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by fwn 7y ago
I'm not the parent you replied to, but I do trust uBlock Origin as well. While I occasionally switch my browser I never ever browse without uBlock Origin. As far as I am able to evaluate, its author and sole administrator (goes by &quo
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by fwn 7y ago
I don't think it's fair to conclude that education failed just because peoples behavior deviates from the expected. The traditional idea behind education is enabling independent reason and judgement, not promoting specific consump
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by fwn 7y ago
AFAIK there is a feature in WhatsApp Settings that tells you whenever a contact in an ongoing conversation changes their device. So no protection, but a notification. https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/28030014&#x
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by fwn 7y ago
While I do think that there might be reasons not to support the current Hong Kong protests I don't think the specific reason from your comment is coherent. > Any intervention I might involve myself in would probably not result in an
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by fwn 7y ago
That's interesting. Does anyone have a further source or description of that behaviour?
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by fwn 7y ago
I'm an amateur as well and just want to add that it's a vastly better experience to start playing against real players as fast as possible. You'll adjust to your current Elo after the first few games and will have enough equa
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by fwn 7y ago
In a different sense one could say that Autodesk is worse than Blender because its licensing model does allow the authors to make decisions on who might be allowed to use it. A truly undervalued property of free software is that nobody can
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by fwn 7y ago
If you don't have access to your identifier, what should they do about it? Social engineering is a surprisingly large attack vector. I'd be concerned if it were possible to gain control over an account this way.
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by fwn 7y ago
How would I know whether the person I'm writing to has a rooted phone? I'm not a security expert, but this sounds like an obvious problem.
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by fwn 7y ago
Maybe I miss something here, but: Someone replied to "The public position of the Republican Party is that climate change is a myth" with a link to their web platform stating something different. I think it's not really fair t
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by fwn 7y ago
I don't think the main disagreement in this thread is about whether the ban was legal but whether it was moral. There are the usual side-debates though: the ban being strategically effective and the ban being in-line with how the us c
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by fwn 7y ago
4chan used the "internet hate machine" meme for quite some time. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-hate-machine?full=1
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by fwn 7y ago
I not American and was curious about that. For those wondering: their poverty threshold seems to be determined by some form of inflation adjusted basket containing basic goods like food: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by fwn 7y ago
Applying the principle of charity our parent quoted their terms to demonstrate consent, not legal trickery. The criticism against this argument would be that those terms aren't sufficient to provide consent as people habitually ignore
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by fwn 7y ago
We might be talking past each other, but that doesn't mean we don't disagree, because I don't agree with this: > For the consideration what negative effects there are, there are ethic boards, as its generally considered un
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by fwn 7y ago
I know talking ethics beyond buzzwords is a karma killer on HN, but I'm unteachable. I promise: no evil intentions. > [...] Conducting a study on unknowing testsubjects which aims to influence the subject is an ethical question. [..
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by fwn 7y ago
Ah, I see. It's not an ethical, but a legal or procedural concern. That's fair enough. I didn't think about that.
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by fwn 7y ago
Not the parent, but I did not yet get the ethical problem you described in your comment. Isn't "how does [decision architecture] permanently affect human behavior" the main starting point for all scientific evaluations of use
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by fwn 7y ago
Some anecdata to counter that idea: A significant part of German movie piracy is done through streaming as it allows the uploaders to monetize through ads. Piracy as a service, so to say.
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by fwn 7y ago
> [...] All it means is that the government, key word, is not allowed to stop you from using a platform [...] The confusion (ours, not yours specifically) might arise because some talk about free speech the principle and others talk abou
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by fwn 7y ago
Most people don't understand the incremental nature of privacy. I don't mean that in a dismissive way: I think that's a seductive thought and the root of many crude, defeatist attitudes towards informational self-determinatio
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by fwn 7y ago
Yes, but in a good way. AFAIK that's exactly why the primary developer of uBlock forked uBlock (from it's rough new owner) into uBlock Origin and chose not to seek donations. ...to not have any obligations regarding the community.
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by fwn 7y ago
> transition from Fennec to Fenix won't happen until feature parity Thank you for the reply. It's really good news to hear that full extension capabilities will continue to be supported! I was worried by the very comment you li
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by fwn 7y ago
It would be great if you were right, but I don't think you are. Do you have sources? I got the idea from this [1] reddit comment made by someone with an Mozilla Employee flair: > [...] There is not yet a concrete plan (feature) to b
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by fwn 7y ago
I don't think it is certain to stay, as they seem to avoid commiting to the extension capability in their future Versions of Firefox for Android. So AFAIK it might be that they want to get rid of it.
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by fwn 7y ago
Other peoples concerns are not "noise" in any other than a derogative way and listing companies that refute a substantial part of your comment under your comment is not "entirely irrelevant". edit (for clarity): Saying t
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by fwn 7y ago
This sounds to me like moving the goalpost. First it was both: > Trying to sell something to privacy obsessed tech segment is a futile effort. They are never happy and don’t want to pay for anything anyway. But that is not their target m
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by fwn 7y ago
Not an iOS user, so I can't test it: does this block the usual suspects like search, Facebook, Reddit or Instagram ads? I tried to block those for a while now on Android and wasn't able to find any other solution than using Firefo
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by fwn 7y ago
Here's another take on the war metaphor in international relations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization_(internationa... > an extreme version of politicization that enables extraordinary means to be
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by fwn 7y ago
Not the parent, but I think the point is simply awareness, given that a lot of behaviour caused by addiction seem to happen on a subconscious level.

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