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by shbooms 5y ago
there is, sort of, but it's got one or two extra steps (and most folks probably don't know it exists). 1. Press Cmd+Option+Escape to bring up the Force Quit menu 2. Press Cmd+A to select all running apps 3. Click the "Force Q
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by shbooms 5y ago
Malcom Gladwell's book "Outliers" is an interesting look into this idea of how successful people come to be successful. I highly suggest it to anyone intrigued by this idea, it's a very interesting read. The opening port
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by shbooms 5y ago
Still true. Apple makes money off adversting just like anyone else. they also get paid obsurd amounts of money to from Google to make them the default search engine in Safari.
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by shbooms 5y ago
just FYI, old.reddit.com still works (for now) and gives you the original site design including less bloat. you can use the "old" subdomain or enable it automatically in your preferences by un-checking the "enable new site de
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by shbooms 5y ago
Yes, uBO in it's current state can do everything uMatrix can do. I don't think this was true "from the beginning" but it is true now.
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by shbooms 5y ago
I mean, this has always been this case with alcohol hasn't it? it's legal to consume but not while at work or operating vehicles. if you do so and injuries/death result, you are held liable.
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by shbooms 5y ago
what should be done if you end up being on this list (which supposedly includes SS#'s)
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by shbooms 5y ago
>iMessages are already E2E encrypted, but you are correct, iCloud backups are decryptable with a warrant (and that was reportedly added at the FBI's request). Not to be nit-picky but IIRC, this isn't exactly how it went down.
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by shbooms 5y ago
"1) Google doesn't release devices without unlockable bootloaders. They have always been transparent in allowing people to unlock their Nexus and Pixels. Nexus was for developers, Pixels are geared towards the end user. Nothing ch
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by shbooms 5y ago
There's Ubuntu Touch as well foor another take on things. https://ubuntu-touch.io/
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by shbooms 5y ago
Not alone at all. My main reason for not moving from Catalina to Big Sur is because they've done this height/margin increase across the board to controls in Big Sur (toolbars in Finder, menubar icons, etc). I spend 100% of my tim
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by shbooms 5y ago
according the same thread, they also had a sole jalepeno supplier all the way up until 2017 when "the partners had a falling out. Huy Fong now sources from 3 suppliers."
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by shbooms 5y ago
One of the articles[1] linked to in this article has scans of the Tucson PD's report which does state explicitly that there was no video evidence[2] [1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41223/tucson-myste
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by shbooms 5y ago
This is one thing I'm grateful for as a Firefox user, I can disallow websites from overriding built-in shortcuts both globally or on a site-by-site basis. I don't believe Safari offers this unfortunately.
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by shbooms 5y ago
more than that, she has direct experience within the FTC and related government bodies [1]: - 2018, worked as a Legal Fellow at the FTC in the office of Commissioner Rohit Chopra - 2019, began serving as counsel to the House Judiciary Commi
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by shbooms 6y ago
for now. given this trend of removing little usability and customization abilities here and there, one can only assume the custom CSS will be removed as well. especially seeing as its label has "legacy" right in it's name: to
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by shbooms 6y ago
> it's a commonly held misconception spanning decades that cops must identify themselves if asked. I wonder where it originated. Perhaps it comes from some of the loose laws that require police to make some attempt to announce thems
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by shbooms 6y ago
Apparently not very much. The author has since deleted the post saying: "I just noticed that someone linked my previous tweet on HN. Sorry I have to delete it in case something come after me" https://twitter.com/Co
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by shbooms 6y ago
> These don't sound like things that the Russian government or any nation state would be saying. I mean this could just be an attempt to make it _seem_ like it's not a nation state. One way to essentially guarntee that it _was_
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by shbooms 6y ago
from what i undersand, minification just involves removing line breaks and tabs and can be un-minified fairly easily with tools such as https://beautifier.io/ . obfuscation involves techniques such as changing function/
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by shbooms 6y ago
That's part of the issue here--they aren't breaking the law (at least in the U.S.) Thanks to protections enacted by "Section 230" of the 1996 Communications Descent Act [1]: Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from
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by shbooms 6y ago
that's how understood it as well: "youtube-dl stands in place of a Web browser and performs a similar function with respect to user-uploaded videos. Importantly, youtube-dl does not decrypt video streams that are encrypted with co
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by shbooms 6y ago
According to tha article, they won't be fined at all: >"Today, the Federal Trade Commission has voted to propose a settlement with Zoom that follows an unfortunate FTC formula," FTC Democratic Commissioner Rohit Chopra sai
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by shbooms 6y ago
Just curious, was there any sort of poll taken of your user base prior to implementing the API to determine a rough idea of how much desire there was for it?
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by shbooms 6y ago
> I interpret this news as "it's not coming back". No need for interpretation, they state it flat out: "In the intervening period [since the temporary shutdown], as we weighed the cost of our overall portfolio and str
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by shbooms 6y ago
if this were in fact true, wouldn't Spotify have been banned long ago for competing with Apple Music? Google Maps vs Apple Maps, etc?
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by shbooms 6y ago
not to mention the ~70 employees laid off in January which brings that percentage of lay offs in 2020 to just under a third of the total workforce they started the year with.
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by shbooms 6y ago
Hardwired or not, it doesn't mean the LED can't be disabled by malware: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569
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by shbooms 6y ago
> All he had to do was visit one website. Any website. The author directly contradicts the headline used here: > The website must use “clear text” which means the URL starts with “http” not “https.”
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by shbooms 6y ago
the latest version of Firefox has an "import Passwords from another browser" feature. just go to "about:logins" and click the menu in the top right hand corner.

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