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by burningChrome 5d ago
>> Unless you have Bill Gates money, you don't have access to a mental health professional I'm not sure where you live. I know almost all colleges in the US have walk in free mental health counseling, along with free telesup
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by burningChrome 5d ago
Fascinating. It would seem OP is spot on. I just used this and it reduced the front page of 30 posts to 14.
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by burningChrome 5d ago
> Then you end up with shit performance or broken sites in Firefox I work for a large corporation. A few years ago, they removed FF as a browser people could use at the company and removed it from the internal app store. Then, if you had
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by burningChrome 6d ago
>> I think that over-reliance on analytics has had a similar effect I lost track of how many times the directors would tell us, "Since the analytics say A, we should do B." then the research person says, "Sure Jim, grea
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by burningChrome 7d ago
I can't think of an application outside of travel or long commutes on a train where I would use this. For a daily driver its too big to fit into a pants pocket and the price tag is TGH.
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by burningChrome 8d ago
> founded as a mayonnaise company, which now sells consumer packaged goods, software as a service, and surveillance technology. The visual of this is completely hilarious.
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by burningChrome 9d ago
Just started reading Shawn Levy's book, "The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont" which relates the history of the hotel, but I found the history of Hollywood and LA fasci
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by burningChrome 13d ago
All of her devices are Apple. She's made the decision she's ok with the tracking, which is her decision alone. I'm not going to force her to give up her entire system just to make me happy. That's not how marriage works.
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by burningChrome 13d ago
Its not just the broadcasts are advertisements. Its completely engrained in every professional sports league now. They now all have some kind of multi-year contracts with casino's, betting platforms and prediction markets. This is way
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by burningChrome 14d ago
I realize this is true. This is more of a personal choice since apps like Venmo can still track you on Graphene: GrapheneOS does not strip proprietary tracking code embedded directly inside third-party apps like Venmo. If you log into Venm
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by burningChrome 14d ago
Is it just me or am I seeing more and more of this stuff happening on HN?
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by burningChrome 14d ago
On my smartphone I'm not using Google Play Services so when I open the app, all I get is the search box. I told a friend this and told him this flips the script on the Algo. Now instead of YT telling you what to watch, YOU are in contr
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by burningChrome 14d ago
Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out today!
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by burningChrome 14d ago
When we're out in public? Yes. If its time sensitive? Yes. Like I said, its something that's annoying, but this is the cost of keeping my privacy. My wife uses Apple for all her stuff and she understands. By any account I wouldn&#
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by burningChrome 14d ago
I have a motorola smartphone. I don't have google play installed. I mainly use obtainium for app installation. Its a bare bones phone and it drives my business partner crazy. "Just log into our instagram account and. . .right, you
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by burningChrome 22d ago
>> What is the main use case for X these days? More of a political echo chamber than anything else. I mothballed my original account when things were getting spicy which was primarily focused on dev, UI/UX, and InfoSec news. I fi
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by burningChrome 22d ago
Best line in the story: I had spent my whole life dreaming of making my own overnight success on the internet, but had taught someone with no ethics how to do it instead. This is such a great line and one I know so many people related to
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by burningChrome 23d ago
The US isn't expanding fossil fuel extraction, its quite the opposite. They're funding the modernization of existing plants in order to take older plants offline: June 2026: New coal-fired plants in Anchorage, Alaska, and Mt. Sto
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by burningChrome 23d ago
>> In fairness, I think I'm a bit of an outlier. Not at all. I'm in the same boat. The first ten year of being a developer you could see things happening miles away. There was a predictable process. Someone builds a new fram
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
Yessir, my autocorrect got it wrong and I missed it. Thank you for the catch.
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
This was more than a decade ago when we were looking into emersion schools for our daughter. We went to several private schools first and all three were emphasizing ipads as their primary tool for teaching language. The public school our da
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
>> Egotistically, I don't even mind, it's just the salary hit that would be the main issue. This is whare I am right now. Even senior positions have dropped 50-60K in range so I've effectively priced myself out of a lat
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
You have the ability to mentally push through a lot of stuff, but there are a host of signals your body will use to warn you such as: cognitive performance (although this is hard for yourself to actually admit its happening), behavioral ind
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
>> model skill in aggregate growing faster than the skills of their staff decline at which point, bin the staff, use the model. How people in tech are aware they're training their replacements? Or are we quickly approaching an ap
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
Anecdotal evidence to support this - on a much less important platform. We have two cars from our local car dealership. When we first set up the account, we did it through what I assumed were some kind of AI voice prompts. First time we tak
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
>> Mexico has been like that for decades. Back in the 60's and 70's my Dad worked or Lockheed Martin. He made frequent trips to Mexico to work with engineering teams there on projects he was working on. It only took him one
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
This is great to know, thank you for the update!
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
This is so true. When you have a billion users, you can literally lose hundreds of millions of users and it wouldn't make a dent. The only way is to get the government involved and regulate this and just keep hammering them with massiv
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
I've tried a few times over the years to make Ubuntu Touch work. God how bad I wanted it to work here in the US. The lack of apps and VoLTE support really soured me on it ever working here. If you're outside of the US, the availab
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by burningChrome 1mo ago
THIS. I've seen visually impaired and wheelchair users have more issues with elevators than I have with not having proper ramps. Although I have seen several wheelchair bound accessibility experts invited to give talks and there's

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