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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Can you quote an exaggeration or something sensationalist from the article? The article has details and examples of their own experience (and it's titled "my feed", not "instagram in general"), they interviewed rese
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
In Canada, CP drawings are illegal ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography_laws_in_Ca... )
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Congrats! I'm a fan and subscribed. Tech nitpick: I was a bit annoyed though that the green buttons to subscribe are then replaced by green buttons to "gift to a friend" or subscribe to newsletter. It's easy to add to u
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Except if the cookie is copied elsewhere, then that cookie/session needs to be expired? (but yes, expiring locally reduces the window for copying that cookie)
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I wish that episode had more Klingons ;)
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
On uBlock Origin, the list "Easylist/uBO Cookie Notices" and the Annoyances lists help remove a ton of those cookie popups.
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Isn't the outrage very visible in the streets of Israel (recurrent mass-protests)? I consider that different than outrage limited to social media. I'm not very familiar with the issue, but in any case, a majority rule that ignores
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Firefox lost power-users because 1) performance was bad 2) Chrome does very aggressive marketing and various Google sites break randomly on Firefox. And performance was very often bad because of extensions. Perhaps anecdotal, but whenever I
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
However it can become a liability if you separate (alimony). Everyone thinks they won't, but it's worth checking the stats.
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Does your VPS assign you multiple ipv4 addresses? Otherwise seems like feature parity. I use ipv6 everywhere, but I get annoyed when some features are missing. For example, OVH won't let me transfer an IPv6 prefix like they do for IPv4
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
You could write a program that listens on port 53, parses the query and returns the correct value? DNS is hard to implement, but for responding to a very specific type of query, should be easy?
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Mitnick was not just skilled, he was creative, pushed things too far, and the internet rallied around him nonetheless. He went after corporations that people didn't like, even if he did it for personal gain. SBF seems like an average w
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Not to invalidate your feelings, but that seems quite normal. I feel the same. IPv6 has been mature for over 15 years and is slowly making its way. Most major LTE carriers have deployed it, most home broadband providers have the infra in pl
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I love the "Steps: 1 - 2 - 3" image. It reminds me of the old Slashdot memes of: * Step 1: collect underpants * Step 2: ?? * Step 3: Profit!
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
It would be great if all these sites (including Reddit) just had a button "show me content I might like", instead of distracting me with click-bait. I get too distracted and end-up wasting too much time doom-scrolling. I've d
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I hadn't seen the CBC article was posted earlier and has more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618977
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Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement(theguardian.com)
11 points by mgbmtl 3y ago|12 comments
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Are there ways to view tweets without an account? Kind of like archive.is? For now, I could enter it in Google and view cache, but I assume that will go away soon. And if I understand correctly, it's not the index.php, but the actual s
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
A bit tangential: I was happy to learn about Android apps that can change the home screen, such as Lawnchair (thanks to whoever pointed that out to me, after I had posted an cranky comment that was understandably downvoted). For example, it
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Aren't there concerns around the encryption used by Tinc? ( https://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/Security.html#Securit... ) It's probably fine for personal projects though, and indeed simple and very flexible
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I get so many support requests of "I clicked on a link and then I was logged-out". They weren't logged-out, they just didn't notice that the link was opened in the wrong browser. Doesn't help that most browsers kind
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72h Hourly Smoke Maps at Ground Level – Canada(weather.gc.ca)
1 points by mgbmtl 3y ago|0 comments
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Parking doesn't scale well. It would just improve the situation for a few people, temporarily.
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
There are also rich and poor people using the subway. Improving it will improve the situation for everyone. I'm (sincerely) curious though, who are the poor people affected? Parking downtown is crazy expensive, and there are already ex
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Switching keyboards takes at least 2-4 weeks, in my opinion, to get to somewhat 80% speed of what you would expect. Personally, switching to a "columnar" keyboard (Moonlander keyboard) took me about that time, but afterwards I cou
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I think the position of the SEC is that these companies should comply with the law. Which is what is said just a few seconds later. And that's the problem with slogans: we lose track of the wider issues.
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Homelessness affects a ton of people, but I'm also including who live in subsidized housing (and otherwise might be homeless). It could be a family with kids, who need a subsidy to live in a big-enough place, or an old person living of
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
In some cases, these are indirect corporate subsidies. After all, who will work in low-paying jobs in SF, if they have to live far far away? Where could people move that would give them more opportunities? Rural areas often lack the social
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I wonder if advertisers get to chose if they can include/exclude nsfw content? After all, the bottom line is monetization.
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Android (on my Pixel6) does this in a more subtle way, which I think is Ok: Swipe bottom to up, to show the list of open apps, it will detect the images on the app preview. Click on an image, and there is a "shopping" option (part

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