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Oh, ok. My mistake. Don't know how I associated it with Godfather ...
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I guess it depends on the market. In India, all streaming and file hosting sites with pirated tv / movies materials are immediately blocked now. As are nearly all torrent sites. But sharing torrent magnet links are still easier and che
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How do you claim sexual practices are "similar" today as a generation ago? Christianity has been prescribing missionary sex position for a long time now, and even Islam has guidelines on sexual activity (that covers the first two
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Exactly - one of the major reason American BigTech is so invasive today in collecting our personal data is because the US government has shown them how valuable it is for them. Project PRISM has evolved and is huge success ...
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And all browsers leak to Google if you have search suggestion in address bar enabled ...
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According to a TF article in 2012 - https://torrentfreak.com/top-bittorrent-countries-in-the-wor... - Spain was one of the top 10 countries of torrent downloaders. Is there any statistics of torrent users (by country) for 2
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> As the maps are unlikely to ever be placed inside of phone devices ... Could you clarify what you mean? Here Maps allows you to download maps into your device and use it to navigate offline (without internet connection in devices wit
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What choice do you think consumers have?
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When India wanted specialised secure communication equipment for confidential diplomatic communications between its government and embassies, they ordered it from a European country to avoid spying by the US. Unknown to them, the US approac
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How can the content "speak to me" when I am not familiar with a subject? If you want to learn and practice Islam, would you pick a book written by an expert Christian who prefers to denounce it?
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If Apple's social media team is hiring, you should apply - this is exactly the irritating kind of replies I get when I criticise some Apple product. :)
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And enabling this also allows Apple to collect the data from you to "improve the service". So Apple will now have more data on you.
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It's Russia - so a pirated copy will soon be available online. Getting english audio / subtitles will be an issue though as with most Russian TV series / movies. (And yeah, it should be very interesting - we could compare how
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Russia premieres first feature film shot in space(theguardian.com)
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Not just first launch, every time. Moreover, Chromium, on which Vivaldi is built, generates a unique id to track every installation (HN discussion - Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID - https://news.ycomb
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Note also to actually research the GL.iNet router model before purchasing - they falsely label some routers as "official openwrt" . For example, the GL-SF1200 is listed as an OpenWRT router by them but some of the binaries on it,
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Exactly. Recently there was a big drama by the US where they summoned TikTok app's management to answer questions publicly in a Congressional hearing. International media were commenting how America is getting ready to ban TikTok becau
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That's why repetitive advertising is so effective - it starts to make you doubt reality.
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> I also build for macOS, which has always allowed sideloading Isn't it funny that something that has been completely normal for decades - the freedom to (develop and) install the software we want - now has new term because corporat
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> I'm thrilled when Apple wields its big stick to stop big tech companies from overreaching. If Apple did just that, it would have been ok. But they didn't stop at that - they decided to do the very same thing that Google, Meta
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> There is no amount one couldn't spend -- why are you even saying it this way? Simply look at all the wealth the rich leave behind when they die ...
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I think currently the only browser that supports JPEG-XL is PaleMoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ - a hard fork of Firefox.
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PaleMoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ - a hard fork of Firefox, includes a setting called canvas.poisondata which really messes up browser fingerprinting without distorting any canvas use on a site. It is also a zero teleme
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> I started from nothing and have a few million. And if you need that millions throughout your lifetime, that's fine. But imagine you have so much money to spend that you don't really know how to spend it in your lifetime? That
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Buddhism was the original missionary religion that inspired Islam and Christianity towards proselytization.
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The problem with the super-rich is that they have more money they can spend. The not spending is the problem. Money is good for public welfare only when it is earned and spent. Investments are supposed capitalist solutions to this - to ma
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You made a good point. But I don't think people are advocating taxing people like you but the super rich. The disparity between the few super-rich and the poor is so huge in many countries. Wealth that is not being put to use by the su
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There's a lot of history revisionism being done by the current Ukranian regime's propaganda. It's understandable but it's also sad as its just poor short-term politics that is going to keep Ukranian society divided for a
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That happens with indian carriers too. From what I understood, Indian carriers don't bother with the HotSpot settings because it is enabled by default for all users at their end. This works fine with Android phones but often not iPhone
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> How (and why) is it even possible for carriers? This happened in India. So one day mobile data was quite slow on my non-Apple phone. I asked my friend to enable hotspot on his iPhone. We were stumped when we couldn't find the &quo

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