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holder for tickets for my local public transport, that I can attach to my bag

you may want to try out kagi.

google get worse, because they have a strong incentive to deliver ads, and a weaker incentive to deliver good results (see Cory Doctorow). Kagi is a subscription service, so their only incentive is to deliver good results.

on HN there are regularly good discussions on the topic, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852133

be sure to click on "sounds" an not "open sound settings", because these are obviously total different things.

solid blocks of plastic create microplastics when sitting in dirt?

Simple

it would be "simple", if start->settings wouldn't point me in an completely wrong direction. As it is, you need to know the secret phrase "device manager" (or "control panel" or "management console") to find the hidden settings-dialogs that will actually solve the problem.

have you tried cs.rin.ru?

have you tried cracking it yourself? (i.e. downloading it from steam, refunding it, and then applying some of the generic steam-cracks)

https://www.eigenmagic.com/2010/12/31/why-some-people-hate-microsoft-a-history-lesson/

it's worth the read, but the conclusion at the end is important

Who cares?

Well, everyone who uses a computer should, particularly if we consider what might have happened if Microsoft hadn’t abused their market power. When a monopolist abuses their power, customers all lose, because they don’t get to enjoy the more rapid improvements that robust competition provides. It’s one of the key reasons we think competition is a good thing.

[...] But lastly, and this is the big one for me, we might not have a monoculture of operating system on the Internet with such a poor security model.

[...] Imagine a world where Symantec didn’t exist, because viruses weren’t so easy to write and spread to all the world’s computers. Imagine a world where spam didn’t constitute 90% of all email because it wasn’t so easy to take over a PC and turn it into a botnet zombie. Imagine not having to do impromptu tech-support for family members who accidentally installed a bunch of spyware.

[...]Imagine all the time and money that has been, and continues to be, spent on fixing all of the issues that a better security model 10-15 years ago might have avoided.

In Summary

Microsoft have made (or bought) some excellent products, as they continue to do. There are many wise, capable, and perfectly reasonable people who work there, what with it being a big company and all. This is not a company that is an unrestrained force for evil in the world.

However.

Microsoft have a history of abusing market dominance in order to exclude competitors. Many of the top management running the company at the time are still there, running the company today.

Perhaps there will be no repeat performances, but there are very good reasons for greeting rhetoric from Microsoft regarding their openness with some scepticism.

Inflammatory headline aside, let me be clear that I don’t hate Microsoft. But I can understand why there are those who do.

I don't see how "scammers creating scam repos" [2] is newsworthy at all. At least the headline seems like a big nothing-burger to me.

farther down in the article are 2 interesting informations, namely this diagram [1] and the fact that scammers seem to have moved from pip to github, and then started to use forks to make their scam-clones appear more believable.

[1] https://apiiro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Malicious-Package-Timeline.png

[2] 1000 guys make 1000 clones of 1000 legit libraries, and than create 1000 forks of their clones, to make them seem more legit than the original lib. 999 of each 1000 clones get autofiltered by github

--> 100010001000*1000/1000 = 1.000.000.000 infected repos(inkluding forks) and 1.000.000 (wihout forks).

so the number of 100.000 infected repos doesn't seem to be interesting or unexpected in any way.

if they are not shown going the the toilet, they're canonically in voluntary urinary retention

I'd unironically like to see that.