i have the feeling that a feature like this makes a very little money that compared to the millions that google gives to be the default is a drop in the ocean
probably this won't be enough to even pay the CEO salary
I love the new sponsored clickbait in my firefox start page
Wow, that's awesome! I was very sad without the clickbait articles. I was staring at Firefox thinking "i wish it had a cluttered start page with clickbait articles and sponsored content like MS Edge" - and then with this new update the devs nailed it! Thanks!
That's really perfect!
c'è bisogno di uno che faccia da referente e scelga le priorità. Gli esempi dove "il partito" è quello che decide, non sono proprio democratici
I don't understand what macron was thinking. If they got this result 3 weeks ago, rushing new elections with no time for an extended electoral campaign was going to get the same results, no?
On the top right. Maybe it's some a/b testing to see which one "converts" (=annoys) more. I don't have the "just take me to the download" link like in the other image, just the X to close the login popup
Unacceptable IMHO, I just want to give my clients an easy link to download the huge files I'm sending them without ads or tricks. With this wall many users will get confused and create a new account
Both on mobile and desktop there's a "login wall" but it can be dismissed by pressing on the X.
Still, it's a dark pattern that I don't like, tomorrow at work we will discuss alternatives as we subscribed (one single account shared between everyone) just for sending attachments with filelink using thunderbird - and with a "login wall" it no longer fits the purpose
Shared from a paid account or from a free account?
If shared from paid account, then tomorrow I'm going to cancel our company account as this is unacceptable, we use that for sharing files in emails (we tried to use a self hosted nextcloud but customers are too dumb to figure out how to press the download button)
Free usage is still limited to 2gb unless you got a lot of referrals. It was a lot in 2008, but it's difficult to daily use that in 2024
I already tried to swap circuit boards in identical Seagate ide drives and not only it worked to recover the data but technically that windows 98 PC still boots today (I turn it on once a year because I have a very old SCSI film scanner that doesn't work with newer stuff)
You should try the experience, I used ddrescue to create an image
No, I'm not paying for that
The money goes only to the seller, not to the cracker that worked hard just for the glory
È stato abbastanza imbarazzante, al limite dell'incredibile considerando quanto sono ultra pianificati questi incontri, con team di esperti che ti preparano risposte pronte a tutte le domande scomode. Impappinarsi e concludere con "abbiamo sconfitto medicare" può succedere a me, un pinco pallino a caso se dopo una notte di bagordi mi sveglio la mattina e diretto senza nemmeno prendere un caffè vado a fare un comizio senza alcuna preparazione, ma non può succedere al presidente degli stati uniti
Not victim blaming nor defending Adobe because fuck them, but... It's not a cancellation fee and they're actually nice to let you cancel earlier.
I explain: when you sign up, you can choose between monthly commitment or yearly commitment. Yearly commitment has a much lower monthly fee because they want to discourage occasional usage, but many individuals wouldn't like to pay the huge yearly sum in a single payment, and in this case they offer a yearly plan with monthly installments. (For a big company instead is the opposite, they prefer paying the huge sum and get a single invoice instead of 12 invoices - less work for the accounting dept). Yearly plan with monthly installments isn't the same of a monthly plan.
So, technically, the user agreed to a 1-year contract and they're even nice to let you go out earlier by just paying back the discount that you got in the meantime, like if you subscribed monthly. If you think about it, it's almost unheard. With most yearly contracts, there's no possibility of early cancellation. Even Amazon, that label themselves "the most consumer friendly company" doesn't easily give partial refunds to unused Prime subscriptions.
Regarding the chargeback, in my country all the banks except American express would reject it as you got the service as stated in the contract
Now that I almost defended Adobe, fuck them and always try to find an alternative to their products before giving a single penny to them
For a professional, what Acrobat pro can do is not available in any other program and (don't tell Adobe!) only 50 cents a day is an incredible deal
For example you can scan a sheet of paper, it does OCR on it and creates a font that matches exactly the one on page, then you can change words and sentences without changing the look of it.
Trim pages, remove elements, edit embedded images and vectors with other programs (doesn't need to be made by Adobe but it works better if it is). Change margins, fonts, colors, flow text differently, change the line spacing. Have a preview how color will change when printed, see if spot colors are used and change them in different ways. Edit transparencies, use plugins for extended repetitive work. Convert the fonts to outlines if the font has some kind of DRM and doesn't allow embedding, resulting in visual difference between other computers.
The nerfed standard edition at 10 euro per month instead isn't worth anything
I wouldn't use those features even if they were available for everyone.
Why the hell do you need a pip window to watch a 30 seconds video while you do something else?
Why would you let the app automatically download garbage shorts that the algorithm decided that you are going to like
I donated to the Tibor guy and I feel betrayed for how he managed the situation
It's always a danger when a malicious company purchases a famous open source project.
Like that israeli adware company that bought simple mobile tools
Mondo TV makes copycat cartoons with bad storytelling, bad drawing and bad dubbing, to be sold in those €2 DVDs in the supermarket bargain bins
I have the feeling that half a million is the profit of a decade
Why the fuck are they using a cloud tts on an Android device??? Can't they use on device tts?? Seems extremely stupid for no reason
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It's expensive. They are paying a fee to the third party tts provider each single time someone needs a response. They boast "no subscriptions" - that means those fees are paid only by new customer purchases. Ponzi 2.0
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It's fucking expensive. Elevenlabs tts voices costs thousands of dollars per month plus $0.18 per 1000 characters. Ask the history of a monument and the verbose result that the LLM regurgitated costs them $0.15. Are they banking on the fact that most customers would just shelf the device after a day?
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It's slower. Each time the device needs to reply, it needs to stream an audio file instead of a few bytes of compressed text
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For the more realistic voices it's only cheaper in the short term. I get it - they don't like the robotic free voices and licensing a good closed source one costs money. But then you don't need to pay the "cloud" forever. Did they plan to shut down shortly after the launch? Where the money for running each user in a VM is coming out? (I saw from a YouTube video that it looked like they were using a browser automation tool in a VM)
At this point since everything is run on the cloud (=somebody else's computer) this could not only be a smartphone app, but a smartwatch app.
I wonder if they will just fold and do a rug pull now blaming the hackers or fix the problem.
Fixing the problem seems difficult for them - need to fully rewrite the app and having everything proxied through their authenticated server, increasing their expenses (and a rushed fix isn't secure/tested). But their money comes only from new investors and new customers, and at this point I doubt that they can sell more units or scam more investors.
also, when you have 5g failover on the router and the fiber it's down, it automagically continues to work without admin intervention
A occhio so riesce a vedere la reputazione dell'indirizzo ip? Quasi quasi complice il fatto che non c'è setup fee mi faccio una VPN privata che oggigiorno troppi siti bloccano le VPN...
I was also thinking like that until I discovered that the only dude on XDA that was packaging all kind of roms for my short lived Xiaomi, was doing it on random servers (hacked servers? He was always complaining on his telegram channel that he couldn't find VMs with enough RAM or that "didn't last enough") and he sold the phone one year before so couldn't test it. Just running a script and if it compiles, it ships.
After I finished to read his telegram channel I restored the original android 8 firmware and flipped it on eBay...
"We're committed to release firmware updates to our devices at least until 2026" - says a company that launched a device with a 3 years old version of android.
(it's a tablet in a smartphone form factor, it doesn't have cellular connectivity)
For reference, android 14 was announced 6 months before the launch of this device.
It's a bit surprising that Google still allows device certification with such ancient, unsupported and vulnerable OS.
All the marketing materials don't say which CPU it's using except "Qualcomm octa core CPU" - that means nothing as the description could apply to the Snapdragon 415, which was a low end slow system on a chip released ten years ago. Maybe it could explain why they're using an ancient version of Android - the soc that they're using it's a leftover found in some warehouse and it's already unsupported by the manufacturer; they're forced to use android 11.
Multe ed elezioni
Cinque anni fa ho accidentalmente scordato una rata dell' IMU
Il comune ha aperto una pratica ad APRILE e... L'ha lasciata in un cassetto fino all'11 giugno, data dell'invio raccomandata.
A parte che sono abbastanza fetenti per ricordarmelo dopo tutto questo tempo, ci sono anni di sanzioni e interessi che potevo risparmiare se me l'avessero notificato 4 anni fa, ma l'intera operazione a me puzza di "ordini venuti dall'alto", come il sindaco che ha ordinato di non inviare alcun verbale finché non siano passate le elezioni.
Ma è possibile? O è solo una coincidenza che siano passati 3 mesi tra firma verbale e invio?
Prezzi veicoli usati
Mi si è spaccato il radiatore sul mio mezzo di trasporto privato, quindi sono andato a vedere tra i concessionari qualcosa di economico, considerando di rottamare il mio.
Avevo visto la pubblicità della panda che costa 9700 euro nuova. (Comunque ingannevole perché mostra una foto della panda cross full optional che costa quasi il doppio)
Dice il concessionario, no quel prezzo non esiste , la panda viene 16mila euro poi noi facciamo un bello sconto di 3000. Bello! Lo sconto di 3000 in realtà però lo mette lo stato...
Ho chiesto se c'era qualcosa di usato. Dice no, tutto l'usato costa più del nuovo. E mi ha portato a vedere tutte le panda usate che ha nel parcheggio col prezzo sul parabrezza. Tutte ex noleggio, 14000 se pagate in contanti o 12500 se pagate con la loro formula "96 rate + 3 anni di super Kasko" che te la farà pagare 25mila. Ehi ma due tagliandi sono in regalo! Certo perché ha senso fare i tagliandi su un'auto fuori garanzia (olio e filtri comunque te li fanno pagare)
Alla fine mi mostra la panda usata più economica che ha. (Quella in foto iniziale) Me la venderebbe a quasi 1000 euro in più di quanto sarebbe costata nuova, con 8 anni e 70mila km in più.
Sono andato via con un "ci penso" e sono andato da un altro concessionario. Stessa storia stessi prezzi
Non riesco proprio a capire la logica di questi prezzi - c'è qualcuno che compra mezzi di trasporto pagandoli così? O è "scacchi 4d" per cercare di dirottare l'acquirente a comprare un "salotto su ruote" in leasing "visto che costa poco più al mese". La panda usata in 96 rate con Taeg 8% ha una rata simile a un SUV...
In its services and repair terms and conditions, Google says it will keep devices sent in for repair if they have a non-OEM part.
"please don't buy our phones"
Torna il leak McDonald's
Anche per questo Summer days qualcuno su xiaohongshu (un clone di reddit+Twitter cinese) ha postato il leak delle promozioni
Il numero prima di 🈷️ indica il mese, poi c'è il giorno
Let's pay millions to train a model on memes and sarcastic posts, WCGW?
Google artificial "intelligence" suggested to add glue to let cheese stick to the pizza, because a decade ago user fucksmith on reddit said so
Did tiktok change something?
I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like "what do you think, scam or not". I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the "play" button with a fake button that leads to google play.
I assume that there's no way to watch it anymore without an account and without the app, right?
Syncthing saved my ass
Note for Americans: here WhatsApp is the de facto communication standard. Literally nobody uses SMS/iMessage/Facebook messenger/signal. And carriers still charge 2 euro for a MMS which completely kills iMessage/RCS (if accidentally send MMS, it's expensive)
I switched phones and instead of copying manually /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp I used the new feature of pairing via qr code.
Besides that's a not very well designed feature (you need to start transfer on the old phone before logging in the new phone) because they really want to store unencrypted backups on Google drive, the transfer completed in a short time.
Maybe too fast, I was expecting at least one hour to transfer the 5000 photos 10gb, instead it completed in 20 seconds.
So I told myself, ok photos not transferred, I'll just do that manually and directly put them in the photo archive on my PC rather than keep them mixed with all the "happy holidays" trash.
I browse the old phone to /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp and... It's empty. Wiped clean after the "successful" transfer process!
Luckily I had set syncthing (the fork on fdroid, the one on play store doesn't have access to whole storage) to have a full overnight backup! On my PC I still had all the photos, almost deleted too as I noticed that I didn't set the "trash can" option
Conclusion: go to download syncthing fork from fdroid and have a safety net from mistakes like this
Olio di Sansa?
Ciao avete mai provato l'olio di Sansa? Per me ho sempre preso l'extra vergine, però ho fatto un errore
Domattina vengono a trovarmi degli amici coreani che fanno un giro turistico dell'Europa (o un tour de force direi, magari potrei fare un post ulteriore domani)
Mi dicono che passano a trovarmi e se posso comprare un po' di roba per loro che la vorrebbero e non riescono a trovare il tempo per andare al supermercato. Mi mandano una lista colossale. Ho pochissimo tempo quindi invece di andare al supermercato vado al penny market. Torno a casa con 15kg di cibo mediocre e vedo che invece dell'olio extravergine ho comprato l'olio di Sansa, tanicone da 5 litri: hanno espressamente richiesto il tanicone di acciaio ed era l'unico sullo scaffale, e avevo solo 5 minuti prima della chiusura, non mi sono accorto del problema
Avete mai provato quest'olio? Quanto è terribile se usato crudo su bruschette? Meglio dire che era esaurito o faccio finta di nulla? Per confronto una volta gli diedi una bottiglia di spumante dolce e per loro era una delicatezza assoluta da finire subito a gozzate
Dating site clearly states on ToS that all the hot girls nearby you are bots
And of course they want a credit card on file for "age verification" 😉 or they won't let you chat with the bots
L'odio insensato contro le biciclette
Sono andato a lavoro in bicicletta. Grazie alla lungimiranza della pianificazione stradale a misura di auto, ci sono due modi di arrivare a destinazione:
- allungare di 3 km
- fare 200 metri contromano
La strada è stretta e le auto vanno veloci, quindi vado sul marciapiede. Attenzione però. La città è a misura di auto, quindi è uno di quei marciapiedi larghi 20 cm. SPINGO la bicicletta a mano. Non pedalo, SPINGO e quindi vado alla stessa velocità di un pedone. Arriva un pedone dall'altra parte, nessun problema, tanto sto SPINGENDO la bici, scendo dal minimarciapiede per fare passare meglio. Si incazza! "Voi ciclisti di merda!!! Questo è contromano, non si può andare sul marciapiede!!!"
Ma che CAZZO vuole??? Sto SPINGENDO la bici!!! Sono equivalente a una mamma che spinge un passeggino, anche per lei è vietato???
A quel punto arriva anche il paladino della situazione e che si deve far vedere splendido e che pensando che io andassi a 30 sui minimarciapiedi inizia ad attaccarmi "io chiamo la polizia, guidare così è mortale!!!"
Ma mortale di cosa??? Ma hai visto che cosa è successo? Guarda proprio te che stai passeggiando su un marciapiede di 20 cm con un labrador gigante, stai prendendo molto più spazio di me che SPINGO la mia bicicletta!
Mi viene voglia di seguire il consiglio di land rover e parcheggiare la portaerei di 6 metri sul marciapiede come fanno tutti per "dominare la città"
Vengon fatte piste ciclabili e la gente si incazza perché le strade sono più strette e ci sono meno parcheggi, ma allo stesso tempo esigono che chi va in bicicletta prenda una pista ciclabile fantasma
Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware
One of those two sites is distributing adware. Which of them?
File Converter (FOSS) by Adrien Allard was hosted on file-converter[.]org since a decade. Then someone a few weeks ago snatched that domain and it's now distributing adware. Almost identical design for the page, 100% designed to deceive users to download a different product, as it's called Zamzar.
Batteries in a disposable lip gloss dispenser
And the label doesn't say anything about it, doesn't have the "don't throw in the trash" logo.
Those LEDs are glued in, there's no way to remove batteries before discarding the item
Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
Super fund boss and Google Cloud global CEO issue joint statement apologising for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ outage
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too
Google cloud ceo says "it won't happen anymore", it's insane that there's the possibility of "instant delete everything"
Make your contacts less anonymous with Micopi
Create unique contact pictures
I turned on my old HTC espresso after a decade and I remembered that I loved this app.
It creates an unique profile image for contacts without a profile picture
So now when you open the contact list instead of having a list of capital letters in a circle you have a list of capital letters in a more colorful circle
Unfortunately it's now outdated and discontinued, but it still works on Android 14.
Seems like some asshole took the source code and republished the app as is, without credit, in the Amazon app store to get some financial incentive (around 2014 blackberry paid devs to republish their apps and many assholes decided that it was a good idea to "steal" open source apps)
After this, dev took development private but then got tired of the update treadmill that Google forces on the play store, so the apps were automatically delisted.
Luckily, fdroid doesn't have such artificial limitations on outdated apps that still work as intended.
Arrivano i piani energetici a costo fisso: solo a me paiono una truffa colossale?
Per i nuovi clienti Fastweb Energia è disponibile in tre profili sulla base dei consumi annui con canone mensile bloccato per 12 mesi.
Include anche le tasse e il costo del trasporto, però mi pare assurdo pagare una quota fissa a prescindere dal consumo. Se sfori il consumo che avevi concordato l'anno precedente, l'eccedenza è fatturata a quasi il 1000% sopra il PUN, e se invece consumi meno di quanto avevi concordato, regali soldi all'utility.
Quasi nessuno è in grado di poter stabilire con un anno di anticipo il consumo previsto, a meno che non sia per esempio una server room con consumi costanti nel tempo
Mi ha beccato la polizia dei minatori
(all'interno un jpg ultraricompresso stile deep fried memes con classico scam "la polizia dei minori ti denuncia mandaci qualche migliaio di euro per patteggiare")
Ondsel without registration?
I hate registering to websites. Especially when it's just to download FOSS.
It looks like there's no way to download Ondsel without registering?