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by dessant 6y ago
Please report them to your local consumer protection agency, and if you have the resources, sue them for damages. This is the only way corporate abuse can be kept in check.
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by dessant 6y ago
Ghost uses one of my GitHub apps [1][2] that I wrote in my free time after their CTO asked me to do it [3], and I wonder how would their CEO feel if I would ban them because I condemn wiping customer data in retaliation for being criticized
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by dessant 6y ago
That's interesting, here's [1] an overview of Web Vitals. Do you have a source for Google's timeline to enable this for Top Stories? [1] https://web.dev/vitals/
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by dessant 6y ago
Lean websites are NOT featured in the Top Stories carousel, only AMP websites, so this is not primarily about page speed. If page speed would be the main reason for AMP, they'd simply continue to demote websites that have poor performa
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by dessant 6y ago
By that time it will be warranted to limit user freedom on the web to make security and privacy accessible for everyone, just like Apple does today on their devices. The scary open web and the meaning of a general purpose computing device w
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by dessant 6y ago
When the final version is implemented in a couple of years you will no longer see any URL, that way it won't be as evident that most sites on the web will be loaded from Google. Google is also attacking this issue from a different pers
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by dessant 6y ago
Microsoft does allow the installation of apps from any source, and they can handle payments independently from Microsoft, Windows Store is not the only app distribution method on Windows.
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by dessant 6y ago
People often accept restrictions on their freedom, but that does not mean those limitations aren't harmful. We should be able to install what we want on a general purpose computing device. You can already see the Apple mentality creepi
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by dessant 6y ago
A crash course on hacking satellites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072829
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by dessant 6y ago
I don't see how is Mozilla in a tough spot regarding user freedom, it's entirely possible to allow local extension installation and educate users about the associated risks, like other browsers do. Most people can live with the re
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by dessant 6y ago
Firefox is way behind Chrome on this front. You can't permanently install a private extension in the release version of Firefox, unless you upload the source code to their servers for signing, and the unlisted extension complies with t
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by dessant 6y ago
"At the heart of Firebase is Google Analytics, a free and unlimited analytics solution." https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics Of course Firebase is more than just analytics, but it sounds like it does o
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by dessant 6y ago
I think it would be important to disclose your affiliation to Google, especially when you're defending your employer, and arguing against breaking up Google.
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by dessant 6y ago
> shareholders only get tickled So, how can we become shareholders of your company?
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by dessant 6y ago
I'm just glad they identified the source of the hum, many people are impacted for years by unexplainable sounds, and it is maddening. It took me and my neighbours a month to find the source of a hum that was resonating with our windows
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by dessant 6y ago
> Considering the COVID situation, In the worst case scenario I'll be without a job for a while. I have finances to manage for (probably) a year and a month or two. > I'm not looking for job offers out of sympathy. This is j
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by dessant 6y ago
People are usually exploited on freelancing sites like UpWork to work for considerably less money than the market value of their work, so I wouldn't recommend that, unless they're in a desperate situation.
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by dessant 6y ago
You don't even need to leave your porch to get shot. Police and National Guard are patrolling neighborhoods and shooting civilians with paint canisters on their own property in Minneapolis. In one case they yelled "Light 'em
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by dessant 6y ago
It's possible that plants detect the chemical markers of the insects while they bite the leaves. A response to pests could be early flowering, to give the plant a better chance to complete its life cycle. Chitosan is derived from chiti
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by dessant 6y ago
I think they've messed up badly with this update. I have several friends who want to get rid of Signal because they could not access their messages until they've set up a PIN. Imagine needing to configure and remember a PIN on t
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by dessant 6y ago
Now that's more problematic. You could test this further by replacing those phrases with references to a different country, though it's possible that your account will receive more scrutiny from moderation bots due to your recentl
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by dessant 6y ago
I don't think the video and its popularity matter, your comment looks like spam. It's entirely possible for Google to censor comments critical of China, but this is not evidence of it.
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by dessant 6y ago
It would help if you'd share the exact comments that got removed.
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I have recently watched two of Gupta's videos about grocery shopping and disinfecting groceries, and they were light entertainment, with very little practical value. There can be little difference between the virus reaching your lips b
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by dessant 6y ago
Adam, why did you remove your response [1] to the hijacking of Atom packages from the Kite blog? Kite was collecting usage data without consent through an unrelated and popular Sublime Text package [2], and they've sent the data to an
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by dessant 6y ago
Snippets are indeed a useful feature to have, but Google should share some of the ad revenue it generates with the publishers of the featured content snippets.
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by dessant 6y ago
Yes, restricting access when users do not consent to data collection is generally illegal. There are exceptions, like in the case of fraud detection, but restricting access to this article is not justified. Companies like Verizon can get aw
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Why wouldn't you join an union? What's wrong with them?
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They accept the job because they need it to survive, but that does not mean they are happy with what they're paid, see all the crushed unionization attempts. Nor does it mean that the company cannot afford to pay them more and still ma
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I think all of them, given that workers are severely underpaid compared to the value they provide, and have no means to influence the future of the company, other than to speak up and be fired. Though it's possible that the parent was

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