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by lizardactivist 5y ago
Well said. We here in the west have to stop pretending we are at the absolute center of truth and justice, and stop silencing all the sensible voices that try to bring attention to our own hypocrisy.
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
Sometimes it seems like Google think the internet is "theirs".
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
Very interesting. We need less of the current western media disinformation, skewed reporting and its finger-pointing, and more sober analysis like this.
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
Important to note here is that when it comes to household gadgets and personal electronics, not everything needs to be engineered to have water resistance like a diver's watch. Making sure something survives splashes or a minute at the
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
Some alternatives: qwant.com, based in the EU, using their own index without tracking. ecosia.org, based in the EU, backed by Bing but with their own algorithm for filtering the results. startpage.com, based in the EU, backed by anonymized
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I'm curious of which countries would be benefited by a gold standard today, and which countries would be hurt by it. And also, with the way things work today as far as gold trade and keeping gold stock goes, which countries benefit the
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
Explain why only the "Russia did it"-spiel is allowed here.
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
Good job Finland. I respect the opinions of the environmentalists and agree with most of what they say, but until we have something more reliable that can put out power 24/7 year round, we need more new, modern nuclear plants.
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I get the feeling UEFI can never be entirely secure with the set of functionality it offers and thus huge surface it is exposing. Call me crazy, but security means doing only what is necessary and no more, in particular in this early part o
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
For what it's worth and since you ask, no problems like that here. Spotify is fast and responsive, and I'm on a real cheapo Android phone at around the $100 price mark, and with really poor internet connection.
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
Something that is also easily glossed over when it comes to certificates is that a browser will happily accept any valid certificate, with no notion or presumption of specifically who should have issued the certificate.
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I understand that AV1 and AVIF are license-free and supposed to be open and available to anyone anywhere, but are there really no catches in the license agreement?
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I haven't used Google directly in years, but here on HN I frequently get the idea it's going downhills. What would be good to have is an independent search engine that both works well, and which is not backed by anonymized Bing or
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I don't know why you care so specifically about Blind. Is it because they're not in full psychosis-induced cancel-mode? There's support everywhere for NOT collectively punishing the Russian people, and Russians in general, in
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I don't know what to make of this. Why would you insist on going to a public channel, and then to a completely unrelated channel (HN) instead of just contacting their customer support directly? If their devices would brick themselves r
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I don't think Apple have ever cared about these ratings unfortunately. But they should.
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
These AirTags keep looking like a really bad idea. Wasn't there a story recently where someone managed to use one of these as a tracking device for a person and their car, because any nearby iphone and ipad would respond to the tag or
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I think the only way I would dare use bitcoin is to keep it out of these broker wallets, which is one of the real benefits of bitcoin, that people can control their assets entirely rather than leave it up to some company who can arbitrarily
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I wonder what this means for military commanders in Myanmar, Israel, African countries with terrible civil wars, and in particular the United States. Will the UK begin a push to hold them accountable, too?
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I think it's clear since long that Biden (really the U.S. state machine) would go very far because everything outside the U.S. borders is a potential target if it means furthering the own agenda.
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by lizardactivist 5y ago
I try to eat at lunch and at 6 in the evening, cut down on the carbs, and exercise in the morning when levels of stored glycogen is low to get the body to burn fat. But I haven't been at it long enough to say if it works well.