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by fwn 3y ago
On Firefox for Android all extensions must be present in the AMO store at the time of installation, no sideloading - even of signed addons. Mozilla banned non-store extensions in their last Firefox for Android overhaul a few years ago and
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by fwn 3y ago
> I do not know why the distinction is clean vs an implied unclean The Chrome version of the original extension (other than the Firefox version) embedded Google analytics. edit: looked it up. Source: https://github.com/ia
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by fwn 3y ago
> Trying to be charitable here [...] There is no reason for charity with such a large power difference. For Firefox, "bugs" like this can really end up being a lost one-shot game. It's like people walking by and casually r
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by fwn 3y ago
> you are delegating something you could easily have learnt This is the only case I would ever use a text generator. If you cannot understand it, you cannot trust the output and you cannot learn it in case of doubt. This is why it is so
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by fwn 3y ago
I was billed 0,99€ (Germany) exactly once, but was able to use WhatsApp without payment for most of the time just by ignoring the notification. I remember that they repeatedly gave grace periods and just set another payment date a few weeks
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by fwn 3y ago
The parent wrote > You can also subscribe to channels from it without a YouTube account. This means that losing your Google account does not mean losing your playlist. Big tech accounts can be surprisingly fragile.
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by fwn 3y ago
I'm using a HN userscript in Violentmonkey mainly for increasing the font size and making flagged comments less hard to read. There is a Show HN about it, which is how I got to know it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by fwn 3y ago
> ... what assurances do you have they would not comply ... While compliance is certainly not optional, the value of your compliance is highly dependent on your technology. (The authors mention this in the article by writing that Apple d
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by fwn 3y ago
For those interested in dubious institutions, the trilogue is a must know. Absolutely worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_trilogue_meeting
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by fwn 3y ago
As an externality, secondhand smoke tends to affect others. Those affected usually aren't happy about it. There are many externalities that affect others... think of noise, smell, etc. Our parent chose smell as an example. I don't
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by fwn 3y ago
I'm pretty happy with the current layout, at least since the change to a responsive width. I tended to miss the "more" link, so I increased its size with ublock origin. news.ycombinator.com##.morelink:style(font-size: 3em
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by fwn 3y ago
Oooh, I see. Thanks for highlighting that! I guess this is an example of how little personal brand visibility HN provides next to the comments itself.
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by fwn 3y ago
How would the current thoughts of someone commenting about the same topic a few years ago be particularly relevant to our conversation today? As far as I see, the argumentation isn't particularly novel or unusual either. It's a pr
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by fwn 3y ago
They also artificially shut down the apparently fully functional extension ecosystem on Android for no given reason, despite repeatedly stating that they would not do so. There still is one purposefully complicated workaround to use all sto
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by fwn 3y ago
Incentives are misaligned here. Regardless of reporting, YouTube will likely continue to prioritize engaging title/thumbnail combinations because they prioritize engagement. A third-party database that provides descriptive titles does
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by fwn 3y ago
The creator of RedReader, the (AFAIK) only Android Reddit client that will stay available (presumably at least for a bit) outlined some thoughts along the lines of potential future fediverse/other platform support here: https:/&#
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by fwn 3y ago
We've always said the same thing about the Firefox for Android extension ecosystem. Despite Mozilla's explicit denial of the intention to kill extensions on Android, there is an allow list that effectively bans almost all extensio
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by fwn 3y ago
As a person with ADHD, I hope this misrepresentation does not become a common saying.
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by fwn 3y ago
That's great if it works for you. While I have never eaten a lot of convenience and/or overly processed foods (the category is a bit vague), I often overeat despite cooking from scratch. I think it gets worse as I get better at co
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by fwn 3y ago
Personally, I engage with hacker news for the content, not the people. It's the thoughts, opinions, narrations, and arguments that I enjoy consuming and contributing to. How would my position in this argument be any less valuable if it
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by fwn 3y ago
I read this a lot, but I don't get it. ...and I don't get the implied paradigm shift that's supposed to happen with better text generators. If people generate better content with bots, that's a good thing. If the content
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by fwn 3y ago
I don't know. The company that provides my password manager is probably one of those companies that I'd like to know has an intellectually honest approach to communication. They are in the business of trust.
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by fwn 4y ago
Yes, this is true. A competitor won a lawsuit against DWD. Their competition was considered unfair, as they are publicly funded. They either had to charge money or run advertisements and, against this background, opted for a one-time paymen
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by fwn 4y ago
For Germany, the DWD weather app [1] is pretty great. I'm usually able to avoid specific rain moments based on their localized cloud mapping. The DWD is a federal agency. [2] [1] https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices&#
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by fwn 4y ago
Non-legal Cannabis in Germany is a surprisingly low margin product; profit is made through volume, which increases risk exposure. So it's not amazing for dealers, despite the large demand. It's abundance leads to a very competitiv
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by fwn 4y ago
> The question was "what can be done to combat misinformation" and my response was "education" No, the topic was that whether the thesis that technologies like ChatGPT enable misinformation is a reason to keep the tec
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by fwn 4y ago
Yes, I know that argument. So I'm curious: Would you support the initial restriction to only white, land-owning males as reasonable? Do you think, for example, that US women's suffrage required women to be educated first? And, as
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by fwn 4y ago
This reply here is a great example of casually portraing something as factual which isn't much more than an opinion. It's not that opinionated replies are bad, it's bad when commenters use this to avoid actually reasoning or
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by fwn 4y ago
Imagine if the French - or the Founding Fathers - had waited for their populace to reach some artificially high and fundamentally undefined level of education before instituting democracy on the idea that democracy presupposes education. Th
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by fwn 4y ago
> There is no amount of 'media literacy' training (which, in practice, would have to be created and administered by public schools under the watchful eye of some of the selfsame disinformation purveyors, in some states) that wi

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