliance on Palantir AI Helped Lead to US Bombing of Iranian School
"They were following orders".
hulitu··on Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”
> For example, what is the date one year after 2024-02-29?

2025-03-01

> Or what is the date that is two months after 2023-12-31? Is it 2024-02-29 or 2024-03-02?

2024-02-29

But better use units of fixed size, if you do not want trouble.

hulitu··on Pirating the Pirates
"You" are not supposed to play those old games. "We" have new games for "you".
hulitu··on Allow babywearing carriers on planes
> The vast majority of the rest of the world simply doesn't use car seats at all.

I think this apply also outside of "the rest of the world". Nobody bothered to explain that an airbag without a seatbelt can be fatal or that in case of emergency braking the only thing stopping your passenger's movement is the windshield.

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