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by leppr 6y ago
Being angry about an opinion is fine. That doesn't mean you should try to stop people from talking about it. Save from the feedback of concrete actions being taken (which you want to avoid), discussion by a diverse crowd is the only wa
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by leppr 6y ago
Youtube automatic transcriptions may be state-of-the-art technology, but from the perspective of a human consummer they're still extremely poor quality. I like to put on captions in my second language, and the automatic captions are ba
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by leppr 6y ago
> I don’t expect my government to take care of me, because it couldn’t care less, and I’ve been totally screwed by broken government in the past. Depending on where you live and how well paid you are, 60% to 20% of your work's out
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by leppr 6y ago
At least for me, a huge part of running a Linux OS is not just having access to some Linux-exclusive features, but not having Windows anti-features. WSL does not give you the non-intrusiveness, better performance, security, and privacy of
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by leppr 6y ago
Is this a roundabout way of trying to associate cryptocurrencies with criminal groups? In case this isn't obvious, no, there's no trustless way to make an entity distribute its real world profits to holders of a crypto token. We&#
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by leppr 6y ago
Tech companies are a direct product of your government's structure. If your constitution didn't allow lobbyists from megacorps having more power over legislature than the collective mass of its citizens, these companies would not
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by leppr 6y ago
Putting aside the valid complaint about the noise from get-rich-quick opportunists in this field: Implementing simple "Web Bucks" is not pedestrian at all. There are real reasons why all Paypals suck, and you can't simply i
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by leppr 6y ago
LLN is good but seems to favor anti-features like disabling text selection on subtitles (except in the side pane) in order to push their in-house paid-for features. Regarding your comment about extensibility, this applies to mostly every so
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by leppr 6y ago
Many (most?) vision impaired people can.
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by leppr 6y ago
It's not simply about the consumers. Google is playing a balancing game between pushing ads on enough people to make the service sustainable, while still willingly allowing the people who want to block ads to do so. With their resource
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by leppr 6y ago
Or imagine they flagged videos showing how face masks help contain Covid-19 as fake news back when the official US government recommendation was still to not buy and wear masks because they are useless? That'd have pissed people off to
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by leppr 6y ago
It really is just a funny parallel. In objective, pragmatic terms, we've already been way beyond telescreens for a while with smartphones. They are as mandatory for upper-middle class status as telescreens are in 1984, but far more inv
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by leppr 6y ago
I'll give a similar reply as I did to your other comment: the most popular platform for interacting with low-trust applications, the web, sanely does not allow apps to access your whole filesystem. It would have never thrived as it did
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by leppr 6y ago
Except on the most popular application platform available of today: the web. Imagine if every website could read your system clipboard at will. I'm honestly amazed and horrified to learn that smartphone apps on the 2 OSs have this capa
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by leppr 6y ago
And for a client side-only solution: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...
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by leppr 6y ago
Coc.nvim is awesome. Instead of trying to bring the UI of vim to another editor, coc.nvim brings the "backend" of the other editor to vim. I tried using VSCode with the Vim plugin for a while but the latency and inconsistencies ev
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by leppr 6y ago
> for some reason unknown to me people don't want to just use Firefox there. Initial loading of webpages on Android Firefox is very slow compared to Chromium browsers.
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by leppr 6y ago
It is a paranoid stance. But if you are a developer in a large company, think about how likely it is that your computer has (direct or not) access to data/funds worth more than $100k to someone, and what kind of exploits that money can
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by leppr 6y ago
Minecraft isn't a good example of your point, it's a better gateway to software literacy than most games kids of your generation were playing: from the logical circuits you can build inside the game, to at least learning how files
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by leppr 6y ago
"Integrity" is not a desirable trait in this day and age. A developer is of little use if they don't respond to short term individualistic incentives.
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by leppr 6y ago
VM escape exploits are a actually used in the wild, so yes, if that was on your work machine, you failed the test.
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by leppr 6y ago
This is a good move, but still fairly lax (I'd personally like a reminder after as little as 2 months). This difference in preference by users and the top comment with an example of the reversed strategy used by a shady dating site, su
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by leppr 6y ago
I still miss the mouse gesture extensions from the pre-Web Extensions days. The suggested replacements only work on a loaded webpage, which limits their use as a replacement to keyboard shortcuts, especially when combined with a tab unloade
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by leppr 6y ago
Yes, the issues highlighted in the thread stem not from the technical limitations of Android sandboxing but political censorship by Google. Covid-19 isn't transmitted through apps. This is a stereotypical false dilemma fallacy, where u
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by leppr 6y ago
I don't think there's any relationship except an inverse one between user choice and app sandboxing. QubesOS, Snaps, Firejail, Sandboxie, browser tabs to some extent, restrict user-freedom in only the most technical way, with no b
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by leppr 6y ago
I've long wished there was a more encompassing alternative to F-Droid, which would include the same payment facilities as Google Play (paid app, in-app payments, subscriptions), allow proprietary apps (but still give FOSS as a search f
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by leppr 6y ago
The beauty of federations of user-managed communities like Reddit, 8chan or Mastodon is that the friction to "voting with your feet" is low enough to be practical. Migration of user communities from hijacked subreddits happens all
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by leppr 6y ago
An exageration, but in aggregate, the time wasted on this by users having to close yet another pop-up (and being more reluctant to browse new websites), and providers implementing the functionality on their websites is not negligible.
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by leppr 6y ago
It's not the media, that's the stance Google themselves adopt with Google Play by acting as non-neutral gatekeepers. Few people lack the intuitive understanding of the difference between free platforms and controlled ones. People
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by leppr 7y ago
This is already a step-up from Google Home devices in that you can trust it's not sending audio to Google outside of what you intend to, but I'll be properly excited when the Open-Source speech-to-text component is working[1] and

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