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The Hindu supremacist movement is a growing threat in the U.S.(prismreports.org)
26 points by webmobdev 3y ago|17 comments
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by webmobdev 3y ago
AVIF is more compute intensive than HEVC.
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by webmobdev 3y ago
In that case Vivaldi browser is a much better Chrome clone as you can avoid both Google and Microsoft malware.
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by webmobdev 3y ago
I lost all interest in such reports, especially from the US media, after the US decided to create a Space Force military arm and weaponised space. Such kind of reports, supported by official sources, only started appearing after this decisi
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Science and the rise of nationalism in India (2019)(nature.com)
1 points by webmobdev 3y ago|0 comments
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by webmobdev 3y ago
I've been downvoted here many times for voicing this same opinion for a long time. Consider switching to Orion (a fork of Safari WebKit, Mac only, still beta though) - https://browser.kagi.com/ - or PaleMoon (a hard fo
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by webmobdev 3y ago
Doesn't Toyota do something like that - from what I remember, they actually assist their partner-supplier-small-businesses to grow with soft loans, technical help and business advise?
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by webmobdev 3y ago
Seems to be a shady political operation to help the fracking industry in the US: > Huffman notes that today most of the carbon dioxide transported in pipelines is used for something called "enhanced oil recovery." That's a
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by webmobdev 3y ago
Ah, the good ol days of sex scandals in America - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gczkM8cL2hs
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by webmobdev 3y ago
> More likely, Google and Bing will continue to play fair and send traffic. More likely they will need to be sued, like the news / media companies in Europe and Australia have done.
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by webmobdev 3y ago
No, it's because we users no longer trust BigTech like Google to not be greedy and know that it is all about bait and switch . They made "free" the norm on the internet as it increased the barriers for their competitors. T
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by webmobdev 3y ago
Has FSF actually said this? I don't see how it makes it a non-free license - the original intent behind the xGPL is to ensure that a user of the software also has the access to the source code, along with the knowledge of who created i
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by webmobdev 3y ago
That is a very good point, and perhaps could be used as a starting point for a license clause to restrict hosting in places whose EULA doesn't respect the true intent of the license.
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by webmobdev 3y ago
I would have no problem if such AI systems are also completely open source, can be run by me on my system and come with all models to use them also easily available (again in some form of opensource license). I genuinely don't see that
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by webmobdev 3y ago
I think it is ethical and reasonable to include clauses in the A/GPL restricting where you can host the source code if the hosting service has opensource hostile terms in their ToS. US case law already allows this by treating such lice
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by webmobdev 3y ago
A licensor cannot predict the future. When the GPL was written decades ago, nobody predicted that BigTech would start using it on their servers to offer it as "services", and claim that they didn't need to distribute the sour
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by webmobdev 3y ago
GPL and AGPL allows you to add more clauses to the license if they don't clash with any existing ones. The FSF should certainly share some guidelines on how we can include and extend the license through an additional "anti-ML &#x2
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by webmobdev 3y ago
Functionality always trumps jazzy designs. (E.g. Craigslist vs olx.in).
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by webmobdev 3y ago
This is really good advise. When I started out, one of the best advise I got as a web designer was to always ask new clients to focus on the content. I had to repeatedly emphasise to the clients who got distracted with beautiful templates o
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by webmobdev 3y ago
I am an indian who doesn't use WhatsApp or Facebook. It has never inconvenienced me - only WhatsApp users are inconvenienced when I ask them to SMS or email me. If the government bans WhatsApp today, most indians will simply switch to
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by webmobdev 3y ago
> When did you last see offline protests against airport security theater? Isn't that what I am saying too? We accept the huge discomfort because we feel it is important and in our national interest! However important WhatsApp is,
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by webmobdev 3y ago
Yes, milking the lower end is just unfair and will obviously create resentment in freelancers. A really long time back I complained to them that their fees were unfair (I think about the time when eLance and oDesk merged). And their reply w
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by webmobdev 3y ago
It is significantly cheaper and more efficient. The expectation that this benefit would be passed on to us clients is what is unrealistic. :)
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by webmobdev 3y ago
A recruitment agent or a consultancy will often give you a personalised one-to-one service, and hence the higher fees can be somewhat justified. Upwork largely provides an automated service. So let's be realistic and not compare the tw
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by webmobdev 3y ago
https://archive.is/oprej
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Why do some students lose interest in engineering? Former IIT Director explains(indianexpress.com)
3 points by webmobdev 3y ago|1 comments
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by webmobdev 3y ago
National security trumps "discomfort to citizens" every time ... otherwise all of us would have revolted by now for wasting hours in airport because of the security checks.
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by webmobdev 3y ago
I am still highly sceptical about this and feel it is more of a "fear mongering" advertising - that this "remineralizing water" thing only started so that the RO filter businesses could create another source of recurring
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by webmobdev 3y ago
Not to mention that "identifying users by their device" is the wet dream of BigTech - it's like a "hardware cookie" that can track you anywhere you go on the internet. (And that's exactly why BigTech like Micro
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by webmobdev 3y ago
Honest question - what minerals can you get from water that aren't available in the food we eat?

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