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pirates··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
When I did it two months ago it took them an hour. Be generous and say they’re backed up and sometimes it takes two hours. Is that too long to be without your phone?
pirates··on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable
> So I never see any ads

> helps me skip in-content ads

So you get ads still! Whether or not they are from YouTube or the video creator is irrelevant. I thought paying was supposed to supplant needing to advertise to me during the actual video.

pirates··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
Which proves that if they can, they will. So there’s no reason to give them more ways to do it.
pirates··on YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users
This does work with the screen on. But at least for me Vinegar background audio while locked hasn’t worked for the past several weeks. Once you lock it no longer recognizes there’s any media to play.
pirates··on Another GitHub outage in the same day
My company’s self hosted gitlab achieves this all the time.
pirates··on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
They could shut it off out of a sense of decency and respect, wtf kind of defense is this?
pirates··on Call Screening Is Aggravating the Rich and Powerful
> “You could’ve just texted me, ‘Hey, can’t chat right now,’” said publicist Elijah Harlow

How about you text me before calling and then getting all pissy about it? This goes both ways I feel.

pirates··on Amazon One palm authentication discontinued
Despite others saying that they have never seen it, Meijer stores have this, except instead of a store scanner you use your phone with an app. There are other reasons too, but this is a big part of why my family shops at Meijer compared every other store near us.
pirates··on People who know the formula for WD-40
Does it work better than something like Goo-Gone?
pirates··on The tech monoculture is finally breaking
Interesting, I took SnK to mean Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin). I personally wouldn’t put it in a list of manga/anime that will be nostalgic in 20 years, but who knows.
pirates··on West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination
Barcelona vs Athletic Bilbao had no away fans. It happens a few times every year across Europe. If you’re only looking at UEFA matches you’ll find fewer, but it’s not that unheard of. Argentina had a 12 year ban on away fans recently lifted as well.
pirates··on Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
Several different “premium” tiers have this issue. Why am I purportedly paying for no ads if i continue to get ads? Whether or not they’re “platform ads” or “embedded” doesn’t matter. I paid for no ads and I’m not getting what I paid for, so why keep paying?
pirates··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
For some reason everyone that says things like this never follow up with anything concrete, don’t share prompts or snippets, etc.
pirates··on UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning
> Is this what the billionaire class want?

The billionaire class loves this type of shit, just look at the epstein files

pirates··on GoFundMe Ignores Rules Hosting Legal Fund for ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
This isn’t saying they can’t have a legal defense, just that GoFundMe is breaking its own rules by collecting for it.

And if this person can’t afford a legal defense maybe they shouldn’t kill people. Or maybe get a public defender like everyone else who can’t afford it.

pirates··on Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence
Maybe it was written by someone in Gen Z.
pirates··on Ad Blockers helped kill the open web
All of this, plus there was a time when even legitimate websites (as in, not crime and not porn) partnered with ad networks who would use tricks and drive-by downloads to install things.
pirates··on Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban
The EULA is just there to keep up appearances. If he really cared he would have stopped this before it became widespread.
pirates··on Ask HN: Leaving at 5pm in Europe, flagged as "uncommitted" by US management
I think it’s size/culture dependent. At my small-medium “telecom adjacent but not big tech” company, I work 8 hours and log off. If they were to ask why I didn’t respond I’d say “I logged off after working my 8 hours” and that would be that.
pirates··on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026
And people in hell want ice water.
pirates··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
My xfinity ipv4 changes once every few years, if that. I treat it as static and update things if or when it changes, which fortunately isn’t too much work. I never requested anything special regarding it, and I have a normal/non-business account. I wonder why some change often and others don’t?
pirates··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
I suppose it isn’t required technically, you can still purchase tickets at the stations. But oh boy, the “official” app for the Shinkansen in Japan might be the worst piece of garbage I have ever used.
pirates··on If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
> if you hover your finger over the Camera app icon without actually opening the app, the camera starts operating iOS 18.3, cannot recreate this. If I long-press the icon then yeah obviously it triggers, but just “hovering” does nothing for me. In addition, if I put my finger on the camera app icon and then swipe pages it doesn’t trigger the dot either. Is this a new thing in 26.x?

Edit: actually there is a timing sweet spot on the swiping that I can get to do it, but still nothing with just pure hovering

pirates··on Netflix NFL streaming quality issues
The NFL in general is a terrible product that has absolutely zero redeeming qualities.
pirates··on I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky
If those websites aren’t operating out of Ohio I don’t see why they should have to follow Ohio’s laws.
pirates··on A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services
Why are so many parents completely OK with abdicating responsibility like this? Dealing with peer pressure and adolescence is something every parent needs to figure out how to do, sans governmental intervention.
pirates··on 'I Didn't Vote for This': A Revolt Against Doge Cuts, Deep in Trump Country
You did vote for this actually.
pirates··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
This has worked for me for nearly 20 years (when I made the account I didn’t know that the dots are ignored). The only time it’s been a problem was with one company whose system stripped the dots out.

You need to send them an email to cancel. When I tried they said “you need to cancel from the same email you signed up with.” :/

pirates··on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
This is your signal to stop admiring them.
pirates··on Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
Yes in fact I do hate the idea of dozens to hundreds of drones per day flying around my house and neighborhood.
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