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by r3bl 7y ago
Out of curiosity, are you using an Android One phone now or something a little less bloated, but still bloated?
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by r3bl 7y ago
Whenever there's a need, there's gonna be someone that fullfills that need. Piracy decreased because the alternative became more convenient. It's easier to pay a few bucks on a monthly basis than it is to download the torrent
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by r3bl 7y ago
No, the Netherlands "solved" the problem because they've experienced one flood too many. The more obvious the problem is to an average citizen, the easier it is to gather enough of support to actually tackle it. This is total
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by r3bl 7y ago
Please provide me with a way of deleting my account.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Nah dude, reality has a leftist bias.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Those stats are from StatCounter. Literally the second sentence in their FAQ: > Our tracking code is installed on more than 2 million sites globally. Having a low number there is a feature.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Because your average HN reader understands that "unbiased journalism" is an oxymoron. Water is wet, and pointing that out brings absolutely nothing of value to the discussion.
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Those Japanese-American detainees had legal residential status when they were illegally rounded up without due process. ...and let me quote the SCOTUS decision in the Korematsu v. U.S. (1944): > Regardless of the true nature of the
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by r3bl 7y ago
Passport scanners at the airports are highly regulated. Facial recognition is not. This is the airline collecting your biometrics — a completely different entity from the border control that usually checks your passport. You insert your pas
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by r3bl 7y ago
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20335816
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by r3bl 7y ago
She just had to walk around a bit, presumably because the people at the gate weren't familiar with what to do when someone wants to opt-out. I guess that qualifies as "not easy", because it's a meaningless statement that
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by r3bl 7y ago
Would you classify the US treatment of Japanese citizens during WW2 as inhumane? Back then, they were called war relocation centers. Right now, we call them concentration camps. Same thing will happen with the current camps, both in the US
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Windows exe requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) and does not require Python that is already embedded into the binary. Yeah, that makes sense. Things have changed since last time I went through that pain.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Then the alternative? Absolutely. The alternative requires finding the latest version of Python, installing it, modifying the environment path, finding the binary for youtube-dl, installing it, and only then figuring out how it works. &quot
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by r3bl 7y ago
That's because you're using Windows, which is really, really not designed with scripts in mind. Point to Ubuntu in the Microsoft Store. Python is preinstalled. You may need to install Python's package manager (I'm not
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by r3bl 7y ago
Feature-wise, pretty much nothing, it's just targeting a different set of users. Slack started as a solution for companies and pretty much stayed there, Discord started as a solution for gamers and expanded from there. Slack is Discord
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by r3bl 7y ago
You don't jump from nothing to a global network. You host tangentially-related communities in the middle. The more of them you host, the bigger your overall numbers are. Instagram succeeded for that same reason: profiles set to private
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by r3bl 7y ago
I agree with you all the way until the middle of your third paragraph. You're not gonna suggest Mastodon to someone, you're gonna point to a specific community (probably the same one you're a member of). Only one set of rule
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by r3bl 7y ago
> For 24 hours/day, 7 days/wk, 4 weeks/mo, 3 months straight? The comment above reached a figure of 700 per day per person. For my teen self, that's about two or three hours of conversation per day. It's certainl
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Eh? There already are decentralized social networks available to use. This doesn’t add up. I agree. They've always existed in one form or the other, it's just that nobody gave a fuck. Mastodon kinda changed that by attractin
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by r3bl 7y ago
Keep in mind that an extraordinary amount of current population of Iran are in their teens or early adulthood. They can only be tampered for so long before they start to fight back (as an example, look up the resistance against hijabs in Ir
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by r3bl 7y ago
A neat little thing I've discovered after installing the Preview is that Focus is still here. You can toggle between the modes in one tap, and if you're in a private mode, opening links from other apps behaves just like Focus (min
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by r3bl 7y ago
You're not supposed to use it for an extended period of time, that's why it has "preview" in its name. I'll be happy to use their other browsers (mainly, Firefox Focus, my default browser) until this one gets more p
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by r3bl 7y ago
I agree, I just disagree with the generalization based off of those news. Tor is a tool and as such can be used for both good and bad. It bothers me when people draw badly considered conclusions from them, such as claiming that "most&q
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by r3bl 7y ago
I'd argue that forums and blogs require more effort. Read a cool blog post? Nobody around you will ever give a shit, because in order to do so, they'd have to read it too. Shared a photo from a vacation? It might start a conversat
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Looks like a viable simpler alternative to WordPress, I will definitely give it a try. As someone who already tried it, I'd call it more of a Medium alternative. Or, at least, what Medium should have been. Zero pop-ups, actually c
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by r3bl 7y ago
> but you know that's a big part of what TOR is used for Citation needed please. That's the juicier stuff that makes its way into the news. "A person living under an oppressive government evading censorship" will neve
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Some people go into jobs because they actually want to make the world a better place. ...by enforcing the rules upon others? That's not how you make a world a better place. Remaining in status quo is not how society progresses. Pu
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by r3bl 7y ago
Doing the opposite is quite inconvenient indeed. When you see .hr, Croatia is probably the last thing you would think of. It's the first two letters of Croatia spelled in Croatian ("Hrvatska"). There are only so many ways to
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Why does anyone have to risk anything while going to work? Because it's their fucking job. There are plenty of jobs that don't require you to put your life into danger, and being a police officer isn't one of them. Don

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