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by autoexec 16d ago
I've seen supermarkets that offer targeted "in app only" deals. They're trying to condition people into accepting and being comfortable with discriminatory pricing, where different people pay different prices for the sam
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by autoexec 16d ago
> Maybe I just don't mind having an app on my phone because I know that I can set it to basically never bother me. Apps are a problem in more ways than just the nuisance of notifications and having an icon on your home screen. As lo
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by autoexec 16d ago
I've seen restaurants that required a QR code to get a menu. I simply walked out. Lots of other places to eat exist with more reasonable practices. Forcing people to scan a QR code to see a price is a great way to use the data from the
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by autoexec 16d ago
> Ads are at the root of all the problems with the modern internet and mobile tech. Ads aren't the problem. It's really the tracking and invasion of privacy which are the problem. Ads are just the publicly acceptable justificat
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by autoexec 16d ago
> Somewhere on my desk, I keep an old FairPhone 3 that I repaired after it took a deep plunge into the ocean. It runs the Google-free /e/OS operating system. But why? The reason is simple: sometimes, you are forced to use an ap
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by autoexec 16d ago
If you were looking for how the investigation ended here's the press release from the USDOT https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-t...
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by autoexec 17d ago
Some companies have so much money that there's no fine which would ever be punitive enough to matter to them. I'd bet jail time for executives could be extremely effective though.
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by autoexec 17d ago
> I always find DMV (or whatever your state's equivalent) inefficiency arguments to be hilarious. They're run extremely efficiently for the government. It's real funny until they pass a law that says you need an ID to vote
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by autoexec 17d ago
I once planned a trip to New Orleans around the various locations in the game Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. I visited spots like St. Louis Cathedral, Cemetery No. 1, Tulane University, Jackson Square, Dumaine Street, Napoleon House,
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by autoexec 17d ago
> The process of installing and using Firefox for a non-technical user is no different from Chrome Most non-technical users are exclusively using android devices and chrome is pre-installed. Today you can still install firefox for others
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by autoexec 17d ago
> they don't have the theory of mind to distinguish between what they care about and what the average user cares about. The average user doesn't really understand what a browser is, or how it works, and will never bother to loo
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by autoexec 17d ago
I've seen people complain about Firefox in terms of performance and compatibility to justify using Chrome, but there aren't many chromium-based browsers appealing to those with ethical standards to choose from. Ecosia maybe? Ultim
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Eventually we'll have ladybird too
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by autoexec 17d ago
It's not an either/or situation. For many years now people have been begging Mozilla to allow them to give money to help fund firefox (and only firefox) but Mozilla has refused. I can't promise that allowing it would provide
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by autoexec 17d ago
Some things are absolutely worth refusing to compromise on.
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A lot of existing forks are just Firefox with a couple features added or removed. It's very different from a fork that continues being independently developed as a separate project.
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> At this point I will gladly take an announcement where CloudFlare buys them out and frees the Fox from annoying corporate interests I don't see how cloudflare buying firefox would keep it from being a victim of corporate interests
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by autoexec 17d ago
> But it is still so much better than using a chromium browser, and that must be acknowledged. As much as Perfect shouldn't be the enemy of Good, the existence of Worse shouldn't make anyone stop demanding Better. Generally, wh
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> i hate being jaded because you can see where things are headed every time on repeat, but i also hate the term "power user" carries a lot of pc gamer energy and i simply could never assess that i know more then the next guy fo
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by autoexec 17d ago
There are forks which will keep the sanity alive, but I worry about how long Firefox will survive if everyone moves to them, and I have doubts about how well those forks will be maintained after Firefox is gone.
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> Meanwhile, the over thinkers on Hacker News come up with convoluted reasons to hate on Firefox every time the subject arises...Firefox is our last best hope for browser engine diversity and competition. It's exactly because Firefo
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by autoexec 17d ago
> Your point is valid - we do need to classify things for our own mental convenience - but I don't think the Pluto case is an example of it. Obsessing over the definition of "planet" to that degree doesn't actually ac
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by autoexec 17d ago
> because it’s a free country and it really doesn’t make sense to try to control other people over something like that No one is trying to control you by defining what words mean. In fact, you're still fully free to call anything yo
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by autoexec 17d ago
All tools can be used for good and for evil, be used both responsibly and irresponsibly, and end up being helpful or hurtful. The use of algorithms to solve problems and find solutions has already proved useful, the algorithms marketers wan
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by autoexec 18d ago
In a sense you're right, the need to classify things is really for our convenience. Those classifications can be extremely helpful though and it's for that reason that we try to come up with good systems of classification and re-e
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by autoexec 18d ago
Maybe one day we'll know, but for now at least that's a question for theologians and philosophers. I'm content to leave questions about what lies outside of our universe to them.
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by autoexec 18d ago
We didn't learn much more about Pluto, other than it wasn't as unique as we once thought. We learned a lot more about other bodies in the Kuiper belt though. By our old classification, suddenly it looked like there could be hundre
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by autoexec 18d ago
I agree, call whatever you like whatever you want. Just don't expect schools to teach that to anyone else. We get enough of that from the folks who want to replace science class with "God did it".
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by autoexec 18d ago
Pluto is a dwarf planet. It feels like less of a "is and is not" situation, and more of an "isn't, but was once thought to be" situation. Some people remember being told that it was a planet when they were kids and
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by autoexec 18d ago
> We could simply define Pluto as the edge of our Solar System and everything beyond its orbit a Kuiper Belt Object. There's nothing wrong with that. There is because Pluto is inside the Kuiper Belt and just as much a part of it a

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