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by zeta0134 7y ago
It's perfectly possible. The problem is that these very scripts the ad network are serving are what people are objecting to. Exactly these scripts, and exactly this tracking. It creeps people out.
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by zeta0134 7y ago
The HDMI with ethernet thing is probably a lot more benign than you would think. Ethernet is simply one of the many protocols that HDMI can use for its communication across that wire, in addition to the video feed; as a result that ends up
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Not OP, but for me it's a longevity thing. With a user-replacable battery, about 2 years after purchase I can simply order a compatible battery, pop it in the phone in a one-minute procedure, and carry on for another 2+ years. The batt
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by zeta0134 7y ago
My immediate understanding was that the parent poster was planning to watch the movies on his laptop or something similar. But, I don't fly very often; are in-flight movies a popular option? Genuinely curious.
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Minecraft's in-game mechanics for building are surprisingly intuitive and easy to use. Coupled with flying in creative and unlimited inventory, making even relatively complex redstone contraptions isn't too difficult, though it ca
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I was in the 7th grade, and in my Texas History class in the morning when the news hit. We had a television system that would play news broadcasts for the whole school to start off each morning, and as soon as the news broke, the administra
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Honestly I think so much of the negative bias towards India (from the US at least) comes from some unfortunate American practices. A lot of our customer service organizations here in the states have a really bad habit of outsourcing the lab
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Many laptops do it too. Lenovo even markets it as a visible (and annoying) power management feature. Most however simply handle the charge cycles behind the scenes, and adjust their definition of "100%" over time, so the user can
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Wouldn't that just turn the attacker's problem into brute forcing the client-side hash? Might be a problem if the client-side hash has a lower total complexity than the longer original password. I dunno though; just pondering out
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Reasonable upper limits don't bother me all that much. If you're going to store a hashed password, you want to choose an expensive hash algorithm (It's been a while since I looked at this, but I don't think bcrypt is s
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by zeta0134 7y ago
This cnet article is really light on technical details. The feature described appears to be the Push Pages flow, documented in this Brave research article: https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/ Given that the CNET
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by zeta0134 7y ago
IANAL, but this happens fairly often within the community. My loose understanding is that code released under the AGPL remains licensed under the AGPL; the license can't just be retroactively revoked like that. The company may require
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by zeta0134 7y ago
This is the main thing that drives me nuts. I'm fine with emoji, I'll even use them on purpose from time to time, but please let me decide when and how. There's nothing more infuriating than a computer replacing something I
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Nice! I hadn't actually looked at the code before writing my comment. That does seem relatively trivial, so I stand corrected. I didn't realize the clientside code was discarding the response; I sorta naively assumed it was doin
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Okay quick thought exercise. HN doesn't use a react framework and is quite lightweight on clientside JavaScript. How many upvotes does it take using this system before the total data size transmitted (original page + modifications) is,
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Right; it's free on a technical level. Many, many carriers charge for it anyway, certainly in the US, though I don't know what the situation is abroad. I think a better argument for the standard is simply that it's built into
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by zeta0134 7y ago
That would mean those of us who play games in multiple languages as a means of language study would need to buy each game multiple times.
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by zeta0134 7y ago
This whole practice reeks of being downright fraudulent. Especially with a new technology like Apple Card, which folks will understandably not have a strong familiarity with. I get that Google needs to combat fraud and all that, but they sh
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I would strongly vote in favor of Ubuntu for your first distribution. It's still wildly popular, and despite some mishaps, Canonical tries pretty hard to make sure it's a smooth installation process, and has enough standard applic
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Goodness no, this is much more common than you might think. My voice comes out when I'm trying to wrap my head around a tough problem, but it also comes out when I'm struggling to make a tough decision. There's nothing quite
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I used to do this as a kid in rural Texas, when we could only afford dial-up at the house and my parents didn't let me on the network very often. Good times! I'm terrified of the prospect now, but back then I really appreciated al
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by zeta0134 7y ago
This is why I run uBlock Origin, which blocks the ad-tracking code at the network level. Pretty much anything in a third-party iframe doesn't even get to load from the server ; the browser simply doesn't make the request. Doesn&#
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by zeta0134 7y ago
... huh! I guess from the states, I'm used to seeing a vendor as sort of a middleman. That makes a lot of sense actually. Thanks for the insight!
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by zeta0134 7y ago
This part of the culture boggles my mind from a distance, but I haven't experienced it firsthand. Wouldn't a side effect of this common practice be a negative opinion of merchants? Like, if you go into every shop with the implicit
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by zeta0134 7y ago
The counter intuitive thing to keep in mind here is that the best animations are subtle, and very quick. There's a balance to strike, but good animation can make the snappy UI give just the tiniest hint of motion and smoothness, with
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by zeta0134 7y ago
So it's important to call out here that they're using a modified LCD panel. A traditional LCD panel has two components: a backlight that constantly provides solid white light, and the LCD in front of it, which darkens each pixel
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by zeta0134 7y ago
I'm not sure what's going on with the original link, but this shortened link seems to actually work: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3327984 The concept seems clever (rapidly alternate between illuminating the
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by zeta0134 7y ago
When I realized I had started to bald (yaaaay genetics) I had a bit of a personal identity crisis, but I didn't really try to hide my stress about it. My coworkers joked that I hadn't accepted it yet, and they were right. I don&#x
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by zeta0134 7y ago
You can work around this by running Firefox Developer, which is able to disable Mozilla's signing requirements. That edition of the browser actually respects xpinstall.signatures.required, so just toggle that, zip your extension, ren
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by zeta0134 7y ago
Anecdotal, but one of the things I noticed when I switched to keto for a while was a drastic change in my relationship to sugar. After cutting out sugar entirely, I noticed that water didn't taste bitter anymore, something I'd alw

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