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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Imagine a chat application you had to install instead of just going to a website This is a bit of a bizarre argument. When using a chat app on a web site, your browser downloads the source, unpacks it, then executes in a runtime on your
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>hey wouldn't do it if it didn't work. Now why would you go and think a thing like that?
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>And two of the streets on the screen are named! Man, I thought I was going nuts. For a pretty long time now I've just been dumbfounded when no or seemingly arbitrary street names are rendered (usually when I zoom in; when it counts
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>See I have always been the odd one, I have zero desire to work for "Big Tech", even if they offered me 2x my current salary + 100% remote i would not for for a FANG... You aren't alone. There are dozens of us. Dozens!
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Of course any point is meaningless when you define it as such for yourself. Your differing perspective and casual dismissal doesn't make their points any less relevant. The points they brought up are not meaningless and more people tha
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>5G is actually harmful to your health How so?
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Below the visible spectrum, no?
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>Radio waves obviously can penetrate much farther and get to the areas that you would want to be concerned about. Is this correct? I'm not much more than a layman in physics, but I thought RF, being below the visible spectrum, is no
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>Isn’t this the exact opposite though? Your data being used for targeting will minimize bad ads that you see. Perhaps if it did what it says on the tin, but it usually doesn't, so no. >(Facebook employee, never worked on ads or a
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>Some unknown person is trying to get some hype on “cancel github” cry. >I don't give a shit about the Copilot, but I care even less about Rian Hunter and his statements. This is untrue because you had a choice of not saying anyt
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>Who asked? Now this was completely unexpected.
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Also >Who asked? But you deleted that comment.
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>It's due to "a significant and alarming rise in theft and security incidents," said spokesperson Brian Harper-Tibaldo.
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Qt App development: https://www.qt.io/product/qt-for-application-development/ Mobile: https://www.qt.io/product/mobile-app-development/
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um... what? Finish your thought.
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>My job has nothing to do with unions of the past. But you enjoy many of the benefits past union members fought and died for.
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>We're extremely well compensated and are dictating changes like forever WFH. We have generous vacation, perks, 401k contribution, ... You presume this sort of compensation is enjoyed throughout our industry. It isn't.
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>Is it safe to trust binaries hosted from sourceforge? Didn't they used to host modified binaries / packages with malware? Once upon a time, yes. It was awful. Was bought many years ago and turned around, however. The guy who o
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>I think it's ridiculous that when people think about abusive big tech, they never think about Intuit. I don't know why you think people don't think that. I imagine that most people who have been informed will think along
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Exactly. That's why I was dumbfounded; it just seemed too ridiculous to be real. These companies really don't give a shit about people; they just continue to recite something about "customer obsession" and return to patt
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To me, yes, it is surprising. But likely because I don't use Amazon, Twitter, YouTube, FaceBook, and so do not read the things you're reading (or at least as much) but I understand your point nonetheless. I skim past the numerous
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This seems completely insane to me. How is this possible? I like Cliff Stoll and have been looking forward to my first Klein bottle purchase for some years now, so I say this without any insinuation Cliff's not telling the whole story:
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This is in the first paragraph of the article (emphasis mine) >[...], warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a previously unknown critical flaw [...] This flaw was reported in 2018. Later in the article it
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Now that's just nuts.
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>The fact they have significantly more than 250 employees in the first place is a bit mind boggling. As far as I can tell most of the spending is unrelated to Firefox. What do all of these people do and why are they needed? I sometimes h
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>Well, it is really difficult to tell them apart these days. Mozilla does like to copy everything google does, if you look at firefox. Indeed similarities exist. Still, no where close.
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That wasn't chastising you. I don't know you so there was no way I could have known how long you've been on the internet nor your depth in experience in identity within it. I was attempting to point out some of the bigger fac
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>but I decided against it because I worried about harassment from sleuthing HN readers finding me on other platforms. Such are the compromises you make as a lady on the internet sometimes. You make it easy for the internet assholes to do
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>Mozilla has been known to be pretty iffy when it comes to 'opt in' ( the mr. robot tie in .. etc ) Did the instance you're referencing state it was opt-in then turn out to not be opt-in?
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"Corporate Memphis," perhaps? Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107820 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis Edit: I had this open in a tab f

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