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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> You can install uBlock Origin on Brave and Chrome too. ...for now. Be aware that Chrome is going to stop supporting Manifest v2. This will make uBlock Origin stop working - not because the author doesn't want to support v3, but be
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
Playing with the code, I think there's actually three problems here: 1) I don't think doesn't recognise relative paths in the tag, which HN uses and is entirely valid, e.g.: <link rel="alternate" type="a
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
In Firefox, open in reader mode. You'll get a truncated article the first time, but if you F5 while in reader mode you'll get the entire article.
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> This oversimplifies it. How does that logic apply to Britain, France or Israel? While it may not have been a fear of being nuked, the United Kingdom's program was very much motivated by fear of the United States in other ways. Ern
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
If it was possible to write an effective slur filter, I would not find it completely objectionable. Not because that would be useful to stop people saying completely shit-headed things if they really wanted to (I strongly suspect you could
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> Did anybody find it weird that a series that ended with a rousing affirmation of the value of truth was full of so much gratuitous falsehood? That rousing affirmation of the truth being in a courtroom scene that never happened - quit
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
> So does real life. As an adult, you usually have the option of walking away. > People need experience dealing with these situations. I think kids need to be taught the kind of self-respect such that they know when it is appropriate
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
Joe gang! I also started using it about 20 years ago because, for whatever reason, that was the editor that was there and the editor I heard about, and then I never stopped.
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by lewiscollard 5y ago
Exactly this. There are many predictable comments in this thread about why they think mass adoption of Linux phones won't happen. I even agree with them, but they are missing what I think is the point. I don't care if they take
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Self-Archaeology and the Internet Movie Car Database(exhaust.lewiscollard.com)
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> Russia has no GDPR or something. So you could put (special key in) a cookie? It is entirely permissible under the GDPR to use cookies for security purposes.
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
I wonder if Antibias for Chrome is what the parent post was talking about: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/antibias/gfeilphhb... The agency that developed it wrote about it here: https://
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
I have not read the opinion you refer to, but Elastic themselves admit "it is not an OSI approved license and is not considered open source".[0] > but it's a bad license because it's too vague That has historically[1]
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> as opposed to pragmatic FOSS Call it whatever you like, but it's not "pragmatic FOSS", it's not "FOSS" at all. It is neither free (by the FSF's definition, which goes back to at least 1986), nor open
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
I don't suppose you dismissed one of those "totally GDPR compliant" cookie bars right before that, did you? (You may have to think very hard; it's basically muscle memory for us these days...) I've seen this trick i
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> The First Amendment deals with the government, not private companies. If this were true, every user blocked from Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit could take those companies to court for violating the First Amendment. Except Netflix is usin
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
The GP referred to "highly-paid executives and HR departments and all that", not developers. Still. There are some obvious counter-examples of development of extremely complex projects being community-driven under the aegis of muc
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
I look forward to your writeup, but in the meantime, thank you for your comment explaining how this works. Excellent hack!
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> But isn't it dangerous? How does it know you re not preloading the "please delete everything" link? As a sibling comment points out, if it's possible for someone to delete everything via a link, your users have alre
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> It’s an old idea that keeps resurfacing and frankly I think it misses the real problem of modern websites: they’re too bloated with code that the user is expected to run and yet isn’t there to serve the user. I agree that the latter is
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
Quicklink prefetches links as they arrive in the viewport. Instant.page prefetches them when you hover over them.
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
That's frightening. Is there any legit use case for this in the real world that would stop, e.g., glibc from removing it altogether?
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> It scares me how much people on twitter believe that what they see trending on there from the news and other sources is being seen and blown up worldwide when it's not. It's being blown up worldwide ON TWITTER. Unfortunately,
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
It's a command with my initials too, so how could I not compile and install this :) Thanks for doing this!
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> Long have we suffered under your rule. Who is this "we"? It definitely doesn't include me, as I do not own an iPhone and never will. If _you_ own one on the other hand...I presume you knew about Apple's practices an
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
On Ubuntu you still have to explicitly enable it - and unless I missed something in my last couple of Ubuntu installs you are never prompted to enable it during installation. If you want to opt in, you have to do a dpkg-reconfigure and eve
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> 1. The omnibar completion isn't as good. Chrome figures out where I go pretty regularly, and autocompletes extremely well based upon habits. That's interesting, because I have found rather the opposite, for how I use it. Chro
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
Please don't bring up this ancient comment any time file synchronising or Dropbox is mentioned. Doing so was not funny the first time and it's still not.
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
Awww, "My Briefcase"! I had totally forgotten that was a thing :) What a nice little nostalgia trip.
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
I thought the pop-culture references were both extremely funny and well-played. It also seems that the author of the post is both a woman and alive in 2020, so no, not at all sexist by today's standards.

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