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by Sylos 8y ago
A big problem seems to also be that mainstream audience can't really tell these scandals apart, they often don't understand the details or just don't have a complete picture of any single scandal, so that if another scandal g
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by Sylos 8y ago
I mean, it's impossible to say for sure that something is astroturfing, maybe it's just me having a particularly bad opinion of these companies, but for example Google and Microsoft often feel that way. When you look at controvers
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by Sylos 8y ago
I distrust Google more with privacy. I distrust Microsoft more with 1) not running newly acquired services into the ground, 2) not integrating it into their ecosystem until it's unusable from the outside, and 3) yes, with free software
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by Sylos 8y ago
Moral agency simply means that you're capable of making moral judgements. He's basically saying that only humans are smart enough to judge the outcome of their actions as good or bad, and as a result he thinks that we have a respo
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by Sylos 8y ago
Free as in https://www.gnu.org/ Basically open-source.
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by Sylos 8y ago
I use it in my mobile browser, mainly to try to force myself to visit other places, too. HN seems to have virtually no protection against large-scale astroturfing, and is big enough to be a target of it, so while I am skeptical of most thin
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by Sylos 8y ago
There's tons of substitutes for Google Maps: https://f-droid.org/app/net.osmand.plus https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.axet.maps https://f-droid.org/app/com.junjunguo.po
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by Sylos 8y ago
It's not like regular companies distributing Android are known for delivering security patches in a timely manner...
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by Sylos 8y ago
They've started on it, it's called Servo. But webstandards are evolving faster than modern browsers are, so building a browser from the ground up would require quite a bit more money, and worse know-how - you can't just buy t
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by Sylos 8y ago
You're responding to someone who is surprised by there being font issues. If it was a common sight, they wouldn't complain about it like this. And it really is not a common sight. I have not had any problems with fonts in the thre
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by Sylos 8y ago
That's very subjective. C# has tons of useless keywords that you just know some arrogant dev is going to use because they can, which then no junior can work with. It also has a worse ecosystem for writing server software (while obvious
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by Sylos 8y ago
Interesting. I think, Chrome doesn't do sandboxing when you run it as administrator (because it'd be pointless security-wise), so maybe it specifically crashes when trying to spawn those sandbox processes. Or it's a simple ma
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by Sylos 8y ago
It is somewhat of a loop, but it doesn't really play into things, because: 1) The search engines pay money and receive something in return. That's a closed off transaction. It's not like Mozilla needs to keep them happy, so t
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by Sylos 8y ago
You didn't get a whole lot of responses, but honestly, I'd bet money that you would get even less, if you posed the question the other way around. Because how is Chrome/-ium better than Firefox? To give some rough image from
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by Sylos 8y ago
No, we shouldn't. But a company that advertises software against JavaScript-Bitcoin-miners knows exactly that people will think their software helps against JavaScript-Monero-miners. If it's a reasonable company, they'll try
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by Sylos 8y ago
I probably should have highlighted this better, but I was not talking about Minecraft in the second part of my comment. I was talking about Mine test : https://www.minetest.net/ Which is essentially a game engine for crea
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by Sylos 8y ago
And for that, you could again look at what Minecraft-like games have come up with. Minetest, for example, groups its "voxels" into cubic chunks, which are then loaded depending on a max distance and presumably some sort of a ray t
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by Sylos 8y ago
...in which no personal data was collected at all. Just because in some ways it's technologically possible for Mozilla to track your stuff, does not mean that they actually do it, that they actually violate their privacy policy or now
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by Sylos 8y ago
If the Cookie does not track PII, then you don't need such a banner. Cookies used for logins are excluded as well. 99% of web publishers went completely over board with Cookie banners, because they did not understand the law.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Hackers do have the high horse. People working at Google, Facebook, Microsoft et al are not hackers, they're workforce in a corporate environment.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Don't think this preserves embedded files either, but to convert to HTML, you can export as webpage which gives you a HTM-file, then open that in Internet Explorer, right-click -> View Source and then copy the HTML from there. Not a
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by Sylos 8y ago
Firefox has Reader Mode (little book icon to the right of the URL bar, appears on text-heavy sites) which should do this automatically. I believe Safari has this, too. Might find an extension for other browsers.
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by Sylos 8y ago
They used to be owned by Evidon Inc., later renamed to Ghostery Inc., which was a classic ad company (sold data gathered from the opt-in GhostRank feature to help other ad companies figure out how to not have their ads blocked). Nowadays, t
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by Sylos 8y ago
Because Google needs the reputation. And if publications like Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune do it on behalf of Google, because ultimately what they deploy is Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads and so forth, then that's
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by Sylos 8y ago
I do think these are good ideas. I think so, because "If you disagree with [services using your data to finance themselves], you can just not use the service" is not actually a thing for the following reasons: 1) These services ha
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by Sylos 8y ago
Well, ToS are rarely to be taken at full value. It obviously differs between countries, but in many countries, ToS cannot override the law, or might even already be invalid, if they contain things that a customer can not reasonably expect t
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by Sylos 8y ago
So, basically you retain your ownership rights, but grant YouTube all rights that (co-)ownership would grant?
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I was surprised at how much time they spent building up their cities, technologies, religions etc., rather than just doing each others head in. There's this open-source game, Battle for Wesnoth, which is sort of like Civilization witho
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by Sylos 8y ago
Not the same guy, but similar feelings, and well, I actually dislike it when programming languages actively declare "function", "begin", "end" or even "X references" (Visual Studio). Because when I re
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by Sylos 8y ago
I really like what they're doing with maps and map generation. To highlight a few from this post: "Hellas" gives you random cutouts of actual Greece landscape. "Egypt" is just Egypt rebuilt at small scale, including

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