fwn

16 ms·

151.
by fwn 2y ago
> uBlock Origin I think the market share of ublock Origin helped limit the success of so-called "acceptable ads" schemes, where adblock makers took money for excluding certain ad providers. But I don't have any data to bac
152.
by fwn 2y ago
I really like the overlay view and that it is not cloud based. Will try to test it at work. I rely heavily on PDF comparison via PDF-XChange Editor, which is accurate for text, but often has trouble highlighting visual changes correctly.
153.
by fwn 2y ago
> The EU recently mandated instant SEPA transfers be free Small nitpick: The EU mandated that instant SEPA should cost no more than regular (slow) SEPA. We all expect this to be zero, since regular SEPA is currently free under almost all
154.
by fwn 2y ago
> Adobe accesses user content for a number of reasons, including [...] innovative cloud-based features [...] and to take action against prohibited content. Forcing customers to pseudo-consent to their data being used to train AI is bad e
155.
by fwn 2y ago
There once was an amazing culture (and a sense of community) around the curation of tools. Just as I was browsing cybersectools, I remembered exetools(.com), which amazingly still seems to exist. There are even some aesthetic similarities t
156.
by fwn 2y ago
First, I want to address the precision of your response: The content you link to is about AGI, which is a theoretical concept, and it is not at all clear that the path to AGI is incremental from our current approaches. Regardless, it really
157.
by fwn 2y ago
I think it is pretty telling that in response to a direct question about what we have to fear from AI, you link to an article that itself remains so obviously vague that they felt the need to address that they are just appealing to other au
158.
by fwn 2y ago
I use Firefox by default, but I open PDFs with large organization charts very regularly. I have Edge open for this because Firefox renders everything in these documents far too slowly.
159.
by fwn 2y ago
What you describe as friction was largely caused by misaligned incentives between readers and content creators who felt the need to kneecap their RSS feeds. The difficulties of monetization and the (at least perceived) lack of control over
160.
by fwn 2y ago
> In what way is terrorism [...] and violent extremists [...] the same? Why are you conflating them? I have cut out the insertion of your meta-narrative. Terrorism as a method is the use of deliberate violence in pursuit of political or
161.
by fwn 2y ago
Not the parent, but this comment is peculiar in the way that it makes several somewhat unconnected, requirement heavy statements. > Are you really claiming that extremist militias are actually a valid reaction to some kind of political p
162.
by fwn 2y ago
Yattee is a good example for what Apple puts those developers through. Here is a direct quote from their website: > Apple keeps rejecting macOS version of Yattee for several unrelated and random reasons. As I believe the App Store approv
163.
by fwn 2y ago
I think by design of the ecosystem it makes the most sense for apps that can't be on the main store. That would be emulators, uncensored social media, probably apps that do not meet the NSFW policy of the App Store... that kind of thin
164.
by fwn 2y ago
In Firefox for Android Nightly, you can (since recently) sideload extensions via the hidden debug menu (tap the Firefox logo in the About section a dozen times). This will add an "Install extension from file" option to the main se
165.
by fwn 2y ago
Not sure about WSJ, but in some cases the extension fetches the content from archive today and inserts it into the displayed website tab. If there is no mirror on archive today, the extension cannot insert it.
166.
by fwn 3y ago
Your reference to data security is very valid, but why is that comment so provocative and upset? > Seems like an unusual use case for most businesses. You may not work in a public affairs consultancy. Companies do different things. Well
167.
by fwn 3y ago
You don't have to go that far. Depending on the topic, it's already very hard to use Gemini/ChatGPT in a corporate setting. Think: You're doing an FAQ for a child safety crisis/PA slide deck. It's funny how som
168.
by fwn 3y ago
AFAIK this is allowed during the approval process for very specific roles, but not just randomly in day-to-day work after admission. And for good reason. That would be an entirely unproportional encroachment on privacy and personal rights,
169.
by fwn 3y ago
I did not mean the meaningless idea of "everything depends, I guess," but what I wanted to make was an important and profound distinction. From a risk perspective, it is highly beneficial to limit the use of Google services to the
170.
by fwn 3y ago
It also probably depends a lot on the footprint you create with your Google account. If you only use it to receive email, your chances of being banned are probably very low. If you are an active YouTuber, back up every photo to Google Photo
171.
by fwn 3y ago
According to the article, it apparently comes from advertising and subscriptions: > Pavel Durov told the Financial Times that Dubai-based Telegram had grown to become one of the world’s most popular social media apps while making “hundre
172.
Telegram hits 900M users and nears profitability as founder considers IPO(ft.com)
13 points by fwn 3y ago|22 comments
173.
by fwn 3y ago
We all know that sideloading is a well-established method used by millions of people to gain access to software that is not available on the dominant stores. I didn't think branding them as developers would change anything.
174.
by fwn 3y ago
I'm currently spending the winter on a Portuguese island (working from "home", that is) and none of the neighbors I've seen are Portuguese. Even the waiters in the restaurants have British accents. My AirBnb host, who al
175.
by fwn 3y ago
It's not even competition, as Unity seems to have decided to "deprecate" the Unity Store for VLC. /s
176.
by fwn 3y ago
> I don't want to imagine the amount of issues generated for people from bad extensions. I'm a heavy Firefox user, but since almost no one uses Firefox for Android, and of that group almost no one uses extensions beyond maybe u
177.
by fwn 3y ago
For some reason, the acceptable ads program from eyeo led them to allow some of the worst, chumboxy paid content - as far as I remember. Coincidentally, the effort was paid for by the very same companies that ended up on the whitelist. From
178.
by fwn 3y ago
I'm not a developer, but I trust the author of ublock Origin a lot more than I trust Mozilla. Mozilla routinely fails its users and spends a lot of money on downright bad ideas. They are a pinnacle of intransparency and most of their p
179.
by fwn 3y ago
> Not impossible, at all. The answer is Firefox Nightly or Firefox Developer, you're freely to install unsigned addons in these editions. I do use Firefox for Android Nightly. How would I install an unsigned addon there? I don'
180.
by fwn 3y ago
I pay for ChatGPT to get the option to avoid the promt history and training on my promts. If there is a way to do this for free, I'd love to know about it. The article does not seem to take it into account.

More ›