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by wtmt 8y ago
Business email, company, job title — what if someone doesn't have one or more of these? I know one can give fake information, but why are all the fields on the form marked with an asterisk indicating that they're mandatory? It&#x2
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by wtmt 8y ago
Enhance/increase the font size, the size of the voting buttons, the gap between the voting buttons, and the size of the collapse buttons for users who have more than 50 karma (they must have perseverance and patience to stick around, s
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by wtmt 8y ago
Tangentially, joining lobste.rs is a pain. I once hung around on chat asking for an invite and then gave up. HN on the other hand makes signing up just a matter of seconds, and also has a better breadth of content (because it doesn't m
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They scroll endlessly watching photos and videos on the feed, many of which are shared by others or come through page subscriptions. They may also hit like or tap on some reaction. Actual comments are a lot lesser in magnitude. One hour a d
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by wtmt 8y ago
There are also Indian (male) names that are just “Dev” or that end in “dev”. The word means deity or god. There could be many Indians buying these when early access ends on February 27.
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by wtmt 8y ago
India has never been a country with a good amount of freedom of expression. This censorship and (as usual) vaguely defined laws and policies will slowly kill democracy. Organizations like Internet Freedom Foundation [1], SFLC (Software Free
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Economic effects don't matter during election time. The central parliament will be dissolved in about three months, and there's going to be the world's biggest democratic election in the month of May. That aside, those in pow
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> On the other hand, India has a real national security need to know everything that goes on, thanks to its neighbor(s?). The good old "national security" crutch. It's always used by those in power to spread surveillance,
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by wtmt 8y ago
> I see what you're saying, but there is a disconnect here: elect fascists [a strong claim] get fascism but then you say the public lines up behind it. So, it appears to be democratic? In the era of fake news and propaganda that wou
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by wtmt 8y ago
Every time I have seen Bill Gates praise Nandan Nilekani (the one who headed the Indian irrevocable and unchangeable “unique” ID program called Aadhaar) and the Aadhaar program itself (going purely by fake numbers put by UIDAI and the gover
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by wtmt 8y ago
Since my comment is quite long, I'm putting the most important point right at the beginning. If anyone from Kenya or with interests in Kenya is reading this comment, please immediately take this law to court (since the article says thi
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Wouldn’t IP addresses be routine information collected by apps that collect information over the network? That by itself would give away the location to a good degree of accuracy in most cases.
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by wtmt 8y ago
> First, they removed Facebook from Internet Accounts in settings, then they blocked Facebook's enterprise certificate and now this. Just to make it clearer, the removal of Facebook in the accounts was not about Facebook alone (thou
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by wtmt 8y ago
> The one big political issue that would put a stop to this is that this would cause all zones to be world readable. Many people treat zones as something private and to them exposing the zone file is the same as exposing their network. M
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by wtmt 8y ago
This probably may be true for some ISPs, but is not true everywhere. I still see sites blocked when visiting the http version, while they go through fine when visiting the https version. That means they’re not doing SNI inspection, right?
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by wtmt 8y ago
I’ve looked at Apple News, and while its sources can be customized to some extent, the app is not yet available in all regions (though it’s been around for more than a couple of years). IIRC, it’s coming to Canada shortly. It also doesn’t a
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> On top of that, our product ideas, like our credit card form and inline-checkout experience, have proliferated the web, ... I've used Gumroad several years ago (as a customer), and the simplicity of the transaction and this interf
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by wtmt 8y ago
In India, several websites get blocked by different ISPs based on some highly unsubstantiated petitions to some court that doesn’t understand what the right move is and just sends the list of domains to be blocked to some ISPs, who gladly c
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> “The decision by the cartel authority, known as the Bundeskartellamt in German, allows Facebook to continue collecting data from its services like WhatsApp and Instagram. But the company will not be permitted to link this information t
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The part about tricking Netflix users was posted and discussed here before. [1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781959
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by wtmt 8y ago
I used OpenDNS long ago, even though it wasn't as easy to remember as the ones that came later. Then I shifted to Google DNS and stayed with it, albeit with some discomfort (even if the policies state it doesn't track, it's s
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by wtmt 8y ago
I looked at that page and was impressed. Does anyone here have suggestions on freely licensed serif fonts that focus on readability (non-system fonts)?
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by wtmt 8y ago
That's downright silly and a user hostile move, IMO (why at all wouldn't you want someone to test things out without having to give one of their main email address?). Your solution seems to assume that everybody uses only Gmail an
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by wtmt 8y ago
This sounds like an abrupt and possibly unexpected departure of Angela Ahrendts (whether voluntary or forced), since Apple is assigning one additional division to Deirdre O’Brien. It’s not that she (Deirdre O’Brien) would be incapable of le
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by wtmt 8y ago
> “But as a piece of commentary, the film’s damning portrayal of bad management and inefficient workplaces holds up today.” I’d say that tech workplaces have gotten worse in many ways after this movie’s time. Office plans are now usually
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by wtmt 8y ago
@forrestthewoods You have an incorrect link under the "Advent of Code" section. The first link reads https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/learning-rust-via-advent-of-code/(https://adventofc
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by wtmt 8y ago
This needs (2016) in the title. It has also been discussed before, as pointed by mtmail here.
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This was Facebook's statement to Propublica [1]: > “We regularly improve the ways we prevent unauthorized access by third parties like web browser plugins to keep people’s information safe,” Facebook spokesperson Beth Gautier said.
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Talking about India for a moment, if you ask any Indian living in India (or a recent emigrant) about "bending rules", it's certain that they will say it happens all the time, everywhere, in every industry, in every government
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by wtmt 8y ago
I'm going to throw this one back at you: > "I'm sick of waiting for Google's Keep team to improve their app, or even to respond to feature requests. (Crickets.)" Choose a stack that: a. has many developers using

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