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They rebranded the app designed exclusively for that (Meta View) and added the chat features.

The new Outlook desktop client is awful, but there's one silver lining and it's the retirement of the even more awful Word HTML renderer.

It gets worse though, the app actually split into "Google Pay" and the new "GPay", where the latter was originally an India-only app they reworked for the rest of the world. In old Google Pay you'd see messages that it'll stop working soon and that you should migrate to the new GPay, but if you ignored them you could still use it. Then, they eventually overhauled old Google Pay back to "Google Wallet", and now they're telling people in the US remaining on "new" GPay that it's deprecated and to switch back...

Pulled precisely from the Google textbook. Specifically the chapter on Hangouts.

A few things I noticed, as I'm seeing the variety of SKUs becoming more complex.

- Note that memory bandwidth is down. M2 Pro had 200GB/s, M3 Pro only has 150GB/s. M3 Max only has 400GB/s on the higher binned part.

- Just like the low-spec M3 14" has one fewer Thunderbolt port, it also doesn't officially support Thunderbolt 4 (like M1/M2 before it)

- The M3 Pro loses the option for an 8TB SSD. Likely because it was a low volume part for that spec.

- The M3 Pro actually has more E-cores than the Max (6 vs 4). Interesting to see them take this away on a higher-specced part; seems like Intel wouldn't do this

I remember when Instagram started asking for your date of birth in order to use it, which prompted me to take a nice break from it. The next time I checked in, they made it so that you could have a "shadow birthday" tied to your age and the current date. I wonder if that'll affect me in the event I have to go through the kind of ID verification hell I see reported everywhere (including replies to this post).

The hot button issues with people having to use Reddit's official app also include the trackers it uses. I'd certainly suggest getting rid of Google Analytics here and replacing it with something more privacy concious.

I found that it's only useful to browse sites that don't have dark mode (built-in conversion without any extensions) since they actually put some effort into making it work.

For anyone using Samsung Internet, be aware that if you try to go over 99 tabs, it will close your oldest tab.

I'm saddened by the sudden and intermittent disappearance of ReviewMeta, which prided itself as not inserting affiliate links into their site/extension. Reading this news leads me to believe that this is a perfect fit in accordance with Mozilla's overall mission, making this a good outcome for something that could've easily been exploited by a bad actor making the acquisition.

Instability aside, Windows 98 marked the point where Internet Explorer leeched itself into the operating system to the point of no return (only to be finally reversed in the past year). The complaints of social media apps being "preinstalled" with Windows 11 seem to echo the channel bar, Active Desktop and everything else that arrived with IE4. I believe that the notion that Windows 98 was good came when IE5 were released and pulled back on some of those integrations, which happened to coincide with the timing of 98 Second Edition. In any case it was by no means great, but it was good enough.

I know that a few pieces of software distributed on floppy showed a warning if it detected it was previously installed (which wrote to some file on the disk, given it wasn't write protected). Which basically amounted to a sternly-written paragraph to say that they're using honor system to make sure you follow the rules.

Here's a Gen 2x2 SSD [1] but I can't seem to find a reliable listing for a cable, the general consensus is just to use what comes in the box. At this point I'd only buy cables that come with the right logo stamped directly on it like this one [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GV4YYV7

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YM3V7NX

The person in the video mentions it's not connected to Xbox Live. Here's an example I found that has 2 ads in the "Xbox Live" tab as well:

https://i.imgur.com/B983dJf.jpg

Have to point a couple things out I found.

The USB versioning table needs some corrections:

- USB 3.1 Gen 2 is the same as USB 3.2 Gen 2 and is only found at 10Gbps.

- The 40Gbps entry is wrong, the real spec name is USB4 Gen 3x2. But it was never really advertised as such so I'd leave that out.

- 20Gbps is either USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 or USB4 Gen3x1, but I'd caution against adding this as the latter is quite rare to see (plus the above reason).

For the quiz, I would split up connecting storage devices and PCIE enclosures. Most storage only goes up to 10Gbps, and it will specifically say if it's built for Thunderbolt.

This remains a hotly contested topic. Not the overall interface, because that seems to be well-liked. Rather, "Was the blades UI fast?" Some say yes. Others complain about the guide taking longer than 10 seconds to appear while in-game. It could be that there's a lot of conflicting opinion between those who view it through nostalgia and those who remember their experiences when it was the de facto UI. Sure NXE had areas where execution speed certainly wasn't fast, but in terms of perception I'd argue there could be something said about the UI elements being more spaced out and feeling "further away" with the paradigm they went with.

Oh, and the blades definitely had ads. Maybe not as many as future interfaces, but I'm not sure why people say it didn't.

My favorite part of Maxthon was the rendering engine switching, where you got to change between Gecko and Trident, and it looks like even Webkit was supported at one point. This was back when you basically needed to use Netscape/Mozilla for modern standards and IE for sites that absolutely needed it. It seems like the only place in the years following you'd see this would be to get away from IE using forwards compatibility (Chrome Frame) or backwards compatibility (IE Tab in Edge).

I've tried this before, and you're right about it not being easy to follow, at least compared to previous incarnations. The above documentation is for a much older version, and the latest I found is here:

https://mozilla.github.io/ecosystem-platform/tutorials/devel...

There's a lot of components directly hooked into Google Cloud that also make it difficult in terms of configuration. At some point I think creating an actual user's guide for this would be good for the community interested in self-hosting this on their own.

Google used to let you block domains a long time ago. I'm not sure why that was removed, but I have a feeling it had something to do with giving the expectation that you can block ads from a specific domain.

While on one hand I definitely stand corrected and not really floored that they decided to go against this, I don't know how marketing wouldn't have the foresight to see that a never-changing number would keep themselves evergreen. I mean, Apple still numbers the iPhone (as do other brands' flaghsips) to ensure people quickly know which one is the newest. Whereas Windows hides this designator (e.g. 21H2) behind a few clicks.

That wasn't an official statement from Microsoft.

I've done something similar once to find Dell iDRAC [0] and Exchange Outlook Web App [1] instances open to the internet. Just goes to show how forgetting a simple robots.txt (if it's even an option) can expose something you don't want, even if it's password protected.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Type+in+Username+and+Pass...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22Outlook+web+app...

I'd go a step further and recommend https://grapheneos.org/ with a Pixel phone.

Bots are officially sanctioned as such and have an application ID in the developer console as well as a label in the client. Alternatively, nothing's stopping someone from taking a user account's authentication token and making the same calls, but that's against TOS (Discord calls them selfbots). The KYC they use won't protect against this kind of abuse.

https://www.compuserve.com is the same thing.

Oath/Verizon is keeping these sites on some kind of life support to this day.

Surprisingly enough this gives it more credibility in my book. I refused to use it for a while until a revenue stream was introduced (Nitro) and still gave me an unsettling feeling with all the data harvesting - I still won't download the desktop app simply because of the information it collects about the games you have installed, without the user's consent.

It also feels like there's much less of an inclination of it failing like Skype has, with a high likelihood of joining the Xbox division while keeping the brand.

This gives me a nostalgic reminder of when I used to watch Nickelodeon GUTS. Whenever a countdown timed challenge was about to end, I would hear the audience count down starting with "10" at maybe 10.7 seconds, "9" at 9.7 seconds, etc. Then after "1", there was a small period of awkward silence and murmurs from the audience before the siren blasted.

It's a good example of how measurement of time in terms of human perception differs from the pure mathematical sense, and rounding is a good compromise here (wherever it doesn't display fractional seconds).

I see people calling for an all-in-one service for movies & TV shows, but that isn't likely to happen since the licensing and pay distribution for those work on a much different scale than music. A big reason is that in most cases at least 100x the amount of people will work on any professional video broadcast media as compared to a music album. It will continue to hinder consumer convenience, and the only halfway solution is the stream hardware giants giving you a unified interface to pick any piece of content you want and then display where it's available.

The X1 Carbon/Extreme series used to be the only products labeled Gen x instead of a 2/3 digit code, e.g. T490. Starting this year they rebranded all ThinkPad products to use generation numbers (presumably because rolling from something like T490 to the next number would be a little difficult, kind of like when GPUs hit the 9xxx branding mark), so X390 -> X13 gen 1, P53 -> P15 gen 1 etc.

Release announcement:

https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-v15-0-0-is-here-deb00750f...

I would consider making the HTML tags uppercase, at least that's how I learned how to do them back in the day.

Also it's funny that SEO for a while almost felt like creating a successful webring because it's all based on how many sites link back to you.