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by snaky 8y ago
That's for sure, but Google wouldn't be Google if they don't invent the way to derivate from that data something like "neural heatmaps" of the particular user to use it for advertising part of business.
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by snaky 8y ago
> people are more and more wary about giving this company any more personal data To have the data of every choice and move in every second of every game would be quite useful to calculate the model of the particular user with the level o
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by snaky 8y ago
Three million people still use Netflix to rent DVDs.
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by snaky 8y ago
It doesn't have to be restricted to livecoding. What about authors of the software you use answer to your questions? Well, to be creative, how much would you pay to watch Stallman dance for you?
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by snaky 8y ago
For the simplest possible example, ask any Noscript extension user. For the more advanced things, like identifying the part of Javascript code that brings e.g. 'the fancy eating 40% of the CPU scrollbar' user want to disable, some
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by snaky 8y ago
> We cant ban just the bad Javascript Well, technically it's possible, and even some parts of the script could be allowed to run or not. > a browser cannot distinguish it from the good But the user can. And the machine could help
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by snaky 8y ago
I wish there were browser extension to exchange the lists of allowed scripts for sites between the users. So Noscript could automatically preset this for you and you don't need to tune the list for every site by yourself.
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by snaky 8y ago
Chinese livestreaming industry is based on donations, so-called 'virtual gifts', and top streamers can make $100,000 a month or more.
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by snaky 8y ago
The firmware installed by seller usually is an ugly hack, so first thing you need to do is to install official Chinese ROM (English language is included), then - if you wish - Google services and store.
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by snaky 8y ago
An average person would be amazed by the fact most of apps he is using actually work perfectly without Play Services, despite the fact almost all of them declare Play Services in their manifests as absolutely required. This stay true even f
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by snaky 8y ago
An average person doesn't need to remove Play Store to install F-droid. But if that average person want to remove Play Store (and Play Services blobs) completely from his devices, he still can use and update the most of his apps using
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Xiaomi revenue up 52.6 percent in 2018(xinhuanet.com)
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by snaky 8y ago
One could follow this "toward the bare metal" way as long as he wish. E.g. in Silego GreenPAK chips a CPU is considered unneeded abstraction and you program the raw state machine.
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by snaky 8y ago
Xiaomi Mi Pad 4
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EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others(theregister.co.uk)
694 points by snaky 8y ago|309 comments
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Open source software in quantum computing(arxiv.org)
4 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists(edition.cnn.com)
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Huawei has built its own operating system for smartphones and computers(cnbc.com)
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Identifying barriers to adoption for Rust through online discourse(arxiv.org)
2 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
> Unless the app allows you to sync the keys offline And why wouldn't the app allow it?
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by snaky 8y ago
> There just hasn't been a big killer app for VR Porn?
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Chrome Extension Lets You Tune Out Toxic Comments Online(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
There's also Bromium and some other Chromium forks and patchsets. I was talking about Chrome.
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by snaky 8y ago
Seems like patching that out of binary would be trivial task. But I doubt the Chrome extension that would do that patching could stay at Chrome store.
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by snaky 8y ago
Maybe most of the DuckDuckGo users use Firefox and other non-Chrome browsers.
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by snaky 8y ago
Is there a Chrome extension that shows to the user what information exactly Chrome is sending home?
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by snaky 8y ago
uBlock Origin is not ideal. But there's NewPipe at F-Droid for YouTube, it's also without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/o
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by snaky 8y ago
And one more thing - 2, 3 and most exciting 4 works on Android too.
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by snaky 8y ago
Actually it is good for an average user who doesn't care about privacy.
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by snaky 8y ago
We need to drop Chrome and start using Firefox exactly because of that.

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