Dear Google, I find it quite abusive how you tend to use your own product (gmail, of all) to communicate to your users telling them you are *not able* to communicate per e-mail, by using a "no-reply@google.com" from-field. Furthermore, it is highly illogical for you to switch areas to be blurred in streetview, and then claim there is no switching it off at all. How is it even possible then, for Google to know which areas need to be blurred and which do not have to be blurred ? What kind of strange code do you use, where you seem unable to use proper switches (i.e. either ON or OFF, like with every normal switch)? Here's an idea: Out of your gigantic for-profit earnings, put 100k a year…

what3words? Tried using it, for about a month, only to find nobody was prepared to also install the app, or remember 3 words chosen by an unknown third party, or clicking "Navigate to" in that app and then opening Google Maps, while having been obliged to create an account with them, which by that point on android phones is already being milked as advertiser food because they're opened using just 1 Google account that happens to be on the same device. It's just another deep hole towards collecting big data from innocent android users. If anything, it seems to be trying to patent location info, which is ridiculous. And the "///" seem to be a way to induce thoughts of a protocol being used, but it isn't really…

Da's wel erg makkelijk hè? Asociaal herrie maken, en dan zeggen dat de ander dat moet tolereren omdat ze leven in een grote stad. Zo groot is die stad trouwens niet. Bangkok, *dat* is een grote stad. Daar is het, naar verhouding tot het verkeer en aantal mensen, muisstil, viel me op. Je mag best geluid maken, maar wij leerden als kinderen om *niet te hard* te praten op straat, en zeker niet 's avonds, wij leerden rekening te houden met wat anderen misschien als afleidend of storend zouden kunnen ervaren. Ook dieren trouwens, in een bos bijv. Als je in de natuur met heel veel hard getetter kinderen hoort kwebbelen, en de ouders/groepsleiders zeggen daar niets van, dan weet ik al meteen hoe laat het is. Een…

Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Clearly Gmail use their Spam 'detection' as a non-stop alpha version test-system, there's generally an alarming number of false positives in their Spam folder, or, wait, they don't call it a folder, they *label* it as being spam. I have been running my own mail-server(s) ever since the BBS/fidonet days in the 1990s, and I can assure you, the reader; I do know how email works, I know what each header in an email means, I know why and when it gets blocked, bounced, deferred, queued, tagged, blacklisted, you name it. Been there, done it all. And that's why I'm so fed up with google's attempts to monopolize the email-sphere by forcing all other mail service providers to jump through unpredictable hoops in order…

So, Articles 11 and 13 have been approved by MEPs. Very bad news for the internet. Unless member states push back, Google News (among others) will shut down across the EU and all kinds of censorship mechanisms will become widespread. Creators and social media will not benefit. Amazing how time and time again those sociopaths in powerful positions, when they see something that works well, they manage to fuck it all up. GDPR also proved to be a disaster for internet in the EU but this will be even worse. And, as always, apparently the MEP's that voted in favor didn't even know what they are really voting on, because the result will just be the total opposite of what they hoped to achieve; - It will be…

Fun fact; Blockchain technology doesn't require any mining AT ALL, no cracking hashes, no crunching of numbers. Another fun fact: A good reliable functional cryptocurrency does not require mining AT ALL. It's an insane idea brought forward by virtual value backed by nothing (about the same as the one behind the dollar and euro today), implying that one has to do 'something special' in order to create new currency. A so-called 'proof of work' consensus algorithm. Completely unneeded. Mining is a deplorable wasteful mechanism by which only retards think they 'create value'. Mathematical and cryptography advancements have long surpassed any requirement of having to crunch numbers in order to 'create' new virtual currency. Funniest fact: Bitcoin creation ends when a set amount of them has been created by…

Dear people at Microsoft, Last year I rebuilt my desktop PC. Made sure it was all compatible, stable, reliable and tested new hardware. My previous Desktop PC had Win7 x64 and Linux Debain dual-booting. So at first I installed Linux on my new hardware, and ran a lot of Windows apps through wine and virtual options, but they still left a lot to be desired. I love debian for servers, would never do without it, but linux on desktop still does not entirely do it for me, I miss certain tiny tools and software, my USB-audio interface (Lynx Hilo) didn't function to its full extent, and performance differences are still very much apparent in some libraries and drivers (that is to say; Working natively in Windows they perform…