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by veave 3y ago
There is also no coming back from gender change surgery.
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by veave 3y ago
Last time it was 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360 In that thread there are a few more examples, most of them somewhat recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077683
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by veave 3y ago
™ is part of extended ASCII :)
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by veave 3y ago
>Declarative blocking is the weakest, it barely removes the simplest ads. That's misinformation. It may not be as good as ublock origin (I don't know) but in my experience it removes practically everything.
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by veave 3y ago
Most of Firefox's publicity is based on the fact that they are "on your side". That means that they are held to a much higher standard. Pretending to be on the side of the user and then screwing users up over and over seems
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by veave 3y ago
>Which laws were broken From what I can see in this post, the laws against defamation.
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by veave 3y ago
Lots of allegations, lots of testimonies, zero police reports, zero convictions.
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by veave 3y ago
I think the confusion comes from the fact that some platforms render it as a drawing as if it was an emoji. I never understood why...
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by veave 3y ago
™ is not an emoji. It's part of the "Letterlike Symbols" block.
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by veave 3y ago
In HN people don't only downvote things that are incorrect but also things they wished were incorrect.
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by veave 3y ago
But us westerners usually don't care much about that kind of censorship because it doesn't affect the searches we normally do. ("normally" as in "we usually don't search stuff about russian politics")
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by veave 3y ago
And lobbyists are not lobbyists, they are oligarchs.
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by veave 3y ago
Because there's no story. It's software that generates recipes from ingredients you provide. If you provide inedible ingredients you get an inedible recipe. What did you expect would happen? The subtext here is journalists who are
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by veave 3y ago
It's crypto - quite clearly you don't know what its worth is or will be. That's the entire point.
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by veave 3y ago
I agree with you. They are clear about what they ask of you and what they give you. I wouldn't accept, but people should be able to accept if they want.
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by veave 3y ago
>If you put more energy into the system First law of thermodynamics calling in.
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by veave 3y ago
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devlooped/SponsorLink/main... That's really assholish
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by veave 3y ago
The problem being solved here is a single person taking an aid package several times for reselling. You can't solve everything, I guess?
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by veave 3y ago
Underdeveloped countries remain underdeveloped precisely because of widespread corruption. This kind of authentication is invasive but it makes sense in this context.
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by veave 3y ago
What's cynical is saying that there is no value in knowing if users watch video in browsers and comparing it to eyeball tracking.
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by veave 3y ago
That's disputed (literally :P)
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by veave 3y ago
But you have to enable the whole thing right? I like some of the settings of lockdown mode, and I wish you could enable them one by one. Enabling the entire lockdown mode is a bit too much
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by veave 3y ago
Have you considered using an ublock origin filter? youtube.com##[page-subtype="home"]
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by veave 3y ago
And that's only for people who run Steam, who are likely to have high-end cards. This is, it does not include PCs for office workloads or most laptops. Intel is at 9% right now in that Steam survey so the real number is much, much high
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by veave 3y ago
Funny because AMD probably has the lowest share of the three if we include all PCs including office ones (and we should since the website says "any PC")
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by veave 3y ago
I have many devices at home and I can't be administering all the port forwards by hand, it would be a lot of work.
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by veave 3y ago
As a data point, enabling privacy.resistFingerprinting on Firefox defeats this website.
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by veave 3y ago
It's a bit weird that even though they can communicate person-to-person, where records won't be kept, they are supposed to keep records of electronic communication.
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by veave 3y ago
Public libraries have always been an option
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by veave 3y ago
What's the purpose of running Wine on Windows?

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