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by bscphil 5y ago
> The only alternative is to get users to install their own keys, which is fiddly and technical. It's a bit worse than that actually; it's actively scary and dangerous, as with much EFI stuff. Quoting the Arch Wiki: > Warnin
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by bscphil 5y ago
I never said any of that. I think you need to take a step back and re-read my comment. I'm not endorsing capitalism, I'm merely saying that so long as capitalism is the one way you can think of to get things done, giving people pr
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by bscphil 5y ago
If capitalism is the nail, private property is the hammer. Quite a lot of development that the United States wanted to see happen in the west (which enriched it immensely) was done because it was willing to make grants of private property t
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by bscphil 5y ago
I watched the video through only once, but unless I'm mistaken (the video is a little confusing on this point), the claim is that the original game did run consistently at 30fps (the design framerate of the console), and the point of t
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by bscphil 5y ago
Greasemonkey injects scripts into the content context [1], which is (arguably) more secure than injecting them directly into the page. From there they run with similar permissions to the extension which installs them. They can't be blo
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I don't really want consolidation, I want to be able to pay to play each work once or for a certain period of time I'm confused. As awful as streaming is currently, doesn't it really excel at the one thing you say you wa
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by bscphil 5y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, you've misunderstood the issue. From your link: > it happened to me and I figured out it started when I disabled website.referrersEnabled So if you completely disable sending the referer header, it breaks
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This breaks in the case that the endpoint actually does use the referer for something. I have actually encountered plenty of cases where a site will use the referer internally, i.e. on the same origin, to check something.
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by bscphil 5y ago
I mean, there's an argument to be made that Android / ChromeOS / Fuchsia wouldn't exist without Linux either (i.e. not exist as they are or in some similar open source variation). They don't stand quite as independe
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Do you have an example of this? What exactly breaks? I use Wayback all the time and have had no obvious problems.
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That's interesting phrasing. "This video was found to contain copyrighted material." So what? Tons of stuff contains copyrighted material, under fair use. But there's no acknowledgement of that and it's not obvious
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by bscphil 5y ago
Your claim to authority here is helping out claimants on a tobacco case, a situation where the companies were unquestionably guilty. With Monsanto, you have to look at the context. They have been repeatedly sued and lost jury trials, with
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by bscphil 5y ago
It genuinely shocks me that there are still people who don't disable sending the referer header cross-origin in the browser: I have not encountered a single website that breaks when setting `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` to 1 i
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by bscphil 5y ago
I mean, yes, that's why I used it. I'm implicitly calling myself (and most people) "normies".
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A related issue: in some cases the industry has allowed anyone to upload a copy of a song, and so you run into the issue that you're at the mercy of whoever the uploader was when it comes to the quality of your upload. I ran into a c
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by bscphil 5y ago
> 100k people would install this, and you’d scrape Twitter quite quickly. Yeah, uh, definitely. > Tons of creators would migrate for the FREE MONEY! ... Even lurkers will use TWITCHAIN front end because it doesn’t have ads and fake “
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by bscphil 5y ago
The map reminds me of this infamous plot [1]. Look at how many more points there are in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Massachusetts than surrounding states. Naively we would conclude that these states have way more PFAS contamination. But
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by bscphil 5y ago
> In the case of Roundup/Glyphosate we can skip our own interpretations of hundreds of studies This is a completely insane conclusion for anyone who knows anything at all abut the American legal system. Businesses and individuals se
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by bscphil 5y ago
Fair enough, I do need to have a look at the book again, although that was one of the sources I found impossible to understand a few years back. I think there's a temptation to talk about lifetimes in extremely abstract terms under the
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by bscphil 5y ago
Suppose I wanted to try learning Rust again; is there a resource for someone with a lot of (hobbyist) programming experience, and experience with low level languages and memory management (e.g. C), but not complicated low-level languages,
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Windows 11 is a pure attack on my freedom, my privacy, and my productivity Insofar as this is true, how is it not true in such a way that these facts merely constitute continuations of problems that already existed with Windows 10? &gt
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by bscphil 5y ago
Correct, and furthermore, Musk's offer was made after he announced his stake in the company, which is what caused the price of the stock to rise. Him offering to buy it outright barely affected the share price: > The social media co
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by bscphil 5y ago
My comment is literally a response to someone talking about a MacBook Air from 2012. Regardless , the comment stands, as even though Apple's trackpads have improved I would still strongly prefer a device with physical left/right
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by bscphil 5y ago
I know this back-and-forth happens every single time there's a conversation about this on HN, but I just want to point out that trackpads are extremely personal, and I've had nothing but bad experiences with Apple trackpads until
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by bscphil 5y ago
ffmpeg arguments generally compose pretty well, although it's powerful enough that (as other comments have mentioned) for special use cases you do often have to look things up. If you can remember 3 or 4 things you can do most stuff wi
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by bscphil 5y ago
> firefox converts images to webp by default No it doesn't. What are you referring to?
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by bscphil 5y ago
One thing a little weird about this list is that it has "privacy-respecting" software mixed in with privacy tools . DuckDuckGo doesn't track you individually, or at least, they don't filter-bubble and advertise to you i
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by bscphil 5y ago
> While I find projects in those other languages to also have too many dependencies, it's no where near what happens in JS apps. I'm thinking of projects I've recently worked on in Rust, PHP, and Java. My experience with t
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by bscphil 5y ago
> It strikes me a lot of the nuclear focus is (understandable, if not justifiable) interest in cool new technology. This is very funny. The first nuclear power plant began operation in June 1954. That same year is when Bell Labs created
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by bscphil 5y ago
I don't anyone is suggesting that you should, in practice, adopt w3m or any other text browser as your exclusive way to access web resources.

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