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Mozilla’s ambitious plan to teach coders not to be evil(fastcompany.com)
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> But the 85-page briefing, titled “The Good Censor,” admits that Google and other tech platforms now “control the majority of online conversations” and have undertaken a “shift towards censorship” in response to unwelcome political even
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> Google is shutting down its long-neglected Facebook competitor Google+ following the disclosure of a vulnerability that could have resulted in third-party developers accessing private data from around 500,000 users, the company announc
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I've been using DDG for a couple of years now and never feel like using any other search engine for "better" results. Bangs are a really cool feature. https://duckduckgo.com/bang Not to mention instant answe
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Thanks, didn't know that.
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Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time o
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Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears t
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Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach(techcrunch.com)
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Why do I get a feeling that this "breach" notification is related to the following news that appeared a day earlier? “Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information” Source: https://gizmodo.com
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Introducing Microsoft.com/Learn(docs.microsoft.com)
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It appears that GMail addresses attract more spam. IMO, options like ProtonMail are much better. A service that isn't free but doesn't exploit users in order to make $$ ought to be a better option.
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Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had taken itself the right
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Illness was punished as a misdemeanour by the company. I took a day off sick and was given a point for it – despite notifying Amazon several hours before the start of my shift that I was ill and offering to provide a note
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Some more resources for learning more about tmux: - The Tao of tmux [0] - A minimalist guide to tmux [1] - Benefits of using tmux [2] - tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet [3] [0] https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read [
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Why should Bezos pay them better if he can get the state to compensate the workers? A new study found that 700 Amazon employees in Ohio are on food stamps: https://www.businessinsider.in/A-new-study-found-that-700-Am...
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Joseph Stiglitz on AI: 'We’re going towards a more divided society'(theguardian.com)
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Some of the techniques employed by data miners on the Internet(whonix.org)
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So Mozilla should clearly state that being a non-profit they need funds and that they are willing to compromise the privacy of their users.
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The browser may not be tracking you, but it does default to a search engine that tracks and profiles you. It can't get any worse.
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> And what would you suggest as alternative https://duckduckgo.com/ -- The search engine that doesn't track you. > make what the majority wants the default No. That amounts to choosing the default for the majori
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Brave [1] uses Duckduckgo [2] as the default search engine. [1] https://brave.com/ [2] https://duckduckgo.com/
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But Mozilla trusts Google more than any search engine provider. That would be the only explanation for Google being the default search engine.
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In the near future, Firefox will — by default — protect users by blocking tracking while also offering a clear set of controls to give our users more choice over what information they share with sites. Sounds promising. Howev
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As listed on the blog page - https://blog.golang.org/go1.11 - two exciting features are modules and WebAssembly support. Information about modules can be found at: - https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-
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Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps(washingtonpost.com)
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Don't question a monopoly that is exploiting. Instead question those being exploited. Slow claps.
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Brace yourself for an updated version of this post: "Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/happy-pri...
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When I worked at Amazon we had to run around the warehouse, bc if our pick rate fell below a certain number we stopped getting paid. There were bottles & bins full of piss at odd points, bc you were penalised for toilet brea
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They kill competition which enables them to exploit their own workers. Meanwhile, we help them by giving them more business. https://apnews.com/1d62290004b340feac5c359d59b86823
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SC-IM: An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal(github.com)
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