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volongoto··on iPhone 17e
I believe at least some versions of Google Pixel don't have a camera bump (if you don't mind using a Google phone).
volongoto··on Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
My personal experience is the opposite. There is no control on the produce on grandma's backyard and therefore we have no idea how much chemicals she is using. Probably she doesn't know either. But I'm sure of one thing: she definitely uses chemicals if she wants to eat (or sell) those apples. Chemical-free agriculture is more demanding and the grandma doesn't have an incentive to invest in it. After all, using chemicals is what she learned growing up and therefore is the "traditional" way.
volongoto··on Praise My GitHub Profile
I tried it with "torvalds". Here is the response:

> Nah, I'm good, I don't want to roast torvalds

volongoto··on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
Microsoft introduced an almost drop in replacement 3 days ago[1]. It is claimed to work with most Redis clients. I believe this will change things quite a bit a least for Azure users.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-ga...

volongoto··on Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits
I think these instances that serve a "family" of topics has a great chance of shining within fediverse. I'm rooting for programming.dev to bring together the programming community.
volongoto··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
I tried to search with the full URL and it didn't show up. That's why I thought it wasn't the way to do it. But I can now see it when I search for it. So, you are right, it takes some time.
volongoto··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
Is there a guide to do this for dummies? Subscribing is one thing, but is it possible to "comment" on another instance's community?

Edit: Figured out myself. It wasn't that difficult :) I agree with others that this needs to be mentioned more often. But, when I searched for "dotnet" in lemmy.world, it didn't return "https://kbin.social/m/dotnet" as one of the search results. Is this due to defederation? Is there a way to add a community using a unique identifier instead of searching for it?

volongoto··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
Even though it's possible to subscribe across instances, I think it would make the most sense if there was a single UI that the user can configure like an RSS reader that would bring relevant content from those the user has subscribed to. The user could then read and comment from within the tool (using whichever account they choose).
volongoto··on Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
I wonder if there are people out there playing Google Graveyard Bingo.
volongoto··on Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none
I'm a happy Bitwarden user. I use the free tier and it works well for me. But people have different needs/requirements, so your mileage may vary
volongoto··on Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final
That's one of the few F1 races I remember. (it wasn't Alonso, though, it was Barrichello). That was dramatic. If I remember correctly, Schumacher gave the trophy to Barrichello at the podium as a gesture to show that he was the one who deserved it and Barrichello couldn't hold back the tears.
volongoto··on Slack Price Increase beginning Sep 2022
Probably it's easier to argue this on a small company, where the developers have a bigger impact. But I think in most companies, nobody asks the developers about these things. If the company is already invested in Office, then it's a no brainer to use Teams. It's free and supposedly does everything Slack does. It's well integrated with Outlook/Calendar, etc. When you already have a free solution it's very difficult to ask for a paid service with similar functionality. I don't like using Teams, but that's not a hill I'm willing to die on.

To be honest, the only complain I have about Teams is how resource hungry and unresponsive the application is. But I think it does (or should I say "attempts to do") some things better than Slack. I like the way Teams displays the chat threads as conversations instead of a long, narrow and claustrophobic column on the right, for example. But, again, nobody asks me :)

volongoto··on Slack Price Increase beginning Sep 2022
I believe, their history of messaging apps, makes it very difficult to rely on Google in this area. Organizations that are already in Google's ecosystem will probably use it, but I doubt it will have any significance otherwise. As long as you don't have a need to use it towards other organizations it should work (but don't ever expect Google to implement a feature that is requested by their customers).

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-... [2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/so-nice-they-killed-...

volongoto··on Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
I use Firefox an uBlock origin and definitely don't see ads on YouTube. I don't have any other ad blocking extension installed.
volongoto··on PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter
After reading the English version of the article [0] shared by others in this thread, this look like the adviser has (rightfully or not) panicked and distanced herself from the PhD student (Gerber). The adviser, in her first email, mentions «angry emails from China», but then, when the journalist contacts her, she only refers to a single email from a Chinese doctoral student from Canada.

> The writer [of the email] accuses Gerber of a «racist attack on the Chinese people.» He was referring to a specific tweet: a cartoon that Gerber had posted in response to another user's tweet. It depicted a comic character that had been altered and had stereotyped Chinese features, with yellow skin tone and slit eyes.

> The professor's first email clearly shows that she feared she would no longer be able to obtain a Chinese visa because of Gerber's tweets.

> In the early summer of 2020, Gerber decided to abandon the legal effort. He said he didn't complete the enrollment application because he couldn't find a new adviser: «There was no other professor in the same department with whom I could have finished my work. Changing topics would have meant starting from scratch again after three and a half years. That was out of the question for me.»

The article clearly sides with Gerber on the issue, but I don't think an adviser can be forced to work with a specific PhD candidate. On the other hand, I think this is an important debate:

> [...] Gerber's case demonstrates that China's aggressive foreign policy can in fact influence how academics in Switzerland publicly express themselves, and how they deal with critical comments from their students. It shows that some researchers are willing to restrict their own and others’ activities in order to avoid upsetting China.

[0] https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spot...

volongoto··on Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader
I don,t have any experience with RSS on eInk, but I would rather that my RSS only contains only the title and the "pitch"(very short summary of the article, or the first paragraph). If I'm interested, with a single keyboard shortcut, my RSS reader fetches the article text for me, so I still don't have to visit the site and read the whole article from within the reader. I use InoReader, but I know NewsBlur (and probably others) has the same (fetch article text) functionality.
volongoto··on LineageOS 18.1
This made me think about the Huawei devices that ship without Google Play Services. But, looking at the list of supported devices, I could not see any new Huawei phones. I wonder what the reason for this lack of support could be... Is it because of locked bootloaders?
volongoto··on RIP Google Reader
I use Keep, but there are already millions of apps that does what Keep is doing. I don't think there will be a huge vacuum.
volongoto··on 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed
I have seen projects where the developer(s) would say things like: "This feature request sounds good to have but we don't have the time for this now. So, I'm closing it. Could you please create it again in 6 months?"

I'm lost for words. Can't you just put a tag and park it? What is this obsession about keeping the issue count low?

volongoto··on No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack
I have/had an account there and they actually responded to every email I sent and it did not feel like canned responses. So, I was positively surprised by the level of support I got for the money I paid.
volongoto··on Signal is having technical difficulties
Same here. I moved a lot of my contacts and several groups over to Signal. And this happened. I'm fine with the down time, I don't have any urgent communication needs and if I did, there are other ways to contact people (SMS, email, WhatsApp, etc.). But I feel like I owe these people an explanation about this. An explanation where I say, "Hey look, there are no guarantees this won't happen in the future, but should still stick to this one". I'm not very good at writing and hoping to find something that I can use :)
volongoto··on Ask HN: Learning about philosophy
> That is a funny thing about young people. A lot of the time they want to find a silver bullet in area that they are interested in. It is not bad of course because maybe they can.

I agree with this; once upon a time, I used to be one of those young people. And I think, this unsubstantiated confidence is a good thing for young people. That was an important source of motivation for me when I was jumping into waters that were way deeper than I envisioned. If I knew "better" I would never do that. But I'm glad I did it. I did not discover a new continent, no, but if I did not have that courage (the courage coming from "ignorance", if you will) I would not have learned what I have learned along the way. I am no longer that courageous young man, but I'm mostly happy he did what he did.

volongoto··on Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000
I did something very similar with Drupal in the past. Everything was in the underlying forum, but it was possible to promote some topics to homepage with full text and create RSS feeds for those. The site since has been shut down, but I think it was a neat solution.
volongoto··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
What sort of a source do you need? Is Google's current slogan/motto still "Don't be evil"?
volongoto··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
Yes, but it is no longer their "motto" (the guiding principle for the company). So, it appearing in the CoC does not mean that it's the guiding principle.

But I think you are raising a good point. Why is this piece of "misinformation" being spread so much? What do you think? I think it is because it corresponds to people's experience with Google: "an entity once liked by the users and did good deeds has quit doing those." So, it may be "misinformation" as you put it, but I don't think it bears no value.

volongoto··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
All good, valid points. There are so many things that needs political attention. And exactly for that reason, I think ranking these companies according to how evil they are hardly helps. We need significant regulatory changes around climate, privacy, farming, etc. One political issue may have priority over others, but the whole thing is more political than personal (getting a company out of my life).
volongoto··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
I stand corrected. Wikipedia says "In April 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct's preface and retained in its last sentence." Thank you.

But I think my point remains valid. Google's "attitude" changed dramatically in the recent years and we are just responding to that.

volongoto··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
I'm not young and I remember the times when Google replaced Alta Vista and then Hotmail (and released Wave).

I don't think people forgot about those days, but mostly think that the Google they liked has kicked the bucket. (Google's motto was "Don't be evil" those days, remember? It was removed from the code of conduct in 2018).

I think today, Google (together with Facebook and friends) is actively harming the open internet we loved. So, yes, we see what Google has replaced, but I don't think that is enough to worship a corporation forever.

volongoto··on Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap
In case you are unsure what the sibling means: Debian is primarily a server OS (one of the best). When people talk about Debian, they mostly think about server use.

(That's why your question sounds like a joke :) Or maybe it was a joke?)

volongoto··on How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
In Norway, in most places, a working day is 7.5 hours + 30 mınutes lunch. That is what it says on the contracts in the IT industry.
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