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by r3bl 7y ago
This is precisely why I added that note in my first comment. I'm talking about general trends as a response to this: > What does it matter? Is there a US cultural/social nuance that I'm missing? I'm not familiar enoug
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by r3bl 7y ago
Just because we're in a position to say no doesn't mean that we shouldn't feel compassion for the others that are not in an opportunity to do so. A tech office without a janitor will be dysfunctional, same as the one without
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by r3bl 7y ago
Lower paychecks (75-80% of hourly rate of full-time workers), little to no benefits (like healthcare coverage), harder to keep track of for taxation purposes, harder to object to inhumane conditions like exploitative working hours or sexual
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by r3bl 7y ago
Because it made it easy to create inspirational posters and social media posts/avatars/covers. Its simplicity of creating a "good enough" design is what got non-designers registered, myself included.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Note: this isn't about accuracy, but you may want to read this first: https://nwu.org/an-open-letter-from-freelancers-at-nautilus-... And a top comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1422733
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by r3bl 7y ago
We could all cherish and love our own native languages internally while relying on English abroad (and online). Those things aren't mutually exclusive.
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by r3bl 7y ago
Even that should be optional. I should be able to do with my device whatever I want to — including bricking it, deliberately compromising it (for whatever reason), and installing a different OS on top of it. Of course, there should be some
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by r3bl 7y ago
$5 means a lot more to someone who earns $5 in a day. Look, if the companies are willing to look into a minimum wage and median salary when crafting prices for different countries, we might be easily convinced. Do you know how much stuff yo
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by r3bl 7y ago
GitLab introduced their Pages relatively recently, maybe three years ago. The other two (Netlify and GitHub pages) are a few years older. I also vaguely remember something about it first being available in GitLab's enterprise edition,
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by r3bl 7y ago
Both terms are just stupid. Deep web: stuff not indexed by search engines. Private forums, non-public social media accounts, Telegram rooms, Discord servers etc. are technically "deep web". Dark web: a subset of deep web that requ
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by r3bl 7y ago
Unfortunately, such cases will always be less appealing to write about compared to "assassins for hire on the dark web", leading to this wrong generalization of what Tor is about.
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by r3bl 7y ago
A description of the video is in Chinese, translating to something like: > Lenovo today unveiled its own folding screen mobile phone video in an interview with Sina Technology and other media. The folding mobile phone design looks simila
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by r3bl 7y ago
Apple is well-known for never talking about competition. They like to pretend it doesn't exist and only compare their products to the previous series.
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by r3bl 7y ago
It does grant them GDPR rights. If you offer service to people in the EU, you have to comply with the GDPR. If you don't, you don't have to. How and will that be enforced is a different discussion, but the regulation clearly prote
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by r3bl 7y ago
Wikileaks never published stories. They've focused on some elements of the data they had in order to spread the message about the entire dataset they had. What's wrong with that approach is that everyone else got his/her priv
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by r3bl 7y ago
Is this issue applicable to Feitian MultiPass key[0]? As far as I can tell, Google rebranded them as Titan Key. Ones with the Feitian's labels were handed out by Google to activists at various conferences. I assume there's no way
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by r3bl 7y ago
Nextcloud, preferably on a machine you own (but there are companies selling Nextcloud hosting as well). It replaces Google Drive, Contacts, Calendar, Photos (face recognition can be done with a third-party app), has an RSS reader, bookmarki
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by r3bl 7y ago
One act, regardless of how heroic it might be, doesn't mean that the person should be free from consequences for the rest of their lives. The US extraditing him for conspiracy charges would be really tragic. Sweden wanting to hold him
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by r3bl 7y ago
I mean, yeah? You buy newspapers that you trust, you don't buy all of them. What Fox News thinks is completely irrelevant to me since I'm looking for facts. I should be able to tell that to someone who's in the business of cu
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by r3bl 7y ago
I don't know about the Spanish one, but the Croatian one caused a lot of controversy both internally and externally because it was took over by extremely conservative (and sometimes blatantly pro-faschist) group of mods, to the point w
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by r3bl 7y ago
> I am pretty sure that I can do a high quality FaceTime call with a number of people. A number of people that could afford $1000+ to be able to use that platform. I personally wouldn't consider this problem to be technically-solved
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Why can't the User Agent allow the user to set themes, with some sensible defaults provided? I think you'll be happy to learn about prefers-color-scheme: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web&
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by r3bl 7y ago
Hundreds of people died. It should leave a long-term impact on Boeing's safety record. It should take them a long time to recover and regain trust.
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by r3bl 7y ago
I believe it's a chicken and egg problem. I know I would rely on video way more if my first sentence in every video call didn't have to be "can you hear me?"
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Well it's a good thing that this article talks about sharing salary info between colleagues , and makes no arguments for "telling the world" other than in the clickbaity title. That's why it ends with a question mark, s
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Chrome on desktop has between 60 and 70, and afaik less on mobile, and less in the US. So, no. No, it has about 60% on both mobile and desktop, not counting the derivatives (like Edge and Opera). Considering that both of those markets
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by r3bl 7y ago
I know it sounds complicated, but it's a one-step process that only increases to pay off the more devices are connected. I used to have four adblockers on my laptop (two operating systems x 2 browsers), one on my smartphone, one on an
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You don't need a smart lock for the second one, a cheap indoor camera that can send you alerts achieves the same. An even simpler solution is a spare Android running Haven[0] (I don't know if Edward Snowden actually created it, bu
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by r3bl 7y ago
> Site wants a sign-in. Interestingly, they show the pop-up only in the US. Accessing from other locations doesn't show it.
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by r3bl 7y ago
> If this person was from any other country, he would have a green card by now. Can you elaborate this a bit (or provide some links)? I am well aware that there are some policy changes around H-1B extensions, and that Indian workers make

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