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by ionised 8y ago
Apologies, I was meant to reply to somebody else.
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by ionised 8y ago
Most people defininitely do that.
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by ionised 8y ago
Yeah, the multitudes of people experiencing problems with Windows over the years must be lying or just stupid, because you personally have nevere encountered those issues. That's got to be it!
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by ionised 8y ago
> Windows update reboots come up on HN every so often, and I still don't understand the problem. Windows is my daily driver, and updates force me to reboot my laptop 2 to 3 times a year. oh no! Erm, if Windows 10 has only made you y
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by ionised 8y ago
> By simply being in the same room the machine is in, you have agreed to the EULA and you can take it up with MS in forced arbitration. What about in the EU where an EULA is unenforceable and forced arbitration doesn't exist?
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by ionised 8y ago
They're right to be baffled. Windows 10 is a schizophrenic mess of half-baked ideas and abusive telemetry collection, which is a shame because the performance boost it gave to games wasn't insignificant.
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by ionised 8y ago
Are you using mostly Google pages or services? That might explain why Firefox runs worse. Anecdotally, of the three browsers I have on my dev machine Chrome is the biggest resource hog.
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by ionised 8y ago
I don't think most average web users do a comparison of browsers. They pick one (or get told to use one) and stick with it because for their use cases, there isn't much differences between the browser anyway.
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by ionised 8y ago
No we wouldn't. Microsoft was legally prevented from doing that, remember? Why Google has been allowed to get away with it I have no idea.
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by ionised 8y ago
What is the difference between the two? I am primarily a back-end/services/middleware dev and don't do much front-end stuff these days. When I do though, I use Firefox's dev tools and I don't know...I'm not sur
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by ionised 8y ago
I use a 2017 Macbook Pro in work, on which I use Firefox as my main browser. I also have Firefox on my Windows 10 gaming machine at home and while I haven't run any performance anaylsis, I can;t tell the difference between the two in t
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by ionised 8y ago
Presumably you are paying for your TV service, so why the fuck should you be watching ads as well?
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by ionised 8y ago
believe it or not, some people genuinely are sociopathic enough to suggest that yes, you should; and by not doing so you are somehow stealing from them. The inflated sense of entitlement in surveillance capitalists is palpable.
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by ionised 8y ago
> breaks an agreement with site owners I love when people throw this argument out there. I made no such agreement. I signed nothing. My device will behave exactly how I tell it, not how advertisers tell it.
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by ionised 8y ago
I like how you frame the argument as if advertising has the moral high ground. > If we're going to use ad blockers, at least let's admit to what we're doing and not claim a moral high ground. If we are going to use psychol
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by ionised 8y ago
No personal offence intended, but I hope this project dies on its arse. It's malicious software, circumventing the protections afforded to me by my ad/tracker blocking software. I'll contribute in any way I can to adblocking
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by ionised 8y ago
The difference is that in this case the US considers itself the owner of all data on US and Eu citizens alike. The EU merely says that you cannot store Eu citizens data without the necessary safeguards in place and permissions asked. This i
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by ionised 8y ago
Same. A free trade agreement with the US will mean watering down (or 'harmonising' as the spin doctors like to put it) UK regulations to match the US.
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by ionised 8y ago
No, I'm thinking about what we read in the Snowden leaks (if you bothered reading them).
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by ionised 8y ago
The USA is by all accounts a 'rogue' state by its own definition of the term (China is too). It doesn't abide by international conventions or laws, it engages in wars of aggression, it bullies smaller nations into accepting l
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by ionised 8y ago
Why not? Safe Harbour was shot down after the Schrems case. Google and Facebook are being taken to task currently. The huge fines for GDPR violations will come if the companies cited as in breach of the regulations fail to do what the EU as
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by ionised 8y ago
The Snowden leaks. We saw photographs of this taking place in what looked like an assembly line or distribution centre, along with accompanying text from internal NSA presentation slides.
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by ionised 8y ago
Not sure who you are referring to, but there is a great Schopenhauer quote along the same lines: The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of whic
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by ionised 8y ago
Your entire post also perfectly describes most Americans I encounter on social media. I think it's just young uneducated idiots, taking credit for the accomplishments of their nation that they personally had no part in to try to convin
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by ionised 8y ago
You stopped reading because the author used a word you didn't recognise?
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by ionised 8y ago
> believes conspiracy theories about spy microchips in mainboards. You mean not everyone believes the cold, hard truth? That's unfortunate, because most of us here saw the evidence of this taking place.
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by ionised 8y ago
The carbs we get now in modern processed foods are not the same carbs we've been used to for millenia.
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by ionised 8y ago
Doesn't matter that you don't want law or regulation. You'll get them regardless.
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by ionised 8y ago
> due to the prevalence of virtue signaling by left leaning Hollywood that doesn’t align with the reality of all the statistics pointing to far greater levels of charity as a percentage of income/wealth exhibited by those on the ‘ri
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by ionised 8y ago
but it's not breaking the web, it's fixing it.

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