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by bad_user 3y ago
Morality, as in the principles for distinguishing right from wrong, good from evil, is very relevant for politics. The naive would say, "just let science settle it", but that's not how society works. Just an example: is banni
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I worked with C# professionally. The async/await syntax works with the language's other statements, but for a long time it had gotchas. It doesn't qualify as "structured concurrency", and it has the aforementioned i
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by bad_user 3y ago
C# does not have virtual threads. What C# has is async/await. Which was nice for its time, but at the same time it's an error prone design, as computations should never start async by accident, blocking should be the default. C# a
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by bad_user 3y ago
Religion, at least the Abrahamic kind, is a recipe for morality. Even more, the law in modern countries, at least in the West, is shaped by Roman law and Christianity. Liberalism itself is an ideology that's strongly influenced by Jude
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by bad_user 3y ago
It's very naive to think that the Internet can transcend in any way law enforcement. You may have distributed protocols and crypto, but the state has a monopoly on violence, it controls all infrastructure, and therefore can control all
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Growth means prosperity. Also, the idea that the economy requires growth is BS, it's just that economic stagnation or recession currently means some people are going to be starving. And if you actually look at the world, with its still
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Another commenter already said it, but given that Google pays Apple $20 billion annually for the default search engine, it's accurate to say that Safari's development is entirely funded by Google. That Apple has alternative source
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I think you may be confusing marketing with advertising. And note that I'm no Apple or Google fan either. Microsoft has always built excellent developer tools. Even before VS Code, Visual Studio for Windows has been one of the best, if
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It's not surprising that you're defending Microsoft. They have had a very successful marketing campaign leaving the impression that "Microsoft changed". But they are still the same company that threatened Linux with pate
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OK, advertising is communication "promoting a person, product, service, event or a job opening". Is that kind of communication evil?
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Ads are communication. Are you saying that communication is evil? I regularly see young and naive folks online saying things like " supporting your favorite creators by buying their product isn't capitalism ", or " self-
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This is a good point actually. What I like about the Topics API is that it seems to put the user in control. And at least in the EU, I noticed they at least ask for permission and with a Reject button. And the dialog is clearer than your av
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A big problem that the web has is that it has no standard for micro-transactions. As such, the web is powered by ads or subscriptions. That's a fact. Of course, we can talk about the "indie web", the one in which enthusiasts
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Apple has unparalleled support for older devices, I think we agree. For operating system updates, Samsung pledged 4 years of updates for the flagships starting with S21. The difference between Android versions isn't big. I also mention
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Indeed, last update is from Dec-22. A70 should have gotten 4 years of security updates. https://doc.samsungmobile.com/sm-a705fn/sek/doc.html Looking at this list of devices getting updates, it only lists A70s with
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Their pledge has started in 2019, and the promise for 5 years of updates is fairly new. I remember they first promised 3 or 4 years of security updates. For what is worth, I have a Galaxy Tab S6 from 2019 that is still getting security upda
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Samsung promised 3 or 4 years of updates in 2019, and then updated that pledge to 5 years for the flagships. What's exciting about Samsung's pledge is that it made this promise for some of the mid-range models in the A series, whi
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by bad_user 3y ago
I'm referring to a limitation I bumped into… Let's say that I'm setting up a subdomain, like masked.mydomain.com, and then set a wildcard forwarding rule such that I get all email for *@masked.mydomain.com. Let's say tha
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by bad_user 3y ago
Fastmail supports "masked email", a feature for generating random email addresses. This has 1Password integration and can be set-up on your own domain: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/440
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by bad_user 3y ago
On the usefulness of containers for privacy, I wrote another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37477425 A problem I have with containers is one of usability, as they have integration issues. For example, wh
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by bad_user 3y ago
Firefox's profiles are next to unusable for me. They are a hidden feature, and switching isn't easy (I know of about:profiles). On macOS, they also have window management issues, as the operating system regards different profiles
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On extensions, for example, I use LanguageTool [1], which is similar to Grammarly. It could be configured with a local server, although I have a “premium” account which sends data to a 3rd party server. I trust this extension to verify my m
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> Firefox containers are great for keeping different sites, especially those notorious for tracking (e.g. Amazon, Google, LinkedIn) completely isolated from each other or from general browsing. That was exactly my point; you're us
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The world has a long history of bad predictions. Search for example for the predictions made with the advent of the first Earth Day, 1970. Some predictions were more accurate than others, which led to effective policies, so for example, tha
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> The children have no future. The old have accumulated ownership of pretty much everything. This is in general a myth. If you look at millennials or gen-z, ownership at their age isn't any different from the boomer generation. An
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Firefox's containers are useless for privacy, given other enhancements of Firefox (e.g., Total Cookie Protection). And as far as "isolation", privacy or security are concerned, Chrome's profiles are actually superior due
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Of course you can get rid of the "web search bar". Not sure what launcher the Pixel is using, as I have a Samsung device, but you can install a different launcher if needed. The in-app views can be Firefox by just setting it as th
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by bad_user 3y ago
The criticism of Israel, coming from the left, is usually Anti-Zionism, which questions Israel's existence.
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It's not dishonest, because the accusation that Twitter has lost its ads revenue due to ADL is bollocks. And when such accusations are so unreasonable, given everything else that happened (e.g., Twitter's workforce plummeting, unb
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Twitter's ad revenue plunged due to mismanagement and current economic conditions. Lest we forget, when Musk took over, the workforce dropped by 80%, which meant, first of all, that a lot of advertisers lost over night their contacts a

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