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by RunSet 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljjns1Y1q-A
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by RunSet 3y ago
Honest, unpaid word of mouth might serve that function if not for the hired shouters and resultant ambient dishonesty. Flipping the microscope, paid promotions distract from honest testimonials with no profit motive. "We are improving
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by RunSet 3y ago
Diligent readers will observe which aspect(s) of your attempted equivalence do not pertain.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Marketing is like juicing in athletics. It undermines the nominal reason for the enterprise's existence (competition) but once a single competitor begins practicing it, everyone else also has to- not to any benefit, but just to maintai
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by RunSet 3y ago
If you're trying to go "chrome but better" than Brave is a move in the wrong direction, given its bundled cryptocurrency and ad platform. Perhaps you haven't heard of Chromium. If so, that may be because Chromium doesn&#
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by RunSet 3y ago
> Someone using their phone or tablet with a keyboard to get things done is far from computer illiterate. Full literacy involves writing, not just reading. At one point the same held for computer literacy. I would not call someone "
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by RunSet 3y ago
> What exactly is the problem? Don't expect me to provide an exhaustive list of problems. In support of my "blank check" statement above, CTRL+F, "not limited to".
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I hope the Apple defenders understand that the main problem with iMessage is specifically that it just looks like regular text messaging Just as bad if not worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)
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by RunSet 3y ago
> the average HN user can't read? Let's put it to the test. https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/third-parties/
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by RunSet 3y ago
Also for those interested in this sort of thing, it is possible to extract the music data from a ROM and play it back using a program that emulates only the console's sound hardware. In the case of gameboy games, the music data is usua
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by RunSet 3y ago
JetBrains's EULA has long been a blank check in terms of sharing information with third parties. Glad to see some light falling in that vicinity.
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by RunSet 3y ago
I only recently learned that Ventoy can also boot from Virtualbox VHD files and run them "on the metal". https://forums.ventoy.net/archive/index.php?thread-416.html
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by RunSet 3y ago
> thinking that sailplanes could be used for commercial transport is almost like thinking that wave surfing could be used as such. We will sooner see some big return of airships than we will see commercial transport using gliders. I have
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by RunSet 3y ago
Then again, Firefox is worse on iOS because Apple can get away with banning third party browser engines.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I will note that I have Windows Update completely blocked and disabled via Group Policy, which means my system settings never get reset under the guise of "updates" every month unlike most people's setups. Better to use
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by RunSet 3y ago
> You're ignoring the fact that "Firefox Home" itself allows you to customize what it contains. Correct. I am ignoring that fact because I don't want new tabs to display "Firefox Home" and I am not intereste
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by RunSet 3y ago
The poets (fools one and all) would have you believe that love makes the world go 'round when it is plain that inertia is to blame.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Firefox has made it unnecessarily difficult to customize the new tab. You can have it blank or you can have Firefox recommendations. Those are your options. https://i.imgur.com/U13r7pG.png This resembles a dark pattern to p
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by RunSet 3y ago
Librewolf is de branded Firefox to remove all the sponsored crap that Firefox inserted: Pocket, Hello, new tab recommendations, default google search, etc. Mullvad browser exists to advertise a VPN. I would not recommend the latter in lieu
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by RunSet 3y ago
Librewolf is a conspicuous omission from a list of privacy-focused browsers that (for some reason) includes Brave.
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by RunSet 3y ago
On this week's episode of "CEO or LLM?": > "In any given quarter, there will always be some amount of de-growth. What's happening now is that de-growth is not being compensated fully because clients are optimisin
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by RunSet 3y ago
Youtube resembles TV but the apparent commercial breaks aren't. Much of the purported content on youtube is shilling less thinly-veiled than the '80s most toyetic TV shows. "We now return to your regularly-scheduled commerc
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by RunSet 3y ago
> The position you're advancing here seems to infantilize people in rural areas and undeveloped nations I believe it seems that way to you. Many people (in particular unemancipated minors) might likewise consider it infantilizing to
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I do not believe people should be able to express themselves as they wish unconditionally. They should not be able to express themselves to the point of destroying the environment, they should not be able to express themselves by creat
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by RunSet 3y ago
In a certain light smartphones resemble the moral equivalent of violating the Prime Directive. "Here, rural areas and undeveloped nations. Take this crippled, distorted window into the greater internet. It happens to be much better at
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by RunSet 3y ago
I see a different future where people continue to write their own code rather than trust Microsoft AutoPlagiarist™. Perhaps I am wrong and this no-code solution will at last relieve us of our onerous cognitive burdens.
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by RunSet 3y ago
https://www.sordum.org/9480/defender-control-v2-1/
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by RunSet 3y ago
If you ever have nothing better to do, view the revision history on the wikipedia entry for Session Private messenger and witness the petty roadblocks thrown up as objections to allowing it to have an entry. I'll just say Session had t
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by RunSet 3y ago
It's an uphill battle. I asked to recommend Session on the privacy subreddit- which the moderators denied because Session lacks a well-documented endorsement from a public figure regarded as an authority with regard to privacy. That is
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by RunSet 3y ago
I don't consider Session to "bundle" the Loki blockchain or the Oxen network in any sense. Here is more information about what I meant when I used the term "bundled". https://www.techopedia.com/defin

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