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by commoner 5y ago
Why should others go out of their way to satisfy your preferences before accomplishing what they want? If you want to get apps exclusively from the App Store, just do so. Apple will certainly keep that option available and easy to choose fo
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by commoner 5y ago
A curated app store doesn't need to be profitable to be useful for both users and developers. Example: F-Droid.
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> a) Nothing is stopping you from charging people from outside the app e.g. your own web site. It's how Netflix works. Most here are already familiar with Apple's 15-30% fee (requiring developers to raise prices by 17.6-42.9% t
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U.S. special forces kill ISIS leader in Syria raid, Biden says(nbcnews.com)
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by commoner 5y ago
> 68% of US people are Mg deficient, 3% are K deficient My comment said that "only 3% of people in the U.S. consume adequate levels of potassium in their diet according to the most recent NHANES survey", which means that 97% of
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by commoner 5y ago
What? 97% of U.S. people have potassium-deficient diets, which is greater than the 68% of U.S. people who have magnesium-deficient diets (according to your source). I agree that anyone who is taking potassium supplements should carefully mo
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by commoner 5y ago
> Your end-users of the Omniverse-based extension, app, microservice, or connector will need either an Omniverse for Individuals license or an Omniverse Enterprise license. https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-omniverse-pl
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by commoner 5y ago
North Korea has Rodong Sinmun, which has an online edition in English. People interested in North Korean politics do read this newspaper. - Website: http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/ - Wikipedia: https://en.wikip
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by commoner 5y ago
The HiDPI bug on macOS was fixed in LibreOffice 7.1.2: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138122
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by commoner 5y ago
Kagi was last updated in September 2020. If it manages to get an update approved by Apple and set a precedent in the App Store, I'll be glad to see it.
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by commoner 5y ago
> 2. All cheap foods are full of sugar/carbs. If you want to eat healthy food, you either need to have access to farm or pay more. Not necessarily! Whole grain products (like bread, pasta, and oats) and legumes tend to be cheaper pe
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by commoner 5y ago
Yep, that's the provided workaround. If you don't want to use Firefox Nightly, these Firefox forks based on the stable channel have access to all of https://addons.mozilla.org through the same steps: - Mull: https:&#x
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by commoner 5y ago
It's nice that iOS 15 added WebExtensions support to Safari. It's not so nice that the feature only works with Safari, and that other browsers like Firefox are excluded even though Apple mandates that they use Safari's browse
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by commoner 5y ago
I highly recommend the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on. Its user experience is very similar to Chrome's profile switcher menu. Different profiles must be loaded in different windows (like Chrome), but different containers can be us
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by commoner 5y ago
If you use Mullvad VPN, you can configure a different exit node per Firefox container using the SOCKS5 proxy setting. Each Mullvad server provides SOCKS5 proxy access to every other Mullvad server: https://mullvad.net/en&#x2
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by commoner 5y ago
It's worth a try, though Firefox has discontinued support for NPAPI plugins since version 52 (March 2017)⋮ https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/npapi-plugins The only plugins in the Plugins section of about:a
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by commoner 5y ago
At this point, I'd create a new profile and try again. I know that you've already tried both Stable and Nightly, but there is a possibility that both of their profiles have been corrupted by some external factor. If the issue is n
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by commoner 5y ago
Can you log in to HN on a separate Firefox container? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers Containers do not share cookies, local storage, caches, or other persisted data.
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by commoner 5y ago
I respect the ability of site owners to make their own decisions about how to run their own businesses. I respect the courage it takes for a site owner to accept responsibility for their own decisions. When a site owner chooses to supply co
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by commoner 5y ago
Nope, defending the right to block ads is a libertarian position because it affirms the autonomy of individual internet users. No individual is obligated to go out of their way to enrich another person's business or support the viabili
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by commoner 5y ago
Internet users are not the people who decide whether a website provides its content free of charge. That's the site owner's decision. If a site owner obtains or produces valuable content and then provides it without charging for i
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by commoner 5y ago
Here are WebMD's terms of use: https://www.webmd.com/about-webmd-policies/about-terms-and-c... . It does not forbid visitors from blocking ads. (Even if it did, such a provision might not be legally enforceable.) S
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by commoner 5y ago
If a site owner doesn't want to provide content for free of charge, then they shouldn't do that. Nobody is forcing a site owner to provide free content. Site owners can charge for the content if they want to. But if a site owner d
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by commoner 5y ago
If a site owner publishes content and makes it available free of charge, it is available for visitors to consume free of charge. Your argument shows a lack of respect for the autonomy of internet users, who are not obligated to consume ads
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No business is entitled to survive eternally on its existing business model. Businesses must adapt to changing market conditions if they want to succeed in the long term. And every business owner goes in with the understanding that success
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by commoner 5y ago
The publisher offered the content to the viewer at no cost, so why would the viewer be obligated to provide commercial consideration? It's not illegal or immoral to consume only part of the content that is provided. This applies to pri
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by commoner 5y ago
Firefox has a help page about their Recommended Extensions program: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-... It's exactly what you're asking for, a badge showing that Mozilla &quot
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by commoner 5y ago
> The very first time you visit a website, you see ads. If you disagree with advertising and you visit that site again with an ad blocker, you have made a decision to steal their product. Who made the determination that visiting the site
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Have you tried uBlock Origin recently? In the settings, you can turn on the Unbreak and Annoyances filters to eliminate these anti-adblock banners. I haven't encountered one in a long time.
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When the content provider offers the content for free, the viewer obtains the right to consume any portions of the content they want for free. If a website wants to require the viewer to consume all of the content when they view it, they ca

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