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by commoner 5y ago
It's trivial to find examples of intuition being incorrect. The APA has a cover story on this: https://www.apa.org/monitor/mar05/misfires
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by commoner 5y ago
For those using uBlock Origin, you can control cosmetic filtering with the "Parse and enforce cosmetic filters" and "Ignore generic cosmetic filters" options on the "Filter lists" tab of the extension settings.
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by commoner 5y ago
That's too strict of a definition, in my opinion, and I don't understand how conditioning is related to the crying baby example. Intuition can produce incorrect judgments and doesn't need the person to be clueless. Here'
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by commoner 5y ago
Physical punishment worsens behavior in children, and overwhelmingly harms children. > Physical punishment is increasingly viewed as a form of violence that harms children. This narrative review summarises the findings of 69 prospective
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by commoner 5y ago
I thought learned responses were tied to some form of conditioning. https://dictionary.apa.org/learned-response Anyway, my point is that a religious framework isn't needed to have a gut feeling about something.
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by commoner 5y ago
Intuition can be secular. It is possible to conclude that the crying baby is feeling pain, or make many other types of hypotheses, without providing citations or using a religious framework.
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by commoner 5y ago
> Meng is right now enjoying the freedom of Vancouver’s lovely streets and the luxury of her own $15 million mansion there through privilege of bail in a free and open democratic society under the rule of law. The two Michaels, by painfu
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by commoner 5y ago
I used to experience this issue when I had manually configured my DNS over HTTPS (DoH) settings on Firefox for Android in about:config, and had set network.trr.mode to 3 (force DoH). Changing it to 2 (prefer DoH, use normal DNS as fallback)
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by commoner 5y ago
On desktop, Firefox Developer Edition, Nightly, and ESR still allow unsigned extensions after setting xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config.[1] Firefox for Android doesn't allow sideloading,[2] and only has an advantag
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by commoner 5y ago
Yeah, the Save as PDF feature was handy and its absence from the current Firefox for Android feels like a regression. I hope they add it back. - GitHub issue for printing: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/is
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by commoner 5y ago
I experienced that too, but I wrote it off as a keyboard issue since it stopped happening after I switched from AnySoftKeyboard to FlorisBoard. Which keyboard are you using?
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by commoner 5y ago
Mozilla would instantly recover a ton of goodwill by allowing users to install any WebExtension on Firefox for Android without having to go through a strange activation ritual that only works on the Nightly channel.* Considering how stable
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by commoner 5y ago
Don't forget Onavo, the spyware VPN that Facebook acquired to monitor users and competitors before it was kicked out of the App Store: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo One of the people who co-founded this spyw
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by commoner 5y ago
There are ways around that. For example, users can switch to a third-party keyboard, such as TRIME: https://github.com/osfans/trime In any case, using Freenet is safer than using a platform that is actively monitored b
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by commoner 5y ago
> Not forgetting to mention the prices are currently through the roof, and TBH unaffordable for me. Cryptocurrencies are divisible into tiny fractional units, so you don't have to buy a whole unit of a cryptocurrency to use it. Whil
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by commoner 5y ago
It would definitely be safer to discuss that topic on Freenet than on Weibo or WeChat. China requires websites to be licensed,* so the typical self-hosting route isn't viable. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_li
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by commoner 5y ago
There was some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28559517
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AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories(github.com)
298 points by commoner 5y ago|147 comments
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by commoner 5y ago
How is this clickbait? It's an article explaining the EFF's support for pending U.S. antitrust legislation.
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by commoner 5y ago
The Snap Store server is closed source and controlled only by Canonical. There is currently no fully functional FOSS reimplementation of the Snap Store server.
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by commoner 5y ago
Many iPhone owners use financing from their carrier, their credit line, or Apple's payment plans to purchase their Apple devices. iPhone owners are not universally well off enough to be able to toss a phone when it is broken instead of
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by commoner 5y ago
I've been following the lawsuit* since it was filed last month, and this Twitter controversy has succeeded in burying media coverage of that lawsuit under new coverage of this culture war nonsense. It's an effective PR strategy, I
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by commoner 5y ago
The cynical take is that Nicki Minaj is intentionally creating this controversy to distract from her legal issues. She recently pulled out from the MTV Video Music Awards immediately after her husband pleaded guilty to failing to register a
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U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds(reuters.com)
246 points by commoner 5y ago|129 comments
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by commoner 5y ago
I'll try to express my point from a different angle. If E2EE were unavailable for adults, it would probably be easier for law enforcement to investigate sexual abuse cases in which adults are the victims. But, it would also prevent adu
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by commoner 5y ago
Prohibiting minors from using end-to-end encryption would not prevent them from using self-destructing messages, since they are completely different features. There are messaging solutions with end-to-end encryption that do not have self-de
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by commoner 5y ago
Preventing children from using E2EE is not a "net positive" just as preventing adults from using E2EE is also not a "net positive". Privacy is a human right, not a right that should be made exclusive to adults. Just beca
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by commoner 5y ago
One of those "other organizations" is the NCMEC, which was established by[1] and heavily funded by[2] the U.S. Congress. NCMEC has consistently tried to impede the implementation of end-to-end encryption. Even before the Apple&#x2
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by commoner 5y ago
This new "Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions" (NFTC) license[1] is still not a free or open source software license due to its following provisions: > (a) internally use the unmodified Programs for the purposes of developing, t
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by commoner 5y ago
hitechglitz.com is one of those spam blogs that copies articles from other sites and changes a couple of the words around. The original article from PhoneArena also contains the lawsuit filing: https://www.phonearena.com/new

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