Dieter Bohn

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Google is backtracking on the desktop search results redesign after the backlash this week. Expect your search result pages to start looking different as they experiment at scale with new placements. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jemelehill: I think I remember someone named Colin Kaepernick taking a knee to protest the police killings of unarmed black people and… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CaseyNewton: Today I'm publishing a story based on leaked documents and interviews confirming what I have long suspected: tech companie… — PolitiTweet.org

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In today’s newsletter: Remember AltaVista? Google doesn’t, which is why it’s inching every closer to repeating its… https://t.co/n67zRrU8Gq — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Adora: UPDATE: I have acquired the weird bathroom magazine from a local newsstand (!!) and am pleased to report it’s smart and wry and… — PolitiTweet.org

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@cramforce It’s a bad idea, generally. — PolitiTweet.org

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I once made a separate “room” for my strip light because I didn’t want google turning it off with the rest of my kitchen lights, but it always seemed to do it anyway. Finally figured out it was because the strip had “kitchen” in the light’s name. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cramforce https://t.co/oti0Gm0Ipp — PolitiTweet.org

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Thanks to everybody who replied quickly you can collect your $5 by DMing @mat — PolitiTweet.org

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Apparently it’s common knowledge that if the light is in the same room as a google speaker you get a chime and if not, you get a spoken response!! Deleted tweet, lost bet. It may not be common knowledge that this is a really stupid and annoying feature and I hate it. https://t.co/IvGNrsOHxV — PolitiTweet.org

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@omonomono Why not all rooms? — PolitiTweet.org

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@kylealden If you have two beers will it be a graceful degradation? — PolitiTweet.org

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Sometimes I choose not to tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @reckless: "I don't think there's any question" that antitrust action against Microsoft worked to create competition, House Antitrust Su… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BarbaraKrasnoff: @tyler7462 @backlon According to Apple's support page, "iCloud backups are available for 180 days after you disable or… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is going to be so incredible!!! — PolitiTweet.org

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@emilyyoshida Holy crap!! this is great! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @knguyen: Were you affected by the missing text messages from last Valentine's Day? @jake_k and I are putting together a fun project abo… — PolitiTweet.org

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@BarbaraKrasnoff The iMessage section especially! — PolitiTweet.org

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Excellent and straightforward how-to from @BarbaraKrasnoff. It is pretty wild that this is as complicated as it is and just as wild that getting this info directly from Apple's own documentation is so difficult. https://t.co/bcfRc0u6eW — PolitiTweet.org

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Furthermore I have gripes about how the new edge beta creates web apps that shorten the url and thereby fail utte… https://t.co/YuiUKaLV0L — PolitiTweet.org

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@jameslew @JenMsft It’s doubly frustrating because the events show up just fine in the Windows calendar app — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway good morning I'm glad I remembered this agenda bug exists otherwise would have missed two meetings today. — PolitiTweet.org

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(True story: several years ago we banned all Verge employees from using Windows calendar because it was rescheduling google events to the wrong timezone if you didn't happen to live in the timezone where the event was created. Was finally fixed but come on) — PolitiTweet.org

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On multiple machines now, the Windows agenda thingy when you click the taskbar clock doesn't show google calendar events sent to me by others that I have said yes to, it only shows the ones I've created. Such an elegant, smart feature completely undone by a stupid bug. — PolitiTweet.org

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Today’s newsletter is about Microsoft’s SDK for the Duo Android phone. Wait wait it’s interesting and relevant I promise! Instead of setting itself up for failure (cough Windows Phone), Microsoft’s planning for more elegant defaults than other foldables. https://t.co/NqFJrLHjl5 https://t.co/AU2KLdbnKI — PolitiTweet.org

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@fraserspeirs @Cirilla1253 @MaxWinebach @stroughtonsmith agree! With a side of this weakly held opinion: Windows 10 and iPadOS are rapidly evolving with clear end goals in mind while MacOS and Chrome OS have struggled to find their theory of what’s next for computing. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @evacide: Following in the footsteps of @kashhill and @cooperq, Consumer Reports takes on period tracking apps and discovers that they h… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Megan_Nicolett @loudmouthjulia okay how about the Nestle chocolate drink mascot teaching you how computers work. …. Quik Byte — PolitiTweet.org

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@loudmouthjulia hear me out: a show about really fast vampires. They could call it Quick Bite. — PolitiTweet.org