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by morvita 6y ago
It's not exactly the same thing, but Firefox has HTTPS-only mode you can activate. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs
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by morvita 6y ago
Twitter is making a paid version of Twitter https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22301375/twitter-super-fo...
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by morvita 6y ago
The short answer: I am not anti-advertising, so I don't block ads that respect me. I don't love advertising in many of it's forms, but taken from the viewpoint of those who make money from ads (i.e. content creators), it is o
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by morvita 6y ago
I'm not OP, but I have my browser setup to block trackers only, nothing that's billed as an ad-blocker. I use Firefox with Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection [0] and Privacy Badger [1] as an extra layer of protection. Some sites,
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by morvita 6y ago
JetBrains ships a custom JVM that their IDEs run on. https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/JetBrains+R...
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by morvita 6y ago
I've been using CentOS for at least a decade and only learned today that it was short for Community Enterprise OS. I think, especially around Linux and open source projects, people care much less about naming than we tend to believe. P
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by morvita 6y ago
How do you think that agreement came about? Hard lobbying from the tax prep industry.
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by morvita 6y ago
This matches my experience exactly. About 5 years ago I was coming out of academia with a PhD in chemistry wanting to get into tech. Someone pointed me toward data science and I was immediately pulled in by the potential for deep insights a
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by morvita 6y ago
Lynda.com was rebranded as "LinkedIn Learning" and is still around. My employer has access for all employees and I've taken a few good courses on there.
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by morvita 6y ago
> and are honestly not _that_ hard to orchestrate together with the liberal application of Terraform. I love Terraform, but the fact that you require an entirely different company's orchestration tools to make AWS "not that har
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by morvita 6y ago
It's a bit outdated now, but back in May 2017 Gruber reported [0] that 69% of visitors to his site used Safari. This was about 6 months before the release of Firefox Quantum, so I'd be curious to see more recent numbers if the Fir
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by morvita 6y ago
I don't think making police unions illegal is the solution, unions play an important role in preventing the employer from taking advantage of employees. What we need to do is limit the scope of unions. Unions making sure their members
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by morvita 7y ago
Reply All is a group of very talented storytellers working at the intersection of tech and society. I love everything they do and have been listening to PJ and Alex since before Reply All (before starting Reply All, they had a podcast calle
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by morvita 7y ago
> How can you convince people that what they did was legally and ethically wrong? They intentionally ran the company into the ground to increase the short term profits so they could parachute away with a nice bonus at the cost of the low
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by morvita 7y ago
Money? Opportunity? How many employees (even high earning employees like engineers) are actually in a position to purchase enough shares to make a difference? Even for most "publicly owned" companies the vast majority of shares ar
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by morvita 7y ago
I genuinely don't know how to explain that the fact it requires an income of more than 21/hr to meet basic needs is all the justification that should be required. Maybe if we stopped thinking of employees/contractors as &quot
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by morvita 7y ago
Frankly, I don't care about any economic argument that says people shouldn't have the ability to put food on their table, a roof over their head, and have decent healthcare. Any company that cannot be profitable and pay their empl
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by morvita 8y ago
You've hit exactly what this lawsuit is about. They aren't saying "when I got a job as a content moderator I wasn't expecting to see traumatizing things", they're saying "my employer isn't providing a
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by morvita 8y ago
No, my mother was a teacher and my father a manager at the local hospital. So while we weren't rich, we were definitely not poverty stricken either. I cannot speak much to the experience of poor white people in the tech community, but,
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by morvita 8y ago
It does when those events and the decades that followed have prevented minorities from having the opportunities to become a good engineer. This isn't about you and I not recognizing talent in front of us, it's about giving that ta
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by morvita 8y ago
While it is true that many white men come from a background where, for any number of reasons, they are not afforded the same opportunities as, say, a white boy from Cupertino, they are still given opportunities and privilege because they we
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by morvita 8y ago
I, too, dream of a world where I can work with smart people without regard to their race, sexuality, gender, whatever, but it is naive to think that we are already living in that world. Like it or not, the entire system is stacked against m
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by morvita 9y ago
Because not everyone uses Linux?
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by morvita 10y ago
I have been an Airbnb host for a while and if you follow your reviews closely, you can tell when someone leaves you low star ratings. In the host dashboard, you only see aggregate stars, but it will break it down as x 5-stars, y-4 stars, et
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by morvita 10y ago
1,2. Why is racism considered a fireable offense, but sexism they should get a warning first? Either give them a warning on both or fire on both. 3. I think many would argue that we shouldn't have to live in a world where long days wit
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by morvita 10y ago
> Today, we’re excited to open-source and share this library more broadly, so that others can work together to build more delightful products. Facebook's post explicitly states they view this as an open source library. So, while I a