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by vezycash 6y ago
> There are plenty of alternatives to Adsense but none of them are comparable. There are two companies that could have helped minimize Adsense's monopoly but decided not to: Microsoft and Facebook.
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by vezycash 6y ago
> Buster to solve captchas? Had to install "privacy pass" cos of cloudflare's move to hCaptcha
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by vezycash 6y ago
> MS's chromium fork powering Edge Microsoft will simply follow Google's lead.
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by vezycash 6y ago
> "all or nothing" is ridiculous as the only option - let me revoke access or restrict it to specific sites. Thank you. I've been waiting for Firefox to add this feature for almost 2 years. For a privacy focused browser, t
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by vezycash 6y ago
Google randomly ignores "search term in quotes". Related:examplesite.com used to work well. Now, it's better to use sites like alternativeto.net. ~phrase is unnecessary because but google searches for synonyms by default phra
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by vezycash 6y ago
Anti-bullying law is seriously needed. Awarding the bullied who triumphs 10 - 100x their legal fee that attracts interest every day the bully refuses to pay by going to a higher court.
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by vezycash 6y ago
>And who is the idiot? Short summary: Woznaik vs Jobs. The technical guy vs. the smooth talker. Longer summary: Some people are perpetual resume builders. They want quick promotion, bigger job titles, higher salary... The ladder growth i
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by vezycash 6y ago
>Leadership did not want to stop development work to fix security issues, but they also could not be seen to be ignoring security issues. >...So they would engage with the researchers, put on this big performance with meetings and fie
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by vezycash 6y ago
Serious question. How long before medium starts suing outline, archive.org and others?
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by vezycash 6y ago
Some sites and app have small question mark icons that can be pressed to reveal more information - tooltips.
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by vezycash 6y ago
> It's broken, and the government is going to slap the shit out of Apple. I doubt it. Apple would get out it like they got out of their European Tax-ish.
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by vezycash 6y ago
> as a user I don't want 20 goddamn app stores on my device Nobody would force anyone to install alternate stores.
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by vezycash 6y ago
Google does the same or even worse with "open source" Android and chrome.
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by vezycash 6y ago
Even if there are no text, add tooltips. The crazy part is that apps without descriptions and tooltips do not include help files. The worst offenders are electron apps from devs who use Macs exclusively.
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by vezycash 6y ago
> It's important to distinguish between education and the business of education. distinguish between education and schooling
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by vezycash 6y ago
> “Belief can be a powerful virus, but so can doubt.” WOW! > “Money is the best product. Money does what you want.”
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by vezycash 6y ago
>Site down... Shows ReCAPTCHA I suppose this is cloudflare + their new captcha provider. This behavior is annoying / suspicious. They know the site is down, yet make people solve captcha repeatedly before finally telling them that t
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by vezycash 6y ago
I love joplin. I have two portable installs in different folders - one journaling. The other for work notes. The problem is that only one instance of joplin can work at a time. So to use one, I'd have to kill the other. That is the onl
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by vezycash 6y ago
>Samsung TV after a firmware update injected advertising into the UI. Wouldn't Samsung and the rest have stopped this if people just returned the TV?
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by vezycash 6y ago
Blame the language for boredom. I think you'll like working at Microsoft. Because they frequently reboot apps, their OS, apis with completely different languages and ui paradigm for absolutely no reason - quite stimulating to the devs.
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by vezycash 6y ago
Me: Teach me about black holes. Albert Einstein: A black hole is formed when a star has burnt all of its fuel. There are two ways this can happen. If the mass of the star is less than a certain limit, known as the Chandrasekhar Limit, then
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by vezycash 6y ago
Me: how to center an image with css Albert Einstein: First, we must ensure that the image is centered and does not scale when we use it. It eventually answers the question though ... First, we need to center the image. We can do this by usi
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by vezycash 6y ago
> People said they didn’t want police to use them for surveillance. Source?
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by vezycash 6y ago
>but the problem is not a lack of footage Actually from what I've gathered right here on HN over the years, lack of footage is actually the problem. Police simply refuse to release footage. Excuses typically used include: * It'
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by vezycash 6y ago
For those who watch anime - the Alabasta arc of One Piece shows a SIMPLE tactic dictators use with peaceful protests & organizations. Seed the protesters with your own troublemakers who attack the police FIRST and then disappear when sh
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by vezycash 6y ago
My problem with Microsoft telemetry is this: They take the data and still make decisions that are opposite of what the data clearly shows.
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by vezycash 6y ago
His start up? Wasn't just his company - bike sharing was banned in the state without warning. Also, commercial bike operations were banned on major roads and completely in some cities. Following Lagos state, neighboring states immediat
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by vezycash 6y ago
This is the video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1MGtt89d9A
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by vezycash 6y ago
> means the illusion of being able to predict the future with any accuracy. "Am I the master of my destiny?" is the real question behind the illusion of control. Am I succeeding because of my skill, talent and actions or just l
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by vezycash 6y ago
>I keep seeing this narrative, that shaming is the most effective strategy I never said it's the most effective strategy. I said, it's more effective than just talking. >If shaming works, when why hasn't it worked yet?

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