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by swed420 1y ago
Not only several Firefox forks, but also an entirely new browser effort ought to be a wakeup call to Mozilla: Ladybird
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Physicist Says We Don't Take Covid Seriously Enough(thetyee.ca)
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Would it work if we created a crowdsourced vision for each category of product/service, so that any given business would be incentivized to meet these requirements to be able to advertise a product or store is Anti-Enshitified Complian
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> He does, but before that happens, the legitimate medical community needs to look in the mirror, reflect on how he happened, why they lost some amount of trust, and look to remedying that. Agreed. Furthermore, the CDC under both parties
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Except for the endorsement of littering, which fit the time period. It would be decades before they wheeled out a crying native american on TV to make people feel guilty about the matter(s).
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> It reduces the R0 factor The results of the study suggest it doesn't, as measured by outcomes: > While we did not find an association between HEPA purifier use and high overall viral exposure, the intervention was associated wi
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Agreed. https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1o40bpc...
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> There's more to air quality than HEPA filters. Agreed. In fact, even before COVID this was long overdue to be addressed in classrooms etc: > ventilation to reduce rebreathing and CO2 levels Unfortunately since that hasn't
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> Additionally, a lot of those numbers are based on earlier strains of COVID, which were much more severe. Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era https://www.thela
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Most people don't even know to look for it, including doctors. Some cardiac doctors are finally beginning to take the research more seriously, however. It's slow going for everyone involved.
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Unfortunately the time each cycle takes from start to finish is measured in months or years, and it's an endless game of whac-o-mole.
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> It’s becoming exhausting to avoid all of these commonly used phrases! That's not the only price society pays. It makes sense for us to develop the heuristics to detect AI, but the implication of doing so has its own cost. It start
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> It always comes back to the userbase. I don't know how many times technologists need to learn the lesson that normal people simply don't care about ideological technical principles like decentralization and often actually pre
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I've seen a lot of general support for the criticisms and concepts described in this article: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/ Anyone who builds what they describe there can expect it to tak
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If the mere existence of Ladybird is enough to keep Mozilla's behavior in check, then that alone is worth it. It need not have major adoption to be useful in this sense.
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How could you be so confident about such a thing? Are you implying it's going to fail in its goal as a competing browser, or that the competition is somehow irrelevant in a world that's forced to be slave to Google/Apple?
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Even if you end up being right, which is not outside of the realm of possibility, it's still huge to get a boost on breaking the browser duopoly while ironing out longstanding issues with web standards.
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In some positive news today, Cloudflare is sponsoring the Ladybird browser effort: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332860 That's not nothing.
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> I don't understand why we always assume bad faith. > I wish more companies were like Cloudflare actually - trying to balance the need of revenues while trying to do good for internet and open source as a whole. > As a norm
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In addition to Century of the Self, Adam Curtis has tons of other good stuff, too, and it's freely available: https://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/
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Unfortunately a common occurrence here. One very helpful workaround is to browse the HN "front page" displayed at https://hckrnews.com so that you don't have to worry about HN censorship / algorithm fuckery
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> It's fascinating how unscientific ideas take root, because people want to believe. On the face of it, the idea of "immunity debt" is preposterous, yet it was amplified across the media -- perhaps because it was a conveni
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> I think group moderation/points emerged as a remedy for trolling and the flame wars which would ensue. And not only flame wars but also simply low-quality, substance-free posts. > In certain unmoderated Usenet forums, and later
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It was surreal to see the lengths that bought corpo Dems and their media went to sink the Bernie Sanders campaigns twice, making it extremely clear they preferred Trump over Bernie. The whole system is broken. It's overdue to launch
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Your second paragraph suggests you don't have any familiarity with the novel design of the digital systems that were built to work around the inadequacies you described.
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Agreed. We should have been freed a long time ago: https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/ Unfortunately late capitalism made sure we went in the opposite direction.
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I will be interested to read about lessons learned from all perspectives. As it stands, the open systems they built have successfully addressed longstanding gridlock with tangible legislative results that benefit ordinary citizens. Surely t
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> All they did was add more nuance and bring up the fact that these benefits may come at a cost. Authoritarian governments can be very well-managed and efficient (something something trains run on time), but there's nothing to stop
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That's a lot of words to talk around the hard evidence that I linked above. The results speak for themselves.
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> Capitalism, as opposed to what economic model? Let's look at what's currently working, which is China's hybrid model of keeping hard checks and bounds on instances of capitalism coupled with a long term vision that benef

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