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by RunSet 4y ago
> I love the TST addon. Sadly it builds on an unstable API and is quite a bit of work to get it installed in FF. The amount of nails FF has scattered in the road of moving the tab bar to the side is atrocious. At one point (in the halcyo
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by RunSet 4y ago
These are practically ancient in internet time but they are good examples of physics-based gameplay. https://jet.ro/dismount/
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://getsession.org/ * Doesn't require users to provide a phone number. * Doesn't use centralized servers. Hopefully Session will stay legit for a while. Just when I get most of my contacts to use Signal, Sig
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by RunSet 4y ago
> The moment you're manually typing a username it's game over. Is copy/paste also too much to ask of technology's current generation?
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by RunSet 4y ago
A: "Let's attempt to solve poverty, addiction, spousal abuse, and sexual abuse." B: "Why do you have to make everything political?"
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Devs need to be careful, and they need to measure things. They shouldn't start with the assumption that something will be slow. I disagree. The specs of developers' machines typically so far surpass those of users as to make
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by RunSet 4y ago
> browsers are much faster than people think they are Does "people" include you? Also web pages are more bloated than people think they are.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Correct; neither did I mention kiwifarms.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> From a cynical business POV it's in a dating app's best interest to not let you find a relationship and keep you spending money/watching ads. https://teddit.net/r/LokiList/comments/s0a0w6&#
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by RunSet 4y ago
> And we are fucking bickering about how we were cheated out of $0.00034 because our repo from 2015 might have been used for training. I just hope Microsoft AutoPlagiarist is not the Final Solution to Free Software they have been seeking
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Recently, the Chrome developers announced their decision to remove the behind-a-flag support for JPEG XL. Given that, is there any reason JPEG XL might be better for privacy / worse for advertising industry scumbags? I have no exp
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by RunSet 4y ago
> But it is a very well documented form of gatekeeping. "Tell me your opinion of the emperor's apparel."
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by RunSet 4y ago
The charitable assumption on the service provider's behalf would be that their customers are not morons.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Hint: If your software ships Chrome its optimization is overdue, not premature. Looking at you, Electron apps.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Easiest way is to not place any cookies and not keep any logs. You don't have to show a cookie warning if you don't place any cookies and you're not processing any user data if you don't keep logs. That was very muc
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by RunSet 4y ago
Be aware there have been many instances where Brave's implementation of Tor leaks user information that Tor Browser does not. Notably, keeping javascript enabled during "Tor mode" even if the user has explicitly disabled java
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by RunSet 4y ago
> The opt-out is buy business-class service. Yes, punish the undesirable behavior with more money. That will teach them a valuable lesson.
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by RunSet 4y ago
In the same sense that every human on Earth is free to move vertically within its gravity well. It is nested prisons all the way to the top and bottom, but you'll find it much easier to descend than to ascend.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> JS is a fine tool for making rich, interactive UIs in the browser and IMO avoiding it at all costs shouldn't be a priority If you want a site to work in Tor Browser then it had better work without JS.
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by RunSet 4y ago
If they don't have a mute button you can implement the functionality by using ordinary chewing gum to block the speakers.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Why is digital attention morally a big problem but attention in real life not? I get it, the world would be prettier without ads, but you'd also be able to afford way less things. Speak for yourself. Or at least don't presume
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Controversial opinion: if you don't like websites with ads, don't use websites with ads. 1. If someone doesn't want their content to be publicly available, they should not put it on a public web server.[0] 2. The questio
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Will this do? Sorry to be a stickler, but not really. The citation indexed [40] (that is, the relevant portion) in your quote points to the Register article you also linked, just as the Wikipedia entry does in support of the statement:
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by RunSet 4y ago
I observe that the end of the passage you quoted bears a "[citation needed]".
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
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by RunSet 4y ago
But according to Intel it exists to provide functionality that is desired by hardware owners. Big "Look what you made me do" energy.
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by RunSet 4y ago
No telling how many sides the next iteration of the wheel may have but one thing's for certain: That one will be the ultimate version.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> in Win 10 home you can't easily turn off automatic updates. If you set your internet connection to "metered" it exposes an option to disable automatic updates. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/13
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by RunSet 4y ago
If it was not intended as a universal backdoor I think there would be some way for the hardware's owner to disable it or buy hardware without the baked-in backdoor.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I switched to a cheap version of the pixel last time I got a new phone. Recommend GrapheneOS for your Pixel phone. It is so good I wonder how long it will last. https://grapheneos.org/

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