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931.
by encom 6y ago
>We keep on hearing this is the year for linux desktop No you don't. What you're hearing is this dead horse being constantly dragged out for another round of beatings. The problem is, nobody has ever defined what the phrase eve
932.
by encom 6y ago
Don't give Hacker News any ideas, or we'll end up with an Electron-based ECU (as-a-service).
933.
by encom 6y ago
What a terrible list. They recommend funnelling your DNS traffic through CloudFlare, a company known for censoring people. And next they recommend using a VPN, which offers no inherent security.
934.
by encom 6y ago
This comment, and another one mentioning DNSSEC has been downvoted. Please explain why you hate DNSSEC instead of downvoting things you disagree with.
935.
by encom 6y ago
Are there new cars sold today that are not connected to the internet?
936.
by encom 6y ago
Wow. Absolutely no fun allowed.
937.
by encom 6y ago
>I heard Oracle is deep into really shitty kinds of user tracking/spying. Absolutely not defending Oracle, but who isn't into shitty user tracking and spying? It's a central part of most business models, because they g
938.
by encom 6y ago
Adam Neely is fantastic at explaining musical concepts. Good recommendation.
939.
by encom 6y ago
Another RSS reader: https://theoldreader.com/ Been using it daily since Google googled its Reader.
940.
by encom 6y ago
>And I love how different subreddits are able to customize the look. I absolutely hate that. If you still have a Reddit account, it can be turned off in settings. Otherwise, add this to your adblocker: b.thumbs.redditmedia.com&#x2F
941.
by encom 6y ago
Not possible. I tried doing that once, and Facebook demanded I give them my phone number, which I obviously denied.
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by encom 6y ago
If Apple is so worried about people using crappy Chinese parts, they could sell original spare parts themselves, like proper hardware vendors do. PS: Don't post AMP links, they cause cancer. De-AMP'ed link follows: https:/&#
943.
by encom 6y ago
It's a valid point, and should not be downvoted. Personally, I consider any code produced by Google to be hostile malware. Meanwhile, I'm quite competent with managing a Linux machine. For me personally, the choice is easy. The cu
944.
by encom 6y ago
>Your links don't support your position My position is that it's stupid, and I was illustrating that there are forces that want to make it illegal. And they have succeeded in some places. The Canadian Bill C16 is one example.
945.
by encom 6y ago
(not parent) >Would you call them 'her' to their face, knowing how it could upset them? Maybe, maybe not. What I don't want to do however is keep track of everyones imaginary genders, and face legal repercussions for &quot
946.
by encom 6y ago
Very related David Mitchell rant: "Dear America..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
947.
by encom 6y ago
Thanks for that, btw.
948.
by encom 6y ago
I feel like IM is a pick-your-poison kind of deal. Signal is technically superior, but it's UX is laughably bad. Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple are cartoonishly evil corporations. Telegram is a bit rough in places, but has to me
949.
by encom 6y ago
It's Google code, so it cannot be trusted and should be assumed to be malicious. Calling it more privacy focused than Firefox is just absurd.
950.
by encom 6y ago
>absolutely fine It's mostly fine. But high DPI, or worse, mixed DPI desktops are somewhere between unusable and sort of tolerable. I dual boot my desktop, and I've given up getting my 4K main screen and old 19" off sc
951.
by encom 6y ago
I think there's a spectrum between grandma-style hunt and peck typing and perfect touchtyping, and I think many of us are somewhere in between. If you haven't specifically learned 10-finger touch typing, that's probably not w
952.
by encom 6y ago
Yes, there are plenty of them. Just off the top of my head there are Krifa, Det Faglige Hus, Frie Funktionærer and some others that I've forgotten. They are bloodsucking leeches, benefiting from the work done by real proper unions, and
953.
by encom 6y ago
We do, but it has been eroded somewhat, especially by the "yellow" unions, that aren't unions at all.
954.
by encom 6y ago
Wear a condom before clicking techcrunch.com links: https://archive.ph/9eUkv
955.
by encom 6y ago
>Chrome has a million and one alternatives I think after MS gave up on Edge, we're down to one - Firefox.
956.
by encom 6y ago
Really? I can absolutely see that. It seems OSX has been creeping towards that for some time, and now they're moving to ARM and stuffing their machines with "security" chips, it's getting more and more locked down. Macin
957.
by encom 6y ago
>Android phone you can install LineageOS on What would be good candidate phone for that? Is there a phone that is friendly towards hackers in that way?
958.
by encom 6y ago
Has that ever really happened? Recently? The only way to deal with an outraged Twitter mob is to ignore them. They can never be appeased. It seems to me like Twitter is the new Tumblr. Full of crazy people.
959.
by encom 6y ago
I've disabled canvas for all sites. I don't notice a lot of breakage, so it seems it's primarily used for fingerprinting. The only place I've whitelisted is Youtube, because of course Google is spying on you, and won&#x2
960.
by encom 6y ago
>every subsystem is DRM'd and only licensed professionals were allowed to touch it Kind of like how smartphones are right now.

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