SimeVidas

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by SimeVidas 5y ago
The real solution is to make everyone stop using Chrome.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
But does the money go to the publisher? I’ve read somewhere that most of it (like 90%) goes to the ad tech middlemen. If the ad does not track, there is no ad tech, so more money goes to the publisher.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
What’s wrong with just showing normal ads like we had for over 100 years? Is tracking really needed to prevent walled gardens?
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
The title is incorrect. This is not about removing dislikes but about now showing the dislike count.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
Conspiracy thinking is correlated with a lack of logic and critical thinking, which are correlated with high IQ.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
What about long Covid?
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
> Although the reasons are not fully understood, they also tend to live longer, healthier lives, and are less likely to experience negative life events such as bankruptcy. I’ll tell you why. Smart people listen to experts. Dumb people li
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
> If I understand correctly, for over a year Facebook would track users to web services that had Facebook integrations installed. Facebook tracks users across websites. This is of course still happening. I thought this is common knowledg
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
> I really would love to switch to firefox but afaik it's less secure. Afaik it’s more secure. Personally, I’ve enabled DNS-over-HTTPS and HTTPS-only mode, which are both available as standard options in Firefox. There are more secu
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
Yes but it’s worth mentioning that jQuery Ajax is a high-level API while `fetch` is a low-level method. The default call is sometimes (most of the times?) not what you want, and you have to add one or more options.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
In related news, a set of Pokemon trading cards from the 90’s recently sold for almost $200k [1]. Our species sure has strange priorities. [1]: https://gamerant.com/pokemon-card-set-record-price/
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
To the author: Add `overflow: auto` to `.content` to fix the overflow issue. Source: https://twitter.com/bhathos/status/1357859138433413123
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
If you want to give RSS a go, here’s a collection of over 900 feeds for web developers: https://github.com/simevidas/web-dev-feeds
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
I’m curious if the author thinks that people can actually read the ultra-low-contrast text in the side column.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
Off topic: I haven’t visited one million websites (yet), but I can already tell you that your sticky header is annoying.
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GitHub says its cookies don’t necessitate a cookie banner(webplatform.news)
3 points by SimeVidas 6y ago|0 comments
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
Does Brita Maxtra get rid of this?
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
Contextual ads don’t need cookies. The sooner publishers realize that, the better for them.
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Safari supports user style sheets(webplatform.news)
10 points by SimeVidas 6y ago|0 comments
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
There are websites that sell illegal drugs. If those sites can find web hosting, so can a website that promotes hate speech. Actually, such sites probably already exist. Lots of them. It’s just that Parler became too popular for its own goo
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
Healthcare is a human right (Hello, Europe calling!). Parler is social networking app. Those two things hardly have anything in common.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
“Right to exist” talk sounds like socialism. It’s a free market. Find someone who wants to host your app. Pay them. There is no problem.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
In what aspects is it more private than the duck?
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
That site has two cookie banners. It’s getting worse.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
> Yet some have not collapsed but have only gradually faded away, as in the case of the British Empire since 1918. Burn.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
Hitler set the law. He made things that were illegal legal. Nintendo is just a company that adheres to the laws of democratic countries, and if what Nintendo is doing isn’t considered illegal by those countries, then I’m fine with it. Also,
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
You’d have a point if Flash Player was paid software.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
So Nintendo did nothing illegal. Good.
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
If it’s wrong, then why isn’t it illegal?
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by SimeVidas 6y ago
I’m reading this on a glowing rectangle, what a coincidence.

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