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by concinds 5y ago
As of now, 5.5 million people worldwide died of Covid over the past 2 years (give or take a few million due to bad reporting). It's an enormous loss of life, but a tiny number for a worldwide pandemic, especially given current travel t
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by concinds 5y ago
Indeed, a Google search is enough to find guides, and I assume most bad actors would be aware of this.
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by concinds 5y ago
> "potential to mislead" I can't find that expression anywhere in the Lead Stories article. Facebook outright labelled the BMJ article "false" and containing "false information". Beyond that, should fac
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by concinds 5y ago
There are multiple problems: 1. The Lead Stories article aims to debunks social media narratives linked to the BMJ article, but the result is the BMJ article itself being censored on social media (preventing it from being sent in DMs among
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by concinds 5y ago
Fact checking was an innocent thing back in 2008 and 2012 when it was almost solely about fact-checking objective numbers brought up by party candidates in national debates. "The GDP grew by 2.5%!" False, 2.3%. That worked fine. B
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by concinds 5y ago
I'm no longer in the Apple dev program, but a French tech outlet tested it and say the difference is noticable, but not stark. I'll keep on sticking with Spotify.
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by concinds 5y ago
At most, moderately higher risk, and that's assuming 100% would get covid (just like the government wants 100% to take the vaccine). You can't compare infection vs vaccine if only 50% would ever have caught Covid (without even cou
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by concinds 5y ago
I don't want to diss Vivaldi, I just haven't researched the company behind it well enough to trust it for myself. I'll leave it to others to do the research and make up their opinions themselves.
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by concinds 5y ago
Online ads benefit the little guy. Nike and others can afford billboard and TV ads. If you've ever tried starting up a small Shopify business, online ads are all you're going to get. The problems are the power Facebook and Google
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by concinds 5y ago
> Can you cite one real-world example of someone who's been infected using Firefox in newer times? Coinbase was, and that wasn't long ago. If I were a sysadmin I'd blacklist Firefox from all my machines, no matter how I fe
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by concinds 5y ago
Firefox is less secure, as has been said many times here already. You might dislike the Blink hegemony but they're the only ones who invest enough in security. Vivaldi's closed source, and Firefox doesn't have site isolation
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by concinds 5y ago
The nice thing about Brave Search is that they're trying to create an index completely independent from Bing/Google, and they seem to be trying to innovate on ways to get there as well with their Web Discovery Project[0], unlike D
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by concinds 5y ago
Fascinating. Thanks
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by concinds 5y ago
I think it's purely that most kids writing school reports are more likely to be asked to write about "African-American inventors" than "America inventors" or "Chinese inventors" or any particular country,
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by concinds 5y ago
Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web. Forget Chrome. Google willingly interferes, in a heavy-handed way, with both search suggestions and search results, with both Google Search and YouTube. Just try to look up any topic on
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by concinds 5y ago
Have been called "pseudoscience" by a "dietitian and journalist" writing for the Washington Post, not by a scientist; that's the source Wikipedia uses to backup their "pseudoscience" claim. The article is
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by concinds 5y ago
Google's approach (and possibly Apple's) is commendable, but very poor UX-wise. Google specifically seems to include "phishing attempts" in their government-attack detection, and the direct reason seems to be that phishi
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by concinds 5y ago
iMessage has no concept of a "verified user account" (iMessage for Business is separate), so there's zero indication this message is genuinely from Apple, except an email address that can possibly be faked. It's strange
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by concinds 5y ago
The warning is for government-sponsored attacks, not any kind of automation. https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/updates-about-gove...
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by concinds 5y ago
Your average family physician reads exactly zero published papers per year, and would rely on Googling and reading health authority summary pages or media sources. If the goal is convincing skeptical family members with hard facts, searchin
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by concinds 5y ago
Not how it works. Burdens of proof work in courts of law, but you can't make a statistical analysis without addressing whether the data being used is sound. You'll see a bunch of first-year undergrad papers rely on mediocre data,
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by concinds 5y ago
Saving webpages to PDF is quite terrible, because it often breaks things into "pages" and you end up with blank headers and footers on each page breaking the flow. You also very often have things cut off from the right-hand side o
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by concinds 5y ago
The problem isn't only mishandling of data by statistical analysts, it is merely sufficient that government data be improperly recorded (as was famous last year, when people saw Covid statistics miraculously jump down on weekends and b
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by concinds 5y ago
Seconded. There are many, many low hanging fruits that would substantially improve Apple users' security that Apple has not yet implemented, for example delivering Safari updates independently from macOS updates and having a seamless a
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by concinds 5y ago
I don't believe this statistical analysis is proper, because it doesn't take into account the statistical problems highlighted here: https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/is-vaccine-ef...
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by concinds 5y ago
Because he would go down in the polls if he did that. That doesn't mean it's the "wrong thing to do". And yes, Scotland will exist for longer than the UK will, in all likelihood. They are "more durable" as I sa
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by concinds 5y ago
Nassim Taleb has argued the same. Smaller organizations are more resilient and stronger, and bigger ones are more fragile. The idea of continental integration is a very dangerous one. One day, when we have a one world government, where will
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by concinds 5y ago
As of Windows 10 (haven't tried on 11) it asks if you want to log in with a single app, or the whole user account. I think that's great. Contrast that with Apple, that forces you to login to iCloud (and link your computer's s
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by concinds 5y ago
I find ffmpeg more intuitive. Handbrake only has presets, and it pre-fills so many options for you. Why can't I just have "original" everything, just change the format? I don't want any changes except codec, but with Han
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by concinds 5y ago
He was saying the receiving email client (the defense's) was doing the compression (because if he was responsible, that potentially puts him in trouble)

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