Hacker News: pca

New comment by pca in "Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report"

pca — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:27:12 +0000

Doesn't Microsoft use a thousand different domains, most of which look sketchy? What if you receive an email from microsofts-support@live.com? Could you immediately tell that it is not legitimate compared to, e.g. contact@microsoftsupport.com?

New comment by pca in "Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables"

pca — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 13:31:14 +0000

I did not know about PublishTrimmed and will try it out. Thank you.

New comment by pca in "Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables"

pca — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 10:52:33 +0000

I think a standalone "Hello World", built with .NET Core, is around 60-70 MB large on both Linux and Windows. The startup times are alright - slower on Windows than on Linux in my experience because of the file system performance.

New comment by pca in "Firefox 73"

pca — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:39:22 +0000

Same, except I used Chrome's classic colours: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/familiar-blue...

The only thing I'm really missing is how easily you can set up and switch between different profiles in Chrome.

New comment by pca in "The PGP Problem"

pca — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:02:48 +0000

Signal-Desktop works even when your phone is turned off.

New comment by pca in "Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago"

pca — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:34:49 +0000

I was planning on looking into how to best document it the next time it happens, and whom exactly to report it to (i.e. the national or European data protection authority). Not sure if there is anything else I could do.

New comment by pca in "Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago"

pca — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:12:05 +0000

I did the same thing, and yet every couple of years some of those deleted items reappear on the news feed of my second account that I only use to double-check my privacy settings.

It's an European account and I'm wondering if only marking the content as deleted, instead of actually deleting it, violates the GDPR.

New comment by pca in "After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?"

pca — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:47:39 +0000

If you revoke location permissions, Google still guesses it accurately, for me at least, "from your search history", as it says at the bottom of the search results page - even when you're not signed in (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/wU8EZUA). I wouldn't mind if they just used the IP address to locate me, but why use the search history? If I wanted Google to know my exact location, I wouldn't have revoked the permissions for it.

New comment by pca in "Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'"

pca — Fri, 27 May 2016 10:35:09 +0000

It's more of a notification than a question dialogue. It tells you that Windows 10 is a "recommended update" now (instead of optional which it was before). That means no matter how you close the window, now you'll get the update unless you actively disable it in time.

New comment by pca in "Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'"

pca — Fri, 27 May 2016 10:17:07 +0000

How many of the hundreds of millions of people using Windows computers are affected like this that don't have someone tech-savy to ask for help? There's no possible way Microsoft didn't think of this scenario, which can only mean that they simply do not care.

New comment by pca in "Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'"

pca — Fri, 27 May 2016 10:03:57 +0000

Thanks for the warning. I'm not sure if they're being sleazy or just unthoughtful and incompetent. I already lost an afternoon with family, which I don't get to see that often, because I was forced to fix things that went wrong on their devices after the unexpected update. I had told them to "Just click the red x for now,if a message about Windows 10 pops up".

New comment by pca in "Dropbox Project Infinite"

pca — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:19:57 +0000

I think they'll bring it back in the summer, but didn't find a more recent source than this: https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/o...

New comment by pca in "Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream”"

pca — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:45:20 +0000

We've read the speech in school in Germany. Not from a textbook, but simply a copied text, from the internet I presume. Was that illegal? I think every class did. A relative who was a few years behind me also read it, with a different teacher.

New comment by pca in "Windows 8.1 Preview"

pca — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:50:25 +0000

If your titlebar has a dark background color, text and the minimize/maximize buttons are still unrecognizable. Is it so uncommon to use a dark color scheme that no one who works on this cares to fix it?

New comment by pca in "Why I use Windows 8"

pca — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:06:12 +0000

Win+W lets you search Settings directly instead of Apps. You can also press if after you've already typed your search term. (In case you don't want to reach for the mouse)

New comment by pca in "Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male"

pca — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:15:04 +0000

Take a look at the HN circle on Google+. That's definitely not just 77% male.

New comment by pca in "New Dropbox Pro plans"

pca — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:14:47 +0000

It wasn't a login, you had to have at least one file on your skydrive before the recent merge to keep the 25GB. Effectively you now can get e.g. 45GB for 10$ a year. Dropbox' old 50GB for 10$ a month plan was a joke in comparison.

New comment by pca in "Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else"

pca — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:43:51 +0000

Windows Live Calendar nowadays is very similar to Google Calendar. It should be possible to sync it e.g. with Android via ActiceSync. Some time ago I managed to do this with Android 2.3. I don't have this setup any more, so if you need details try searching for "windows live activesync" or something similar.

New comment by pca in "Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 Released"

pca — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:19:48 +0000

Well, other Linux distributions show a similar trend for "$distroName linux" search terms: http://goo.gl/lTewt

Even "linux" alone seems to have a downward trend by that measurement: http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux&ctab=0&geo=all&...

New comment by pca in "IE9 Release Candidate now available"

pca — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:26:45 +0000

I've noticed something very tiny: Using the Windows Classic theme on Windows 7 x64, the close button of the Favorites Bar (the black X with the mouseover text "Close the Favorites Center") isn't displayed properly if the bar is very slim. Oddly on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 this doesn't happen, because here the Favorites Bar has an extra button "Add to Favorites" and the 'X' is on that button's row.

http://i.imgur.com/OgEt2.png (nevermind the "InPrivate" in the left example, in the normal mode the bar looks exactly the same)