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by skrowl 3y ago
That's their public core argument. Their real argument (to shareholders etc) is that they want that 30% rake on everything you buy, so they want you to have 900 apps on your phone instead of a web browser than visits 900 websites.
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by skrowl 3y ago
"AI behavior guardrails" is a weird way to spell "AI censorship"
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by skrowl 3y ago
Cops can absolutely do that. Cops posing as prostitutes can arrest you for attempting to purchase sex from them as well.
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by skrowl 3y ago
There's only Safari on iOS. EVERY browser on iOS is just a skin on top of Safari's WebKit. See 2.5.6 here - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
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by skrowl 3y ago
Link appears to just lead to the Manjaro home page. Is there something new / exciting that HN needs to know?
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by skrowl 3y ago
There are many file explorer apps ( MiXplorer is my favorite https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.... ) on Google Play that have optional root access as well. You can use it w/o root,
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by skrowl 3y ago
We're one killer global war / pandemic / etc away from extinction Being on multiple planets (and eventually multiple solar systems) prevents a species from going extinct if something catastrophic happens to their home world
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by skrowl 3y ago
No company should give up it's user data without a fight It's not even clear that who they were looking for had broken any laws
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by skrowl 3y ago
In case anyone was wondering how, it's pretty straight forward: Hamburger Menu > Settings Privacy & Security tab on the left Scroll down to the Firefox Data Collection and Use section (2nd section from bottom) Uncheck all of the
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by skrowl 3y ago
> it's not syncing between devices > Signal is cooler Clearly you haven't tried using Signal on multiple devices. It's terrible currently. Telegram / WhatsApp / etc work great on multiple devices.
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by skrowl 3y ago
NPR was, quite-literally created by an act of the United States congress. It receives DIRECT funding from the United States government. Twitter was generous in changing the label from "State-affiliated" media (given that it was li
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by skrowl 3y ago
> Firefox has no path, literally none, in getting a significant marketing share. Wait until Chrome bans Manifest V2 extensions (like ublock origin). That will be a good time for Firefox to shine.
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by skrowl 4y ago
In the default lists, under privacy, just subscribe to "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" and it'll do the same thing for you
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by skrowl 4y ago
If you left iMessage on when you upgraded from iOS to an Android device, everyone who had an iPhone would still be attempting to send you iMessages and you'd never get them on your Android phone.
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by skrowl 4y ago
Apple isn't actually doing anything for privacy, they just say they are. Testing proves otherwise time and time again https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-privacy-4th-lawsu...
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by skrowl 4y ago
lol imagine being a "journalist" in the current year and writing "Rather than match iOS's tracking limits, Google built an additional tracking system." as if you think iOS tracking does anything close to what it say
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by skrowl 4y ago
.NET developers look on .NET Framework with disdain now. Good luck hiring if you're still on Framework.
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by skrowl 4y ago
lol, you can't tell iPhone zealots that their antiquated mocks are out of date. They're still using the same old stuff because they can't handle the fact that iPhone hasn't added a new feature that wasn't present o
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by skrowl 4y ago
You don't. It's widely discredited for comparing platforms. They also cherry picked JUST single core performance here (which has 0 bearing in any real life usage scenario). Don't take it from me, take it from Linus Torvalds
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by skrowl 4y ago
Do they really hate labor or do they hate lazy millennial labor? I'm sure this will be downloaded to hell, but you have to ask yourself that.
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by skrowl 4y ago
I guess by "in bed" here you mean "they're already buying office 365 to get legit Word, Excel, Outlook licenses"?
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by skrowl 4y ago
Is it as politically biased as ChatGPT?
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by skrowl 4y ago
Wow, their pricing is super high. I can't imagine who the target demographic for this is when google maps / etc are free.
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by skrowl 4y ago
https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 can do it a little lighter than a full qemu VM
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by skrowl 4y ago
Whenever you consider going self-host, consider what REDUNDANCY and DOWNTIME are worth to you. Sure you can use an old computer and host at home much cheaper than AWS / Azure / etc. But on AWS / Azure / etc if the physi
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by skrowl 4y ago
They're intentionally making Safari a bad experience so that you have to use apps for everything. Apps where they can rake 30% on your purchases, of course.
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by skrowl 4y ago
Chrome and Safari have nothing like Firefox containers. I can't imagine switching to Chrome or Safari.
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by skrowl 4y ago
BitWarden - The least shitty password manager!
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by skrowl 4y ago
I've talked with several of my friends about this. EVERYONE was universally willing to pay Netflix their monthly sub when all the studios just sold their content to Netflix. NO ONE has subscribed to all of Disney+, Apple+, Paramount+,
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by skrowl 4y ago
This is why HN post subject of just the project name are confusing. Is there something new here we should be excited about in the project?

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