Joint checking, joint investments, joint credit cards. A couple inherited accounts that we kept in their individual name. We don't worry about it.

Same here. Everything joint except for a credit card on both sides that are individual but are really old accounts so they help our credit scores.

MAC address would work for this, no? Wouldn't solve the spoofing but solves the dynamic IP address issue.

MAC addresses are not exposed to web sites, and for good reason. It would be the mother of all supercookies.

Wouldn't a supercookie like that make things more secure though? You could even use it for fingerprinting to help combat things like spam.

MAC address cannot be seen past your local gateway.

MAC addresses aren't sent over the Internet.

Given the investment going into Flutter for cross-platform mobile (and now desktop and web) development, I would be very surprised to see Dart get Google Readered.

To be honest, the investment into Flutter pales in comparison to Android (mobile, TV, ChromeOS, etc.). Flutter has always been a side project.

> Firefox Send

What a letdown to see this service so quickly retired.

Despite current leadership, none of the FAANG companies were founded by MBAs.

if anyone has the resources to figure out this magic incantation, it would be Google.

It’s not that difficult a command compared to what is possible with ffmpeg. But it’s also a pretty common enough task that literally the first result for using DDG with “ffmpeg concatenate without reencoding” gave: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49371422/how-to-merge-tw...

- Embed ads into the video itself, as suggested above

- Stream ad start/end events to the browser, with no duration info

- On sending the start event, lock the user's session such that they can't change their position within the video. lock it server-side, and client-side. Start event will include details of the ad being displayed for any interactivity.

- Unlock the session after the duration of the ad has elapsed, which is only known server-side. Then send the end event to the browser so it can be unlocked client-side.

you could still block that ad, you would just be delaying people. the browser plugin could fake stream the ad before you click play. it still means you have to wait sometimes, but you won't have to actually watch the ad. The big problem with this is that now you're heavily incentivizing people to spoof ad watching to get around it, and then you start having trouble measuring the real numbers, which advertisers won't be happy about

What a great mode that would be. I would probably skip a lot of movies during this period like “do I really want to watch this?”

just to counter... i'm on a desktop that's a few years old, i7. win10. start menu loads instantly, settings loads in maybe 1/4 of a second. YMMV?

Probably the icons for the Windows Store entries were already in the cache for you. Things work the second time, but the fact that it's unpredictable makes the experience less smooth than what it was before.

Also I have things like ,,Candy Crash Friends'' icon that's very bright, takes my focus away on what I want to do, and I don't know how to turn it off, as I don't find it in the settings (to tell you the truth, I haven't even played it, but I'm waiting for Cyberpunk 2077, so I don't want to try other games right now).

Why don't you remove those things?

Same, but on a new laptop. Ryzen 5 4500U. Maybe it'll degrade with time, but I remember how bad the Windows 10 start menu used to be on a fresh install. Nearly unusable. It's fine now for me.

I have a client using this... https://decisions.com/

I do not disagree with you.

I visited France a few years ago. It was incredible how e.g. the entire Vieux Port market in Marseille would close down from roughly 1-3pm. Just about nothing was open. Storefronts, restaurants, all closed. Seemed like a very peaceful place to make a living. I guess money's not everything.

Have not been to that specific market, but I know other market sellers (farmers) in Canada.

Probably what you are not seeing is that these market sellers woke up at 4 am to get ready for the market, and drive > 1 hour from the rural areas to beat traffic and setup shop.

Then they take rest 1-3pm, and then continue until 6-7pm. Only to get home at 8pm and then still have to make dinner and rest.