[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

They don't care a hoot about security. One look at Play Store which is filled with at best, low quality ad infested knockoffs to outright malware.

In fact, I would argue that Play Store is worse because they actively try to influence user's intent by showing sponsored apps first.

In my country, Google has actively promoted apps of companies that were basically educational pyramid schemes and later fell. Even now, sponsored listings in Play Store for stuff like Learn Ethical Hacking filled with same fake reviews is promoted at top and Google has no problem with that.

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I couldn't find a high quality version than this and unless I rip the film back to my PC and take a screenshot; I won't get a better image.

This was the Indian actor/director's favorite film, 6 years in the making, and a spectacular commercial disaster. Audience rejected it with so much furore that it almost made him bankrupt. With a runtime longer than Gone With The Wind and with a soundtrack that is a last whiff of the golden age of Hindi soundtracks ; it's a flawed masterpiece.

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Probably Bergman's most critically acclaimed film, this scene of the protagonist playing chess with Death is a cinematic peak.

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A commercial disaster, which caused the maverick director to stop making and go into depression; this semi autobiographical film about the rise and fall of a director would only get critical acclaim decades later.

Felini's iconic standout would come in 1963 but a little known Hindi film already existed, unknown, unappreciated even by it's own audience.

Filled with gorgeous cinematography and widescreen shots, it is only now that his films have started to be restored.

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Awaara, Raj Kapoor (1951) (discuss.tchncs.de)
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The first proper dream sequence in Hindi Cinema; this film catapaulted the actor- director to fame in USSR and Middle East.

Playing a Chaplinsque tramp like character, it's probably his peak probing the themes of nature vs nurture whilst embodying songs that hark back to the golden age of Hindi cinema.

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This is an alternate poster of the film and hence not in highest quality. However, I feel it to be of greater effect that the main one. This is probably the greatest of all propaganda films ever made with the iconic Odessa sequence being unmatched in cinematic history

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This is a Polish language poster for this Karlovy award winning film. The actor/director was huge in erstwhile Eastern Bloc.

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Pirating newsletters (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Paywalls have become part and parcel of the modern Web it seems. And despite helpful extensions like BPC, there are always many sites where one is constrained to compromise. Many sites also keep stuff like newsletters for subscribers only.

In this specific example, The Verge has launched two new variants and both are behind a paywall. Whilst the site itself works with BPC, is there a way to access the newsletters?

Of course, you might ask why I don't pay. It's because it's exceptionally hard. Ironically for a tech company, Verge took the nonsensical step of NOT having regional specific pricing. So, they are currently more expensive than YouTube, Play Pass and local newspaper subscription combined in my country.

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Million dollars (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Is this a roundabout way of saying that they wish to hire folks on a short term basis, make them work really hard, pay pennies on the dollar and then fire them?

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

IIRC, they banned it from Mozilla Addon Store quite some time ago. But it can still be easily sideloaded and once done, will be auto updated as well. It works on both desktop and mobile as well.

I think the controversial nature of the extension caused them to remove it from AMO.

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I would respectfully disagree. Samsung already gates features for it's phones and now it is gating features to GW 8 despite there being no new sensor upgrade from previous generation. The Antioxidant Index and Vascular load, is just gated to GW 8 for the heck of it and one is not even sure how accurate it is.

There was the Stress thing which I don't even use on my GW 6 because it's err, completely useless. It aims to measure physical stress using HRV but is completely out of touch to how I feel. The only thing it does decently is music streaming and sleep tracking.

And then there is the Achilles' Heel, Battery life. Samsung 's Tizen watches used to last for two/three days and Wear OS is a significant downgrade even the Ultra variants. They have not taken any cues either from Mobvoi or Oneplus (either dual display or dual chip). Charging sucks as well. On GW 4, it was so slow that I wished to throw it. 10W WPC is better but it again overheats and throttles in hot climate.

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Pyaasa - Guru Dutt (1957) (discuss.tchncs.de)
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The Spanish poster. One of the entries in Time's Hundred Films of All time.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Back in the day, malware makers could only dream of collecting as much data as Gemini does.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For a minute, I thought I was in [email protected] community.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

How is this relevant to Linux memes?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Where's the meme in this?

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

I have YouTube Premium though not the Family variant and Google won't just fix their app. It is way behind NewPipe or YouTube ReVanced. No, I don't need shorts. No I don't need constant nudges to join groups of YouTubers by paying after I just paid you money, Google!

What I want is system wide quality setting (what exactly does High or Data Saver mean; would it kill you to give 480p, 720p or 1080p as options) or Sponserblock integration (okay, this thing is probably never gonna happen but still). YouTube 's app is a stinking pile of shit. I just use YouTube Music from them and will cancel/not renew my plan after it lapses.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

They aren't necessarily US specific. Wages not keeping up with inflation and rising cost of living is a factor from South Korea to Japan to Singapore as well. Some countries muck it up themselves like China with their one child policy back in the day (even the Chinese fertility rate has dipped below 2.2, I think).

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

They were heavily panned for that back then. My image of Ubuntu of that time is heavily associated with their Unity desktop which they latter dropped(only for it to spring up again).

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Microsoft should permanently recall the Recall feature.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Till 2019, <1 % of total rail in US was electrified according to Wikipedia? Is this true; considering that US was a world leader in terms of rail transport upto WW II, why the abysmally low numbers? I know that privatisation of rail networks and car centred cities makes life tough for rails, but 1 % is abysmally low for a developed nation.

In contrast, China is at 75% and India is at 93% respectively and both of them also have giant railway networks.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

The new one is just a web UI with options for streaming music. There were talks of the old original Winamp going open source though, which bought nostalgic memories to many. Eithercase, with so many music players on both Windows and Linux, I doubt Winamp would a niche case to fill.

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