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by Quanttek 6y ago
Firefox Klar is just the German name for Firefox Focus. Also, if you would just open the link - something HN readers often seem to struggle with - the first sentence of the would tell you that this is about Firefox Preview
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by Quanttek 6y ago
We both know how disingenuous your argument is: No one actually thinks "I was actually a liberal until you made fun of Trump's physical fitness; now, I must vote for him" or "I am totally not a right-winger but now that
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by Quanttek 6y ago
Do you find the ramblings of Alex Johnes or Goebbels also "intellectually stimulating"? Don't get me wrong: I'm an avid listener if Intelligence Squared and find engaging with diverse opinions lovely but Molyneux doesn&#
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by Quanttek 6y ago
God, no. He is a far-right YouTuber who is known for his promotion of scientific racism and white supremacist views. His website is basically a cult with active use of cult indoctrination methods on Molyneux's side. Let's not pret
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by Quanttek 6y ago
You are completely ignoring my point: you can't go by a one-sentence summary in an article to infer that the Court's ruling on allowed items is vague. You'd actually need to look at the written deicision instead of spending y
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by Quanttek 6y ago
This does not hold true for the appellate court's decision: > While it found the game may call up a certain measure of skill, "it seems evident … that the game also involves a large part of chance, so that it does not take &#x2
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by Quanttek 6y ago
How are you able to derive from the article's summary that this is vague? Beyond that, we all know that "vagueness" was just an Amazon pretext to force France to allow them to operate unchecked, i.e. without providing the dem
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French court upholds order limiting Amazon deliveries amid coronavirus risk(politico.eu)
39 points by Quanttek 6y ago|43 comments
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by Quanttek 6y ago
Oh no, I agree! He was definitely ruthless during his reign as the head of Microsoft. Generally, when one can show such disregard than one has an overall character allowing for that, so it's rare that people would behave differently wh
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by Quanttek 6y ago
> (m|b)illionaires making their money from the Internet could easily sponsor the project. The thing is: When you're the kind of person that is able to amass m-/billions, you're unlikely to be very altruistic. Most of the
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by Quanttek 6y ago
Considering that the small group of developers are all volunteers, I think you owe it to them to write your bug report in a way that is actually usable by them. One way would be creating one bigger issue with your suspected root cause (the
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by Quanttek 6y ago
Great ruling! Anything else would've been quite absurd or inconsistent as it would allow for e.g. a grocerer to pin a "whites only" sign onto the door and anyone deterred would not have standing. I also want to laud the beaut
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by Quanttek 6y ago
Quite the opposite. The core idea of anti-discrimination law is simple: Treat people the same where they are the same and treat people different where they are different. Here the example of the rough sleeping tax applying equally to the ho
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by Quanttek 6y ago
I have about 200 tabs open in Firefox right now, spread out over a couple of windows (general, video, work 1, work 2, applications). I am using TreeStyleTabs though
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by Quanttek 7y ago
1) The comment regarding engineers related to the tendency to assume, because one has specialized knowledge in one field, one also is qualified to comment on other topics, such as the ability to discern the "truth" in a highly vol
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Uhmm, no? Reality is way too complex for anyone to make a statement about what is "true" - even for domain experts and especially for journalists, whose, at best, entire specialization is "public health". We may be able
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by Quanttek 7y ago
When we talk about Facebook, Google, etc. people commonly believe that "selling data" refers to any, direct or indirect, access third parties gain to the data, as captured by the common phrase of "selling your data to adverti
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by Quanttek 7y ago
This also related to their horrendous privacy policy [0] [0]: https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/
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by Quanttek 7y ago
> "On March 29th, we updated our privacy policy to be more clear and transparent around what data we collect and how it is used – explicitly clarifying that we do not sell our users’ data, we have never sold user data in the past, a
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by Quanttek 7y ago
The new v4 update has been plagued by various glitches, performance issues, and bugs (subtitles not working, movies not loading, etc.), as a look at the Github issue page shows: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popco
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New Popcorn Time version leaks user's IP address to third party for VPN ad(github.com)
2 points by Quanttek 7y ago|1 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
It will be open-sourced soon: https://twitter.com/gannimo/status/1245630618462867457
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Technical details: https://www.pepp-pt.org/content The app basically uses Bluetooth Low Energy for the proximity measurements: The app generates temporary IDs, so if two smartphones with the app come close, they exchange th
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Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing(pepp-pt.org)
88 points by Quanttek 7y ago|75 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
I think the point is that FB could change to a contextual model. E.g. after seeing a post of a news article by Tractor Daily you would see an ad for a new John Deere.
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Hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks spike(reuters.com)
31 points by Quanttek 7y ago|8 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
How does WebRTC compare when you have a lot of callers (e.g. 20 people in a call)? From my understanding, it is p2p, so the network throughput required would be a lot higher, correct?
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Using slash ("/") for commands can slow down many users not on QWERTY keyboards because "/" requires one to press shift (e.g. QWERTZ or AZERTY keyboards)
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Re home: Maybe split it into two: an "uncategorized" tab and an "all" tab
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The iBackPack, a failed crowdfund with an FTC investigation(theverge.com)
11 points by Quanttek 7y ago|2 comments

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