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by rrix2 5y ago
and what the lawsuit is alleging is that the opposite is also true: that AMP increased the load time for sites which load advertisements faster than AMP ads and "cut away that hot garbage" themselve, by introducing a preload delay
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by rrix2 5y ago
> Why are they held to this super high standard to teach a difficult subject (computer programming at a high level) to all kinds of learners at all levels? because this is the standard they advertise to and represent as the capability of
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by rrix2 5y ago
> Do you have much evidence for this? Read the complaint in TFA... you can spend big bucks and even actually come out ahead in that, while being manipulated and filched by Google and Facebook. Both of these things can be possible while o
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by rrix2 5y ago
there are senate and house hearings all the time, and they all publish read outs after the fact. That you generally only hear of the politicized ones is not surprising. I have some subcommittee feeds in my news reader in a low priority fold
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Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Congress(reuters.com)
124 points by rrix2 5y ago|107 comments
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by rrix2 5y ago
im sure glad the cryptocurrency folks seem intent on throwing all three of those away at once.
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by rrix2 5y ago
But as this linked study points out: that's "just a feeling"...
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by rrix2 5y ago
I take it to mean that this person is complaining (a point I often agree with) that these consent management platforms often resort to dark patterns to drive users' consent rather than attempting to truly inform a user before they cons
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by rrix2 5y ago
California did not enact their privacy law in 2021, but in 2020...
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by rrix2 5y ago
> If only IRC would have been built with multi-server setups in mind, that forward messages between servers, and continues to work if a single - or even a set - of servers would go down, just resulting in a netsplit...Oh wait, it was! y
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by rrix2 5y ago
the article is also pointing out that Nix can solve for multiple versions, shrink-wrapped environments, cross platform, etc, in a way that most OS distros can't. Nix is more than NixOS of course
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by rrix2 5y ago
Cool, but if i bought a low cost electric car specifically because my commute range allowed for it, for example, until your "bug fixes and changes" OTA was quietly force-pushed and i find myself on the highway with a dead battery,
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by rrix2 5y ago
Yup! And in general, you can click your location on https://www.weather.gov/ 's image map, and it'll redirect you to the local office URL which is the same 3 letter code: https://www.weather.gov/mt
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by rrix2 5y ago
Can you explain how to find the AFDs in Windy's UI? I'm not able to find it in the layer menu...
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by rrix2 5y ago
over the past few years my use of weather apps + forecasting has really been improved by reading alongside them the local NWS office's "area forecast discussion"which is published multiple times a day by the station's me
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by rrix2 5y ago
theyre also likely the same type of folks who fall for marketing like "full self driving" without investigating critically or even reading through the analog and digital shrinkwrap they have to tear through to get to their date or
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by rrix2 5y ago
Neither of these can access the financial services provided by my bank nor the infrastructure provided by my city
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by rrix2 6y ago
the newsletter modal on this site was positioned such that it couldnt be closed when trying to view it in landscape 2160x1080 mobile display. :\ article readability view saves the day
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by rrix2 6y ago
You're telling me that incumbent platforms are behaving in anticompetitive fashions? if only someone would do something
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by rrix2 6y ago
let's also not forget that firefox has spent the last few years aggressively investing in anti-fingerprinting tech
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by rrix2 6y ago
I have been really frustrated with C1 not integrating with youneedabudget and Plaid-backed tools for quite a while now and intend to close my C1 credit account as a result. i know it's "as simple" as logging in to C1 and find
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by rrix2 6y ago
seems like a tough thing to get right if you live in earthquake country...
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by rrix2 6y ago
the number that delivers text messages to you from your driver is owned by Uber, not the driver; they proxy messages between driver+rider, nominally to protect riders and drivers from each other. I wouldn't be surprised if uber was re-
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by rrix2 6y ago
People who shop at neighborhood farmers' markets, as a start.
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by rrix2 6y ago
> making my contact list public where every other app can see it Every other app can see it if you click "Accept" on the per-application consent dialog ...
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Local power in the age of digital policing(triangulator.org)
1 points by rrix2 6y ago|0 comments
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by rrix2 6y ago
> Even outside of the ethics of it, anyone else that wants to can offer a competing product on Amazon even if Amazon doesn't (and this happens like a dozen times a day). this is not the problem that people are grappling with, though
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by rrix2 6y ago
but amazon doesn't care about its employees in that context, only about protecting their own company standing. (and many people will say here "why shouldn't they?!")
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by rrix2 6y ago
a few thousand of them exist, Uber had over 30000 destroyed: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dz94x/uber-acquisition-j...
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by rrix2 6y ago
gosh, this is so long, sorry!

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