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by krono 5y ago
Perhaps the convenience of having one device function as both a notebook and all-round e-reader is not worth the trade-offs you mention. My 2013 Kobo Aura HD (still in perfect condition!) is a standard item in my bag, and still sees daily u
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by krono 5y ago
The lack of screenlighting has long been the only thing holding me back. I so hope they're not ruining their next device with anti-customisation and aggressive subscription or partner service marketing.
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by krono 5y ago
Also, wow you're in luck, queue the busses and fire hydrants because it's captcha week!
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by krono 5y ago
This modifies a lot of platform-specific behaviour as described by their respective specifications. It also hijacks system-level user customisations, possibly also accessibility-related ones. Whilst it looks like a solid technical implement
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by krono 5y ago
And a "Search Bing in Sidebar" context menu option when selecting text. And the default Chromium keyboard shortcut for searching selected text with your default search engine has been hardcoded to open Bing. And the new tab page s
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by krono 5y ago
Thanks, forgot about pf! Murus seems the perfect middle-ground for when day-to-day management through commandline tools is too much (I lasted for about a week!), but GUI tools sometimes too restrictive.
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by krono 5y ago
FYI Touched both matters in my replies to these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249013
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by krono 5y ago
Whether this is entirely by design I don't know, but Microsoft's positioning in the ecosystem is just brilliant. They're like a force of nature now. NPM's security issues prime the ecosystem for privacy and security topi
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by krono 5y ago
If anything this makes it worse. - No security checks are present in the package manager download and installation process so there are still no guarantees. - Existing installations of package managers are automatically overwritten when the
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by krono 5y ago
Recently Node 16 LTS cycle started. One month and a few days before the carry-over, a super controversial package titled `coredeps` [0] was officially declared a core module and has been bundled with all official distributions since. The No
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by krono 5y ago
The OS firewall can only block incoming traffic (but not Apple's I believe) and has almost no configuration options. Some popular third party solutions that are actually useful are Little Snitch [0], LuLu [1], and AdGuard [2]. [0] htt
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by krono 5y ago
I was alluding to the antitrust accusations. My comment being placed in the broader context them was perhaps too far-fetched of a hint.
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by krono 5y ago
So big tech gave all this stuff away without asking or taking any sort of compensation (i.e. free), and yet they've managed to accumulate levels of influence and wealth previously only beholden to sovereign states. Coincidentally, arou
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by krono 5y ago
There is an "Opt out of redesign" setting and some others that also affect the old website that are only available on https://new.reddit.com/settings .
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by krono 5y ago
You cannot be serious. Where do you think all that money went?
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by krono 5y ago
Not referring to https://old.reddit.com I assume?
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by krono 5y ago
That is a fact (one that Google is trying very hard to make people forget [0]). I was actually referring to the proper global standards that are set forth by the W3C [1] and WHATWG organisations (now merged... I think). Both of which all ma
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by krono 5y ago
Microsoft Edge is gaining some serious ground and is closing in on Safari [0]. Their aggressive conversion tactics seem to be paying off. The problem with Safari is that they either simply haven't, and, in some cases, even flat out ref
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by krono 5y ago
How often do you visit a website and not do anything? As in not even move your mouse around or scroll.
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by krono 5y ago
I can access some basic sensor data on default Edge without any confirmation. All it takes is some sneaky activation hidden in a navlink. Motion Sensor: Allow (default)
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by krono 5y ago
Chrome and Edge allow access to motion sensor data by default as well. Edit: Both the desktop and mobile browsers.
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by krono 5y ago
Cozy winter feelings, not having to deal with international scheduling, laying in bed enjoying your extra hour of sleep in the autumn, not worrying about your employees calling in sick with cluster migraines or seasonal depression. Sounds r
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by krono 5y ago
Chicken and the egg. It's the exact opposite here in the Netherlands, where Amazon has only recently started to gain some ground.
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by krono 5y ago
Castrating your €3k "pro" machine just to run an external monitor goes for a fix these days? Man Apple has it good.
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by krono 5y ago
The post is about much more than just the customisation options. He also highlights the reduced information density and the negatively impacted effort to effect ratio of the new controls and their layout.
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by krono 5y ago
I don't want privacy just for the sake of having it. It's a tool that serves a purpose that's no longer or significantly less relevant in that story.
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by krono 5y ago
There's no accounting for taste.
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by krono 5y ago
Filling corruption-sensitive positions is a really difficult problem. On one hand it's near impossible to trust the purity of anyone with ties to the opponent, whilst on the other it is precisely and pretty much only those people that
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by krono 5y ago
Do they really need to know with which hand I am likely to wipe my arse with, though? Smaller companies using the services provided by the bigger fish have caused a self-perpetuating circle of ever increasing imbalances in many areas. The r
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by krono 5y ago
Imagine the number of ex-bigcorp applicants for those positions that coincidentally left their previous employee on exactly the date the job offers went up ;)

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