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by voytec 1y ago
> Google shall not enter or maintain any agreement that > (1) conditions the licensing of the Play Store or any other Google application on the distribution, preloading, or placement of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or the
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Google won't have to sell Chrome in antitrust win(axios.com)
4 points by voytec 1y ago|2 comments
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by voytec 1y ago
> depositing a significant amount of electrical charge Unsatisfying description but I guess we don't yet know if it's any close to 1.21 jigawatts.
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by voytec 1y ago
With Netflix you pay for licenses and ongoing costs like bandwidth and maintenance. A better analogy here is having to pay Microsoft for unlocking Windows NT/Server's ability to use more CPUs. Paid-for OS is already capable of it
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by voytec 1y ago
> the country is the recipient of a huge amount of EU funds What shaped Poland into something acceptable as a NATO member was USAID - the program Musk and Big Balls axed. USAID allowed Poland to join NATO and later the EU. I've snat
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by voytec 1y ago
> Taiwan, Japan, Poland, Canada, Spain, Australia, many others (...) have a great political and economic relationship with the US, and are currently at 0% risk of attack or invasion I'm sorry, are you from the past? You literally li
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by voytec 1y ago
> What's the alternative here? Do you want them to replicate their infrastructure Cloudflare adverises themselves as _the_ redundancy / CDN provider. Don't ask me for an "alternative" but tell them to get their b
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by voytec 1y ago
Weaseling out of SLA/SLO payments.
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by voytec 1y ago
> outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency. Good to know that Cloudflare has services seemingly based on GCP with no redundancy.
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by voytec 1y ago
Yeah. This service was presenting charts likely probed from inside GCP. I was on a call with a Google rep, someone pointed out that "AWS is also down" and I foolishly said something about "possible BGP attack" out of spi
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by voytec 1y ago
> Why can't companies be honest with being down SLA agreements.
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by voytec 1y ago
It's not about living like a caveman. You can enable 1st party JS without JS from 20 ad/tracking hosts.
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by voytec 1y ago
> NoScript is indeed very effective at blocking tracking, but it also breaks a lot of websites. Sure, images may no be present without JS lazy-loading them. Accidentaly, NoScript also fixes a lot of websites. Publishers are often paywall
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by voytec 1y ago
Zen Browser works well for me. It's a Firefox fork but privacy-focused whereas Mozilla recently became an ad company and published hostile TOS changes. No issues I had when I was evaluating LibreWolf.
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by voytec 1y ago
> The lack of cartels are perhaps a reflection of the lack of the international supply chains etc. No. Most of Europe (apart from Scandinavian states, Belarus and Russian Federation, I believe) has access to legal LSD prodrugs. Not analo
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by voytec 1y ago
Fair. I apologize for my poor choice of words. I however stand by my point in general.
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by voytec 1y ago
> Mods: Consider adding to the title: A privacy focused search engine @dang No - please don't do it. This request is plain stupid. Apple and Google being "privacy-focused" is a silly buzz-phrase at this point. Mullvad is t
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The Myths of Venture Capital(molodtsov.me)
2 points by voytec 1y ago|2 comments
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by voytec 1y ago
> Venture capital didn’t kill Arc. It gave us the chance to see what Arc could be. That’s more than most products ever get.
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by voytec 1y ago
Also, the quality of service is top notch. Not just the procedure execution but in private dental clinics (in Gdańsk) you lay down on a bed and there's a sizeable OLED screen at the ceiling with slow-mo clips sporting waterfalls, beach
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by voytec 1y ago
I'm flagging this submission. Look at the author[0], at the "Georgetown students..." (won't backlink again) post linked below stating that Cerca was 2 months old in April, and OP's post from April stating that they
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by voytec 1y ago
I've also hit this link trying to get any info on "Cerca". It's from April 2025 and praises app created two months earlier. It looks like a LLM-hallucinated garbage. OP's entry mentions contacting Cerca team in Febr
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by voytec 1y ago
> In most cases the most biometric data is your photo and I guess height? As I mentioned - Polish id renewals require fingerprints scan and this data was likely shared with the US Office of Biometric Identity Management. Where it comes t
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by voytec 1y ago
> Where? At the top, just below[0] the title. Anyway, great project and worth pushing beyond being a "toy project" imo. But like few other commenters - seeing LEDs you used immediately rubbed me the wrong way. I tend to seed my
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by voytec 1y ago
> this is not a serious project, it is a toy You call it "cutting-edge" in the README.
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by voytec 1y ago
Sadly, I'm unable to find specific documents confirming it. AFAIK, Poland agreed to biometric data sharing with the US Office of Biometric Identity Management in exchange for loosening travel requirements. That said, US seems to be pus
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by voytec 1y ago
Biometric data is valuable. Assuming that Musk's DOGE crew copied data obtained from US gov agencies, they may have also obtained biometric data of EU citizens. At least some countries have shared citizens' fingerprints with the U
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by voytec 1y ago
Nowadays using Google Search is, since they pivoted from from being a "search company" to "adtech company" which resulted in the degradation of Google Search quality. "Engines like Bing" is an ambiguous term. T
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by voytec 1y ago
No. The US vs. Google antitrust cases scope are Google's monopolistic practices in the search and adtech markets, not the browser market. The DOJ pushing for Google to sell Chrome is related to the search-related case.
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by voytec 1y ago
The aggressive marketing of Chrome on Google Search website to users using other browsers was a significant part of Chrome adoption success. And no - some people didn't willingly and consciously switched to their search engine. It was

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