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by scientism 4y ago
They mine your data as long as it can be converted into a marketable product for them. The most recent example was this: https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/21/ios-privacy-concerns-deepen/ Maybe images/phot
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Apple’s promises on analytics anonymity appear to be false(9to5mac.com)
3 points by scientism 4y ago|0 comments
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by scientism 4y ago
The way Journal of Open Source (JOSS) - https://joss.theoj.org - does the reviewing process is good. Everything is out in the open, reviewers and authors names, reviews, responses, discussions etc. The whole process is out there
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Opaque: Passwords Never Leave Your Device(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by scientism 4y ago|0 comments
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by scientism 5y ago
That's a very roundabout way to solve an actual problem. In many cases you don't pin your package version to _latest_ (whatever that date is) and you need a more fine-grained solution to keeping package versions. I don't thin
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by scientism 5y ago
Totally agree. I find it frustrating trying to reproduce other people's work in R. How has this situation has been allowed to continue for so long? It's unacceptable, especially when used for science. It's impossible to repli
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by scientism 5y ago
Adtech and to a large extent Google are untrustworthy by definition. Read above about the Mastercard-Google deal, here is a non-paywall source https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/news/google-and-masterca... That&#
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by scientism 5y ago
There was a case in France about a couple who was awarded a compensation because of the noise of a windfarm close to their house. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/french-couple-...