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by kqp 4mo ago
I think it’s basically recalcitrance. Same as they suddenly turn into the world’s worst devs every time they have to make software for Windows. Apple hates mouses, but many people won’t consider not using one, so they reluctantly make an ex
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by kqp 4mo ago
1Password does do full previous versions. It might be a newer feature, I’m only seeing passwords, not full versions, prior to 2018.
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by kqp 4mo ago
It doesn’t, it opens Apple Music. Apple has a longstanding problem with giving their own apps privileged roles that they don’t expose to competitors. What concessions exist in browsers, maps, and music player are all the result of being for
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by kqp 4mo ago
This should be at the top. It pisses people off because we reflexively think “I’m not a weak-willed procrastinator” or “I’m no addict” or “it’s not that simple”, but it is the truth, and the way to fix it, and harder than it sounds. We get
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by kqp 4mo ago
The first amendment is indeed concerned only with the US government’s interaction with the matter, as is appropriate, but that does not imply it’s without other limitation. Your list is very broad and covers a wide range of common sense lim
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by kqp 5mo ago
I agree in theory, but this is so extremely far from the US political and social system that I think no nation has ever changed so much without being overthrown. So unless you’re talking about plans for a post-US world, this idea will alway
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by kqp 5mo ago
> To not be indistinguishable from "strictly necessary" there would have to be a case where the "functional cookie" actually required consent, right? The case is when you don’t use that feature. > how would you sol
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by kqp 5mo ago
Strictly necessary cookies don’t require explicit consent, and generally can’t be rejected. Functional cookies don’t require additional explicit consent if you actually use that function. “Performance” actually refers to analytics, probably
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by kqp 5mo ago
This is already what LibreWolf does for most of its fingerprinting protection, including resolution, which you call out. It already works, LibreWolf is the only browser besides Tor I’ve found that actually defeated fingerprinters in some of
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by kqp 5mo ago
This is misinformation stemming from disinformation propagated by organized industry retaliation to the law. Cookie banners are not and never have been required by law, they are intentional harassment designed to make users oppose laws that
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by kqp 5mo ago
Genuinely, I’d recommend you spend a day manually verifying every AI answer you otherwise would have just trusted. I suspect what you’ll find is actually that you cannot bring yourself to do it. I’ve found myself trusting AI answers sometim
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by kqp 5mo ago
This is going to be unpopular here, but life became easier when I quit trying to write semantic HTML. It’s just poorly designed, I’m sorry. Every time I’ve reached for a <dl> I’ve eventually regretted it because I wanted multiple leve
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by kqp 5mo ago
Every single macOS update the top comments are about giving it six months to stabilize, but when a program’s biggest ever rewrite involves a lot of AI, the top comment is calling you irrational if you don’t YOLO it, and probably a jerk, too
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by kqp 5mo ago
The known/unknown question is not separate in the real world, computing avoids it by asking binary questions only when they’re answerable. Considered generally, though, if I ask a true/false question then read your answer from a s
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by kqp 5mo ago
It’s phones, mainly. People do also have multiple other devices, yes. For me another big pro is having a realtime offsite backup and being able to survive simultaneous loss of all my devices, which is plausible in correlated scenarios like
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by kqp 5mo ago
Down for me too, in the Philippines. Maybe it’s not down in the US. I found out when I was using DuckDuckGo just fine while my friend thought the internet was down, that was kind of fun.
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by kqp 5mo ago
> what do you actually want? Give me the ability to choose what I trust. “You can either trust Apple and nobody else, even yourself, or you can trust literally everybody” is obviously not a good faith implementation of this. Apple excels
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by kqp 5mo ago
Is this really true? The Mullvad report a year or so ago was that they didn’t want to turn on no exceptions mode because it breaks network connectivity until reboot if you don’t pause it when updating the app, not that the feature doesn’t e
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by kqp 5mo ago
Never retaliating is a great way to get people to attack you. Of course escalating to all-out war provokes the same in response, but there does need to be a proportionate response, because it needs to be stupid to hurt us, not good business
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by kqp 5mo ago
This page helped me understand what they’re going for: https://patapom.com/blog/Lighting/Colored%20Penumbra/Colored... . The way I’m intuiting it: some things will “glow” when strongly illuminated, and the glo
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by kqp 5mo ago
A week ago GitHub published a blog post saying this, a day later GitHub execs were in HN comments repeating it, and just like that it’s common knowledge that GitHub’s steady reliability decline from the 2019 onward was actually caused not b
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by kqp 6mo ago
This is something I’ve long believed to be true and important to understand, yet rarely see anybody else argue, so it makes me happy to read. I think of it like the kissing noise we make to make a pet come. You could call it the truth or a
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by kqp 6mo ago
Well, it started just after the Microsoft acquisition, when AI did not exist, and coincided with news of Microsoft fully ingesting the GitHub team and forcing architecture and priority changes, and has steadily continued since. So idk, it’s
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by kqp 6mo ago
It’s not industry advice, it’s life advice. Believe it or not, there exists a world outside what’s trending in the tech industry, and the outside world is also much bigger, much more important, and considered by many more to be the point of
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by kqp 6mo ago
They’re publicly traded for-profit companies, selfishness is literally the definition of both of them and it’s the farthest thing from a secret.
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by kqp 6mo ago
It sounds like he didn’t actually file a false police report. They don’t even say they asked him whether it’s true. It seems the police just read a post by a random person on the internet, assumed it’s true, then arrested him when it wasn’t
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by kqp 6mo ago
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you define “vulnerability” as something like “thing that will be fixed soon”. After all, Joe Random not liking a behavior doesn’t make it a vuln, there needs to be a litmus test. Am I close?
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by kqp 6mo ago
They are one of the main players in cords, chargers, power banks, robot vacuum cleaners, smart home devices, and headphones and earphones, and also make a bunch of other stuff. They have $4B annual revenue. Some things are under the Eufy br
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by kqp 6mo ago
Do you have a source for any of this? Wikipedia and news that I can find support that he fled Russia after government conflicts. It’s also well known that he keeps his and the dev team’s location secret, so anybody going knocking on incorpo