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by commoner 5y ago
The screenshot from one of the replies to the tweet ( https://twitter.com/pompompur_in/status/1437905607273635847 ) seems to be of qBittorrent. It's open source and cross-platform, just like Deluge. https:&#x2
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by commoner 5y ago
It's possible that the source sharded the torrent payload and then distributed the shards among multiple "seeds" that are brought online/offline on a rolling schedule, to avoid being identified as the lone seed. Since no
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by commoner 5y ago
The Verge also noticed this back in 2016⋮ > Here's the essence of Apple's grammar rules: its product names should be entirely unadorned. You didn't buy "an iPhone," you bought iPhone. You don't own two iPads
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by commoner 5y ago
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 currently supports ESNI, but Firefox has replaced ESNI in favor of ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) starting from version 85 due to vulnerabilities in the former. Unfortunately, no public DNS resolvers support ECH yet.
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by commoner 5y ago
PipeWire is how audio should be on Linux, and it's ready to use. No more complications between PulseAudio, ALSA, and JACK. PipeWire implements all 3 of these interfaces, which means you can use applications that depend on any or all of
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by commoner 5y ago
Yes, the PinePhone is available now. Convergence model (32 GB storage, 3 GB RAM, includes dock, $199.99, in stock): https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-with-conve... Base model (16 GB storage, 2 GB RAM, n
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by commoner 5y ago
From the same page, micropayments on PayPal have an alternative fee structure of 4.99% + $0.09. PayPal is less expensive than Apple's 30% fee in every scenario.
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by commoner 5y ago
In PayPal, any recurring payments and subscriptions can easily be cancelled on the centralized "Pre-approved payments" page: https://www.paypal.com/va/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-cancel-... The proce
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by commoner 5y ago
Not sure about other countries, but in the US, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2011) ensures that merchants are allowed to offer cash discounts. > A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discou
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by commoner 5y ago
Yes, the "View" app requires a Facebook account to log in. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/faceboo...
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by commoner 5y ago
You need a Facebook account to use the "View" app that connects to the glasses. Not convinced that Facebook will refrain from data collection, especially after some time passes and the reviews have already been published. https:&
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by commoner 5y ago
Non-paywalled archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210909140946/https://www.washi... You can generate this snapshot on your own by using "Save Page Now" at: https://web.archiv
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by commoner 5y ago
FediTips, a Mastodon account, recently shared some concerns about the Uyghur-related content in the largest Lemmy instance, which is run by Lemmy's developers: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379 Thi
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Somali feminist: Facebook is being used to silence me(bbc.com)
57 points by commoner 5y ago|15 comments
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by commoner 5y ago
This recommendation is for people who are willing to use the free trial on Frappe Cloud to gauge how much their usage would cost before switching to ERPNext, or for people who are comfortable with running ERPNext on Docker on their own serv
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by commoner 5y ago
Self-hosting ERPNext is a truly excellent FOSS solution to replace accounting apps like QuickBooks, if you do your own accounting or are at least able to choose the software your business uses for accounting: https://erpnext.com&
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by commoner 5y ago
Instead of buying a 1-2 year old phone with 1 remaining year of support, the legislation would allow users to choose to buy a 6 year old phone with 1 remaining year of support. Since new phone releases apply downward price pressure on older
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by commoner 5y ago
That contrasts sharply with my experiences, having dropped phones that were adequately protected by cheap cases on many occasions. These phones were still working fine years later, with no internal or external damage. Users who are more con
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by commoner 5y ago
They're free to purchase second-hand phones, if they want to buy an even cheaper device. When most phones are supported for 7 years instead of 2-3, the market of second-hand phones that are still supported will expand greatly.
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by commoner 5y ago
Users of low-end phones would still benefit from the extended support lifecycle because their device and data would remain secure for a longer period of time.
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by commoner 5y ago
Most people I know get a phone case to limit damage to their phone. A case is an inexpensive investment that usually pays for itself many times over. Someone who is really clumsy or in a situation where they are much more likely than averag
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by commoner 5y ago
There are many more models of low-end phones than high-end phones. Manufacturers could adapt by producing fewer models of low-end phones, which would make them less expensive to support.
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by commoner 5y ago
That article is the TechCrunch article with a bunch of words swapped out for synonyms to the point that it doesn't even make sense. First sentence from TechCrunch: > ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encr
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by commoner 5y ago
I didn't see that, either. My eyes glossed right over the italics.
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by commoner 5y ago
Nice catch. The article was republished. Here's an archive from 2019 of the original 2017 version: https://web.archive.org/web/20191030232152/https://www.bbc.c...
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by commoner 5y ago
I'm not interested in what Plaid puts in a help page, since Plaid's $58 million settlement is for alleged data sharing with third parties without consent, meaning that Plaid is accused of not properly communicating the alleged dat
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by commoner 5y ago
Yes, LibGen is mirrored on IPFS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209246
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by commoner 5y ago
Exactly! When you download a copy of an article, there's an infinite number of copies available, and taking one of those copies almost never impacts someone else who wants one. Many Sci-Hub users believe it is ethical to download copie
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by commoner 5y ago
Probably the HN effect. Give it a day and I'd expect the site to speed up as the traffic falls.
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by commoner 5y ago
A user can have more or less control over their device. There are many shades of gray between "I fully control my device" and "I don't control my device." When a change to the device software, like the introduction

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