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by krn 8y ago
Xiaomi temporarily locks the bootloader to prevent third-party Chinese retailers from bundling malware and adware with its phones sold on the international market[1]. [1] https://www.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-anti-rollback-p
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by krn 8y ago
> I am amazed every time I travel to Europe, how few homeless people there are, despite their economic growth lagging the US. This. I grew up in Eastern Europe where middle-class people would make and eat every single meal at home, but I
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by krn 8y ago
I think the certification means, that all the hardware parts of the device are supported by the OS. The device itself might not even be tested to see if there are no other issues. Generally, it's a problem with newly released devices,
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by krn 8y ago
> The entire point of art. 11 is to transfer money from Google News (and other aggregators, like Facebook) to publishers. The latest version of Google News has already solved this: it only shows the title and the image, not a single sent
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by krn 8y ago
What model was it? Most manufacturers only test their hardware on Windows. Canonical maintains a list of devices that are certified to work with Ubuntu[1]. [1] https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/
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by krn 8y ago
> You're going to very hard pressed to build a phone outside of Asia, and even more so without Asian components. Interestingly, this has only been true since 2012, after Nokia closed its factories in Finland, Hungary, and Mexico[1].
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by krn 8y ago
Google now only knows the first page I visit from its search results. After this update, Google will be able to follow me across the entire web, because it will the one who serves it to me. How is that not a concern? Are you seriously claim
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by krn 8y ago
> So Google will probably still cache and push pages via their own infrastructure when you visit those pages from your Google search results And that's what I mean by saying, that the entire web will be served from a single company&
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> If after, then the content isn't "served from a single company's database" anymore; it's served using a decentralized and open standard for cross-origin server push. Does this mean that Google will no longer ra
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Seeing "amp." in the URL meant that it's not a "full version" of the site. Google wants to remove the separation for the end user, so that all publishers would serve their content through Google Cache. And that&#x27
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As the one who posted this link here, I found the list to be a great starting point for my research. Instead of switching to something like Waterfox or Brave, I can now remain with a major web browser by just enabling the features I need.
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> Google cache links aren't served from `amp.yoursite.com` That's not where things are going, according to your own source from the previous comment: > Our approach uses one component of the emerging Web Packaging technologi
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What Mozilla did in the default Firefox configuration, is made the trade-offs on behalf of an average browser user. It's neither worthless, nor dangerous for a savvy browser user to make the trade-offs for himself. That's exac
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by krn 8y ago
No, this Chrome update is about hiding the "amp." subdomain from the original URL. What Google wants to achieve, is to make it impossible for the average user to tell when the entire website is being served from Google Cache.
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Firefox about:config privacy settings(gist.github.com)
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This should be the top comment. After this change, we are just one step away from using the browser's address bar only as a Google search box, and Google as the entire internet's gatekeeper. Google doesn't make money when you
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> I would be hard pressed to think of a single beneficial thing about cigarette. Facebook certainly has more productive uses than just making you feel good... When I ask young people why they smoke, the most popular answer is: "I wo
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by krn 8y ago
Thanks for this tool. It was extremely helpful in trying to find the best locations for data-centers across the world. Who knew, that the presence in New York, London, and Singapore alone is enough to be within 100ms reach for 80% of the wo
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by krn 8y ago
Wow, this is pretty impressive. But where did these people go? Messenger didn't offer video calling until 2015, Whatsapp until 2016.
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by krn 8y ago
It depends on the audience the app is targeted at. If it's a geeky thing, phone calls might not work.
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by krn 8y ago
I am totally fine with PCs, which allow me to install any OS I prefer. And I am totally fine with smartphones, which allow me to flash any ROM I prefer. This way I get both, secure hardware and private software.
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by krn 8y ago
You are right, I prefer highly scalable and proven in production open-source tools, such as Redis and Postgres, to managed services by some cloud provider. It comes as very little overhead, if you pick the right tools and master them, then
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by krn 8y ago
To put it simply, in a "work and life balance" Berlin is inevitably more about life than about work. And if your personal growth depends on the people you are surrounded by, it might not always be the best place to live in.
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I think every company cares about its customer loyalty, and damaging the trust in your brand might leave you with the customers who use you only because you are the cheapest. This would quickly make your brand worthless.
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by krn 8y ago
I came here to write exactly this. Berlin is #1 tech scene in the world not in terms of the quality of startups, but in terms of the quality of life[1]. You won't make much money here, and you won't need to. In Berlin, a person ma
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by krn 8y ago
You are right, and I think that his argument about increased offline privacy is completely valid. But what I meant in my initial comment, is that now if I start a new personal document on Google Docs, or if I upload an existing .doc file in
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by krn 8y ago
Seeing ads in Amazon search results has substantially reduced my perceived trust in Amazon brand, since as a buyer I no longer feel like Amazon is on my side. I feel like I am Amazon's product. That it's me, who is for sale.
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by krn 8y ago
> I'm claiming that Debian's wording was somewhat weird, and that they aren't necessarily as large as it makes them sound. In fact, it was not Debian's wording, but Greg Kroah-Hartman's, who is currently responsi
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by krn 8y ago
I prefer to use object storage powered by OpenStack Swift[1], which makes my application not attached to any proprietary API. [1] https://www.ovh.com/world/public-cloud/storage/object-storag...
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by krn 8y ago
I probably am, because it's still hard to believe, how much people can be attached to a single brand, even when they notice, that its products start to suck.

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