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Re:Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:01AM (#45211080)
For me the real power of Wikipedia lies in its local language editions. English articles often reflect only positive perspective, while local versions bring fresh viewpoints. Local language have sharper criticism that gets toned down in English.
Re:Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:09AM (#26023314)
Trading stop with China would mean the US Phase 1 deal closing, which is far more advantageous to China than the EU deal.

Also Germany is not the whole EU, but yes Germany could have stopped this. Something only _Germany_ does is the gas pipe to Russia. Germany buys GAS from Russia with more than 20 nuclear reactors worth from the Mafia State.

On a positive side US is back to path for democracy. Go EU, go US!

Re:My Experience at Apple on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:57AM (#25628491)
Re:iMessage purgatory on Thursday May 15, 2014 @07:22AM (#7748801)
Sorry my fault. It's a scam.
Re:iMessage purgatory on Thursday May 15, 2014 @07:21AM (#7748794)
What's wrong with iMessage on Android app? http://imessageonandroid.com/

Why this exact same issue is poppup up in HN every now and then...

Re:Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty on Monday February 10, 2014 @07:03AM (#7210515)
Yes it does. It makes too simple for non-techical user to make the signal distorted. Distorted signal can damage a speaker, even in low volume. It's irrelevat to blame "the others do it too".

I've seen it happen many times in meetings. 1. Presenter shows a video and volume is low. 2. Presenter adds volume from VLC to 200% and sound signal gets distorted. 3. Sound is awful, no-one can hear anything and people are doing nothing to fix it, because they think that speakers are broken.

Please VLC, fix your player so that it has good sounding limiter on the "output". It's not difficult.