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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Are you saying DDG is forcing you to send a User-Agent header? DDG's privacy policy also goes on about the privacy implications of User-Agent headers combined with IP addresses. So let's say I take what they have put in their priv
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
To get prefixed result URLs, use GET not POST. Try duckduckgo.com/lite/ and lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ If I recall correctly there is a way to turn off the prefixed result URLs without having to turn on Javascript, by ad
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
"This is not to say that DDG is perfect: links you click do seem to be redirected through a /l/ page on their domain ..." I am surprised the user is not complaining about this instead of the favicons. Their privacy poli
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Unless this bill's critics are mistaken, if your friends are using "file encryption", i.e, encrypting the contents of the communications themselves before sending, then this bill has no effect on that. IMO, your friends, unle
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Paying these factory workers what they are worth, regardless of where they are situated, has been a long time coming. This is great news.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
"Is "employing" XX% of your population in virtual indentured servitude supposed to be something politicians are proud of?" In 2020, in the U.S. for example, yes. This is why these "jobs" disappeared so quickly
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
You mean whether the decision not to invite any members of the press to the test flight was intentional or incompetence?
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Python IIRC stores intermediate results in memory, it doesn't perform long chains of calculations entirely in FPU registers. This ensures the intermediate results are predictably rounded. JavaScript JITs blindly use SSE without checkin
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Let's tackle Google first then we will have a look at the other complaints. Not going to "forget" Google. Sorry.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
"Why is continuous growth even a goal?" In a pyramid scheme, it is required. In a "greater fool" scheme, it is required. In a political campaign, it is required because it provides a justification for lowering taxes.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
> I look forward to the April 1st version of this tool. It would lint every appearance of a ‘<?php’ token with the message ‘you wrote your code in a crappy language’.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Disable Javascript. For example, https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q= works without Javascript
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
I am honstely surprised that businesses and other organisations have come to accept this constant 24/7 "updates" scenario from Microsoft without some intelligent business people calling them out on it. Imagine if every month,
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Member since the student requirement. I must have missed the "beacon of unity" phase. It is just another website. I remember other websites providing similar functionality around the time Facebook appeared (not MySpace, Friendst
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Did the simulation require internet access? What are the tactics Microsoft uses to deal with computers that are offline? Can those tactics be circumvented?
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Certainly the problem can be seen as one of clients. The "modern web browsers" are instruments for fueling the dumpster fire. For the web, I wrote my own "user agent". A client that has zero intelligence however it is
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
I think this comment is too easily conflating "the internet" with "the web". Specifically, gigantic billion-page websites that people now call "platforms". The architecture and capacity of the internet we now
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
With NetBSD, it is relatively easy to compile the entire system as static. Is it easy to do this with Arch Linux? (Maybe Void Linux?)
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
"These services are utilities, sometimes monopolies, and must be regulated as such." Maybe we could just start with regulating The Internet as common carrier instead of an "information service". Anyone who is disappointe
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Comcast does not appear to be using the Mozilla brand. Am I missing something?
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
The analogy is a false one. PHP was never re-written from scratch in a way that Windows was (with NT). Most of PHP’s pitfalls are still there, and only now are they being slowly removed one by one.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
This comment is right on the money. No pun intended. It was a serious mistake to dream that this sort of activity (surveillance and ad services) is the basis for the economy of the future. Time to wake up. My heart sinks everytime I see a
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
That is a well-written blog post. Thanks for sharing. Wondering if I can do this with a BSD kernel.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
This just leads to a wiki page listing two TRR's, where someone admits that whatever "privacy policies" TRR's provide are not "contracts". Then someone replies that "there are legal contracts between Mozi
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
When pigs fly! Can you imagine Mozilla CEO depleting her own compensation in order to sue a company the size of Comcast? What exactly are the claimed damages in this hypothetical lawsuit? The damages to Mozilla are _____ ? (This PR piece
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Can users enforce that contract if it is breached? Maybe users should be named explicitly as third party beneficiaries. Mozilla is a company and needs to compensate its CEO and staff. The CEO received $2,458,350 in 2018.^1 Everything Moz
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
"It seems like a ton of apps are abusing this feature:" Honest question: Why do we need this feature? As a user, I am happy to sacrafice whatever benefit it provides -- to end users -- to stop the abuse. Obviously the feature prov
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
One thought is that we could have two mandated versions of every website: (a) the text-retrieval optimised version and (b) the web developer engagement version. When this idea has come up on HN before it has been met by angry web developers
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
> asked a report What does this mean exactly? Other than that, which I can’t really judge because I don’t understand it, it’s just people talking and having fun… No sexism, no discrimination, no abuse. I realize any expression of being a
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Sounds about right as Facebook have admitted they cannot grow anymore in the US. Any growth must come from outside the US.

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