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by gerash 4y ago
Isn't that the original Facebook? When FB started everyone used their real name there which was unprecedented.
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by gerash 4y ago
I have stopped following national and world news. I do learn about major events such as wars at some point but other than that here is the type of news I follow: Tech/science news, local/city news, reddit threads on specific topic
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by gerash 4y ago
I'm getting tired of this manifest v3 drama on HN. Why don't people who oppose it band together and fork Chromium and maintain that fork. The software is open source at the end of the day.
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by gerash 4y ago
Interesting. This sounds like how our brain relegates tasks it has "learned" to the subconscious. Same thing happens with riding a bicycle or driving a car. At first you need to really focus but over time you don't need to th
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by gerash 4y ago
is this AG arguing that door bell cameras and indoor cameras (eg. Nest cam) are all illegal in Texas now?
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by gerash 4y ago
I wish there was a browser extension where I could mark publications that resort to click-bait titles so next time I read an article from them I can be reminded of their journalistic standard
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by gerash 4y ago
because that's what you get with a 140 character attention economy
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by gerash 4y ago
I'm sure you won't blame it on the "big bad tech" once you drop your phone in the pool and lose access to your accounts because they never asked you to create an SMS backup
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by gerash 4y ago
you can also use a security key or a onetime password from an authenticator app (plenty of options for each) or a separate device logged into Google as your second factor. You have plenty of options
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by gerash 4y ago
side question from the tweet: is "unhoused" the politically correct version of "homeless"? How is it any better?
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by gerash 4y ago
By that logic you prefer random recommendations over personalized ones which means listening to the radio and TV over Netflix and Spotify
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by gerash 4y ago
This was a few years ago and I actually don’t want to get anyone in trouble
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by gerash 4y ago
In terms of data protection I have friends who work at Google and at Apple. The one working at Apple was able to check their spouse's spending trend on App store (granted they were working in a relevant department) while at Google read
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by gerash 4y ago
A non-profit with lots of talented devs like Mozilla is in a good position to do just that. I do understand it'd be at least a 5 year long effort by a talented team of 200 engineers but it's still better and more fun than iteratin
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by gerash 4y ago
I'm not an expert on the web tech. so apologies in advance but wouldn't it be great if Mozilla spent all that money Google gives them on something more revolutionary like a new runtime for ephemeral apps and the corresponding UI e
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by gerash 4y ago
Everyone is all gangster about privacy and their hatred for ads until they realize they need to pay for the services they use. Do you think all the uBlock origin and other "anti ad/pro privacy" folks really pay for, say, Yout
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by gerash 4y ago
so you're comparing a simple text editor to a full fledged IDE. Do you also prefer notepad over visual studio for your development?
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by gerash 4y ago
I don't buy the privacy advantage. Security wise also it seems it's the other way round as long as you can have your device up to date. That is, even though iOS gets regular updates there seem to be more zero day vulnerabilities i
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by gerash 4y ago
The Epic lawsuit showed it is not just being opinionated. They wanted families to have "obstacles in giving their kids an Android phone". Overall, the default messaging app needs to do all it can to be interoperable. Are you ok wi
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by gerash 4y ago
In my experience a good chunk of engineering managers were simply the greedy engineers who did not want or were not able to contribute technically and preferred to jump into management for an easier life and higher pay. That worked out for
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by gerash 4y ago
What is your take then? You seem to have been offended but don't provide any counterpoints
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by gerash 4y ago
I'm rooting for Android to reclaim the position as an underdog but it's clear Apple can do a better job with vertical integration whereas Google/Samsung/Carrier experience as a whole is a terrible UX. Add to that the fac
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by gerash 4y ago
It seems like DuckDuckGo's raison d'etre is being "not Google". Personally, I don't care about these "evil tracking" where my screen size and user agent might get logged through some telemetry. What I&#x27
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by gerash 4y ago
I'm sure you'd love it when Apple starts pushing a whitelist of "high quality" URLs to your phone banning you from going to any other website to keep you safe from the trashy parts of the web.
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by gerash 4y ago
I agree that the fix is not to display the full email header for the "tech savvy" people. The real fix is some kind of reliable trust mechanism where the real Venmo account gets some visual indicator (pad lock, blue check mark, et
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by gerash 4y ago
There are several tiers here: 1. Those who have the money to spend on building a web app with their own payment processor, etc. to sell their content or services. 2. Those that use Shopify to do the payment processing and GUI tools to build
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by gerash 4y ago
The crux seems to be who belongs in this "genius" club or should we eliminate the "genius" club altogether because it creates animosity. A very similar debate can be in sports. Should we have a single league or a tiered
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by gerash 4y ago
GDPR and privacy laws so far: intentions : Holy! effects : annoyed consumers, legal maze for smaller companies, more job opportunities for lawyers
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by gerash 4y ago
None-sense! If you have to blame 99% of the website (clothing, media, restaurants, ...) as being malicious in order to defend a piece of legislation then you're obviously wrong. I don't care about the intentions of the law. I care
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by gerash 4y ago
One big issue with these problems is that they are timed. So if for whatever reason you get stuck, stressed, distracted and take an extra 10m to reverse a linked list you're filtered out.

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