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>But even going against big players like Amazon, why can't they say - hey, you are selling products with totally false descriptions, refund everyone who but the fake "apple certified" device, or the "UL listed" d
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>They're not as inactive as you think I don't think they're inactive. I tried to convey that by describing what may be perceived as "doing nothing" is really the inundation of awful behavior in this industry.
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>What's crazy is there is so much straight pure scam crap on the internet the FTC does nothing about. >In my case I tried to cancel a subscription 30 days in advance recently (nearly 1K per year). It turns out you have to cancel
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>And how long as the open web survived? Since its birth, clearly. No matter how you try and spin this, advertising is not a requite for a free and open Web. If ads were to disappear tomorrow, web sites which society has deemed important
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Beej Beej's Guide to C Programming: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/ Beej's Guides: https://beej.us/guide/
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>Do you know why he is doing publicity this year? He was on another podcast recently too. Perhaps he was asked.
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>Rarely that high; i see less than 1/7th of the "new" page right now marked [dead]" I don't know how much time you spend on "new" but it is quite often as high as OP mentions or higher. Lots of junk sub
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>Electron is essentially the only reasonable way to develop non trivial macOS applications at the moment. How do you even come close to this conclusion? What are your criteria for reasonableness?
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>It's terrible for identifying dissidents because it only catches them if they upload to iCloud servers. This is a configuration change. Without knowing the implementation, I'd bet a lunch that, for the time-being, the reason t
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>This is effectively a virus scanner. Files are hashed (in a fancy way), compared against known hashes, and matches are reported. Your Windows desktop has Windows Defender. The analogy isn't great. Anti-virus/malware software p
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What is this? The page requires being signed-in to view and does not have a description of this subreddit publicly viewable. What's the significance here?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
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July 1 2021 was just over a month ago.
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>You know if you just click the link your browser will render it right? I suspect they do given how flummoxed. >Who and where are these people? And where's your development team? I can't for the life of me figure out how sha
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>I've never heard of sound going in a particular direction. wat
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I can no longer edit my original reply so I have to create this new one to address your edit. >Jeasus christ, before you try to shut something down, know your facts: > https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-ca
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>They really not needed in commercial agriculture either. Farmers know their craft and would do well without it, and wouldn’t have the additional finance burden. This could not be further from the truth. Farmers do everything to increase
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>Runoff from crops getting into aquifers, rivers, reservoirs which turns into drinking water for humans. What is the damage being done here? You've mentioned how something happens but not what that something is .
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>Impact to fish waterlife, the direct affect of creating cancer in humans in short order, the impact to the insect food life cycle which affect the entire chain. >Its a killer. There is no arguing that - and seriously ALL of it ends u
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>Ugh, you seriously sound like a lawyer from Bayer’s legal department. >Search pubmed for glyphosate for a small taste. Then realize that most of those studies were done ONLY on glyphosate, the solvents and surfactants that glyphosate
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>Sadly the damage from this stuff is already done. What is the damage that has been done? >Glyphosate should be banned, destroyed and removed from the planet. Why, though? You haven't stated any reason why you feel this way. >
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>If I have to scroll through a list of 400 partners and uncheck ”legitimate interest” for each one, there is definitely an issue. Certainly. And they know it's an issue. And they know next to no body will sit there an un-check those
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>What personal data was shared? Was the sharing of data the problem, or the T&C's weren't clear on it? The article doesn't mention it. >What are the implications for other companies that share user data to advertisi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal
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>I have a personal philosophy: "if you can't do it well, don't do it at all". That's because I prize my ability at what I do. I am good at it. Maybe I need to teach these "real engineers" something abou
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>God forbid the milkman guarantee their customers are happy with the milk. milkman: "Hey, you guys happy with the milk?" customer: "Yeah!" milkman: "Great!"
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>If you are a Firefox user, you don’t have to do anything to benefit from this security advancement. The epitome of corporate speak: "we're taking away a feature of this software. You're welcome." I expect that kind o
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>This is the face of your company, if you can’t handle the increased load on your blog why should I trust your other systems. I suspect the sort of individual visiting this website and reading the blog will know that their services and b
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>Yes there is. Absolutely no closed software ever. That's the rule you use. Even the modem on the phone I'm typing this on is running FOSS firmware. Don't compromise your freedom for convenience, you always end up with nei
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>I know there aren't any laws there yet I could have sworn something similar happened in the 90's (possibly early 2000?) which prompted the US government to create such a law. I'm unable to look it up right now, but a quic

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