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by dictum 7y ago
> Remote fonts can be used for tracking and fingerprinting Isn't it the reverse, local fonts can be used for fingerprinting? (There are some snags with remote fonts — rendering bugs/exploits — but they're not exactly low h
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by dictum 7y ago
So, U2 from All That You Can't Leave Behind onwards?
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by dictum 7y ago
I'm not intimate enough with any of the parties involved in this situation, so my reply will also be comfortably generic: Yes, it's a reasonable demand. If public opinion is asking something of Apple, and its CEO chooses to answer
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by dictum 7y ago
> It's even easier to co-ordinate such messages online. Not a day goes by without stories and comments about China on this site. What shows up often is just as important as what's never seen, because it's been censored. Ch
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by dictum 7y ago
This headline bothers me: it's simple, expedient and even whimsical, but it describes the situation as if the robots have agency and an innate drive to seek jobs, and by continuous self improvement, are closing in on human candidates.
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by dictum 7y ago
Most operating systems have chosen a different tradeoff, reducing fresh reads from persistent storage, keeping files cached in RAM, which may work out to equivalent power savings.
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by dictum 7y ago
Good to know, thanks. Hope it makes it to GM.
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by dictum 7y ago
Yep, but some say it's gone from Catalina. I don't try betas. Can someone on 10.15 verify that this still works?
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by dictum 7y ago
> Mercifully, subpixel has become less relevant over the years: retina displays really don't need it, and the subpixel layout on phones, prevents the trick from working (without major work). On newer versions of macos, subpixel-aa o
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by dictum 7y ago
> It's not really the garbage seller's business whether it is recycled into fire or buried. They aren't harmed. Apparently the companies use artful language to imply certain processes without specifically naming them: &quo
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by dictum 7y ago
It's curious that "restroom during class" is the only concrete, non-arbitrary event in that log. "Not following instructions", "off task", "teamwork" and "great day" could mean many dif
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by dictum 7y ago
I don't know if I should be reassured or concerned that the insularity and provincial-but-seemingly-worldly spirit of journalism professionals is apparently equal to that of technology professionals.
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by dictum 7y ago
> Isn't it what all those Gertas of the world want? You can defend a position without snidely representing other positions, similar or opposite to yours, but if you choose to make so, make sure you've correctly named your targe
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by dictum 7y ago
I saved the paper for reading later, so this may be already discussed in it, but enough information leaks through the Referer HTTP header when browsing the web in a traditional browser. I've never inspected Recaptcha (on gstatic.com)
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by dictum 7y ago
Yep. I make some changes that SIP would catch, but I'm mostly comfortable with the boot into Recovery -> run a script -> boot back again. It's not kext stuff, though. I might have to use PurgeWrangler for an older iMac. Appa
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by dictum 7y ago
Can't they be patched once, and then re-patched when system updates change make changes to system files?
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by dictum 7y ago
Not that it's novel — there are corporations specialized in tools to monitor employee activity — but there's no bamboozling in that claim: monitoring nearly every activity, no matter how intrusive, is what almost software and hard
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by dictum 7y ago
uBlock Origin replaces some third-party scripts with empty (noop) functions or otherwise sterilized APIs. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library
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by dictum 7y ago
It all depends on how an individual feels about the status quo. A. You can be moderate because you believe moderate actions will bring about radical change, or B. You can be a moderate because you believe things are good to some degree as t
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by dictum 7y ago
I would like to rewrite it into something less abrasive, but this was not intended to highlight the gender split. In some circumstances a group of men can be more empathetic towards a woman than a group of women would be. I believe the defa
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by dictum 7y ago
It tells me that HN has more people who fear being accused of sexual assault than people who are afraid of suffering sexual assault. Somehow the former group has trouble imagining the fear of the latter group is more likely, within its demo
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by dictum 7y ago
I'm not well versed on the specific implementation details of ST, but whatever the ST team does on macOS yields a result that is much closer to a native application than VSCode does through embedded Chromium. The difference in text ren
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Homebrew Maintainers: Avoiding Burnout(docs.brew.sh)
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by dictum 7y ago
> Why Americans continue to willingly subject themselves to these torturous systems is beyond me. It's all in y'alls control. https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2911271-america-and-am...
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by dictum 7y ago
If only HTML could have hyperlinks, embedded multimedia and textual content in a single file... (In all seriousness, it's sad that YouTube has such a narrow focus — video files only — which helped it spread to many different devices, f
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by dictum 7y ago
HTML has something of a legacy mode, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode Roughly anything before HTML5/4.01 and XHTML renders in quirks mode. AFAIK there are no legacy CSS properties. Only nonstandard (i.e
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by dictum 7y ago
I use userChrome.css and userContent.css, and I get the nagging feeling that the silent end of that sentence is "...when we eventually replace the code that currently enables user customization with faster, less flexible APIs." (I
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by dictum 7y ago
> a lot of people in this thread are railing against the author saying nobody should care about the Amazon fire and that it's not a big deal Any newspiece that can have a political angle, regardless of the textual content and the au
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by dictum 7y ago
> I don't see how trying to tell the truth about something can be equated with trying to downplay the situation or encouraging people not to bother about it. Because it's a red herring. It's a very common form of red herri
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by dictum 7y ago
I agree that a multidevice, always-available solution is better for many activities, especially for news, but the downside to this requirement is that desktop apps become unimaginative, blown-up versions of the mobile apps. I want more deve

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