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by happymellon 2mo ago
> It absolutely is a real thing Unfortunately due to outside forces, it isn't. Two people build something. One knows a guy who runs local meet up, and offers them a spot to talk about it. Present at the meet up is a tech funder who
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Why? It's not like you have the option of using a personal computer for work. Most things I use a laptop for could be replaced with an iPad. The experience for me would be worse, so I don't, but I could see other people not mindin
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by happymellon 2mo ago
We aren't talking about nerd definitions. We are talking about the real world. Apple can change their rules and it materially impacts the market.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Just because they took too long to look at a problem, does not stop something else from being a problem.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
> In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with unfair price raises.[3] Although monopolies may be big businesses, size is not a chara
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by happymellon 2mo ago
EU is corrupt is not the same as one of the most corrupt. It is certainly not one of the most corrupt.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
That was a frustrating fix. The MX Master has a "gesture" button under the rubber where your thumb rests. I don't believe I ever used it intentionally. But because it is a gesture button, when it fails the mouse no longer res
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Can't really listen to a podcast at the moment, so not sure if they cover it, but if you are in the UK go visit The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley. They have a ternary computer amongst other awesome bits of computing history
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Thank you for the prompt clarification!
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Isn't the implementation the spec for SQLite? Not really a great option for an image format, where we therefore can't have multiple implementations. Unless I misremembered.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
> I'm just pointing out the logistics of delivering aid is difficult with one example terrorist group doing so The IDF has done far more, larger terrorist acts for far longer.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
What does Apple Silicon have to do with this, or are you saying that touch screens are impossible without that level of "innovation"?
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by happymellon 2mo ago
But their only usecase that I remember was a touch sliding bar. I don't know if that would have worked as individual buttons.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
I'm not sure if you responded to the wrong comment, but the gpp was suggesting building it in by default. If Firefox included it by default then it would remove a layer of deniability.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Let me know when that happens and we can discuss it. Until then...
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Because they want a level of plausible deniability.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
> With a normal Firefox on desktop on Linux, I get unsolvable recaptchas all the time, especially on cloudflare pages. I get this with Chrome on MacOS. I'm becoming more convinced that Cloudflare is the bane of the internet.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
That's really disappointing.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
You missed the environmental impact. In the UK we are in droughts, and we are being told to restrict our water usage. Somehow if you run a data centre then the rules don't apply. If the water company is telling me to restrict how much
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Not sure what that has to do with an article trying to blame the UK for actions of the US. You need to blame the actions of shitty politicians on themselves.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Does Apple not let you charge an upgrade fee? Don't want new features, and don't need an upgrade then stick with it. If you need the new version, then pay a partial amount of the app for the upgrade?
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by happymellon 2mo ago
I said they passed (just) before. Example, Texas: HB 1181, effective 2023-9-1 United Kingdom: Online Safety Act 2023, effective 2023-10-26 I'm not saying this is all the US' fault (blame lies with big tech who need excuses to min
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by happymellon 2mo ago
I'm referring to the title of the article blaming the UK for the actions of the US and US based companies.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
I was referencing the title of the article.
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by happymellon 2mo ago
You missed out that 40% of US household have a video doorbell, 50% of which are Ring. I find that all the metrics about CCTV very misleading, and the whole thing seems to be to distract that the article is blaming the UK for actions of the
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by happymellon 2mo ago
I know it's against the HN rules to suggest that some read the fine article, however the answer to your questions and more are in the first paragraph, and in picture format too!
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Try reading the whole thing again. We know there is censorship. We do not like the censorship. Americans fund the censorship. Americans pass laws for censorship. Americans fund censorship overseas. UK passes law for censorship. Americans -
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by happymellon 2mo ago
The US has a history of arrests over "wrong think" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/facebook-com... https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/new-hampshire-
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by happymellon 2mo ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the war on anonymity was first (just) passed in the US at a state level as porn laws before it passed in the UK. Are we pretending that the porn id laws weren't a first attempt at getting forums l
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by happymellon 2mo ago
> I realise UK police are far from perfect I think most people can see that there are levels to everything and UK police are better than a lot of places whilst still needing to improve.

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