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dorgo
8y ago
I think the new workflow is: "select all tabs" and then "reload tabs"
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dorgo
8y ago
>Very few would figure out the clone's location For this purpose clever people invented search engines. These would detect missing content in the original wikipedia and funnel all traffic to wikipedia clones. Nobody would notice the
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dorgo
8y ago
Afaik wikipedia has no copyright or something. So somebody would create a read-only copy (less than 100GB, I guess), call it wikipedia2.com and everyone would use the copy..
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dorgo
8y ago
That's the reason you see cookie-banners. They are your chance to opt-in.
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dorgo
8y ago
You mean the DNT header which is set by default in browsers? Then we can simplify your proposal to: "Don't track people"
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dorgo
8y ago
>It's gambling, not investing What would you pay for something worth 10^13 with a probability of 10^-10? Yes, it is more gambling than investing. But still...
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dorgo
8y ago
The argument of advertisers is not that people want to be tracked by default. It is that they don't care. DNT had a chance to proof otherwise. But "enabled by default" means that the browsers care, not (necessarily) the users
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dorgo
8y ago
> why Firefox continues to slide They broke extension support. Half of the extensions disappeared (didn't migrate to Quantum). The other half works only partially. One year after Quantum i still have a blank new tab because a custom
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dorgo
8y ago
My sister studied statistics. Somebody told her his story about having had an accident in a mercedes and how he came out of it unscratched. From now on he would only buy mercedes cars. First question of my sister: how many accidents did you
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dorgo
8y ago
because any other game is more frequent than the big final.
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dorgo
8y ago
I think it was clever to remove Whastapp from my phone the day facebook acquired them. Sure, they can still connect my number to one of my fake profiles I used to have some years ago.
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dorgo
8y ago
>Wealth inequality has never been higher than it is today Wealth increased to an extent that inequality little matters. If homeless beggars have smartphones with access to unlimited knowledge, enough to eat and access to medical treatmen
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dorgo
8y ago
Humans will always find something to fight over. If it's not the water supply it's the religion. If it's not religion it's something else. Envirentment won't kill us. We will.
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dorgo
8y ago
> ALL resources are finite Not in a world where matter/energy is conserved over time.
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dorgo
8y ago
>"the only people who believe in infinite growth on a finite planet are madmen and economists" There are 10 more planets in the neighbourhood. And even more some lightyears away..
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dorgo
8y ago
>Who do you think will grow your food and look after your open spaces? Robots, i hope.
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dorgo
8y ago
>1. Preventing interception of passwords on the wire Isn't this solved by https? I have no idea, but I hope at least that https protects my passwords. >2. Allowing a tunable "difficulty" parameter which makes brute-forc
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dorgo
8y ago
So, basically javascript is used for security through obscurity?
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dorgo
8y ago
Mostly math, optimization and data transformations. Since java8 I use functional style (map, filter, monads..). A lot of business logic is also in sql queries.
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dorgo
8y ago
My best way to get a raise used to be to quit my contract. Got 50% more for staying. Now I get 33% raises (without asking/negotiation) to prevent me from qutting :-P That said, I started very low, so 50% was not much.
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dorgo
8y ago
I upvoted you. Why OOP is bad: In 8 years professional (for money) programming experience i had zero use cases for OOP. Every time I tried to use OOP it backfired and I abandoned it. Maybe I just never really understood OOP or maybe I alrea
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dorgo
8y ago
searx.me - I like, but no URL's for SERP's and browser navigation (back-button) doesn't work.
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dorgo
8y ago
Yeah, I also like to minify the code before reading. It makes up to 5 times less code and it's fun to guess which letter stands for which function.
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dorgo
8y ago
> In other words, everyone of us is enjoying now a large subsidy/handout paid by future generations. Are future generations going to pay same price we would today? Or are they going to get a discount due to more advanced technology?
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dorgo
8y ago
Somebody told me that lying and walking is good and that sitting and standing is bad.
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dorgo
8y ago
Maybe restrict the history API to the same-origin-policy? Javascript could/should be allowed to manipulate browser-history only for the same domain. Just an idea.
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dorgo
8y ago
? Sure, you can just call the URL directly in browser. Which other way do you mean? The problem is not to end up at "noindex site" (btw: noindex is not a neccessary part of this scheme). The problem is to end up at "noindex s
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dorgo
8y ago
Maybe Google can tell the difference, but, as I did SEO some years ago, we didn't relyed on it. Duplicate content was considered a problem regardless of who published first. Duplicate content is a problem for organic rankings. In payed
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8y ago
>dding another 3 clicks, then another 2 for the inline JavaScript contained within after reload makes the internet incredibly annoying to use. Yes, it is annoying. It reminds me each time how annoying websites are which use Javascript fo
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dorgo
8y ago
I think noindex is nice to have but not neccessary for this trick. The only solution is to fix the back-button bug/vulnerability in Chrome.
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