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by anoncake 5y ago
Some of those "flu" pandemics may not have been caused by influenza viruses.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Aka the group that has to suffer the most from lockdowns while benefitting the least.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Then that's a bug in Firefox that needs to be fixed, not worked around.
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by anoncake 5y ago
The browser is the app.
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by anoncake 5y ago
I was talking about Google's and Apple's profits.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Yes, if their browser's UI has problems distinguishing between zooming and clicking buttons, that's definitely the responsibility of the browser's vendor. Who can only improve that if the browser is actually in charge of the
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by anoncake 5y ago
> I don't want to write an app for it. By your logic websites should be plain text and we should all be learning N frameworks to do things that are way easier to do in a browser, available without having to install black box crap so
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by anoncake 5y ago
What is it gonna do, expose your Facebook data to untrustworthy corporations?
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by anoncake 5y ago
Apple and Google could require apps to make their data available to a unified UI. But that would merely improve user experience, not profits.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Sounds like the expected behavior to me.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Reminds me of the "We value your privacy" pop-ups Google keeps popping up. A for-profit company will say anything that it believes is profitable. PR statements like the one you quoted convey no information.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Nor can alternative stores provide automatic background updates.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Are we even allowed to care about "master" and "slave"? I think it's cultural appropriation.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Connecting it with skin colours, which is what this whole nonsense is about, is.
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by anoncake 5y ago
What purpose is a general-purpose kernel not built for?
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by anoncake 5y ago
> If you try to OS-pinch-zoom a 3D object on a web page, it zooms the whole UI and not the object. That's a major accessibility problem for say a website that offers 3D models. Why doesn't it zoom the object along with the rest
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by anoncake 5y ago
Because of this issue, open APIs should IMO be mandatory for all commercial services.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Is "can you watch my kids?" really the same as "are you able to watch my kids?" or an idiom in which "can" does not have precisely its stand-alone meaning?
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by anoncake 5y ago
It would be correct correct for the Google employee to say "I am unable to..." because that is against their employer's policies. But they say " We are unable to...". "We" meaning Google, and Google is ce
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by anoncake 5y ago
You can implement whatever you want, just not in a website. Write an app instead. Sure, it may not be available on Apple device because of their restrictions on that matter, but that's a separate issue. It would be nice if web develope
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by anoncake 5y ago
> You don't do business, banking, dating, note taking, drawing, stock trading, etc. on them.) Because it's artificially made impossible. No computer should be artificially restricted – let's not keep any loopholes open for
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by anoncake 5y ago
Then websites just cannot use that feature. Zoom is necessary for accessibility, period. Being able to implement games as websites isn't. If you want to control the UI, write an app.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Banks moved a lot of operations from London to Frankfurt due to Brexit.
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by anoncake 6y ago
This is about indemnifying the manufacturers, exactly what the USA did. Why is it unthinkable for other countries to do the same?
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by anoncake 6y ago
If teaching worked 100% we wouldn't need exams.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Yes, there is. HTML does not define what email addresses look like. If input [type=email] rejects valid addresses, it's harmful garbage.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Apple has a monopoly on Iphone app stores, your number is irrelevant.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Which is why incarceration exists. The death penalty was necessary back when society simply couldn't afford prisons, but not today.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Pirate it. That's easily more ethical than paying Google for nothing.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Maybe we don't know the composition of the radiation on Mars precisely enough?

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