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by KoftaBob 5y ago
I'm very curious what would happen if Apple suddenly announced that for the next version of Safari (20% of browser market share when combining mobile and desktop), adblocking would be included and ask the user if they want it on.
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US ranks #1 for 5G availability (% 5G devices spending majority of time on 5G)(speedtest.net)
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Ah when you put it like that, I see the logic.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
This is something that's confused me about Tor Browser. How helpful could zoom level possibly be towards fingerprinting a user to a degree where it's of any use for targeted advertising and the like? Seeing that a user has a site&
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
What would be really cool is if this concept could be expanded to allow a specific block on a website to be directly linked to. Currently, this is generally done by using a dom selector, which is super clunky and unreliable, since all it ta
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
I used developer tools on the wordle site, and the answer bank (basically a huge array) is in one of the javascript files. Your Mathle version looks super interesting!
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Yup, that dev tools method is exactly where I got the answer bank from!
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Show HN: Wordle Spoiler – When You Just Want the Answer(wordlespoiler.com)
2 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|5 comments
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Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities(investopedia.com)
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
“ Also, since this is very possibly the worst five-year period in history not to have equity ownership, you should know that compensation for all of our openings includes stock options.” Pretty amusing seeing this on their careers page, con
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The Genetic History of France [pdf](biorxiv.org)
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
That's similar to the method defense contractors use, they spread out their manufacturing locations to have influence over as many politicians as possible.
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Calculator.apps.chrome(calculator.apps.chrome)
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Construction on New York’s First Offshore Wind Farm Approved to Begin(southforkwind.com)
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Pocket Migration to Firefox Accounts(support.mozilla.org)
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White House to make 400M N95 masks available for free, distributed at pharmacies(twitter.com)
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Where do you see Google advertising links? The only Google service I see is Tag Manager, which is used for measuring website analytics.
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
> If Congress writes a law that says Google can't integrate hours of operation into Google Maps I don't get where Google is even getting that scenario from. Where in the antitrust laws does it specify rules that would result in
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Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech bills(blog.google)
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
I imagine it may involve periodic/unscheduled audits of adtech companies platforms under the hood, to see how they're targeting?
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
Websites that block Firefox Relay email addresses to be added to my list of services I won't sign up for. Also, what a big surprise that one of the two creators of this repo works in Google's "open source security" team.
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'Digital Suez': How the internet flows through Egypt(middleeasteye.net)
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
People who make this comment, do you really think that it's not a basic assumption that a government service is tax funded? Where the hell else would the funding come from? Does "it's not free you pay for it from your taxes&q
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
In the case of venmo (and many other of their customers), it was actually Plaid that was asking for your bank login credentials to connect your bank account to Venmo. They've been getting criticism regularly for that, unsurprisingly.
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Websites Using Facebook Pixel(trends.builtwith.com)
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Report finds that US accounts for more than half of global space spending(arstechnica.com)
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NY makes major adjustment to Covid hospitalization reporting during surge(foxnews.com)
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
I imagine that Google's incentive is to first prioritize results that have the most profitable Google Ads on their page, and then for quality of result, not the other way around. Until that incentive structure changes, Google will not
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by KoftaBob 5y ago
"The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise il
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Event 201(centerforhealthsecurity.org)
2 points by KoftaBob 5y ago|1 comments

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