It's also quite awkward requiring others to spell the country with letters that don't exist in most alphabets, and therefore not on commonly used keyboards.
Sure you can make use of ü and others with some international layouts, but for laypeople it's rather cumbersome.
Imagine China would suddenly require everyone spelling it as 中国， nobody would even be able pronounce it, let alone write.
Post it on reddit, and that will end up as a google AI recommendation next week.
Why does everything sound like AI SEO slob nowadays.
Mullvad are Swedish and the most privacy respecting out there, so that's an excellent choice.
Why are cucumbers in plastic? Strange practice.
How is it a good thing to spray shit on an apple? They last plenty long without that garbage.
The vegan alternative tastes terrible.
And the meatballs are a blend of beef and pork in most countries. In Muslim places it's beef with chicken, in Sweden you sometimes get moose variants for special occasions.
Horse is not typically used for meatballs since the meat is too lean, you need fat as a binding agent and to prevent it from drying out.
There is no c in Frikadelle.
Yep. For the same reason I wouldn't visit Russia, Turkey, and the likes.
I wish that was true. But as someone manufacturing medical devices in China for the American market, I can tell you that some components can only be obtained from the US. Usually it's some very specific sensors that are patented by US companies, so even if knowhow to replicate them exists, I couldn't use those parts in devices I'm selling back to the States.
What that means is that I now have to buy several components at twice their normal going rate, which brings the total price of the machine up by around 20%, and then I sell the finished product back to the US with another 84% on top, making the product more than twice as expensive for the hospitals buying them. And knowing hospital practices in the US, they'll tack on their standard margin, so patients pay at least triple for the treatment.
The Shetlands and Orkneys are also missing entirely. So there's a few more for sure.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14206569
Hi all,
First off: Can't switch to Linux, Windows is a work requirement. Please spare me.
With that out of the way, here's my problem:
Since 2-3 days I've been seeing ads disguised as a minimized video player popup on my Windows 10 Login Screen
.
Initially I thought I might have been watching something on youtube and forgot to close the tab and it autoplayed in the background until reaching this stuff by chance; but that turned out not to be the case (I'm also using Firefox exclusively, which I thought wouldn't integrate with Windows, but I wasn't 100% sure on that end).
I tried to research this a bit, but the only similar case I found was in an old reddit thread saying that some Windows update installed the LinkedIn App for them, which is not the case here.
Antivirus (Bit Defender) and Malwarebytes both give me a clean report.
So I did some more digging and right click that thing with my firewall set to deny all to figure out where this is taking me, and surprise...
There's a total of 100 connection attempts from Windows Search to around 10 different IP addresses, all of which belong to Microsoft.
I have not installed any updates in the last 14 days, no new software, and have not changed any system settings.
What did change is that I am currently not in China, where I normally live, but am on a business trip to Malaysia, where a bunch of services that are blocked in China might be accessible, and are now splicing in those (somewhat disguised) ads.
Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you have an idea how to get rid of it?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Hi all,
First off: Can't switch to Linux, Windows is a work requirement. Please spare me.
With that out of the way, here's my problem:
Since 2-3 days I've been seeing ads disguised as a minimized video player popup on my Windows 10 Login Screen
.
Initially I thought I might have been watching something on youtube and forgot to close the tab and it autoplayed in the background until reaching this stuff by chance; but that turned out not to be the case (I'm also using Firefox exclusively, which I thought wouldn't integrate with Windows, but I wasn't 100% sure on that end).
I tried to research this a bit, but the only similar case I found was in an old reddit thread saying that some Windows update installed the LinkedIn App for them, which is not the case here.
Antivirus (Bit Defender) and Malwarebytes both give me a clean report.
So I did some more digging and right click that thing with my firewall set to deny all to figure out where this is taking me, and surprise...
There's a total of 100 connection attempts from Windows Search to around 10 different IP addresses, all of which belong to Microsoft.
I have not installed any updates in the last 14 days, no new software, and have not changed any system settings.
What did change is that I am currently not in China, where I normally live, but am on a business trip to Malaysia, where a bunch of services that are blocked in China might be accessible, and are now splicing in those (somewhat disguised) ads.
Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you have an idea how to get rid of it?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Hi all,
Just updated FF to 124.0.1 and now the whatsapp web view is broken. The text input field is somewhere in the upper third of the screen and in the background, overlayed by text boxes so that I can't actually select it. It's automatically selected when switching from one chat to another so I can type there, but only blind in most cases since any comment boxes overlap it.
Tried restarting, clearing cookies, re-authenticating, disabling all plugins, nothing worked.
Does anyone experience something similar and/or know a workaround?
Thanks!
Edit: Fixed by logging out of whatsapp web, clearing cookies, restarting the browser, and then logging back in. Neither of the steps had worked on its own previously, but the combination did the trick.
That looks useless on a catastrophic scale.