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by commoner 3y ago
microG works well as a substitute for the Google Play Services client. I generally don't have issues with banking apps on microG, though people using apps for banks based in other regions might have different experiences. Navigation, m
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That's true for Apple's Tracker Detect app, but any thief or other user could simply use the free and open source AirGuard app on Android, which has more functionality than both Tracker Detect and the AirTag anti-tracking features
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Tracker Detect only scans for AirTags when the user manually requests a scan. Car thieves and other users who do not want to be tracked by AirTags would be better off using the AirGuard app on Android, which scans for AirTags and other Blue
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I do restart browsers after upgrading them, but that's different from restarting Linux. For desktop environments, I usually don't bother rebooting Linux for anything other than major releases (like GNOME 43/44 and Plasma 5.26
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I've never had to reboot Linux after a glibc update if I didn't care whether the new version was being used. In general, glibc updates are not important enough to interrupt what I'm doing to reboot my device and I'll jus
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> And neither can Linux, contrary to popular belief. Anything that involves system services or god forbid the kernel requires a reboot. That is not true at all, and anyone can confirm this by upgrading the kernel and system services (e.g
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Rule of thumb: when you see the phrase "free and open source software" (FOSS), the word "free" in that phrase refers to freedom, not price.
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If Reddit starts charging for its API like Twitter is doing, Reddit can expect a swift exodus of its most dedicated users and a decline in the quality of its content. Nobody wants to suffer a bad user experience, and nobody wants to pay for
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This laptop actually has a pointing stick with three mouse buttons above the trackpad, which is nice. (Dell calls it Dual Point instead of TrackPoint.) It's a shame that Dell no longer makes any laptops with pointing sticks and that th
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It doesn't look there is any evidence backing your theory. It's alarming to see Twitter take down 83% of tweets in response to government demands under Musk, an increase from about 50% of tweets before Musk. The fact that Twitter
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U.S. Senators Debut Protecting Kids on Social Media Act(techpolicy.press)
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> No matter what Apple itself does Safari being major non-Chromium browser helps Firefox a lot just by existing and having huge marketshare. That is incorrect because Apple has prevented and still prevents Firefox from properly implement
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Redesigned Flathub Site Launches for Flatpak Apps(phoronix.com)
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The premium is actually 42.9%, since that is the amount a developer needs to raise their prices to offset the App Store's 30% fee.
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No, even when the files are processed through cExtractor, the resulting data would not be considered "election data". The arbitration ruling looks sound to me. > One of the contest judges testified that the binary data would yi
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One of the missing features in Mastodon is the ability to inline-quote someone else's post whole adding a response (known on Twitter as quote tweeting). The feature request is still being discussed here: https://github.com&#
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I'm satisfied with the transparency Mullvad has shown by publishing its 9 audits[1] and with their efforts to ask for as little information from users as possible. I also appreciate how Mullvad releases up-to-date source code for all o
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> Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov2/blob/main/README.... Yes, DINOv2 isn't open source, but it is source-avail
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Thanks and sorry, I'll be more prudent with disengaging from flamewars.
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> She learned javascript for fun, just didn't want anyone to know because she thought it would diminish her image. That's awful. Having a technical skill shouldn't be seen as a negative. Is this due to something specific t
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There is no hadith with the negative phrasing Nupur Sharma used in her comments. As a politician in a country with religious tension, Sharma knew that her incendiary comments would inflame this tension. The Supreme Court correctly assessed
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You're abusing the word "gaslighting". Nobody is claiming that Nupur Sharma deserves any retribution beyond expulsion from her position. High-profile figures are more vulnerable than average individuals and it is not in anyon
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Nobody here is claiming that Sharma deserves to die for her incendiary comments, which went far beyond "quoting a religious book". However, she did get expelled from her position as national spokesperson of the BJP and that is an
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Don't put words in my mouth. The murder is not justified and the perpetrators deserve the appropriate penalties. As the Supreme Court explained, Nupur Sharma made the incendiary statements that incited the murder. Nobody here has claim
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Politicians are responsible for the statements they make. Nupur Sharma is a politician who made a statement that the public took offense to, and she had to endure the political consequences regardless of what anyone else said before or afte
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by commoner 3y ago
No politician is immune to criticism. Nupur Sharma made incendiary comments on live television and Mohammad Zubair has the right to quote and criticize those comments. Zubair's quotes were not "misinformation" since his video
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Sharma made incendiary comments on live television. Zubair and many other people called her out for her comments, and in response, her political party (the BJP) expelled her from her position as national spokesperson. She was not "lync
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The BJP expelled Nupur Sharma from her position as the national spokesperson of the BJP because of the incendiary comments she chose to make on live television. Mohammad Zubair made a compilation of her comments and did not change any of he
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Political leaders are expected to conduct themselves appropriately in public view because they are selected to represent all of their constituents. If a politician makes an appearance on live television and says something that is offensive
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"Hurting religious sentiments" by tweeting a screenshot of a 1983 movie is obviously not a war crime. Zubair is a journalist who was jailed for spurious reasons: > Retired Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta on Tuesday sai

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