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   by rozab 5y ago

   This debt was still being collected by Citibank up to 1947. For the 'theft of property'... That is, the citizens of Haiti themselves.
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   by rozab 5y ago

   It sure does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnos#Modern_period > On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. The Greek navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis took it over wi
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   by rozab 5y ago

   This is an extremely unfair headline. The amount of data Audacity collects (or could possibly sell) does not compare to ANY closed source app on your phone. It's nothing compared to the amount of cookies the BBC website does not allow
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   by rozab 5y ago

   GitHub ToS requires you to allow others to fork your code on GH. This policy leads to a lot of bizarre licensing decisions on the site. https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
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   by rozab 5y ago

   This page has a looping back button hijack for me
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   by rozab 5y ago

   >it did show that users really wanted to click on pages that loaded fast. How? No user has ever chosen to open a link as AMP.
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   by rozab 5y ago

   I did read on the BBC that Russia claims bombs were dropped, but I guess they deferred to the MoD after they denied it.
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   by rozab 5y ago

   I am so lost in this stuff. What was the deal with the story on HN a few days ago before the story dropped, saying that AIS showed a RN warship off Crimea and people were claiming live cams and direct observation showed it still in port in
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   by rozab 5y ago

   Wow. I guess today I'll be writing a stylesheet to un-mobile-ify m.wikipedia.org
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    by rozab 5y ago

    >The white sailboat outside of Michelin Group’s Swiss office doesn’t have a sail at all. Instead, it has a wing. Ugh. A sail, most of the time, is a wing.
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    by rozab 5y ago

    I do love Elite Dangerous, but its a great example of how difficult it is to make tradeoffs between realism and fun. It can take months to physically travel to another player (it's not so bad in the bubble, but still), which makes mult
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    by rozab 5y ago

    I wonder if this includes the Scottish students who get it for free?
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    by rozab 5y ago

    Are there any projects which scan public playlists for unlisted videos and archive them?
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    by rozab 5y ago

    The idea that all or most of these missing videos are due to GDPR deletion requests is completely incorrect. They are almost all from spurious copyright takedown requests. YouTube has no legal obligation to automatically honor these, and it
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    by rozab 5y ago

    Well lucky you! https://youtu.be/i0dhBGZgJnk
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    by rozab 5y ago

    Interview with Jena Friedman: https://youtu.be/tfe4Fjf3sds
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    by rozab 5y ago

    Previous discussion on Elisabeth Bik: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21466196 This story really stuck with me when I read about it back then. It covers so many interesting topics: corruption in academia, societal bene
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    by rozab 5y ago

    poor unappreciated APNG :(
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    by rozab 5y ago

    Icicle chart uses a divergent colormap when it should probably use a sequential one. Sometimes I wish I never saw that one talk
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    by rozab 5y ago

    This is a pretty terrible article. Here's the original, with a technical breakdown: https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/steamhide-malware-in-prof...
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    by rozab 5y ago

    The lightboard.info site has instructions for building an $8k professional setup, using tempered glass etc. It does explain the mechanism of the lightboard (frustrated total internal reflection), but otherwise doesn't seem very useful
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    by rozab 5y ago

    As they say, it's the skuomorphism. The original iPhone aimed to replace various existing things - instead of TV, we've got YouTube! Instead of a notepad, we have the notes app! No need to carry around paper maps with charming lit
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    by rozab 5y ago

    https://old.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/top/
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    by rozab 5y ago

    Yes, but as I understand it existing animal welfare legislation in the UK only applies to vertebrates.
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    by rozab 5y ago

    The point is Sony continued to deny the existence of the rootkit for years, despite overwhelming evidence. If this malware was commissioned by the MPAA or something, I think they would have no issue with telling whatever morally dubious fir
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    by rozab 5y ago

    >Padding it out with racist slurs told me all I needed to know about its creator. Clearly that is the intent. These companies have no shame. Remember Sony's response to their rootkit being discovered? https://en.m.wikiped
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    by rozab 5y ago

    I get the impression that YouTube do not really put any effort into breaking youtube-dl, YouTube Vanced, etc. It seems that mostly when these break it's accidental. The last thing YouTube wants to do alienate the technically literate m
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    by rozab 5y ago

    I would add a VPN for sure. People always complain that it just shifts the trust to them instead of your ISP, but there's many VPN providers who I trust a hell of a lot more than any ISP.
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    by rozab 5y ago

    Fun idea, but presumably there is a big bias in that some flies will be easier to catch for various reasons. I suppose lots of population studies on birds, cetaceans or whatever have this bias, since you can't just slap a quadrat down
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    by rozab 5y ago

    These techniques aren't tightly restricted trade secrets or anything. Companies talk very openly about their techniques at conferences. They see engagement (or less charitably, addiction) as a laudable goal and I can sympathize with th