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by AnonHP 5y ago
Every time I visit an archive.is link, the first thing I see is a CAPCTHA page that doesn’t have the CAPTCHA challenge. I never browse without ad and tracker blockers, and even when ReCaptcha and hCaptcha work fine, this one doesn’t. I have
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by AnonHP 5y ago
This comment is probably going to hit a nerve. Why should I donate to the Internet Archive? The very rare times that I use it, it’s extremely slow (as slow as or slower than TOR). The interface looks like it’s from two decades ago. The site
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> Apple scans your information in your own device (and its operating system is even closed source and cannot be verified). Open source may be better in certain ways, but a statement that closed source cannot be verified as to what it’s d
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by AnonHP 5y ago
O’Reilly also stopped selling individual ebooks some years ago, giving only the choices of subscribing to Safari Books Online (or whatever it’s called now) or buying print books from a retailer or buying some books in bundle sales on other
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by AnonHP 5y ago
I hope Google didn't pay money for this ad. It sounds like a competitor made it for Google. > “a glorious achievement that draws from our past as it propels us into the future.” Nothing tells that something is stuck in the past like
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by AnonHP 5y ago
Netflix seems like a split brained company. Most of its original movies are terrible, and are in sharp contrast to many of the Netflix original series which are very good. I personally wouldn’t (and don’t) look for movies on Netflix.
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Easier alternatives such as?
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by AnonHP 5y ago
The stats can be collected only from public torrents where DHT is being used (AFAIK). There are many private trackers that are closed to the outside world and have tens of thousands of members, each of whom may not only download from the pe
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by AnonHP 5y ago
Could you elaborate more? I’ve seen advice that it’s not recommended (and not been recommended for some years), but I’ve also seen questions in recent times by app developers who are bent on using it to “increase the security” (as it relate
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by AnonHP 5y ago
I think hardware quality is overall good with Apple, but sometimes there are rough patches over years where widespread problems are neither acknowledged nor solved. One such patch, which I fortunately managed to avoid, was from 2016 or so t
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by AnonHP 5y ago
Not GP, but as others have described here, you can clone your entire disk to an external one (using an application like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner), upgrade the internal disk, and the restore from the external clone. When it comes to
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by AnonHP 5y ago
The cynical part of me (as an Apple user) says this response is a milder form of “you’re holding it wrong” (from the iPhone 4 “antenna gate” response) and that the core issues raised by the people who’ve spoken against this are not being ad
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> Single people are allowed to establish a Covid-safe arrangement with one other person, essentially allowing those two people to be considered a single household without them having to live under the same roof. This isn’t an indiscrimin
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by AnonHP 5y ago
The disappearing messages timer settings are really convoluted and complex. It could've been a lot more flexible without adding more complexity to the code. This is not going to change why I don't use Signal as much though. I try
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> It seems Moxie doesn't want this [2], and it's disappointing that he doesn't provide any explanation or justification. That's sad to know. But we need to face the fact that Signal is not a community driven project.
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A good amount of emissions from China go into the goods produced for western countries (such as the U.S.). The pollution has been outsourced and externalized.
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> It's pointing out that there is no realistic scenario in which western countries can prevent CO2 from getting to dangerous levels. There is one scenario, which isn’t probable. That is for western countries to pay a retrospective “
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by AnonHP 5y ago
off topic: This post seems like an inappropriate one for HN. Scanning through the comments here, it seems like some kind of downvote brigading is happening on this thread. Comments, replies to comments and their replies are all being downvo
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by AnonHP 5y ago
I saw in another comment here by offmycloud [1] that this affects: > Android phones and tablets. "In addition, the Android smartphone operating system (from version 4.0 onwards and possibly earlier; we don't know for sure when
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by AnonHP 5y ago
Disclaimer: I’m not a professional in this area. I recall reading that one of the causes for myopia, from an environmental and habit perspective, is reading in low light. Having sufficient lighting available reduces the strain on the eyes a
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by AnonHP 5y ago
I have feedback on the name of the app. Since it’s spelled without spaces, as “CheckYourList”, it doesn’t show up in search results when searching for “check your list”.
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by AnonHP 5y ago
> For myself, whenever I read these kinds of comments (or the tiresome refrain about absurd memory usage) it feels to me like there must be two Electrons: the first being the Electron which is the foundation of nearly every app I actuall
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by AnonHP 5y ago
> Of course, this can’t last forever. Markets are always and forever cyclical. Nothing ever goes up and to the right forever. It would be delusional to assume otherwise. > But if you’ve been yelling at people for years and years about
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by AnonHP 5y ago
Mods: This one needs 2020 in the title since the linked post is from November 2020. I’m not sure what actions anyone reading this can take now. They may have already succumbed to the relentless prompts and accepted the new messenger.
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by AnonHP 5y ago
Considering that the 64 bit transition work started with what, Mac OS X Snow Leopard released in 2009, the writing has been on the wall for a pretty long time that 32 bit isn’t the future. That Apple supported 32 bit apps through macOS Moja
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You didn’t mention any other companies in your PRISM companies. The others shared data for PRISM AND have been profiling people and selling or sharing their behavioral data.
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> The ARM desktop lead will last about 18 months I'd guess. I believe this claim is going to age poorly. Who’s there to take new ARM chips (from Qualcomm) for a desktop and provide an OS and apps?
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by AnonHP 5y ago
I can’t wait to see if Control Panel is still around with those network interface dialogs (among many others) from nearly two decades ago. The new dock or taskbar looks nicer, but something about the window styles, the shape, the icons and
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by AnonHP 5y ago
This seems like a good list. But I find analytics services to be quite expensive (considering that the plans are based on page views and the starting tiers are quite low on that count). If the author of this post is still checking comments
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And chat. You forgot “chat”! I’m still puzzled at what’s new and what’s different from what people with (free and paid) Google accounts have.

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