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by class4behavior 8y ago
>I am not sure what to tell you. The situation pre-dates the secure boot. That's an invalid argument. It doesn't matter how long this has been the case. >As a person authorizing a product that can potentially emit unhealthy
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by class4behavior 8y ago
The first poster compares markets and laws, not cultures. The EU market is in dire need of a solution with similar effects as fair use, yet this tranche of amendments does very little to shift copyright into that direction; worse, with art.
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Pihole manages your hosts file which redirects domain names to a configured IP-address; a local one when the goal is blocking. It is a bit overhyped but useful when you understand what it's for. It uses the same lists as uBlock, but on
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by class4behavior 8y ago
In light of the recently announced fine [1] and Google's response [2], I thought, some people might be interested in more information on the circumstances leading up to this point. Another good read is this text from 2014: https:&#x2
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[2016] Why are EU regulators going after Android?–It's all about the Play Store(theverge.com)
1 points by class4behavior 8y ago|1 comments
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by class4behavior 8y ago
Then maybe Firefox is relying on a built-in font as noted by another user, while the right system fonts are missing.
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by class4behavior 8y ago
>You need a font that supports this character to even have a hope of seeing it correctly in the browser. You've either set the wrong font, or the default one is not installed or linked properly, while on Firefox you've set a cu
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by class4behavior 8y ago
A lot sites moved on to merge their privacy policies with their cookie policies, and they disallow access if you don't accept all of their tracking methods. How do you judge those examples? I'm not referring to those hiding the op
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Federation is a sub-category of decentralization, so if they reject the latter it's usually obvious they don't plan to support the former either. Besides, their reasons for not running a decentralized service do apply for a federa
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by class4behavior 8y ago
>The Enterprise play sounds like a Holy Grail project. To me it sounds like they want to do what most other social networks do, make businesses pay for their profiles and features. The trading part I'm doubting as well. That's
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by class4behavior 8y ago
>Massive growth is more important to the survival of a social network than to any other business model. Growth is. Massive growth is only relevant if you want to compete on the largest, global scale.
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by class4behavior 8y ago
You should read their FAQ on Kickstarter [1]. There they answer why their project is not federated, what revenue model they aim for, and why they aren't a non-profit. Here's their take on the business model: >Our business model
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by class4behavior 8y ago
It's about conceptual accessibility to the solution. When you have a small group dying of hunger because of a drought, it is easy to perceive what to do and your ability to realize it. So people are more likely to speak up. If a drough
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by class4behavior 8y ago
This arrangement exists because those are in paper format meant to be printed. The argument in favor of narrow-width columns still stands. But we do indeed need to acknowledge that most people read on digital devices now.
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Uh, you're confusing this with the distinction made between Western standard medicine and folk or alternative medicine practices.
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Indeed, but it's the same concept, just different target groups.
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by class4behavior 8y ago
>What was the data-driven decision in that case? That based on telemetry data the RSS feature was barely used in general. I haven't seen any commentary that suggests any relation with their support for Pocket.
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Well, that is, as a relative share, in absolute numbers it is still enough for services like inoreader to do fairly well.
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by class4behavior 8y ago
You've explained where Facebook's likely interest lies, but not why that feature is actually popular. I don't see any difference with how HN and Reddit attract people. They all seek the added social aspect to reading news; an
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The irony is, their monopoly power and the conflicts of interest could be much less worrisome if net neutrality were in place.
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by class4behavior 8y ago
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/att-time-warner-merger-app... More details, especially where it matters. and a more analytic language.
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The business part aside, vice news and vice, those programs on hbo, offer very informative, undervalued stories. It would be a pity if that format were gone. Vice coverage may be sometimes sensationalist or activist, but its pros by far out
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by class4behavior 8y ago
You're equating a conversation with a journalist (=the public) with one with an investor, though.
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#SaveYourInternet from Art.13 and “Link Tax” in the EU – MEP Julia Reda AMA(np.reddit.com)
3 points by class4behavior 8y ago|0 comments
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Because it's not any different to any other group of people. You can find evidence that we're bad at long-term investment or planning all around.
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by class4behavior 8y ago
Well, you're exactly part of a huge N of people that appear on the internet, who combined over the years owned an even larger number of drives.
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Apparently, WashPo prefers a more coercive method: https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/ Either pay or sell yourself. A gamble they might lose if people just stop sharing and click Washpo articles, but a possibl
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...which is made possible by both directly and indirectly collecting, evaluating, sharing or trading, and concatenating data about you.