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by Markoff 4y ago
I'm positively surprised this is actually not another Why I'm leaving twitter virtue signalling post, since I can imagine people doing same with Spotify over some content they don't like, nice to see for change someone leavin
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by Markoff 4y ago
Highly unlikely based on how Huawei phones work, some random twitter threat should clarify where were these videos excactly stores, what app is supposedly deleting them. Yes, Huawei can under their ToS delete various stuff from your (Huawei
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by Markoff 4y ago
I'm not happy because I'm smart. It takes ignorant to be happy.
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by Markoff 4y ago
Google results are way too political and censored nowadays, if I wanted to get some uncensored results I have to go to Yandex, Brave, maybe Kagi, but I agree Reddit is good option as well.
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Physicists have designed a urinal that drastically reduces splashback(newscientist.com)
2 points by Markoff 4y ago|0 comments
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by Markoff 4y ago
Not every photographer removes existing mountain from photo or adds non-existing animals to picture. One thing is slightly touch colors, other thing is completely messing with objects in photo, if you don't see difference between these
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by Markoff 4y ago
"To clarify, all my images are edited and processed in Photoshop and Lightroom. Some images are composites, some are not. Some are only lightly retouched. I am NOT a journalist. I never stated my images were not edited anywhere."
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by Markoff 4y ago
I wouldn't mind, but I don't think it's realistic/possible. My income pretty much halfed compared to year ago (in company I work for from home as contractor for 6+ years and work on site for 2 years before that) which is
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by Markoff 4y ago
How is this related to HN? We are doing now even book reviews completely unrelated to tech? What's next food recipes? How to satisfy woman?
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by Markoff 4y ago
The real question is - is it any good? I recently compared various translators including Bing, Yandex, Baidu Fanyi and who knows what else and my result was DeepL beating everyone with their neural MT (which I don't think can be done o
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by Markoff 4y ago
Another article with more details https://torrentfreak.com/cyando-kills-uploaded-net-before-co...
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Uploaded.net shuts down under court pressure nearly 2 decades later with warning(ruetir.com)
1 points by Markoff 4y ago|1 comments
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by Markoff 4y ago
Why not use https://besthackernews.herokuapp.com/ ? Though personally I read HN through https://serializer.io/ with only HN enabled and other sites disabled, it allows also sync with other devices through u
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by Markoff 4y ago
Good luck buying bitcoin with cash. I mean it is possible, but hardly anyone does it, thus you can't really anonymously pay for Threema, you have to jump through way too many hoops to use Threema compared to other apps, which is why it
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by Markoff 4y ago
BEIJING—Chinese police have begun leveraging the powers of the country’s surveillance state to go after demonstrators who participated in rare public displays of defiance over the government’s stringent Covid control policies. Wang Shengshe
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China Covid Protesters Become Targets of Beijing’s Surveillance State(wsj.com)
5 points by Markoff 4y ago|1 comments
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by Markoff 4y ago
I hope you bought your phone with cash in that case, since even without providing phone number it's easily indentifiable in network back to you even without SIM card through IMEI when registering to network.
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by Markoff 4y ago
3 times October 2021 - Delta - 2 weeks of fewer without break, loss of apetite, first few days fatigue I could hardly move around apartment, though only relatively mild coughing, 3 weeks without smell. wife caught it from me just days later
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by Markoff 4y ago
ROFL Signal uses centralized server with closed source (they hidden code for one year until they finally gave up when users nagged them, nobody knows what they did during that year), Signal requires your phone number, Signal doesn't al
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by Markoff 4y ago
Sure, but in that case you can just go with Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger with WA being at least E2E by default, no point even trying some "alternatives" as Signal or Telegram under pretense of security. With Telegram I can see
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by Markoff 4y ago
After they announced removal of SMS I installed Johann's fork after few years (been using it for few years before but gave up with extended family after PIN nag screen fiasco which was last drop) to use it as SMS app only to find out t
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by Markoff 4y ago
TLDR don't use Telegram and Signal as some "alternatives" Use Matrix clients (Element, Fluffy chat) or Session, Briar (no (video)calls), Delta (no (video)calls), Jami, not recommending Threema because they can tie you through
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by Markoff 4y ago
it's been like this for weeks, this is not news
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by Markoff 4y ago
well, at least bunch of them are right - there are lot of people making money in testing & quarantine business, it IS failure of bureaucracy, it IS increasing state surveilance through mandatory health codes and location tracking, it IS
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by Markoff 4y ago
I'd guess it's mostly about saving the face instead admitting they were wrong and you can't outrun COVID anyway, just postpone infecting whole population. But honestly, if I were XJP worried about losing face I'd cancel
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by Markoff 4y ago
submitted already here as WP article, can't delete https://archive.ph/Qs2c6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769223
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CNbots are flooding Twiter with ads to make search for protests tweets difficult(twitter.com)
3 points by Markoff 4y ago|1 comments
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by Markoff 4y ago
I find much more interesting how Twitter is now flooded with accounts which are suddenly posting NSFW escort tweets containing Chinese city names in Chinese characters and one account is able to post 3000 tweets in 24 hours to flood search
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by Markoff 4y ago
The consultant was fired after refusing to take part in activities he called ‘humiliating and intrusive,’ according to court filing France’s highest court has ruled that a man fired by a Paris-based consulting firm for allegedly failing to
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French man wins right to not be ‘fun’ at work in wrongful termination case(washingtonpost.com)
89 points by Markoff 4y ago|183 comments

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