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by reitanqild 4y ago
It is discussed widely and openly including in sibling threads. I also think it was in the news a few months back and I even think it was discussed here. Edit: note, I am not saying messages aren’t always sent E2E-encrypted between users to
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by reitanqild 4y ago
I glanced through it and it looks like Facebook wants to copy Telegram while keeping law enforcement in the loop? Or is this something new?
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Messages are usually sent E2E-encrypted it seems, but based on some heuristics (my guess: interesting contents as determined by filters, flagged, user flagged by law enforcement) messages are sent via a side channel to Meta. Sounds as legit
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by reitanqild 4y ago
It probably worked better when everyone validated their pages and (I think) html quality used to be a ranking factor in Google.
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by reitanqild 4y ago
It is not just in the search engine, Google Now AI keeps pushing mostly nonsense. The most annoying thing is they had this nailed. Google Desktop Search had some bonus features like the feed sidebar that automatically predicted what I wante
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Problem is, for me at least, Google is useless for predictions or recommendations. Search is still better than DDG, but way worse than peak Google. Their recommendations are all over the place despite the fact that I have been logged in per
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by reitanqild 4y ago
I always thought it was standardized that way in an effort to get people to care about accessibility. But FWIK it might just be because someone on the standards committee wanted it that way.
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Adding an empty alt tag is often the correct thing yes. Rule of thumb: if someone read the page out to you, would you prefer if they read that alt tag you are thinking of adding or not?
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by reitanqild 4y ago
I'm not unionized (I cannot because none of them are purely work focused here and I deeply disagree with their other views), but here is an observation from Norway, 20 years ago: AFAIK, unionized companies in Norway statistically were
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by reitanqild 4y ago
> You can run your own and federate with whomever. One big problem IIRC (haven't touched it for a year or two): I'm all in favor of being able to block users or instances. But many Mastodon instances have a policy of blocking o
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by reitanqild 4y ago
I think it is an algorithm thing: As a member of NAFO I get bombarded by Pro-Russian views every single time I refresh my timeline it seems, and I never like any of it or follow any of those genocidal maniacs or their cheerleaders :-/
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by reitanqild 4y ago
I'm a member of NAFO. I've spent a lot of time on Twitter the last 8 months. I've not seen signs of this: on the contrary we have had to work hard to get Twitter to ban the worst of the worst (e.g. socialist accounts who argu
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Telegram does something like this. But it also allows (even encourages) third party clients, which can act on behalf of ordinary users.
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Mods here are really great. Obviously (IMNSHO) Twitter must be a little less strict than a niche forum, but it would be a great start for Twitter if they were as balanced as HN is: here you get a talking to or a ban if you deserve it - rega
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by reitanqild 4y ago
But what you write isn't true, at least not in the way it comes off: When I hear "monitor your personal finances" I think on a month to month basis or more frequently. In Sweden, as written above it is yearly and with several
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Well, but I still don't want to put them in the same category as Congo or Bangladesh. There are major differences.
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Actually, on average the rich countries that has diverged most from capitalism has been significantly worse. I'm leaving out the developing countries on purpose here: they may have had it even worse but it doesn't feel fair to b
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by reitanqild 4y ago
So you didn't find a red flag in the scientific paper but in something that was said in one interview?
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by reitanqild 4y ago
seriously? If so, what is then meant with the statement about it being "the number of a man"?
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by reitanqild 4y ago
During the pandemic it was closed. Also the biggest problem was usually one the oldest ones, not the younger ones.
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Feel free (you or others) to let me know if you find anything that works :-) Pomodoro used to work somewhat when I was alone, but when you risk getting interrupted multiple times during 25 minutes it doesn't feel worth it even if most
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by reitanqild 4y ago
For me that only helped some degree: they'd still pop their heads out to have me resolve their quarrels :-)
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Personally I really appreciate that work from home has been normalized, but I also have started to go to the office as often as possible. I'm currently on a half empty commuter train and have just finished the worst task I can think of
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Correct. Also content companies goes way over the line when they - list 200+ companies under legitimate interest or whatever it said (no way they need that) - make opt out several clicks and opt in one click - shows the banner often if you
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by reitanqild 4y ago
It is already legal. Just follow the rules (tracking is opt in) and no bannner is necessary. In fact, most of the banners I see are non compliant and shouldn't (IMO) help at all when consumer protection authorities gets around to it.
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by reitanqild 4y ago
I think Brave blocks them by default. Which is the sane thing to do anyway. All tracking doesn't help at all. Google used to know everything about me, I didn't block a thing. Guess what ads they selected for me most of the time fr
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by reitanqild 4y ago
The cookie banners aren't EUs fault, but the fault of companies who take the risk of noncompliance. Also, most cookie banners I see are utterly non compliant AFAIK (just the fact that accepting tracking is way easier than denying track
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Difference is the other forks I have been using has deliberately forked an older ESR to keep features that Mozilla axed. AFAIK Librefox re-forks from the newest FF everytime there is a release and apply their fixes as patches.
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by reitanqild 4y ago
I never considered an iPhone until I could use custom keyboards. (I use swiftkey, but just type the usual way.)
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by reitanqild 4y ago
Training by reading others works can be fair use. But the moment you start reproducing more than a few lines of prose without attribution I guess you are in for a nasty letter.

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