omnifischer

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by omnifischer 6y ago
an excellent use of nim is https://nitter.net (browse twitter tracking free).
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by omnifischer 6y ago
> maintaining legacy UI. Do you mean like the legacy UI for older MS office (2010 may be) replaced by ribbon. I recently read that next office versions are going back to non-ribbon interface. > "Jonny" sounds like the kind o
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by omnifischer 6y ago
I for one stopped updating after nougat. At least you can flash safe lineageos <zip>. Search for TWRP/backup. Even you can clone phone to identical model.
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by omnifischer 6y ago
It is a lifeline for many - especially in poor world. Work, school and everything is arranged in WhatsApp or FB
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by omnifischer 6y ago
BTW, every one says this - but nobody uses it like a daily driver. Yes, it will work as a spare - with just one app - like whatsapp - but for many poor - they need 1. Uber or Ola 2. Facebook or WhatsApp 3. linkedin to whatever local app 4.
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by omnifischer 6y ago
Smartphone is a necessity. For example, without covid app you cannot go out in many countries. Yes, most people do not need Mercedes- agree. You can live without mercedes but not without smartphone. Paying for services; employer; calling pe
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by omnifischer 6y ago
Do you watch youtube? thanks for supporting the creators with ads? Please iPhone may be private but if you use Google search you lost already. It is a double-whammy. You pay lot to apple and then lost privacy to google/netflix/cnn
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by omnifischer 6y ago
At the end of the day, 1. Apple users are the ones that cannot browse without adblocker. Safari is not as good as ublock-origin 2. Most Apple users use google maps. > Not a fan of Apple, but they seem to be serious about privacy If they
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by omnifischer 6y ago
What happens when China forces all manufacturer to install 'non-removable' system-app (in ROM)?
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by omnifischer 6y ago
Text from about me: > where I learnt how to scale an application to serve ads to millions of users a day Please lets stop this 'race'.
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by omnifischer 6y ago
nitter.net
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by omnifischer 6y ago
the number of eyes looking at it all the time.
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by omnifischer 6y ago
examples? Every site in Germany is 10 X bigger in normal browsing compared to AMP.
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by omnifischer 6y ago
It is disgusting that no one from media asks Sundar Pichai touch questions like: 1. Non human (AI) usage for termination google accounts. 2. No repeal process At least some employee from Google here in hn must do things and understand menta
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by omnifischer 6y ago
ideally something like this http://janos.io/ but failed! Hope https://postmarketos.org/ will be more successful.
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by omnifischer 7y ago
May be you can say that "Trello handed over the only account you had to the previous company". While I understand, the pain - I sympathize: please note that no permissions management system (or identity and authentication is s
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by omnifischer 7y ago
If you want to tracking ad-free without js use nitter.net: https://nitter.net/ayende,foone,levie,getify
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by omnifischer 7y ago
I bought redmi go instead of this. Admittedly 1GB RAM is slow. But whatsapp + signal only for me.
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by omnifischer 7y ago
Thank you 'api. I have been using zt at the university group of about 60 users. Must say it is very reliable. As for UI, we are OK with it. But one thing is firewall config is too complex. Not enough examples: Recently I saw that zt-la
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by omnifischer 7y ago
I really like a stalled out OS. Really give me 20 year stability. Do not change interface and add eye candy every year just to sell new stuff. Just security updates. Really hope there is RHEL (10+ year release) type ChromeOS.
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Block All Ads Tracking(public-pihole.com)
3 points by omnifischer 7y ago|0 comments
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by omnifischer 7y ago
you could install a opensource SDN like zerotier. The you can connect even if the device is behind NAT/firewall whatever!
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by omnifischer 7y ago
OT very useful https://nitter.net
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by omnifischer 7y ago
Would be nice if any hn-reader mediates between the two sides.
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by omnifischer 7y ago
Sorry HN-user from developing world (Bangladesh). All AMP pages are about 10 % size of standard pages - at least for the newspapers and blogs. Until you tell all your webdevs/managers to remove all tracking+loading 25 scripts from uni
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by omnifischer 7y ago
Last line... at the end: I reboot every night.
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by omnifischer 7y ago
what means device is obsolete? Do you mean i3 cannot handle general browsing tasks? Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
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by omnifischer 7y ago
Once I gave my member number, the attacker used the password reset flow to trigger a text message from the bank. --> They used this to gain access to the account. How did they to gain access from "password reset flow"? How cou
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by omnifischer 7y ago
due to problems with bootloader unlocking most devs prefer pixel or oneplus or poco phones. you can lose faith in lineageos - but it is not a company - just group of devs - trying to help each other in their time .
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by omnifischer 7y ago
I have had experienced this also in India. We call it No objection certificate (NOC).

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