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I don’t know how ungoogled it is but it’s pretty damn easy to install CloudReady from Neverware.
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Apple Silicon Macs will require signed code
(eclecticlight.co)
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Taxis sound way less reliable in the SF area than my experience with them in the Boston area.
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Rideshares have their own cost and reliability problems for riders. No one is saying taxi services are fine as-is, in addition to rideshare ride being artificially cheap thanks to VC money subsidizing costs, they did offer real user experie
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For the majority who haven't tried to use taxis in California, what's the informative version of this comment?
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> without providing any alternative Taxis still exist. Given the history of Uber and Lyft drivers denying access to riders with wheelchairs, decrying the loss of their services seems weird.
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The text of the law makes it more explicit: "[...] a major life activity also includes the operation of a major bodily function, including but not limited to, functions of the immune system [...]" https://www.law.cornel
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People with disabilities are in a protected class. Being immunocompromised qualifies as a disability. Here's a brief definition, from a government site about equal employment: https://www.eeoc.gov/disability-discriminat
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I’m not agreeing with the premise but MIT’s disavowal of Star Simpson when she was arrested in 2007 could be evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Simpson
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You absolutely can manage Firefox, you can even keep doing it using GPOs. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox-enterpris...
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Comic Sans actually is a very readable font but it wasn't specifically designed to help those with dyslexia.
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The Kindle edition does not include DRM. I think that's true of all ebooks from the publisher, Tor.
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I think he’s chilled out a bit. Definitely read the project forum guidelines and attempt a search for an answer before posting a question.
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IA clearly believed this was fair use and I’m sure can demonstrate reasonable grounds for that belief. Even if the plaintiff’s lawyers can make a stronger argument for it not being fair use (they probably can), that doesn’t negate the exist
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Yes, being able to specify a user stylesheet was common in early browsers. Now there are extensions to provide a GUI and to manage different styles for different domains. It was always somewhat difficult to maintain custom styles beyond thi
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That’s not at all true. Links doesn’t care if a text field is properly labeled and a screen reader user with a modern browser can happily use a site built using a front-end framework if the developer has taken proper steps (e.g. focus manag
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> I hear "but what about [insert hypothetical here that isn't actually happening]?" and there's an easy answer: "if that arises, let's deal with it then." Can't we devise a general set of principle
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Around 1990, a classmate made a “mixtape” on VHS to play at a party for hours of continuous music that no one had to stop or mess with.
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A $130K household would pay no more than 10% of the sticker price, less if they had other kids. A family paying the full rate would probably have triple that income. > For example, if a family was prescient and knew their kid would get i
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Living with and going to class with classmates from wealthy families is part of the value-add of going to Harvard for all the students. > I should pay 65% of my annual gross to cover tuition Harvard's financial aid is very clear cut
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> They were forced to do that a few years ago so the government wouldn't start taxing their endowment. Harvard College was not forced by federal policy to dramatically increase their financial aid back when they did. The 2017 tax bi
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It's not unusual to spell "beaucoup" phonetically on purpose, to convey an Americanized pronunciation.
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$5/month is just an introductory price, after the first year it goes way up, to $16.99/month. A cheaper "Mostly Music" is $10.99/month with a reduced 80 channels (looks like nothing I'd miss) that is satellite
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> Low DPI monitors are pretty much unusable since MacOS dropped subpixel rendering Nonsense, fonts look fine on non-Retina monitors; they were fine on my old 24" 1920x1200 monitor and are fine on my new 27" 2560x1440 one. Can I
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Thank you. While public blog posts or social media threads would be better, if you've personally seen or heard black friends or colleagues talking about being bothered by Git branches being called "master," at least that'
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> Some are, yes. Can you point to people telling their stories of how the common name for default Git branches affected them? All the people I've encountered advocating for changing "master" to something else in Git have b
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So what’s the problem? Mozilla didn’t add the CA to the trust store, you did, that’s why Mozilla doesn’t recognize it. It doesn’t sound like it interferes with normal operation and differentiating bundled and added CAs on inspection sounds
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What browser doesn’t warn you about sites signed by a CA not in their list of CAs?
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It's an application of the Rule of Least Power.
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Super-strict CSP can prevent bookmarklets from working.
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