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mmarquezs··on The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available
Ok, but then unfortunately we have the trust issue.

Do we trust them, to:

a) do it and not just lie about it totally or partially, and we find out later on when somebody does eventually report it/find out/investigate, if ever happens.

b) even if they intend to really do it, that they do it properly.

If it doesn't reach them, you are 100% sure the data is not there and not at risk (from their end of course). Otherwise is just let's hope for the big corporation with optimizing for most profitability for their stackholders as main objective to do "their best at protecting it's consumers data and privacy".

Which sure... hurting consumers and getting fines aint' great, but not always ends up in less profitability than doing the right thing from the beginning.

Of course... this is not a big deal compared with other stuff, there are alternatives and it's not something you really depend on day to day. Compared with other stuff that is for sure.

mmarquezs··on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
Tbh I am even surprised those links were a thing to begin with, at the end it is mainly to share stuff on their chat platform, they sort of allowed that, but feels weird that it was a thing to begin with.
mmarquezs··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
> In the scenario you presented, where you initially know the car is behind door 1, switching to door 2 still gives you a higher chance of winning the car.

That was funny.

mmarquezs··on Funimation End of Services
It's far from perfect though as some games to able to be sold again are modified to remove certain licensed content like music. This is in detriment of who ever owned the game before that as the game gets a forced update which caused the previous owners to lose access to the original version.
mmarquezs··on The Apple Vision Pro
There is already a video of a driver using the Apple Vision on a Tesla Cybertruck which I assume was on auto pilot I guess.
mmarquezs··on Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again
I mean that is the fun and joy of running Arch.
mmarquezs··on Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes
It makes sense as it parodies the typical Airlines ads/videos showing the new features, services etc.

Yeah the fault is at Boeing but not like they do this kind of videos, or if they do most people wouldn't have seen them.

mmarquezs··on "LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"
I don't understand why is so bad. If you use the insert data from file it ask you to choose separator and all that, great works fine.

If I open the CSV directly it doesn't and unless the files follows your system settings for separator and date a d similar it opens it wrong.

mmarquezs··on Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports
Have you seen the same Apple ads as me? Because they show it under rain, under the faucet, covered in Coke, etc.

I agree it's resistant and it does what you say... But the way they advertise it....

mmarquezs··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
They did add it, not for everyone but it is there: https://x.com/SteamDB/status/1664912800806842370?s=20
mmarquezs··on Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain
Nice, last time I used Wolframalpha for this.
mmarquezs··on How to 1.5x your salary through negotiation
That to me is the true American dream, work for an American company without living in an America. I just hope for that to happen one day, although for now I am happy where I am.
mmarquezs··on Very Long-Term Backup (2008)
Here explains more about their PiqlFilm if somebody is curious like me: https://www.piql.com/about/technology/

I also I always find it very amusing that some of my shitty code is preserved in the Artic due to this GitHub project.

mmarquezs··on Use a custom domain to send emails with Gmail using Cloudflare email routing
I haven't used it much, but personally I replaced the Gmail Outbound server for Sendgrid. Inbound I still use the CloudFare system.
mmarquezs··on Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
this one https://archive.org/details/BADKING ?
mmarquezs··on Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
I am from Spain and I don't think so... but maybe you can have it in some app. In any case there are road sign indicating it.
mmarquezs··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
> Not really, there is a lot missing from Spotify

True, I have experienced that. I love the apps, but I ended up switching to youtube premium due to that.

Anything that isn't in youtube music as a song, usually is available as a video either uploaded by the artists themselves or as a "not so legal" upload. Not a fan of the apps though.

mmarquezs··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
Unfortunately for the Apple case the new lossless option is only available for Apple Music subscriptions.

With Apple Music here is the info: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183

mmarquezs··on Deluge BitTorrent Client
Plugins, not sure why nobody mentions them so far here but it's the main reason why I haven't switched to anything else.

I use:

- autoextract plugin to extract files inside the torrents

- autoremove plugin to remove torrents after x days, x seed time, with exceptions to trackers, labels etc

- LabelPlus improves on top of Deluge label system and adds a lot of different options that you can apply to the torrents with certain label plus you can make sub labels.

- RSS plugin with lot of custom filtering with regex etc.

- AutoAdd, an improvement over the tipical blackhole/autoadd of torrent files with the possibility to set settings like bandwidth limits, label it, etc based on the folder it was found.

Some of that maybe is included in some clients but the main point it's that if I wanted I could implement a plugin myself more or less easily in python to add my needed feature without bothering anybody else. Or I could modify an existing plugin.

The other that other people already mentioned is the thin client/ server daemon system, which is 100% better than any web ui because literally you are using the native ui which is the first thing to receive any changes. The web UIs are nice but usually are second priority in general, don't receive all the changes, some settings or features are missing compared with the main ui etc.

And in any case Deluge also has a web-ui if needed, which emulates most of the main UI, plugins need to add a custom code for it, and some don't so that is missing but in any case as I said all that is available in the thin client.

Also handles a lot of torrents nicely which although I don't have a name I remember having issues with some other torrent clients didn't handle it too good. That said nowadays my number of torrents is around 70~100, I used to have a lot more than that.

mmarquezs··on WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel
Nice. I recently bought an edgerouter X and I set it up with openvpn. I have to try this.