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by Springtime 2y ago
That Firefox setting doesn't disable Javascript. I use it on a Firefox fork for Android and about the only noticeable difference I've seen is sites aren't given the `prefers-color-scheme` value, so dark themes can't be a
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by Springtime 2y ago
They can put such things in a company blog for those who are looking for it, it doesn't have to be on the front page. Google, Cloudflare, the previously mentioned Mullvad, etc take this approach (and they often wind up submitted to the
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by Springtime 2y ago
> In my ideal world, companies would say "We maintain a state of the art security system [...] it is one of the most important things we work on and we spend a large amount of our effort on it." Tbh as a consumer I'd rat
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by Springtime 2y ago
> People use them to create throw-away accounts A separate use case is when there's a free download that's email-gated, rather than account-gated. Examples would be Gumroad, certain 3D print platforms and such. I'd rathe
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by Springtime 2y ago
To play along, activation is still a potential issue. Affinity v1 suite had offline activation so one can always activate on any new system/install, while v2 (for its non-volume license at least), which since brought along an optional
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by Springtime 2y ago
A key difference with Everything is it's not a weighted search, it just returns all matches sorted in whatever column is active, so less useful as a launcher (though a tip: if you press Enter it will skip to the most previously clicked
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by Springtime 2y ago
Interesting, as the icon present on the parent user's site seems to be an even earlier, less refined (and clearly AI generated) version than the prior iteration[1] before changing to the abstract design. [1] https://web.arch
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by Springtime 2y ago
> A reminder that the vast majority of Mozilla funding comes from Google who are an advertising company. The implication by users who frequently bring this up is that there's some unique influence on Mozilla. Yet if we're goi
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by Springtime 2y ago
That talk[1] (also paper[2]) covering some of this by the Microsoft team involved with the unfettered GPT-4 model certainly shifted my views last year at a time when until then it was more common to see downplaying about LLMs based on prior
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by Springtime 2y ago
I think some extra context the Tweet doesn't provide which the article does is pointing to what the author and an article they link to see as the uniquely confusing temperature bars of Apple's Weather app, which the Figma generati
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by Springtime 2y ago
On NTFS (under Windows) it's handled rather straightforwardly. When a file is originally created it's given a date created timestamp. If the file is copied naively the date created timestamp changes to that of the copy time, while
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by Springtime 2y ago
This brings up a related point that for the longest time (to my knowledge) Linux filesystems lacked creation timestamps, so only the last modified was preserved. While even now with the filesystems that support them they're tied to tha
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by Springtime 2y ago
This is an interesting comparison, as there was a NIOSH study in late 2020 (released in 2021)[1] that used equipment to measure procedure masks, surgical masks, proper disposable respirators (with exhalation valves, since that was the main
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by Springtime 2y ago
It's a common debate hole that privacy = hiding something bad/illegal, whether now or something deemed to be in the future. While this can be true it's only an aspect. Take benign examples where privacy would be useful and it
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by Springtime 2y ago
> I’d love to have a viewer for this or converter to a standard html single page archive that works in other browsers too About 10 years ago I searched and found a webarchive to MHTML converter from someone's small site. I recall
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by Springtime 2y ago
Per earlier news the scanning is said to have a 10% false positive rate[1]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/voaicx/10_error_ra...
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by Springtime 2y ago
My understanding when I looked into this a couple years ago is the optional wider scope search is only possible to enable for one's own posts/account and while logged in[1], but still limited. At a server level the only search pos
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by Springtime 2y ago
Ultimately someone has to pay for things. Many communities have apparently decided they don't want to use even modern forum software and become a webmaster, along with avoiding the costs and time associated, or use someone else's
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by Springtime 2y ago
It was never so black and white. If we define control as the ability to configure the browser as one wants and its extensibility then I'd agree that Firefox did have far more control until the Quantum update where it was gutted, while
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by Springtime 2y ago
> The name of his new extension, "uBlock Origin Lite", will also not help with adoption. Honestly until actually looking at it earlier this year I assumed the Lite version was just a somewhat pared down version but people sho
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by Springtime 2y ago
> I should have instead tried to image off all the data ASAP with ddrescue. It's interesting since for those familiar with the claims of SpinRite and how 'it'll keep working as long as it takes to read a bad sector'
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by Springtime 2y ago
> I prefer to retain the file's modified date when I just update tags so I'll know how old the rip is Mp3Tag has a timestamp preservation setting. There's also the ability to run an external script/program on all se
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by Springtime 2y ago
I'm glad the sole dev is able to support themselves by donations from this and now their paid Mac version. It's been an indispensable tool for batch audio tagging and the community is very helpful.
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by Springtime 2y ago
> Which Firefox fork do you use? Does it work on iPhone? I use Fennec, which afaict is Android only. It's my understanding it removed various Mozilla analytics though some is said to remain. It's compiled independently from s
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by Springtime 2y ago
>why the fuck would I believe their claims that their search engine (which is more or less a proxy for Bing) would be immune from it? The context of the news was a security researcher conducting an audit of the app. If DDG were, as the
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by Springtime 2y ago
That's a strange characterization of it. They weren't tracking for MS, their branded mobile browser (distinct from their site) was found to have an exclusion in its built-in content blocker for Microsoft-run tracking scripts in ad
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by Springtime 2y ago
There's a setting in DDG to disable ads. I'm aware of the Amazon affiliate link URL addition but since I don't buy anything from Amazon it doesn't concern me personally. Either way everyone can benefit from running a con
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by Springtime 2y ago
Prior to the Russia-Ukraine situation they actually did offer Yandex results if you set your region to Russia. It was interesting sometimes to see if there were any more useful top results. So at one point the claim was accurate.
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by Springtime 2y ago
The predominant sentiment I'm seeing in comments here is a 'what does it matter?' While at the same time in discussions here about search engine result quality inevitably the most popular comments express a decline in quality
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by Springtime 2y ago
I wouldn't expect a site like phys.org to try this (and I appreciate the coverage here) but I sometimes wonder if similar articles elsewhere expect to achieve a goal of changing minds of those holding the positions they express are pro

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