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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:26AM (#30189021)
I recently reported a hate speech targeted at Indian minority (not Muslim). The text literally had gen$c!d3 threats and other usual trigger words in it, and there were like copy paste of same post in thousands (probably a campaign). Facebook replied "does not violate their conditions blah blah".
Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:40AM (#30020002)
You want to decrease volume? In windows 10 it was 2 clicks, now it's 3 also you have to locate the slider because there are more than one slider in that area now.

Ask HN: How to estimate my stories properly and not let them overflow

I am currently struggling with this issue where I am not able to estimate efforts properly for stories and they get moved out of the sprint because I could not finish them on time.There are multiple reasons for that.1. I work on a legacy codebase and our lead told us to refactor along with normal task. It means every story has some wider scope that it looks from the title and description.2. I...

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By Indian state you mean the federal govt. States have their own official languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status...

Could you please explain the process of collecting these names?
Re:Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:51AM (#28561735)
I did not have facebook account and created one recently. Everyone whom I added was not in US and was not remotely connected to US politics but for some reasons facebook thought I would like "Briertbart" and some anti vaxx related pages and posts. Keep in mind that I have no messages sent and other info and use facebook inside a mozilla container, one top of that I am not even anti vaxxer. But still they promoted all those things to me.
They aren't naïve at all, you are naïve. India's decline in democracy index is not an accident.
Re:Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020) on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @04:16AM (#26313401)
Any chance of getting Lineage OS support for the Poco X3?
Stupid question: how did you reverse the app in Android Studio?
Most of the procrastination is on Wednesday. Do you work on weekends and take a day off on Wednesdays?
They tried similar thing in India and it was shutdown because it violated net neutrality laws.

Ask HN: How can I improve my design documentation?

I am usually good at creating design and architecture for the problem at hand, but I really suck in documentation.I get confused between different UML diagrams and how to put the architecture in different blocks and represent relationship between them? OR how much should this sequence diagram cover? Should it be covered in flow diagram or sequence diagram.This is holding me back and I have no...

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Ah! You don't know nothing about the Indian state we are discussing. It's Uttar Pradhesh, sorta like Florida of India.
Rajasthan govt is doing it right, they are giving special ID cards to people with special services.