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by 43920 7y ago
The problem with early 2000's-style software delivery wasn't that you could choose which software to install, it was that there was no separation between programs, so that any random program you installed could add toolbars to yo
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by 43920 7y ago
If Tesla (or any other company) can show that your modifications actually affect their ability to provide the services as designed, then sure, they shouldn't be required to provide them. But as long as the modifications I make don&#x27
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by 43920 8y ago
Yes, you could do that, but 99% of people are going to have no idea how to do that, or even why they should. As a result, the few companies that own the centralized platforms still get the authority to dictate how computing works, and to b
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by 43920 8y ago
I've seen this attitude a lot, and I don't really understand it. Software takes a ton of work to produce, and in many cases a significant degree of skill as well, and I don't really see an issue with wanting to be compensated
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by 43920 8y ago
i.reddit.com (the old mobile site) doesn't have a single advertisement for the app, and still seems to work pretty well (although videos will redirect you back to the new site).
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by 43920 8y ago
> Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise OK, so I just did this, and I don't really see what the issue is. Looking at Wireshark, I see
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by 43920 8y ago
This is sort of a ridiculous hack, but you could probably override Element.prototype.webkitRequestFullscreen, and manually resize the element to take up the whole browseer window rather than entering fullscreen.
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by 43920 8y ago
I almost wonder if sites are hoping people will enable notifications by accident, and then read the content after getting notified. I know at least a few people who've clicked the "allow" button by mistake, and then couldn&#x
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by 43920 8y ago
As long as the websites that request the permission have a legitimate reason to show notifications, a dialog is actually a good idea - it makes it easy for users to enable notifications, whereas a toolbar button would be easy to miss. If br
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by 43920 8y ago
Almost all of Google's profit comes from ads on Google-owned sites [0]. Adsense ads and non-ad products are a much smaller portion of their revenue, and Google only keeps 30% of the revenue from third-party ads, meaning almost all of t
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by 43920 8y ago
> Turns out that phone numbers, whilst also subject to flux, have better long-term congruence to identity I'm not sure this is actually true, at least in the long-term. Most people keep their phone number for a long time, but if the
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by 43920 8y ago
It's a lot easier for Nokia to do that because they use a version of Android that's basically stock. Samsung re-skins the UI and adds a bunch of features, so every time they upgrade to a new version of Android, they have to re-app
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by 43920 8y ago
It seems like you could fix this (at least for exactly identical content) by generating a fingerprint for each file as it is uploaded. If a file with a given fingerprint is marked as bad, then all existing files with the same fingerprint wo
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by 43920 8y ago
Mobile OS's are more than just a "distribution channel" though, because there's a significant amount of lock-in that prevents customers from buying your software from another distributor even if they want to. I think a b
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by 43920 8y ago
Another one: 1603376: B737 Captain reported the flight recorder light was inoperative, which led to the discovery that the flight data recorder was not installed. Can anyone anyone with more experience with this say whether this is normal f
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by 43920 8y ago
Running an unsigned app requires a separate option that's reasonably well-hidden, however [0], so it's difficult to avoid the signing requirement if you're going to distribute your app to a wide audience. [0] https:/&#x
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by 43920 8y ago
They're both too expensive? (The only acceptable price is $0, IMO.)
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by 43920 8y ago
It's not exactly the same, but first-party isolation [1] sounds like it would be pretty similar. [1] https://www.ghacks.net/2017/11/22/how-to-enable-first-party-...
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by 43920 8y ago
After that video came out, a bunch of trailer manufactuers improved their underride guard designs, and the newer ones are apparently much better at stopping cars: https://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/all
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by 43920 8y ago
> is having a car really so essential to holding down a job and accessing services in most of America (etc.) that taking out a loan to acquire a car becomes a necessary evil? US public transit is really bad outside of major urban areas.
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by 43920 8y ago
The list of driver issues that Mozilla has run into while developing webrender is also impressively long: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki/Driver-issues
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by 43920 8y ago
Are there any answers from that conversation that stood out to you in particular? I'd be really interested to hear them!
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by 43920 8y ago
Assuming the developer has been in business for a significant amount of time, there are a lot of signals that help tell you whether an app is legit or not. As a random example, if I look for information aout Overcast (a fairly successful ap
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by 43920 8y ago
If an application is a "blatant rip-off", users are most likely going to realize it and uninstall it/stop spending money on it/dispute it with their credit card company, which should eventually stop the scammers from mak
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by 43920 8y ago
That's a good point, although the only recent exploit (in 2017) depended on a combination of 3 vulnerabilities that had already been fixed over a year and a half ago when the exploit was released.
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by 43920 8y ago
I think there's a couple solutions to this. First, "trust" should depend on your own evaluation of the developer, based on metrics like how long their app has existed, customer reviews, what protections they have around handl
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by 43920 8y ago
No, they didn't. First, they pretended the issue didn't exist, while charging people hundreds of dollars for new keyboards. Then, they announced a "quality program", where they'll replace your broken keyboard with a
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by 43920 8y ago
Given the number of people using iPhones, you basically have to support the platform in order to make any money, so I wouldn't say the agreement is really "voluntary".
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by 43920 8y ago
> I don't think it's controversial to say opening up ways to load apps outside of the app store will make it far, far harder for Apple to make any performance, security and stability guarantees about their devices Why would thi
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by 43920 8y ago
There's a couple of different issues with the proposed API: * There's a limit of 30k blocked rules, which isn't enough to fully block every ad (for example, EasyList alone is 87k filters right now). * The declarativeNetReques

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