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by yohui 11y ago
The Luminati angle is new, but the fact that free Hola users are used as peers or exit nodes is common knowledge among better informed users. I've warned others of that fact in the past myself. Of course, I imagine most users are not s
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by yohui 11y ago
I assumed Google's requirements for allowing the Play Store on devices would include making Google the default search engine, but I may be mistaken, since it seems Android devices with Bing or Yahoo as the default have appeared in the
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by yohui 11y ago
Tasker can certainly change settings and launch apps, so I don't see why Cortana couldn't. Maybe Microsoft just means it's more difficult? They do say certain features "won't initially be available", which impl
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by yohui 11y ago
Opera Mini, not the full Opera Mobile browser. Like on iOS, the loophole is that web pages are sent to Opera's servers for processing, therefore the app itself bypasses the restrictions on rendering engines. It's similar to mobile
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by yohui 11y ago
The user can. BinaryIdiot means striking a deal with a manufacturer, the same way PC manufacturers make agreements to preinstall software on Windows machines. But while manufacturers such as Samsung can and have agreed to preload Microsoft
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by yohui 11y ago
That's true, since of course developers need to be able to test their own applications, but that's hardly comparable to letting ordinary users install third-party apps, as you can on desktop Linux/Mac/Windows and Android
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by yohui 11y ago
> As a result, a base install of Android without all Google's services is very poor and pretty outdated. You can install AOSP or custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod and have a perfectly free, modern smartphone OS. You won't have
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by yohui 11y ago
>> I can't install apps from third-party sources > http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp8/apps/how-do-i-i... As I understand it, all "sideloaded" apps still have to go thr
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by yohui 11y ago
http://opensource.org/osd
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by yohui 11y ago
Yes, and Google Books was hampered by backlash from authors. That's why I noted both projects had a history of ups and downs. However, both are still going. The point is that, if we're talking about Google's history, they hav
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by yohui 11y ago
> Not to mention, that historically speaking, you cannot trust google to keep this information preserved, or public. Look at what happened to any number of other tools google once offered. Google is hardly going to abandon cloud storag
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by yohui 11y ago
It wouldn't be bad to have another option, though. The volunteer effort currently covers only a fraction of the total Internet Archive. Better a single backup than no backup at all.
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by yohui 11y ago
It was a backhanded compliment. The name is a bit... unprofessional. On the other hand, it does help you grok its function, and I suspect the 'memorable' name is at least partially responsible for its popularity.
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by yohui 11y ago
I'd just like to express my appreciation for Waifu2x's informative name. More projects could do with such evocative labels.
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by yohui 11y ago
gorhill is the original developer of uBlock. uBlock Origin was forked from the old uBlock after gorhill decided to take back control from chrisaljoudi.
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by yohui 11y ago
uBlock Origin: - Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... - FIrefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ - GitHub: https:&#x
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by yohui 11y ago
No, NetMarketShare/NetApplications is the exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers Of course, they're also the only source that tries to count "unique visitors" rather th
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by yohui 11y ago
> PDF viewer. Chrome is the only non-awful PDF viewer I've found for Windows. Requires third-party install. There's a version of Evince available for Windows: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/Downl
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by yohui 11y ago
I archived the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150504173515/https://blog.mozi...
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by yohui 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9468476
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by yohui 11y ago
I suppose "unsolicited" is why I've never heard of this. Thanks, learned something new today.
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by yohui 11y ago
> And don't send these folks money that could do real good elsewhere until they give at least some small reason to expect that it's not a wild goose chase. Is it even possible to give them money? I wasn't aware that NASA
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by yohui 11y ago
Project Ara? All reports have stated that the basic device will be wifi-only.
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by yohui 11y ago
I thought Visual Studio Code was "free as in beer". Are you saying it's not proprietary?
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by yohui 11y ago
You can append ?mode=guest_open to Massdrop URLs to bypass the sign-up page: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/tex-yoda?mode=guest_open
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by yohui 11y ago
> Wikipedia is basically infotainment, the Buzzfeed of encyclopedias. See also: Wikigroaning: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/wikigroaning/ Wikipedia may have problems, but I'm not sure how this parti
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by yohui 12y ago
> Microsoft apps being pre-installed on the new Galaxy S was much bigger news. Reportedly leveraging their Android patents to do so: http://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-cuts-patent-fees-f...
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by yohui 12y ago
Microsoft is reportedly cutting their Android patent fees in return for manufacturers pre-installing apps such as Office, OneDrive, and Skype on Android devices, so it's definitely not prohibited: http://www.androidauthority
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by yohui 12y ago
Google News shows headlines and small snippets, but if users are interested in a story, they have to go to the newspaper to read it. It's to the newspapers' own benefit. Google doesn't make money from News directly (no advert
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by yohui 12y ago
I'm sure you're aware that switching over to Ubuntu is not nearly so simple, so I don't need to explain hardware compatibility, backing up data, cross-platform app availability, etc. If it were really so simple, System76 and

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