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Doesn't Microsoft use a thousand different domains, most of which look sketchy? What if you receive an email from microsofts-support@live.com? Could you immediately tell that it is not legitimate compared to, e.g. contact@microsoftsupport.com?

I did not know about PublishTrimmed and will try it out. Thank you.

I think a standalone "Hello World", built with .NET Core, is around 60-70 MB large on both Linux and Windows. The startup times are alright - slower on Windows than on Linux in my experience because of the file system performance.

Same, except I used Chrome's classic colours: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/familiar-blue...

The only thing I'm really missing is how easily you can set up and switch between different profiles in Chrome.

Signal-Desktop works even when your phone is turned off.

I was planning on looking into how to best document it the next time it happens, and whom exactly to report it to (i.e. the national or European data protection authority). Not sure if there is anything else I could do.

I did the same thing, and yet every couple of years some of those deleted items reappear on the news feed of my second account that I only use to double-check my privacy settings.

It's an European account and I'm wondering if only marking the content as deleted, instead of actually deleting it, violates the GDPR.

If you revoke location permissions, Google still guesses it accurately, for me at least, "from your search history", as it says at the bottom of the search results page - even when you're not signed in (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/wU8EZUA). I wouldn't mind if they just used the IP address to locate me, but why use the search history? If I wanted Google to know my exact location, I wouldn't have revoked the permissions for it.

It's more of a notification than a question dialogue. It tells you that Windows 10 is a "recommended update" now (instead of optional which it was before). That means no matter how you close the window, now you'll get the update unless you actively disable it in time.

How many of the hundreds of millions of people using Windows computers are affected like this that don't have someone tech-savy to ask for help? There's no possible way Microsoft didn't think of this scenario, which can only mean that they simply do not care.

Thanks for the warning. I'm not sure if they're being sleazy or just unthoughtful and incompetent. I already lost an afternoon with family, which I don't get to see that often, because I was forced to fix things that went wrong on their devices after the unexpected update. I had told them to "Just click the red x for now,if a message about Windows 10 pops up".

I think they'll bring it back in the summer, but didn't find a more recent source than this: https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/o...

We've read the speech in school in Germany. Not from a textbook, but simply a copied text, from the internet I presume. Was that illegal? I think every class did. A relative who was a few years behind me also read it, with a different teacher.

If your titlebar has a dark background color, text and the minimize/maximize buttons are still unrecognizable. Is it so uncommon to use a dark color scheme that no one who works on this cares to fix it?

Win+W lets you search Settings directly instead of Apps. You can also press if after you've already typed your search term. (In case you don't want to reach for the mouse)

Take a look at the HN circle on Google+. That's definitely not just 77% male.

It wasn't a login, you had to have at least one file on your skydrive before the recent merge to keep the 25GB. Effectively you now can get e.g. 45GB for 10$ a year. Dropbox' old 50GB for 10$ a month plan was a joke in comparison.

Windows Live Calendar nowadays is very similar to Google Calendar. It should be possible to sync it e.g. with Android via ActiceSync. Some time ago I managed to do this with Android 2.3. I don't have this setup any more, so if you need details try searching for "windows live activesync" or something similar.

Well, other Linux distributions show a similar trend for "$distroName linux" search terms: http://goo.gl/lTewt

Even "linux" alone seems to have a downward trend by that measurement: http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux&ctab=0&geo=all&...

I've noticed something very tiny: Using the Windows Classic theme on Windows 7 x64, the close button of the Favorites Bar (the black X with the mouseover text "Close the Favorites Center") isn't displayed properly if the bar is very slim. Oddly on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 this doesn't happen, because here the Favorites Bar has an extra button "Add to Favorites" and the 'X' is on that button's row.

http://i.imgur.com/OgEt2.png (nevermind the "InPrivate" in the left example, in the normal mode the bar looks exactly the same)

The period supposedly is 270 days now, according to this Hotmail Dev team "interview":

>> we have a policy of deleting emails after 270 days

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ej32l/we_are_the_hotma... (do a search for "270" on the page to find the quote)

Although I have no idea when they changed it to 270 - it can't have been that long ago.

Hi, one quick question: If you use @jdoe.net because it looks more professional, what would you use for the local part of the address? Does e.g. contact@jdoe.net look better than jdoe@gmail.com? I'm thinking when used for job applications and such.

The changing of the Panorama hotkey from ctrl+space to ctrl+e ist slightly annoying. I know that ctrl+k does the same trick and has been there for far more versions, but I've always used ctr+e for the search bar, mainly because that's the one that also works in other browsers. Of course I'm sure it will only take two seconds to find out how to change this back...