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by metastart 4y ago
The Epic Privacy Browser for Windows has this extension built-in. Other platform versions will be getting it soon.
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by metastart 5y ago
I really really wish LetsEncrypt would support 1 year long certificates. Round Robin DNS isn't really supported "easily" so for those sites & others, manually replacing certs every year would be a more practical option. T
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by metastart 5y ago
Ethereum has a value equal to roughly GM, Ford and Toyota combined. Probably as much as AWS despite the fact that no large company I know of runs their company on Ethereum. The largest things on Ethereum are things like Uniswap which faci
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by metastart 5y ago
Solana with its proof of history and performance sounds extremely cool. The performance relative to network size also looks really good. The general idea strikes me as a great insight, though I have just an intuitive grasp of the idea (I
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by metastart 7y ago
I care about true privacy and transparency...so I use the Epic Privacy Browser and their ad-free and transparent EpicSearch.in. The claim in the blog post and by DuckDuckGo "They do not collect or share personal information" can n
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by metastart 7y ago
Ah great, this has controls (pause!) :-).
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by metastart 7y ago
Sorry...I just found it at the left side by the taxi. Fantastic idea, UI & song selection...working great :-). Thank you!!
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by metastart 7y ago
Pause or Stop button?
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by metastart 7y ago
Data Handling Transparency? Great discussion in terms of how to "regulate" extensions. I feel that it shouldn't technically be that difficult to put in data handling transparency, basically to analyze the code fast and figu
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by metastart 7y ago
Google recently removed several hundred extensions which were found to contain malware. Tons of extensions have been caught saving & selling users' browsing history, notably the ironically titled popular "web of trust".
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40 Powerful concepts for understanding the world in 40 Tweets(twitter.com)
3 points by metastart 7y ago|0 comments
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by metastart 7y ago
Interesting. Online, there are differences between say privacy and anonymity. TOR allows ads & trackers but standardizes/blocks a lot of things to provide anonymity (a kind of blending in). The Epic Privacy Browser blocks ads, t
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by metastart 7y ago
No ads coming up in my Epic Privacy Browser with adblock & encrypted proxy on :-). Firefox has been copying a lot of Epic's features, but still is far behind their privacy defaults.
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by metastart 7y ago
No, Mozilla needs to keep focusing on Mozilla and trying to make it better than Chromium. Competition is essential. They're the only ones left other than Apple now that Microsoft has given up.
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Disney+ has already netted 28.6M subscribers(engadget.com)
2 points by metastart 7y ago|1 comments
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by metastart 7y ago
You left out Alexa / Kindle :-).
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by metastart 7y ago
It's not in the Epic Privacy Browser (a chromium-based web browser) :-). Is it in Chromium?
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by metastart 7y ago
Sadly it's very common to hear from many reasonably serious potential acquirers before something is consummated. 10 is not unusual I think. It's best to always focus on your business and growing it, assume the acquisition isn&#x
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by metastart 7y ago
It's not so much the difficulty, though yes it is hard, but it's generally extremely difficult to raise capital as a late entrant into an established industry. Unless there's something disruptive. That said, it doesn't
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by metastart 7y ago
Yes, you're basically right...but the problem isn't building your own search engine, it's in getting search ads privately as well as just being transparent and honest about how your service works -- none of which is true for
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by metastart 7y ago
If you're looking for a book that's both easy and stimulating to read, but that discusses a lot of mathematics in reasonable detail, I highly recommend the novelist David Foster Wallace's Everything and More: A Compact Histor
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by metastart 9y ago
This is untested to my knowledge, but I feel like the best prevention for suicide is mentorship...that every teen has someone they're attached to.
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by metastart 9y ago
Great read! "...an early genius of military engineering, Gabriele Tadini." But more than 1500 years before him there were others such as Archimedes and Caesar. I wonder if Tadini was a polymath similar to other great military eng
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by metastart 9y ago
This is the same thing I've been saying for years, "Paleoanthropology must move past the point where a mandibular fragment is accepted as sufficient evidence."
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by metastart 9y ago
"You have the privilege of sharing the planet with the largest animal that ever lived on Earth."
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by metastart 9y ago
Sociology as a field arguably emerged from the study of crime. We have annual crime statistics which we all take for granted today but two hundred years ago or so it was a revolutionary concept. It was thought that crime was something spo
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by metastart 9y ago
There is ZERO legal basis for asset forfeiture UNLESS someone is charged with a crime. Your property is really part of you and no one, no government has any legal right to imprison you (which includes your property) unless you are charged
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by metastart 9y ago
"mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing"...yes, somewhat on the hardware side. There are still annual sales of maybe 1 billion smartphones a year...so that's a pretty big market. I think that there's still ENORMOU
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by metastart 9y ago
Yeah, basically if everyone always voted, the Democrats would generally win. That's why Republicans don't want to encourage voter turnout and also want to suppress ease of voting which usually harms poorer people who tend to be D
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by metastart 9y ago
"The fact that Facebook could easily throw the election by selectively showing a Get Out the Vote reminder in certain counties of a swing state, for example, was a running joke." Woah. They're asking to be regulated.

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