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by RunSet 3y ago
> I am not aware of anyone really successfully, defeating spam at the moment. > I mod a 1 million+ Facebook group and they can’t even prevent someone from making 200 posts in a minute with the word “crypto” in it. Could you possibly c
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by RunSet 3y ago
If you don't collect data you don't need to ask permission to collect data. https://lokilist.com/about.php Likewise, a "privacy policy" explains the extent to which your privacy will be violated.
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by RunSet 3y ago
UI animation is largely intended to hide delays when loading dynamic content but its pervasiveness means it is more likely to contribute to delays when loading dynamic content. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox&#
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by RunSet 3y ago
The picture at the top of the article is the cover illustration to Imagica by Clive Barker. https://ixgallery.com/artwork/imajica/ The name of the artist is Kirk Reinert.
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by RunSet 3y ago
May the longest chain win.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> What is the broken part? "most investors want to invest in companies whose explicit purpose is making money for the investors". Rational investors should favor companies whose explicit purpose at least resembles a value pro
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by RunSet 3y ago
Ethernet has provided it all along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable
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by RunSet 3y ago
hidclient will let your laptop pretend to be bluetooth keyboard and mouse. https://web.archive.org/web/20180610141436/http://anselm.hof... https://github.com/benizi/hidclient
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by RunSet 3y ago
https://getsession.org/
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by RunSet 3y ago
It might not please you to learn that Signal Desktop stores your messages in a trivially-read SQLite database. But it may prevent you from trying to lock the client with a pin. https://www.alexbilz.com/post/2021-06-07-f
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by RunSet 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljjns1Y1q-A
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by RunSet 3y ago
Honest, unpaid word of mouth might serve that function if not for the hired shouters and resultant ambient dishonesty. Flipping the microscope, paid promotions distract from honest testimonials with no profit motive. "We are improving
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by RunSet 3y ago
Diligent readers will observe which aspect(s) of your attempted equivalence do not pertain.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Marketing is like juicing in athletics. It undermines the nominal reason for the enterprise's existence (competition) but once a single competitor begins practicing it, everyone else also has to- not to any benefit, but just to maintai
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by RunSet 3y ago
If you're trying to go "chrome but better" than Brave is a move in the wrong direction, given its bundled cryptocurrency and ad platform. Perhaps you haven't heard of Chromium. If so, that may be because Chromium doesn&#
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by RunSet 3y ago
> Someone using their phone or tablet with a keyboard to get things done is far from computer illiterate. Full literacy involves writing, not just reading. At one point the same held for computer literacy. I would not call someone "
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by RunSet 3y ago
> What exactly is the problem? Don't expect me to provide an exhaustive list of problems. In support of my "blank check" statement above, CTRL+F, "not limited to".
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I hope the Apple defenders understand that the main problem with iMessage is specifically that it just looks like regular text messaging Just as bad if not worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)
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by RunSet 3y ago
> the average HN user can't read? Let's put it to the test. https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/third-parties/
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by RunSet 3y ago
Also for those interested in this sort of thing, it is possible to extract the music data from a ROM and play it back using a program that emulates only the console's sound hardware. In the case of gameboy games, the music data is usua
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by RunSet 3y ago
JetBrains's EULA has long been a blank check in terms of sharing information with third parties. Glad to see some light falling in that vicinity.
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by RunSet 3y ago
I only recently learned that Ventoy can also boot from Virtualbox VHD files and run them "on the metal". https://forums.ventoy.net/archive/index.php?thread-416.html
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by RunSet 3y ago
> thinking that sailplanes could be used for commercial transport is almost like thinking that wave surfing could be used as such. We will sooner see some big return of airships than we will see commercial transport using gliders. I have
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by RunSet 3y ago
Then again, Firefox is worse on iOS because Apple can get away with banning third party browser engines.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I will note that I have Windows Update completely blocked and disabled via Group Policy, which means my system settings never get reset under the guise of "updates" every month unlike most people's setups. Better to use
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by RunSet 3y ago
> You're ignoring the fact that "Firefox Home" itself allows you to customize what it contains. Correct. I am ignoring that fact because I don't want new tabs to display "Firefox Home" and I am not intereste
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by RunSet 3y ago
The poets (fools one and all) would have you believe that love makes the world go 'round when it is plain that inertia is to blame.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Firefox has made it unnecessarily difficult to customize the new tab. You can have it blank or you can have Firefox recommendations. Those are your options. https://i.imgur.com/U13r7pG.png This resembles a dark pattern to p
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by RunSet 3y ago
Librewolf is de branded Firefox to remove all the sponsored crap that Firefox inserted: Pocket, Hello, new tab recommendations, default google search, etc. Mullvad browser exists to advertise a VPN. I would not recommend the latter in lieu
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by RunSet 3y ago
Librewolf is a conspicuous omission from a list of privacy-focused browsers that (for some reason) includes Brave.

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