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Refusing to tip or tipping less does affect restaurant bosses, but the effect is one step removed. By not tipping or leaving smaller tips, customers reduce the total take-home pay of the servers, which pressures restaurant bosses to increas
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I don't know of any country that uses only free and open source software for its election machines. By your standards, any militant attack after any election woth election machines would be justified, because proprietary software was i
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HN users in general are not going to support a militant attack motivated by concerns that are not backed by hard evidence. Free and open source software is the gold standard, but the fact that election machines used proprietary software is
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Geometric Weather (for Android) is free, open source, and nicely designed. Data sources include AccuWeather (default), OpenWeatherMap, Météo-France, and Caiyun (China). - F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/wangdaye.c
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> And so far, Twitter has not given any special marks to the accounts belonging to U.S. senators such as Markey. > As of press time, Markey’s real account still has a blue check mark that says, “This is a legacy verified account. It m
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I don't use Xposed, and Magisk has always worked as expected in my experience. No bootloops whatsoever.
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Yes, you're right. To pass SafetyNet, not only does the bootloader need to present itself as locked (either through relocking or spoofing), the device fingerprint must also present itself as a Google-certified fingerprint (through spoo
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LineageOS in particular does not support relocking the bootloader after flashing, so it needs root access and this workaround to pass SafetyNet. The SafetyNet check fails if it detects an unlocked bootloader, unless the bootloader lock stat
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Abusing the DMCA to take down unwanted reviews is an easy way to generate bad press for your own company. > GoPro’s poor attempt at taking down a (mostly positive) review of the GoPro Hero 3 erupted into a deluge of unwanted bad press fo
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Adding to the list of things that you can do with root on Android: - App Manager[1] has a powerful feature that lets you disable trackers in every single app on the device. (Menu > 1-Click Ops > Block/unblock trackers) - Neo Back
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For most people, dietary cholesterol only has a minor effect on blood cholesterol. > The biggest influence on blood cholesterol level is the mix of fats and carbohydrates in your diet—not the amount of cholesterol you eat from food. >
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Firefox's fingerprinting protection disables these sensors and shows no data in the demo, even on Android. To enable this feature, go to about:config and set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true: https://support.mozilla.org&
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GitHub itself uses the OSI definition in its ReadME guide to open source: > Many people think that Open Source simply means availability of the source code of a project, but that does only tell part of the whole story. > The Open Sour
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Yes, and regular people who use open source software understand that they have the freedom to modify and redistribute open source software. On the other hand, there is a minority that tries to sell proprietary software by misusing a term th
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It's also been added to Firefox Beta since version 107 (October). https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-n...
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The open source software movement at large does not appreciate companies trying to water down the meaning of "open source" to mean the same thing as "source available" for software, because the term "open source&quo
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If you want to look for consensus, there's no better place than Wikipedia. > Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, chang
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> Elon stated in various places that attempts such as PG's to break the rule (which is about the promotion of prohibited social media) without getting banned would not be tolerated. The expectation is that you either break the rule
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The account did not break Twitter's rules. - The tweet did not link to Mastodon. - The tweet did not name a Mastodon handle. - The tweet is not similar to any of the examples provided in the deleted policy (“follow me @username on Inst
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> I am not "inventing a new definition of ban evasion". Yes, you are. You've already admitted that your novel definition of "ban evasion" is not the usual use of the phrase ( https://news.ycombinator.co
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The CEO's statement ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288 ) interpreted the deleted policy to mean that occasionally sharing links to other social media platforms is "fine". The su
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> What is clear is that it was known that linking to Mastodon accounts was not allowed on Twitter, which is why PG, attempting to evade a ban, did not provide such a link. The user avoided posting the link so that he would be compliant w
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That policy has been deleted in response to backlash, not just changed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050283 As you are aware, the formerly suspended account did not link out to Mastodon or directly name any Mastod
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RAM in dual channel mode performs better than RAM in single channel mode, but you would have to run benchmarks to measure the impact. I'm not sure about the extent of the difference in the 3D modeling software scenario. I remember seei
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If I'm mistaken, then go ahead and quote the part of the policy that was supposedly violated. You may have to find an archived copy, since the page you linked currently does not exist: > Sorry, this page doesn't exist. > Try
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That's not what ban evasion means. Ban evasion is the attempt to circumvent an existing ban or suspension. Posting content that does not benefit Twitter, without violating Twitter's rules, is not ban evasion. Here is Twitter'
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It's difficult to replace soldered RAM when it malfunctions, but that's not the only drawback. The most immediate problem with soldered RAM is that it cannot be upgraded like a standard SO-DIMM stick. Even when a laptop with parti
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Natural Language Processing Aids Use of Open-Ended Questions(news.gallup.com)
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The Framework Laptop is promising, but it lacks the TrackPoint, which is the ThinkPad's most distinguishing feature. The HP Dev One has a pointing stick, but it botched the implementation by omitting the middle mouse button that, when
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Your two examples are completely irrelevant because they do not concern anticompetitive behavior. The form factors of Apple's phones and the appearance of Sony's consoles have nothing to do with anticompetitive behavior and are no

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