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9y ago
> This is basically Microsoft using Windows Update to install... Asphalt 8, Candy Crush, Keeper (also, see this[0]). These are the three[1] apps that I had to remove from a laptop purchased last month. They weren't a part of the OEM
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9y ago
How did Mozilla try to defend it?
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9y ago
It gets a lot of screen time. I believe there was one scene in which Tor was used as a browser. The main characters all use Firefox on a number of occasions, in all three seasons.
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9y ago
> and disabling it is hard enough There's no need to disable it since nothing happens until you click the button. Removing the button itself is as simple as right-clicking it and clicking on the (only) available option: Remove fro
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9y ago
If you actually read the article, I'm pretty sure you'll find the words "we're sorry" in there.
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9y ago
I would say before algorithms started showing us different content even if we are subscribed to the same feed(s). DRM is hardly a problem unless you're using a handful of products, unskipable ads were hardly a problem before smartphone
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The Mess with Ajit Pai, Harlem Shake and Copyright Is Bad and Everyone's Wrong
(techdirt.com)
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9y ago
I am most certainly aware of that, but that's the official reason according to the government, that's the reason served in the media, and finally, that's the reason mobile providers were given for not being able to serve LTE
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9y ago
> In the U.S., the switch freed up frequencies that were used for cellular LTE coverage. My country (Bosnia & Herzegovina) still hasn't introduced LTE because we still didn't go through the entire process of switching to
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9y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you have it installed in the first place instead of just using your browser?
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9y ago
Oh come on, you're trying to scrape the data out of a black box. You have no idea what their infrastructure is like, and for your purposes, you don't really care. Of course, some sense is more than welcome, but if my scraper makes
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9y ago
I have a Tor relay (not an exit node) running in Germany. Once I started reading other people's experience of running an exit node through that ISP (Hetzner), it turned out that the hosting company was the one receiving these reports a
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9y ago
Somewhat related, there's also small advocacy towards releasing publicly funded code under the open source licenses: https://publiccode.eu/
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9y ago
Alright, I'm going to go deeply out of the topic here, but it's necessary in order to give you a full answer, for you to understand my frustration, and for you to understand how fucked up that obligatory subject could really get.
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9y ago
In my country, it is an obligatory class at the equivalent of the US middle school level (10-14 year old). However, doing something as complicated as "computing and informatics" (a literal translation of the subject name) that ear
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9y ago
That example shows zero rating, not "pay $5 to access certain websites", as most people assume once it circulates through the NN debate. Still problematic, but not as quite as those who share it make it seem. "Pay $5 to use s
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9y ago
Out of all the Android vulnerabilities so far, and out of all the devices that are not running an up-to-date versions of Android, what's your theory as to why we have yet to discover a large Android botnet?
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9y ago
> a) Is breaking plugins just for the good of change. Nobody will take you seriously if you think that the biggest browser re-write since Microsoft introduced Edge is "just for the good of change".
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9y ago
If it's an app, it's not like Goodreads.
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Google Will Block Third-Party Software from Injecting Code into Chrome
(bleepingcomputer.com)
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9y ago
If those tax cuts were given specifically to you (as is the European Commission's conclusion[0]), then yes. It's immoral to pay less. [0] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm
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9y ago
Seems as dead simple to me as to argue about murder. If you're a company that's present in a certain geographic area, you're expected to pay taxes in that area. If you don't pay taxes and you actively work on not paying
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9y ago
> More would be accomplished by protesting the government that allows certain loopholes. If such a loophole exists, and it's blatantly obvious that you're a dick for using that loophole, yes, that loophole should be fixed. But
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9y ago
I believe nobody in this entire thread claimed that you can't get something cheaper and slap Ubuntu on top of it. I would pay more for a premium Ubuntu support. Unfortunately, System76 doesn't ship to my country.
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9y ago
That is mostly a Google thing. I've seen small subreddits activating the same thing in Google Drive. I would say that the threshold might be as small as 1000 people trying to access it.
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9y ago
One thing I haven't figured out from the section 2: Those tweets claim that demonetized videos don't reach anyone on the homepage. Do they reach anyone on the Subscriptions page? For me, the Subscriptions page pretty much replaced
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9y ago
To counter this a bit, I would rather run an Electron app than be greeted with this as the default interface: http://www.qownnotes.org/var/bekerle/storage/images/_aliases... I'll take an app that us
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9y ago
I would start scanning a local network to see if there's any devices that I can't identify. If there are, I would try to trace them down, and, if unsuccessful, turn the router off and switch to mobile hotspot. This is under the as
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9y ago
You'll see right below the main tweet that the author claims that it was reported to the police.
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9y ago
Grub's "backspace 28 times to a rescue shell" was also a stupid one, but it first got fixed, and then made it to the news.
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