yelloworangefog

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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I really don’t think feeding more money to their flagrantly incompetent and greedy management right now is at all the best course of action if you want to see them do well. The absolute best thing you can hope for that the public backlash t
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
> This tactic of elevating your pet issue by linking it to a hypothetical catastrophe seems a bit unserious. I definitely have to agree. Seeing papers with such blatantly clickbaity sounding titles gain a lot of traction is pretty dishea
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I think you're being needlessly confrontational and defensive. There's no need to make personal accusations about my ability to do research.
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I think you're massively exaggerating the stability of running unsupported versions of Android on old devices. > and literally any 10 year old android phone can run not just the latest security patches but even the latest android. N
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I'm sorry, but cloud based speech recognition in itself would already be a red flag, even if Mozilla was doing it in-house. Outsourcing it to Google though? I feel like a company as ostensibly privacy-focused as Mozilla should really k
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
Ah, my bad...
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
Frankly I don't think Intel's track record affords them the privilege of having good faith be assumed with something like this.
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: an
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I find it somewhat absurd that this idea of Trump refusing to concede to Biden is gaining so much traction in the public discourse. I believe a much more dangerous and practical concern that nobody in the mainstream media seems willing to
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I'm not German, but I'm in favor of reducing light pollution in general. I like being able to at least kinda see the night sky.
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
Ah, 1999.
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
Thanks, that's good advice. I do oftentimes get arrogant and overestimate my ability, when I get the game dev itch. As with anything, there are some things you can only learn from experience. I think I have a pretty good amount of expe
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
> although games also lost their luster for me on the intervening years... Yeah. I still like writing small games from time to time, mainly just to serve as programming exercises or for fun if I'm bored. I had to accept at some poin
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
That all rings pretty true for me. I wasn't a fan of math as a kid, or anything I associated with school really. I got into programming through Game Maker, because video games were something I legitimately cared about and liked. It pre
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
People need to be really careful when sharing papers like these and repeating their conclusions without the appropriate disclaimers. That's always the case, and especially during a time when so many people are unable to consult their
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
And if you still insist on having an app, you should be using a third party one anyway. The official one is simply not a good experience in my opinion. Although now that I think of it, maybe that's not such a good idea if you're u
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
A couple of the less debilitating yet still somewhat annoying downsides I've found: If you have the "restore previous session" option enabled and have grown accustomed to Firefox remembering all the windows you had open befor
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
> Once a social platform is around long enough, it becomes the thing that old people use (since its original users grow older with it) I think this is true, but it's worth also considering the factor of how well a platform is able
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I seem to remember reading something about a year ago about uBlock Origin being a security concern (like harvesting user data or something). Am I misremembering?
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I'm really happy to be using Firefox again. I had abandoned it in favor of Chrome around 2014 because of how sluggish it had been getting. They really got it together with the quantum update though in my opinion. It still gets outperfo
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
Anecdotally I can say this has been the case for me. Particularly when the lockdown first started. I think it’s because my daily routine changed dramatically all of a sudden. I had friends tell me they experienced the same thing.
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
The fine (and others like it) is a meaningless gesture. Unless companies like twitter start getting fined in amounts that aren’t pocket change to them, there is literally no incentive to change their abusive behavior. They make enough from
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I leave my Adblock off for youtube a fair bit of the time. Not for any sense of ethical responsibility to help content creators, but because of how entertaining I find their failed attempts to target me. The ads are so bad, they’re oftentim
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
I had 1Password recommended to me by a friend, but the lack of Linux support was a deal breaker. Now I've settled pretty comfortably into a different password manager. Even if the Linux port of 1P gets up to feature parity with the oth
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by yelloworangefog 6y ago
> A courtesy not afforded to the largely not-rich, not-white general prison population. This claim seems to be unsubstantiated and in fact blatantly false... Please take the care to do cursory research on the situation before blindly sto