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by whalabi 7y ago
This might be the most genuinely entertaining article I've read this year The lengths the author goes to to discover what must be a highly questionable answer, just from irresistible curiosity. TL;DR? Looks like it's corn.
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The Android App Underground(unlikekinds.com)
2 points by whalabi 7y ago|0 comments
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A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Android user space apps and libraries(microg.org)
4 points by whalabi 7y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
The problem is, Google is using its monopoly to strong-arm publishers into using a sub-par technology that harms their brand and reduces their income. And the worst thing is, without these publishers, Google would have no content and theref
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by whalabi 7y ago
You're right, I should've worded this more carefully. What I meant is, there's people out there who dismiss this illness and I believe there's sufferers who have to fight to convince people that what they're going t
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by whalabi 7y ago
I'm just astonished by this. Millions of people (in the US alone!) suffer from this illness and I think everyone has wondered, or heard it wondered, if it's imaginary. For all these people to know there's something actually p
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by whalabi 7y ago
Absolutely incredible effort by the guy who did the teardown. And the extent that Apple went to just to protect tiny delicate mechanisms from dust is astonishing.
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by whalabi 7y ago
Agreed it's kind of dishonest. I mean technically it isn't but it sure does obscure a lot of volunteer hard work by a lot of people. I did wonder how they got all these apps out of the gate so quickly.. they didn't.
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Apple’s iPhone Sales Continue to Slump as Services Surge(tomsguide.com)
1 points by whalabi 7y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 8y ago
By that argument shouldn't you be using Android 1.0? Or a 90s Nokia?
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by whalabi 8y ago
Wow, I backed this on Kickstarter in 2011 for $60. I was supposed to receive "A custom made FreedomBox Foundation MicroSD card reader so you can keep your freedom running in style and a MicroSD card loaded with Freedom Box software&quo
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by whalabi 8y ago
Hi, author here You're right about platform features used within apps, many (most? all?) are made available to developers with the support libraries. However, users will get none of the following until they get Pie (for example) * ML a
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Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts(unlikekinds.com)
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by whalabi 8y ago
Agree, kinda. E.g. rather than how domain names work, I'd rather people learn about privacy in the internet era. Rather than say, RAM, I'd rather people learn about how social media is addictive and why, etc. All of the above woul
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by whalabi 8y ago
I imagine that even if tech has a strong history of conscientious objectors, you could argue the industry needs more because: * Tech is incredibly, incredibly important and powerful, in its implications and effects on politics, society, geo
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Facebook’s new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act(theverge.com)
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Microsoft refused to sell facial recognition tech to law enforcement(mashable.com)
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Trolls and Consequences: What Twitter Needs to Learn from Reddit(unlikekinds.com)
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by whalabi 8y ago
Just found this too Pretty hilarious, not sure how it could happen by accident! (I found this page for googling for some of the content of the email in quote marks)
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by whalabi 8y ago
I hear ya. It's rails running (with its database) on a single small VPS, so I'm pretty pleased with how it's running, particularly given the load yesterday. And thanks for sort of fact checking, for a second I thought whoa, t
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by whalabi 8y ago
(Edit: another thought, maybe your curl testing took longer with all the extra CSS in the download and writing to disk if that's what you did - an AMP requirement. But did your curling pull down the external CSS/JS for non-AMP?) A
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by whalabi 8y ago
See here for more data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19630846 I realise it isn't scientific but I think it's pretty clear
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by whalabi 8y ago
I had run it a few times before until I felt it wasn't a coincidence But just now I ran it until I got bored of running it, alternating between amp/non-amp, chrome on Windows 10 (normally I'm Chromium on Fedora, but let'
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by whalabi 8y ago
(Author here) You can run the test yourself on the AMP and non-AMP versions of an identical article to see yourself. (Note: sometimes the numbers are off the first couple of times you run tests. If you run them multiple times, the AMP artic
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by whalabi 8y ago
(author here) It's not just conventions and limitations. For example, you can't use an img tag on an AMP page. That's invalid AMP. You have to use an amp-img tag, which is rendered client side with js. Another example is with
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by whalabi 8y ago
Thanks! Fixed :)
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Google Wing launches first commercial drone delivery service(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by whalabi 8y ago|0 comments
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Trolls and Consequences: What Twitter Needs to Learn from Reddit(unlikekinds.com)
3 points by whalabi 8y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 8y ago
I don't find his/her attitude infuriating. If you're on a wage where you're not sure if you'll ever be able to afford your own home, that $5 does add up. It was around 1% of my income recently. I want a house yest
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by whalabi 8y ago
One coffee every working day was 1% of my income. So it's not huge but it's not trivial at all. Especially considering I live in one of those western cities with stagnating wages and absurd property costs.

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