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by ttctciyf 9y ago
Personally, speaking as a search user, all I want from Google regards AMP is a setting that disables it in search results. Google's results ordering is already sufficiently "optimized" away from my needs that as often as not
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
I went to the trouble of creating a free account to read the rest of the story.. There's basically nothing there beyond a link to the documentcloud pdf[1] that is already linked in the non-registrant-viewable part, except a text versio
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
> the tab bar is still there I've been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-... but it seems this isn't going to make it into the Firefox Quantum era. :(
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
See also: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/04/28/the-univ... > You may have noticed that the universe is actually expanding, rather than contracting as you might expect the interior of a
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
Very readable article. My favourite line: > Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
It's real for some, but not an issue for others. Google's ill-intent is evident from their continued lack of interest in providing a user-controllable setting to turn it on or off, despite strenuous multiple complaints going back
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
I've searched a few times for a firefox plugin that would simply remove the 'amp=1' from twitter links, thinking it should be trivial enough to guarantee its existence, but no luck. Anyone know if I missed it somewhere?
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
> That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men. - Terry Pratchett[1] 1: https://libquotes.com&
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
emptywheel.net is generally a good source for lawyerly concerns about surveillance. I don't have time to track down if she has anything on circa's issues specifically, but: https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03&#
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
Same. Loads quickly too!
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> > > > > do secret charges exist? > > > > The best info we have is from Comey's testimony which says 'maybe' and they want to arrest him > > > It says nothing other than they have an inves
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
> It says nothing other than they have an investigation- well we knew that. To me, the words “he hasn't been apprehended because he is inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London" strongly imply, in context, that the US has an inte
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
I think the best indication that's emerged is in Comey's recent testimony[1] > before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey was asked why the United States had not charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a crime. Comey sa
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Kind of irritating that the missing page is where the sandworm lifecycle discussion starts.. On that topic, one of several things I'd have loved to quiz FH on: was he aware of 1962 research on cannibalistic memory transmission in plana
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
The article seems particularly hermetic, especially wrt "bilocal causality" which doesn't seem to occur as a phrase before Dec 2016[1]. The piece tells us "bilocal causality" is > a concept that is related to the
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Doxing of NSA Staff Raises Questions about Legal Role of Nation-State Hackers(emptywheel.net)
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
They're being polite to the CIA whose charter forbids domestic ops (or at least severely constrains them.)
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Found in the wild: Vault7 hacking tools WikiLeaks says come from CIA(arstechnica.com)
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
I also really wish there was a useful way to turn AMP off - it very much interferes with my browsing habits. I find messing with the user agent (mobile firefox plugin "phony" lets you pose as lynx, for example!) can be effective,
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Silicon Valley shrugs off Assange's help, questions his motives(theguardian.com)
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
It literally contains the excerpt I quoted from it. I don't think the section you quote contradicts that. Graham is also fairly critical of a number of other assertions in the WL press release.
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
From the BBC: > He claimed that an anti-virus expert, who was not named, had come forward to say that he believed sophisticated malware that he had previously attributed to Iran, Russia and China, now looked like something that the CIA h
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
And watch out if you don't test! https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/files/359jzz.jpg (via https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_13763158.html )
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Actually, WikiLeaks press release says: > The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive. and la
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
They have vim editing tips https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_3375350.html No emacs?
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
There's also Urho3D: https://urho3d.github.io/ "a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license." It has an impressive feature list, including: &
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Or this Ted Chiang story? > There’s no denying the usefulness of software that can actually answer the question “where did I put my keys?” But Whetstone is positioning Remem as more than a handy virtual assistant: they want it to take th
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
As an android phone owner for just over 30 hours.. at this point: yes. I grow less inclined to change that. OTOH, I never trusted my previous I-device with any significant data either, and any paid apps on there were gifted from a separate
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Anyone else put in mind of Gordon R Dickson's (1965!) classic: Computers Don't Argue [1] ? 1: http://www.dave.rainey.net/calendars/dystopias/process3.html
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
I find it disappointing that with his long history of passionate journalism - whatever you think of it - on the more controversial aspects of US engagement with the rest of the world, John Pilger is casually suspected of helping to cover up

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