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by 3gg 6y ago
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by 3gg 6y ago
Thanks for sharing, I was not aware of that story. The article you shared also repeats the idea that governments/society should impose stricter rules on how Facebook and other networks manage the content posted on their platforms, but
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by 3gg 6y ago
They are expressing their own opinion, and the comment clearly explains how they draw a parallel between Facebook and tobacco companies. Why do you need a link? Also, while Facebook may not directly kill people, the hate speech that it help
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by 3gg 6y ago
As far as I can tell, and I am not an expert, it has always boiled down to hardware/driver parity. Laptops ship with proprietary hardware and drivers that Windows can tap into to optimize battery life, things like turning off hard driv
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by 3gg 6y ago
It could have passed as a troll question given that this is an old an well-known problem, but I guess it's best to err on the side of informing people than turning them away.
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by 3gg 6y ago
> As a corporation, Facebook truly seems to be trying to improve its behavior for the benefit of society at large. No, it's not. Their social network is engineered entirely and unsurprisingly in support of their bottom line. A socia
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by 3gg 6y ago
> Mind that I come from a Ubuntu distro, Windows is the most energy efficient solution at the moment and allows me to run my Dev tools and work on battery for 4 hours straight. Ubuntu (or any Debian-based distro) destroy my battery in 40
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by 3gg 6y ago
You're ten steps ahead :)
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by 3gg 6y ago
Are you suggesting to just block the ads? What I find more annoying is the fact that the data is collected in the first place, as well as the opt-out vs opt-in by default. Your pi-hole won't protect you from that, since the moment you
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by 3gg 6y ago
We the People. Though I think US law/courts also regards corporations as people.
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by 3gg 6y ago
What would be better is if the US had (does it?) a nation-wide law requiring explicit opt-in, as opposed to having to opt out of surveillance. Small steps forward. Also, does this form really amount to anything other than "we promise w
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by 3gg 6y ago
Legitimate question to ask if asked correctly. Companies spend non-trivial amounts of money trying to train people with pseudo-phishing emails and basic web navigation skills, and your question/statement, while unfortunate in its wordi
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by 3gg 6y ago
Really interesting to see progress on the provable correctness and security of software. Pages 11-12 state there is always an inevitable gap between the formal methods and the real world, but this nevertheless sounds a lot better than the h
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by 3gg 6y ago
"It seems like almost every TV sold today is a smart one, which means a lack of control of what’s happening on our device" "Just Don’t Connect It To the Internet [...] You can then go ahead and add a Nvidia Shield or Apple TV
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by 3gg 6y ago
The write-up seems to focus on monopolization and mentions privacy only in passing. I don't care if there is a single company or duo running the advertising market, and to what extent they are controlling prices. I also don't want
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by 3gg 6y ago
Let's not kid ourselves; an OS with an advertising ID is an assault on people's privacy and basic computing freedoms. The android situation is much worse, yes, but apple is still giving in to surveillance capitalism and nothing th
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by 3gg 6y ago
This guy is an Apple fanboy. How can you even argue in favour of its "privacy protections" when the OS has embedded advertising IDs you can only reset but not remove, logs and reports every application you launch to the motherboar
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by 3gg 6y ago
https://my.fsf.org/give-students-userfreedom This is an old problem that the FSF has been warning about for years, if not decades.
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by 3gg 6y ago
This was a good joke; good work must be recognized.
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by 3gg 6y ago
But you do get the irony, right? It's like a browser is not for reading by default anymore, like stepping into a car and putting it in "car mode".
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by 3gg 6y ago
Thanks for the tip. I wasn't aware that uBlock had all those extra options.
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by 3gg 6y ago
It is absolutely disgusting to read about the brutality and disrespect with which Facebook treats its moderators, but that disgust can only pale in comparison with what the moderators must be going through every day. "AI"-driven c
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by 3gg 6y ago
They read the headline and all of the article except for the starting paragraph.
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by 3gg 6y ago
Yes, thanks for the reply. I was giving the author the benefit of the doubt, but their arguments just have no solid grounds. And like you said, this is about market control, not security, the latter just being a distraction. Another thing i
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by 3gg 6y ago
The article goes over the horrors of X.509, pulls the typical open source cliche that I actually don't see anybody spreading around, contrary to the article's claim, then argues that the privacy part is fine so long as there is a
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by 3gg 6y ago
Have you read the article? It's a lot more subtle than what can be captured by general statements like that.
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by 3gg 6y ago
Sorry, that was not me! I had put my mouse-drawing abilities to test crafting a solution to the leetcode problem, and soon after publishing the link here, swarms of HN denizens rushed in and destroyed the beautifully crafted solution that w
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by 3gg 6y ago
Perfect for the coding interview in times of covid!
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by 3gg 6y ago
Not sure why this was down-voted to hell; I imagine it is because you turned the criticism political in that last part. This otherwise contains good points, and knowing that alternatives exist, as opposed to just what is out there in some p
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by 3gg 6y ago
'X is "better", based on "science"'

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