orangeoxidation

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by orangeoxidation 3mo ago
> I think we should see this as simply silly behavior by a government.[...] This is an administration that seems to be keeping track of who its friends are and aren't, and likes to be the center of every story. They also seem to lik
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by orangeoxidation 3y ago
> Google's existence has spawned a horde of SEO spam sites that dilute and push down real content on the internet They don't push real content "down the internet" they push it down the google rankings. And while Goog
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by orangeoxidation 3y ago
> The question is, does it fulfill a cookie-using website's requirements under GDPR without additional UI It cannot. That's the whole point of the GDPR. It forbids tracking without informed, explicit user consent. Users cannot
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> So what you paid for as an investor was a bunch of R&D research on how to replace natural and free sunlight with LEDs. (The fact that there are investor decks out there pitching that energy costs could be offset by investments in s
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> I was surprised to see "sprawl" called out in the op because that is directly opposed to the flattening of building restrictions and the deregulation that is being pursued by both the state and housing activists Strange. I un
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> That's not a data protection problem, however. No data protection law forbids digitization of government services. It's a common excuse, though. It's a super weird one as well. There's no extra special data protect
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
There's video de- and encoding as well.
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> Money, it turns out, wasn’t the point after all. Not the only point. Asking them if they wanted to do the sales team job without compensation would get you the obvious answer. They wouldn't. Money is the point, it's just not
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
Interesting. So it only shows images that were transformed / mixed to get the output, but does not show images used to learn how to transform / select them? Sounds very much like a human would do it. If I 'know' how to r
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> I write a lot of C and still find it tricky when I have to go look at some random C codebase Absolutely. C Code is not necessarily easy to understand. Not at all. But the C parts itself are? In C you seldom wonder what C does, you wond
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> I am always shocked when I learn the some code I wrote as throwaway-tp-be-done-right-later 10 years ago is still in use. That's because your "quick throwaway" code solves a real problem. It is useful, it works, it is ver
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> what did I miss Mobile is eating the web. Mobile (Android - it's all Safari on iOs) Firefox is a bad experience.
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
Print can charge for ad placement, not impressions. But that's only possible because the number of subscribers, size and number of print runs, circulation are well known and hard to fake stats. The web cannot do that without tracking..
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> But you're also saying without that protection, the market would be more consolidated. I read it as 'the market wouldn't exist at all'. The margins would either be a lot thinner, allowing less experimentation and pl
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> One of the solutions could be to freeze and compress background tabs. FF can do it, but it only triggers in low ram situations and detection is wonky, disabled on Linux. I found the auto tab discard addon [0] to be a game changer on my
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
It does not. I find the wild, anti-competitive cross product "synergy" the big tech companies are employing just as concerning as privacy violations. (E.g. Google search pushing Chrome and other services, Chrome sync logging users
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> I tried to, as much as time permitted, give the historical context for the math I was teaching. This is great. Funny how teachers generally aim for their students to 'understand' instead of merely 'replicating' (fro
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> Advertisers are measuring the actual effectiveness of their ads, and paying for that only. Therefore falling effectiveness means falling prices and you have to increase the quantity of ads, to earn the same money (and achieve the same
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
I don't think the license is too important as there's always a chance the software gets abandoned instead. Rather look at how many organizations are paying for contributions. If it's all resting on a single back there's
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
The article makes a decent point: Websites will have an incentive to prove their visitors are not children. > It is virtually impossible to identify and segment your user base and apply the bill's protections to only those you can 1
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> several legal frameworks which actively oppose the idea (ITAR, IP and copyright, etc). The idea seems pretty silly to me. IP and copyright do apply to (otherwise free) speech. That's the whole point of them. The Supreme Court fam
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
Well... that's an old argument (the PGP book) and there's even support from the courts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_Sta
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
Doesn't it make search worse though? I don't like my searches to end at paywalls and Google being able to do more of that doesn't seem an advantage.
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> They continued building up their nuclear power plants well into the 1990s but failed to bring construction costs and delays down like your comment suggests. Absolutely true. It proved expensive even at large scale and with full support
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
You might even land the ultimate innovation of doing both by "inventing" AJAX! (Just call it something new, like piped hydration)
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> Have a 'Gecko' module, have an 'UI' module, have a 'telemetry' module, ..... this would allow people to build Firefox 'flavors' instead of forking everything. Everyone would contribute to the sam
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
Isn't this about the EU not being totalitarian? I.e. the laws limit government power and the courts rule independently. > I expect this new proposal to be heavily contested as well, and I expect fundamental rights to constitute a si
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
Yup, that seems a strange argument. Power usage varies during the day, but it doesn't really go below some "base load". Nuclear can run basically 24/7, but you cannot turn it on or off quick enough to to react to hourly
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
They claim to have learned Telegram gave up IP-Addresses and/or telephone numbers > on suspects in the areas of child abuse and terrorism. In the case of violations of other criminal offenses, it remains difficult for German invest
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> It's almost like a paid version of spam. Well put. It seems they are trying to optimize for listener time. It makes sense for the free offering as listening time is advertisement time is income. But for the paid version what they

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