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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Uh, what? Content Blockers on iOS aren't scummy, they can't track you because all they do is provide filter lists to the OS, which then runs them against your browser traffic. They work just fine in Firefox. Firefox Focus provides
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
libimobiledevice works just fine on Linux. Your distribution's version may be out of date, but the upstream version gets updated to match any iOS changes pretty quickly.
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It's a tweet with 139 retweets and 1400 likes. If you think that would influence Amazon, I have a bridge to sell you. And it's not like this was a previously unknown issue.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say you're being downvoted because a tweet from John Carmack is not influential enough (by several orders of magnitude) to cause policy change at a company the size of Amazon.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
> The bzero() function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001); use memset(3) in new programs. POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bzero(). from the manpage on linux.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Yeah, my implicit comparison was to something like std::sort from GNU's libstdc++, which is introsort, a quicksort-insertionsort-hybrid. Plain quicksort is indeed not great. ips4o is a samplesort-derivative (the name stands for Inplace
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
It's not even the fastest comparison-based sorter for the vast majority of inputs. There are much faster sorters out there that exploit the details of modern hardware (branch prediction is a big one, parallelism is also an obvious win
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Brave stopped supporting Android 4.x as well, see https://community.brave.com/t/installing-brave-on-android-wi... . The last version that supported 4.4 was 1.3.2, they're at 1.6.3 now for Android 5.0+.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
I don't consider a phone that hasn't received security updates in 2.5 years "perfectly fine". I'm all for extending the life of older devices, don't misunderstand me, but that requires software updates. My phon
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
"Requires Android 5.0 and up" according to the Play Store listing. Android 4.x is from 2013 and had its last update in 2014. It hasn't received security patches since October 2017. Why should Mozilla continue to support such
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
These plans have been public for a while and have been heavily criticised for being far too unambitious. Some of the lignite plants are not scheduled for shutdown until 2034, and hard coal until 2038. Loudly touting that we're the firs
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Germany burns a lot of lignite (the dirtiest kind of coal) as well as hard coal, so imagine what that figure would be if the political will existed to shut those power plants down. To answer the question, 38.6% of Germany's CO2 emissio
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
With iOS 13, Apple removed the "Always Allow" option from that prompt. If you really want to always allow location access, you'll have to go to the system settings and enable it. You'll also get the "App XYZ has use
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
We're talking about privacy protections for all users , not just HN users. The change in iOS 13 doesn't allow you to do anything that wasn't possible before, the settings have existed for years. It "just" periodica
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Google Scholar still gets its PDFs from preprint servers and author's websites. I suppose you meant to say that Google Scholar's web indexing is how many people got their PDFs pre-scihub?
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
"The best camera is the one you have with you" is a saying among photographers, and the same goes for headphones. Apple realised this a long time ago, and they sell both.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Small correction: a Fibonacci heap has O(log n) amortised delete-min, otherwise you'd break the lower bound on comparison-based sorting (roughly: insert all elements, then delete the minimum n times, et voilà, you've sorted the
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
You have a typo there, it's browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent and browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent (Current, not Content), just in case someone tries to copy and paste those into about:config
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Page isn't loading for me, so here's a snapshot: https://archive.is/i5uvl
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
The T490's successor is going to be called T14, the T590's is the T15, and the X390's the X13, and so on. They'll probably go the "n-th generation (202X)" route for model years, as they've been doing with
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Lenovo has a bunch of AMD ThinkPads (X395, T495, and T495s at a 14" size, E595 at 15") with Ryzen 3000 series CPUs, but the 15" model is from the E series which isn't one of their high-end series. The T495 and T495s seem
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Matrix is well-funded and decentralized. Insinuating sinister goals because Signal received funding is tinfoil nonsense.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
> The only tangible evolution of signal in the past year has been new cat and dog stickers that no one asked for. Oh come on, that's just not true (and I don't mean by that that the most common complaint in every thread about
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
No bad intentions, just some confusion: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1211427007596154881
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
Same with w3.org, which is fifth on the list, and ebay-kleinanzeigen.de. Seems like quite a few entries are off.
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
That's not quite correct. It's about the number of transistors per integrated circuit that minimises per-transistor cost. From the actual 1965 paper: > "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate o
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
> ”Signal cannot have multiple mobile clients, only one mobile client and a single desktop version” This is wrong. You could always have multiple desktop clients. You can also add iPads as linked clients now. Personally, I have two des
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
AMD supports KVM redirection, too, via a standard called DASH. You can see examples at https://community.amd.com/community/devgurus/dmtf-dash/blog . From the standard body's description: "DASH provi
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by lorenzhs 7y ago
The exposed metal part of a Schuko socket is ground. You can touch it. The live contacts aren’t exposed at any stage of plugging/unplugging/... ever.

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