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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unlawful harvesting of jellyfish? Dave the Diver.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Eh, it depends. Other low-level things (systemd, glibc, etc) need a reboot too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's likely because they use it as the primary/unique identifier for the account, which is just dumb. It's like they've never heard of a UUID/GUID before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

CBOE will create options for it pretty soon after IPO, probably that week or the next. You'll definitely be able to buy puts on it before you'll be allowed to short sell it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They really don't, though. Inclusion/exclusion operators work most of the time, but it'll still return results with explicitly-excluded keywords. It also fucks up results by returning entries with similar words to your query, even when you double-quote a part of the search term. Advanced queries that use booleans and logical AND/OR don't work at all anymore, that functionality has been completely removed. It returns what it thinks you want, not what you actually want, even when explicitly crafting a query to be as specific as possible.

I use Kagi for search now and it's 1000x better, especially when researching technical issues; it's like when Google actually respected your search terms and query as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The fact they can legally charge a subscription for a fitted feature that does not pose any continuous cost for the company is insane

It's called "Rent-Seeking Behavior" and it has infected essentially every single fucking millimeter of the market.

You'll own nothing and you'll fucking like it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

Does liber office make .docx files and export to pdf?

It does. It's fine as a replacement for Word, but no one has an answer for Excel. LibreOffice Calc is fine for a basic spreadsheet, but Excel is in a completely different universe than Calc with anything beyond that.

To be fair though, Excel is in a completely different universe than literally any other competing product.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

The fact that Firefox isn’t listed as a browser alternative but Brave is throws any credibility that this article might have straight into the garbage.

Suggesting Brave anything throws its credibility into the shitter, much less multiple times in multiple categories.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The EU has no enforcement ability outside of their own borders regardless of what they tell you.

So uh, you think Google doesn't operate or do business in the EU? They have 20+ offices there. In the example I gave, they would 100000% be subject to GDPR, fullstop; it's not a question, matter of opinion, or debate. They'd even be subject to it if an EU citizen was physically inside the US on vacation and opened a Fi account while they were here.

You EU guys are brainwashed and gullible to a level on par with N Koreans.

I'm from Virginia and knowing compliance stuff (GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, NIST 800-*, etc) is a requirement of my job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Weird. In the email I received, I just clicked the first link and a page opened letting me know I had opted out.

Yeah, not for me. It just went to the main Fi account page when I actually got it to open instead of it trying to open in the Fi app. Maybe an A/B test or something, I don't know.

What I do know is that I just switched wireless carriers, because fuck all that noise. That shit really rubbed me the wrong way. I might be on the road to completely divorcing myself from Google at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Or just click the link that says to opt out. It will opt you out without doing anything else.

There's no link in the email to opt out. The email gives you instructions on how to opt out and a link to the Fi website, but no direct link.

The instructions also don't work by default, because once you log in to the Fi website, it automatically redirects you to the Fi app which conveniently doesn't have the opt out option available to toggle. You have to either uninstall the Fi app or manually turn off its ability to open fi.google.com URLs to actually opt out.

I don't think that was an accident for even half a second, and I'm pretty sure that it just pushed me to switch carriers.

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