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talal7860on Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

What if we don't use google as our default search engine, is it still shared?

talal7860on MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

I got a new MacBook Pro 2 years ago whose screen got black lines after a few days of use, went to Apple support, they changed the screen and didn’t charge me a cent. The guy told me since there’s no physical damage, nothing would be charged

talal7860on Where Did the Black Death Begin? DNA Detectives Find a Key Clue

https://web.archive.org/web/20220616162256/https://www.nytim...

talal7860on Internet drama in Canada

I pay the same, and the service is pretty good.

talal7860on Why we’ve canceled flights, and what we are doing to get back on track

> But speaking of Canada, it'll be a cold day in hell before Air Canada ever admits to being the worst major airline in the developed world.

I wouldn't agree more.

talal7860on YouTube suspends filmmaker Oliver Ressler’s account without warning

One more reason not to use a single email address for multiple services. Violation of terms of services in one of them can be catastrophic, like in the article, the author's google account gets deleted with just warning.

talal7860on A Ryanair Flight Carrying an Opposition Journalist Is Forced to Land in Belarus

talal7860on GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

Well, GitHub is now fully available in Iran: https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...

talal7860on Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps

It'd have been awesome if that was the reason.

talal7860on Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps

I was one of the core developers on the game named "Happy fish" 7-8 years ago, I wonder why was that blocked, as I don't remember the company being Chinese owned.

talal7860on A US Visa in 937 Days

As a third world citizen, where we always have to apply for US visa to visit, this is highly unusual.

In most of the cases we are informed during the in person interview of approval or denial, in case of approval, we have our visas stamped within a month.

talal7860on Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning

I kind of did the same.

talal7860on Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?

Some excellent WFH tips posted by a colleague: https://www.kudos.com/resource/blog/stressed-about-working-r...

talal7860on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

As far as I remember, this has always been the case. I don't see anything new in this story.