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by Sylos 9y ago
That explains some things. I always thought it was just some badly designed attempt to prevent comment spam where someone just posts a whole bunch of newlines.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Which is definitely not what I was trying to argue here. You implied that one does not need governmental help to protect against Facebook. That's what I argued against. No matter how informed you are about Facebook's practices and
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by Sylos 9y ago
Facebook will still have a lot of data on you, even if you don't use their services. Their Like-Buttons that are spread on a lot of the web, allow them to track your IP-address and what webpage you're on (thanks to the HTTP referr
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by Sylos 9y ago
That's actively taking steps to block their tracking rather than just not using their service. And while technically, you can use uBlock Origin to block everything from Google, that would result in many webpages being broken. You'
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by Sylos 9y ago
Image search finds images mostly based on the text that is placed near the image on the webpage. So, with your search engine, you'd put in keywords to describe an image, it would then look at the webpages' text to figure out, if t
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, that's the biggest joke about this. Those who have an actual financial interest in not paying for stock images etc. are generally people who understand computers and basically will just have to do two clicks more than before, whi
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm not sure how you would create a worse implementation of virtual desktops than Windows 10 has them: - No indication of other workspaces existing. - No indication of what applications are in those other workspaces. - The keyboard sho
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by Sylos 9y ago
Which he did not argue against. He said that creating new files should still be possible.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Coming without any graphical applications and coming with 3D or AR software is a big difference. 90% of users will be able to make use of a simple image editor. 0.1% of users will be able to make use of 3D and AR.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'd still like to know, what the particular difference between that acquisition and Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp is, that made so many countries block the sharing of data between WhatsApp and Facebook, but not the sharing of
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by Sylos 9y ago
What's the legal situation for this in the US? Pretty sure, this is illegal in most of the EU already, but the GDPR will definitely prohibit it on the basis of the data clearly not being used for the originally specified purpose.
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by Sylos 9y ago
With "ignore the law", I meant not (fully) implementing the requirements that the GDPR imposes. If a judge actually rules that they did not properly implement the GDPR requirements, then yeah, they will correct that. But until som
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by Sylos 9y ago
GDPR is reasonable. How Facebook handles user data is not. I'm sure, they'll mostly ignore the law at first, and if they get sued, they'll claim having a legitimate interest [1], but that will be their strategy, because actua
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by Sylos 9y ago
For reference: "Aluhut" translates to "tinfoil hat".
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by Sylos 9y ago
To give the opposite view: I'm glad they don't throw everything and the kitchen sink into Java. There's so many keywords in C# that are really not necessary, yet you need to learn them, because you can be sure, you'll ru
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by Sylos 9y ago
The "out" feature definitely violates OOP principles even more than tuples would. You're passing along a variable which is then overwritten in the method to serve as a return value. Essentially just a somewhat formalized use
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by Sylos 9y ago
Was hoping this would be about porting some of the features from desktop Linux over to Windows. I have to use Windows at work and it feels like I'm missing an arm everytime. Mainly because Windows doesn't allow keyboard shortcuts
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, even if it's not as many as before, I do think the privacy is more important.
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by Sylos 9y ago
And to calm the people needing to implement the GDPR in companies: This does not apply, if you actually need the data to provide the service. For example, in an online shop, you obviously need to process the address of your customer in orde
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by Sylos 9y ago
I was not joking or sarcastic. They are a regulatory institution. They get paid to look after companies, so that those keep to the law. Presumably, the workers at this institution do not get paid for how high the fines are that they can pus
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by Sylos 9y ago
Not like they get enjoyment or an advantage by using that stick.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I mean, I don't know about you, but that seems to be the fate of any mail client. "Doesn't make me sad" is the highest rating that any mail client, web-based or not, has ever gotten from me.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Don't think you can go more than two scrolls in these comments without having it smacked into your face repeatedly, but K-9 Mail is that. It's open-source and by a long shot the most popular open-source client (except maybe the AO
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by Sylos 9y ago
There is a UI/UX update in the pipeline, hopefully cleaning things up, but at the very least it'll give Thunderbird a UI with a more modern style, similar to Firefox Photon's.
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Improving privacy without breaking the web(blog.mozilla.org)
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, they work fine 90% of the time. But no web browser implements all webstandards and even less so implements them without bugs. Google is also adding more and more proprietary APIs to their browser, which Mozilla will not be able to imp
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by Sylos 9y ago
If webpage owners don't make money off of a browser, they'll stop testing/building their webpage against that browser or even block access from it, leading to broken webpages in that broken, which is not at all in the interes
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by Sylos 9y ago
I found that confusing, too. I thought, they were actually running EasyList and EasyPrivacy in full and fulltime, which would have been completely orthogonal to Google's entire business model. So, what it actually means is that if you
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by Sylos 9y ago
Why should Google have "good intentions"? It's a company, a publicly traded one at that. Their intentions are profit maximization. Abiding the law and maintaining somewhat of a reputation tend to be non-optional for that, but
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by Sylos 9y ago
I haven't actually checked network requests on all or even most of them, if this is what you're asking, but given how (positively) anal the Linux community is about tracking and how I've not actually heard about anything othe

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