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by fwn 4y ago
This really does not sound like you would love it to be an open source workable competitor at all. IMO it's not the task of governments to be prepared to address misinformation. It's an individual responsibility. This requires an
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by fwn 4y ago
Long ago, there were vibrant communities around web sites dedicated to making tools for a particular purpose more discoverable. Little me spent hours trying to understand various plugins for some disassembler or one of a billion ideosyncrat
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by fwn 4y ago
> not only hostile but incompetent A broken feature on the mobile version nudges towards app installation, a broken feature on the desktop version does not. This means that there is some benefit for Facebook to not fix the mobile version
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by fwn 4y ago
While restrictions exist in both stores, it's (currently) far less important to appear on the Google Play Store. There are apps violating Google's content guidelines that you can usually just sideload. Those often even bring their
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by fwn 4y ago
There was a time when contacts that use Signal were listed above contacts that are only reachable through SMS. Those two groups of contacts then got mixed making it much harder to see who's on Signal and who isn't. Back then I tho
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by fwn 4y ago
I think it's a good idea to assume that everything might be compromised. This should not stop anyone from working towards encrypting everything. Even if it can be decrypted or avoided it still increases the overall resources needed for
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by fwn 4y ago
> stochastic terrorism appears to be the academic way of saying “inciting mob violence” Do you have an example where you think those two concepts could be used interchangeably in academia? I weren't able to find one and I don't
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by fwn 4y ago
IMO there is little value in actually quitting facebook. If you aren't using their apps and block their embeds on third-party sites it just sits there and allows you to be what our parents described as a global phone book. I deleted ev
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by fwn 4y ago
I think a good rule of thumb is that if a recommendation format can not be deactivated it's probably an ad.
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by fwn 4y ago
They never embedded GA in the Firefox extension, just on Chrome and explained it by their assumption that chrome users probably aren't as opposed to Google tracking as those using Firefox. Probably the only reason I remember it is beca
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by fwn 4y ago
Different schools of thought have different ideas regarding the best perspective on inflation. Price inflation measured through a basket is what media is usually referring to. .. that can be impacted by all sorts of things, be it price hike
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by fwn 4y ago
As far as I was able to pin down, that is not correct and e2ee will end with the upcomming update. I asked this question on twitter in the thread of the announcement: > Will all calls still be end-to-end encrypted after this transition f
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by fwn 4y ago
Securitywise this is just a downgrade: Google Duo was end to end encrypted, Google Meet is not. It doesn't look like they're going to tell anyone about it.
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by fwn 4y ago
Keep in mind that there is currently no full adblocking solution on iOS. There are some adblocking tools but non with proper cosmetic adblocking, meaning that you can not hide ads on social media platforms like facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
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by fwn 4y ago
I don't even get the idea of "moving" messengers. Using several messengers is what enables competition between them in the first place. It's great for the ecosystem. All messages end up in my notification bar anyway, irr
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by fwn 5y ago
Mozilla did cancel Eich and the fact that he was resigning out of free will is not in conflict with that assessment. We probably all know from school how easy it is to bully someone into doing quite a lot of ridiculous things out of free wi
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by fwn 5y ago
I can't speak for the user posting earlier and I don't know anything about the Mozilla marketing budget, but: On the android platform Mozilla removed all extension sideloading capabilities. Even their store extensions are now almo
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by fwn 5y ago
To quote Achmed, the dead terrorist: "Silence, I kill you!" https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKlehf_4rRg It's not only a death threat, it appears to be said by a committed terrorist. ;) On a more serious note: hum
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by fwn 5y ago
That does sound very harsh to me. "Spoiled" can mean being able to afford a better school, private room and options in case of emergency. In wealthy societies money is determinative for how many bullshit time sinks you have to su
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by fwn 5y ago
> [Lobbyism is] illegal (and immoral) in most of the world. Care to elaborate what you mean by that? Wikipedia describes lobbying as "the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government offi
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by fwn 5y ago
I use youtube-dl for my cloud backup routine. The only YouTube account feature I really use is playlists. I threw all of those in a bat file and ytdl downloads them for me into different folders whenever I start it. Many videos I've do
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by fwn 5y ago
It's probably very dependent on your local e-commerce environment. Here in Germany I linked my bank account to Amazon, PayPal, local mobility service providers, etc. Maybe 90% of my online transactions are bank transfers, 10% are debit
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by fwn 5y ago
Naming a difference is not an argument in favour of sameness. The availability of a vaccine is one of the several ways in which the current Austrian policy is different from earlier lockdowns. This alone already has direct consequences for
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by fwn 5y ago
I don't think the "Please stop spreading misinformation." boilerplate is necessarily always hostile and provocative. In situations where the comment is only aimed at correcting a factual mistake, for example, it can be okay,
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by fwn 5y ago
I don't know how valid it is from a data perspective, but the concern that is usually voiced in response to the idea (to disable ads after payment) is that your overall ad value declines once you provide ways for the (presumably) wealt
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by fwn 5y ago
My most authentic self while browsing the web is when I can finally again start to use the full range of extensions on current Firefox for Android. That would really make me feel included in the experience. It's really hard for me to g
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by fwn 5y ago
I'm trained in philosophy and social sciences, mostly economics and sociology. I work in management consulting, we do strategic communication and some public affairs. We do have some tech mandates but my interest in technology is large
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by fwn 5y ago
> Their cloud offering is fully E2EE (to the best of everybodies knowledge) Do you have a source for that? I was not able to find one. This source, for example, suggests iCloud is not fully encrypted: https://www.reuters.com&#
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by fwn 5y ago
I'm not the parent but if the question is "who is meant by authoritarian regimes?" a great example on how to measure authoritarianism is the democracy index assembled by the Economist Intelligence Unit: https://en.
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by fwn 5y ago
As far as I was able to experience it's just hidden and not deleted. I have to keep an old domain indefinitely to host a robots.txt just to keep sensitive personal data hidden that little me foolishly published on the open internet. Bu

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