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by mverwijs 8y ago
Ubuntu has long since flagged Firefox as a 'volatile' package, resulting in up-to-date Firefox packages when using the standard package manager.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
There you go: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Not to mention having the gal to call it 'being social'. War is peace. Invading privacy is social.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
"I agree, but stop calling me 'Shirley'."
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by mverwijs 9y ago
No no no. There is only one 'sl'. https://asciinema.org/a/172723
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Privacy is like eating your vegetables. Or doing those push ups eery morning. Given any excuse people will ignore common sense and the lizard brain takes over. Facebook knows this like no other. The outrage too comes from the lizard brain o
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by mverwijs 9y ago
I see no reason why not actually.
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Telegram must hand over encryption keys to FSB, court orders(phys.org)
1 points by mverwijs 9y ago|0 comments
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Minecraft. Redstone and commandblocks. Later set up a server that allows for plugins to install (spigot). Then install the javascript plugin and the kids can manipulate the minecraft worlds with javascript. Show them all the plugins availab
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Adding the addon 'The Great Suspender' helped me out in this area. Also disabling HTML5 autoplay.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Reminds me of "Snowcrash".
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by mverwijs 9y ago
That is no fix. That is a workaround.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Alternate explanation: the person(s) you discussed this with did some google'ing and browsing. The tracking cookies do their thing and since you and those persons are linked, you end up with the ads served.
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Help Test Prometheus 2.0 RC1(prometheus.io)
2 points by mverwijs 9y ago|0 comments
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by mverwijs 9y ago
"More or less, yes, if more people understand one design than another, then the one that more people understand is the right one. ", he posted on the one website in the world that still holds on to the original meaning of the word
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by mverwijs 9y ago
"The law would move from criminalizing the downloading of information to simply reading it." I cannot find the sources of that statement. Which law? Where is the text?
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Nothing goes stale faster than documentation. What I'd like to see is that when someone adds documentation he/she also adds an 'use before' or 'expires on' date. So that folks coming after them know that the do
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by mverwijs 9y ago
When tagging an item during editing it is unclear how to seperate tags. Semi-colon? Colon? Space? When you use the wrong seperation an error is shown _after_ you switch focus to the next input field. Worse: the (appearently badly formatted)
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Oddly enough, I read that they killed their only electric car only this July: https://electrek.co/2017/07/31/mercedes-kills-electric-b-cla...
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by mverwijs 9y ago
So... Facebook wants employees that do as they are told and not to correct obvious mistakes? I find that hard to believe.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
> Who is closer to nature? It is not a competition. It is a difference of opinion.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Just because one solution is slightly less ghastly does not make it friendly.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
First get them hooked on minecraft. They'll use youtube to learn about mods and plugins. And a few years later they're downloading Eclipse and starting to code their own plugins again using youtube to learn how. True story.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
From the article: " This high-tech broiler house holds up to 150,000 birds, from hatching to harvesting" No 'decades old photo' either. I find it hard to believe someone loving live animals would put them in such a place
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by mverwijs 9y ago
> (I don't think IRC lets you use italics or underlines so caps would be the only way to go). Well, /actually/ it _is_ possibly to use other tricks than ASCII to emphasize words you think are important in IRC. Or _any_
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Crowdsourced Translation of Books of Magical Charms(publications.newberry.org)
3 points by mverwijs 9y ago|0 comments
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Your choice of words and phrasing make it so your (perhaps very legitimate!) questions come across as whining. That too is markteting material that is inadequate.
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by mverwijs 9y ago
Interesting software, but I could hardly read the almost-white-fonts on the almost-white-background. :-(
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by mverwijs 9y ago
FUD? http://istruecryptauditedyet.com
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by mverwijs 9y ago
A person born in Russia says something and you think it's "russian propaganda". Mccarthy would be proud.

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