melff

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by melff 3y ago
Can't wait until MV2 is gone in Chrome, I'm curious how much this will diminish real-world effectiveness of ad blockers and if that'll bring browsers that maintain the features ad blockers like to use a bit more market share.
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by melff 3y ago
Well, I'd guess for most people it doesn't matter whether the LED-chips themselves, capacitors, or some other part of the circuitry fails. If cost-cut cheap LED bulbs with components driven to the max are the norm, consumers will
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by melff 4y ago
yes it is, and I agree their home page is shit. I downloaded it trough F-Droid and didn't really background check it, maybe you wanna take a look at their repo: https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore
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by melff 4y ago
I think how error prone the system is shouldn't matter, even it it was absolutely perfect, this is an dystopian privacy invasion.
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by melff 4y ago
You can use "Aurora Store" to download apps without a google account, I use that on lineageOS
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by melff 4y ago
If you're concerned about your privacy I'd advise against just trying to disable uploading but still giving your photos to apps you don't trust, primarily because of possible future implementation of client-side scanning(they
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by melff 4y ago
This kind of stuff is one reason why it should be illegal for platforms to censor at will, it should be possible to sue them for censoring stuff they shouldn't be censoring just as it is for not censoring stuff they should be censoring
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by melff 4y ago
Why? Why should be fight for legal recourse first before we tackle the real problem? (At least in this context, legal recourse for unwarranted service termination can also be useful for things unrelated to scanning of private data, but that
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by melff 5y ago
good point
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by melff 5y ago
moving everything into the browser is a bad fix for broken software distribution.
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by melff 5y ago
Well what you encountered here is IMHO a problem of power, not a problem with your App, guidelines, your marketing, or whatever. The problem is that a third party has the power to stop your customers from using your software. Many people do
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by melff 5y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much a "Karteileiche" though, nobody takes that law seriously. This has less to do with germany being overly restrictive in that domain and more with incompetence: The law says something like "possess
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by melff 5y ago
The Google Translation is accurate in this case, it's just as vague in German as it is in English
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by melff 5y ago
I agree that a lot of theses restrictions are serous restrictions to civil liberties, but they are not fascistic in nature and our attitude towards the government is quite different than the attitude of ppl from the USA towards their govern
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by melff 5y ago
I think the main issues are polarization and the two party political landscape for you guys across the pond. Don't forget that the grass often seems greener on the other side, we here in germany also have a lot of polarization going on
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by melff 5y ago
To correct for under-/overrepresented groups you need to change your hiring decision based on the groups of the applicants. And preferring hiring based on these groups (sex, race, etc) is sexism and racism in my books.
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by melff 5y ago
> and [I] use my influence to help correct that as much as possible without sacrificing operational readiness. So racism/sexism is okay as long as it doesn't hurt operational readiness? Or do you not consider this racism/s
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by melff 5y ago
> certain radical ideologies do not acknowledge neutrality So what? Why can't we acknowledge neutrality because some other people don't?
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by melff 5y ago
> You're part of the problem. Not actively pushing back against something doesn't make one "part of the problem". It makes one a bystander, and no, bystanders are not part part of the problem they are neutrals. They c
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by melff 5y ago
hmm..., making critical infrastructure directly dependent on other (possibly hostile) nations sounds like a good idea. What could possibly go wrong? Btw, didn't china had widespread outages due to market failures recently? If so callin
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by melff 5y ago
A phone is a product, the iOS app platform(or app distribution on iOS to be more precise) is a (monopolized) market, not a product.
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by melff 5y ago
You're conflating the phones themselves with the secondary markets they create. The problem is that Apple has a monopoly in selling/distributing Apps to iphone users. This is not the case on other operating systems, technically no
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by melff 5y ago
I don't think Taiwan is too keen on breaking TSMC's monopoly, not to mention all the other international politics around this.
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by melff 5y ago
Pardon me, I think you misunderstand what I claim they have a monopoly on. They (obviously) don't have a monopoly on the mobile(or mobile software) market. They have a monopoly on the iOS software distribution market(a secondary market
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by melff 5y ago
I think the opposite is true. Modern Hardware is more than fast enough for pretty much all end-user applications(except maybe high-end gaming, but that's not sorely needed), we're just too wasteful with all the performance we&#x27
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by melff 5y ago
> The App Store was ruled in court not to be a monopoly. The App Store is a de-facto monopoly, it may not fit the legal definition of a monopoly but it practice it is (or what other App Stores can end-users install on iOS?). I'm not
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by melff 5y ago
> Apple has never had a monopoly on anything. They do on thier secoundary markets, (esp App Store) but they are also being monopolistic with replacement parts and repair.
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by melff 5y ago
I know, what's wrong with that?
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by melff 5y ago
> That being said I have a gaming PC and consoles too mostly becasue of the exclusives That's one of the reasons I hate consoles on an ideological level. Unless there are technical reason that make porting the game so hard that it&#
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by melff 5y ago
> This might not count for XBox users, which can use the controller on their PC. I use PS4 controllers with my PC(linux), pretty sure they work with windows too. What controllers cannot be connected to a PC?

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