Liquix

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by Liquix 3y ago
> choosing Discord does not take value away from FOSS communication platforms. it does though. it's the same vicious cycle that allowed microsoft to gain control of the OS market: developers write programs for windows (because that&
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Not likely even in light of how important it is to not use Discord. In the comments of the bun 0.6 announcement, a question similar to yours was downvoted almost enough to get flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35
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The lion's share of Mozilla's funding comes directly from Google [0]. The official reason is to feature G search as the default in Firefox, but it also conveniently keeps alive the only browser preventing antitrust action against
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Why use chromium based browsers at all? Google largely has control of the project and they seem determined to keep adding anti-privacy/anti-user features.
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Apple released OS X/Darwin open source, but kept the moneymaking frameworks (cocoa, carbon) closed source. This generated positive PR while keeping the secret sauce needed to ship polished applications under lock and key Google release
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There is a section in the docs regarding switching back to the official extension marketplace: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#how... So if there is a "killer extension&quot
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How does M$'s legal team accomplish such a feat? Are there layers of linguistic abstraction built up such that only a sufficiently large team (Microsoft, grand jury) has the bandwidth to extract any meaning? Red herrings with gotchas h
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Excellently written. A nitpick on your final point: > Phones are an extension of our organ senses now. How will a world in which Things Come to Us and We Dont Go to Things anymore affect us cognitively long-term? This may be looking at i
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When you're at the point of tricking your operating system into thinking you're in a different country in order to make it function properly, it may be time to try a new OS. GNU/Linux has excellent compatibility with 95% of w
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Damn that's crazy. Users seeing ads, watching them in their entirety and writing about them ?! An advertiser's wet dream. Unparalleled engagement
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Stolen Focus (the book this article is an excerpt of) is a solid - if meandering - overview of society's rapidly declining attention span, featuring insight from behavioral psychologists, senior FAANG engineers, etc. It probably won&
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"Just fill out this form with the very information you're trying to take down and submit it to our servers! It's not like we run a quasi-legal service based around monetizing this exact type of data!" What reason is ther
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Weird article - two sentences on sneaking into Kesey's class, a clumsy transition from his incarceration to his death to the theme of misfits, and then an "excerpt" from a third author about her journey of self-discovery whic
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"The Timeless" [0] is an example of what can be achieved with domain repetition over signed distance functions - the video is of a self-contained 64kb executable running in realtime! One of the authors Johann "Cupe" Korn
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Tree Style Tab is incredible for grouping and nesting tabs. Heavily used by tab hoarders https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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Crabs in a bucket :( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
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What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy- gods!
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All a publication indicates is that a white/grey hat researcher has discovered the vulnerability. There is no way to know if or how many times the same flaw has been exploited by less scrupulous parties in the interim.
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Plex Inc. is not a good company. They are eager to collect and sell your data to advertisers. Jellyfin is a great alternative. Plex may share Collected Information as expressly set forth in this Privacy Policy, including the following limi
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FWIW streamlink [0] and streamlink twitch GUI [1] are FOSS solutions for watching twitch on GNU/Linux: streamlink "https://twitch.tv/$streamer" best --twitch-disable-ads --player mpv No ads, no tracking,
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g**gle and other PRISM partners do not want any users on freedom-respecting browsers/OSes. forcing people onto chromium based browsers isn't an unfortunate side effect, it's a secondary goal of the specification.
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Link to the scraped post: https://snoo.habedieeh.re/r/wow/comments/154umm2/
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Arkenfox can be both heavy-handed (disables search from URL bar, restore tabs from previous session, etc) and hard to digest (1200 lines). By comparison, Betterfox is 250 lines and looks to be more "sane" out of the box.
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> ...sociologists and psychologists have postulated that right-wing attitudes are associated with a ‘strict’ cognitive style,” Salvi explained. “However, most of the research in cognitive and social psychology... They really do try to sl
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>The only reason I installed the app is because Reddit deliberately made their mobile web site so appallingly annoying to use! This is a really good reason to not install the app. IMHO we (HN readers) have an obligation to stand up aga
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no one is manually searching through petabytes of data. it's all ingested into ML systems which spit out inferences and predictions about individuals. repeat with enough people, combine datasets, now you're generating increasingly
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It would look like facebook - less and less content, more and more ads. It would be bad for redditors because modern surveillance capitalism/adtech industries are inherently manipulative, deceitful, and will always place profit before
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Grounds to sue? No. A good reason to stop using Google products wherever possible? Yup
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>The Google's search matters less and less as the days go by The HN community is well aware that Google search result quality has fallen off a cliff and DDG's results keep getting better. But the vast majority of casual interne
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It doesn't. There is an option to log in anonymously, which uses one of several dozen "dummy" accounts operated by Aurora maintainers to sign in. As of late these dummy accounts have been getting rate limited, leading to anon

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