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by wackget 5y ago
The article's not entirely accurate. It says the storage bandwidth fees are "totally elimiated" but that's not true: > R2 will zero-rate infrequent storage operations under a threshold — currently planned to be in the
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by wackget 5y ago
Are there any recent third-party Android ROMs (without any Google services) which send little or no telemetry data?
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by wackget 5y ago
Archive.org - including the Wayback Machine - is already blocked by many major UK ISPs and has been for many years: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/internet-archive-... Not sure if that's ironic or not,
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by wackget 5y ago
So now instead of annoying users with image or audio challenges, websites can annoy users by running up their electricity bills (CPU work aint cheap) and/or denying them access if they [selectively] disable JavaScript and/or block
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by wackget 5y ago
Was this "article" written by an edgy teenager who just had their first quarter-life crisis? The writer just comes across as a needlessly cynical asshole, and not in an enlightened stoic way. If it was meant to be a comment on the
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by wackget 5y ago
I thought a general rule was to use sans-serif fonts on electronic devices and serif fonts in print, because they are repsectively easier on the eye? This site - and other similar "web typography" sites - seems to immediately fall
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by wackget 5y ago
How is this any different from disabling third-party cookies and clearing website cookies manually?
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by wackget 5y ago
Yeah except it's the size of a TV remote.
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by wackget 5y ago
Strangely this gave me pretty bad motion sickness. The controls don't feel nearly tight enough (on desktop). I kept dragging my mouse cursor off the edges of the screen.
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by wackget 5y ago
I just want to know which communities the red dots are. I wish they'd made a zoomable version of the map with labels.
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by wackget 5y ago
For how long, until they remove it? Honestly, I hate Firefox now. It's going backwards.
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by wackget 5y ago
Is there a self-hosted solution which supports offline object recognition AND searchable OCR of text in images (e.g. so you can search through images of receipts/invoices)?
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by wackget 5y ago
Maybe if they stopped trying to ape Chrome and actually focused on being a decent browser on their own...
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by wackget 5y ago
It's ridiculously easy to spot fake reviews. The clearest giveaway is lots of customer photographs of the item. Multiple photos of the item and/or its packaging from different angles, adding absolutely no value to the review, is v
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by wackget 5y ago
Honestly it's largely Chinese brands selling all sorts of crap. Any time you see a ridiculous-looking off-brand name, it's very likely they're using fake reviews to boost their position in the rankings. Often they will bulk-s
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by wackget 5y ago
Shame the PC port was so terrible, and the developers flatly refused to fix or improve it. So much so that in the end a fan made a patch which fixed many of the issues. If your game is so crappy that the customers have to make their own pat
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by wackget 5y ago
You should also suggest they remove their own garbage redirect tracking from the Firefox Addons site. Any URLs in the addon description section are all tracked/redirected via ` https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net `
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by wackget 5y ago
It's ironic that the example URLs on the Firefox Addons page are actually tracked by Mozilla via ` https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net `. I assume this extension doesn't deal with that problem (redirect-type tracking URLs).
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by wackget 5y ago
You're right; it was uMatrix. Still crap though.
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by wackget 5y ago
As usual, the Techcrunch website is cancer and redirects via "advertising.com" which means uBlock Origin users can't see it. Happily, you can read the article (without ads) via https://www.printfriendly.com
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by wackget 6y ago
Personally I hate that you can no longer copy an entire URL and its GET/POST data in a single click like you previously could. Now you can "copy URL" or "copy URL parameters" but there's no way to copy them all
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by wackget 6y ago
More like: 1. Download Steam client 2. Click to install Steam client 3. Steam client starts to download even more crap itself 4. Steam client actually starts installing 5. Sign In/Register Then when you want to install or even play a g
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by wackget 6y ago
"Download" an article about technological freedom? In a non-free format (PDF) via a third-party provider (Gumroad)? Uh... absolutely not.
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by wackget 6y ago
The same has happened with Zoom in many countries.
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by wackget 6y ago
Yeah... I didn't fully appreciate just how insane this is because the information's scattered all over the place. Then I read the Register article and a collated Twitter thread... and yeah, it's insane... This company has abs
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by wackget 6y ago
It's hugely ironic that this article is written/hosted by a website which runs entirely via the Google AMP platform. You can't read the article without going via Google's AMP servers, unless you use a website like https
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by wackget 6y ago
Chunking JS just leads to massive latency issues as the client is forced to download dozens (or hundreds) of "efficiently" chunked JS files. The e-commerce platform Magento 2 is packed with this kind of bullshit and is part of the
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by wackget 6y ago
Only because developers absolutely insist on building things that way, for some reason I will never comprehend. What's the first thing most people do when starting a new project? They ask "what framework should I build this on?&qu
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by wackget 6y ago
Extremely misleading title. These are not "mistakes" as much as subjective preferences. A better title would be "some random person's opinion about what should be changed in the CSS spec".
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by wackget 6y ago
How do you kill fingerprinting, though? It's impossible without limiting what web developers can do with their sites.

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