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by webmobdev 4y ago
If you care about your mental health, I would recommend against it - it's a chilling and depressing story of how an indian politician uses communal violence to further his career and promote religious fundamentalist fascist ideology in
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Internet Archive takes down upload of BBC’s Modi documentary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34504085 Censorship, arrests, power cuts. India scrambles to block BBC documentary. - https://www.washingtonpost
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Internet Archive takes down upload of BBC’s Modi documentary(thehindu.com)
169 points by webmobdev 4y ago|67 comments
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Way to miss the point - when there are two interfaces, and people are demanding that both have feature parity (or same level of ease of use), it is stupid to point that since one of the interface is easier people should prefer that.
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by webmobdev 4y ago
What's the point of a GUI OS then? Let's get rid of the mouse and trackpad too ...
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by webmobdev 4y ago
A browser^, at a minimum, should support HTML + CSS (+1 if it supports the latest specification). Edit : ^A modern browser
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by webmobdev 4y ago
The problem with Apple has always been about relinquishing control to the user - they have a tunnel vision about finding an "Apple way" of doing something, sticking with it obstinately and not caring about power-users.
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Sigh ... So now we'll have to charge our shoes too. And ofcourse, it'll come with its own app that will require you to share your location to show you how many steps you have walked and where you have walked (or run), on a map. (A
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Google alleges Competition Commission of India 'copied' EU order: report(bbc.com)
1 points by webmobdev 4y ago|0 comments
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Can you give some examples of that because I didn't get your point?
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Part of these funds go to Aravind Eye Hospital in India: > I pay $1 to have an eye test. I can come two more times in the next three months and I will not be charged. I first do a glaucoma test, and then I am tested for vision, and the
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Interesting - in India, I have only paid house rent at the end of the month (post-paid). It was a shock to me to learn that in UAE they expected rent annually , in "advance" (I guess it is smart as that weeds out those living pay
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Yet another example of how macOS is slowly being dumbed down to be more ios like by restricting kernel extensions and forcing developers to use their limited OS APIs.
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by webmobdev 4y ago
It wasn't just the Americans, the French also supported the indian rebels against the British. It was the French connection that made popular the tales of indian resistance in America, and how Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan (father and son,
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by webmobdev 4y ago
If you are signed into Gmail, Google can know every website you visit if the site uses Google Analytics or Google Ads (which the majority of website do today).
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Laws and regulations are indeed the only way to prevent it. But note that GDPR applies only to EU. So even if Google is complying (and not using loopholes to avoid it) those of us who are not Europeans are still screwed. (As I pointed, the
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by webmobdev 4y ago
And there are loopholes to get around it. A simple example is when other services are automatically enabled in Gmail like "personalisation", "spam detection", "priority inbox" or sorting promotional emails. All
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Self-hosting means the ability to host and run the code on your own server (home or webhost). Since Microfeed is built on the cloud services offered by Clouflare, you technically can't run it independently on your own server as you
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by webmobdev 4y ago
> We do not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads. That's laughable - When Gmail was launched, it advertised that it would show you "relevant" text ads based on your email! That was one of its features in an
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Wonder how many decades it will take the US to declare Snowden as a "patriot" who tried to warn us of the peril our democracy is in because of mass surveillance?
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by webmobdev 4y ago
> What you’re seeing in India is democracy in action. Modi has the highest approval rating of any major world leader ... If you think democracy is only about winning elections, then Hitler was a great democrat too. > India is matur
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by webmobdev 4y ago
> Like in the US, democracy in the United Kingdom is faltering. This is unfortunately not unique. India too has seen the rise of the right, and its democracy threatened and at a perilous stage. Many other countries have seen the rise o
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by webmobdev 4y ago
That's one of the first lessons old schoolers learnt about web hosting when the internet boom began and busted - The oldest web hosts are the most reliable, but always keep an eye for change of ownership. Rackspace, Pair, Slicehost, Li
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by webmobdev 4y ago
I believe she was targeted by the ruling political party, who have a history of harassing and doxxing their critics, (or the current indian government itself) to demoralise her and besmirch her reputation as a journalist. And that happened.
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by webmobdev 4y ago
There's also a bug report (not fixed for a long time - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-... ) that the Tor Browser also phones some Mozilla / Firefox every time it starts
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by webmobdev 4y ago
Yes, this whole thing is just another public relation exercise of "Apple cares about your privacy" bullshit when they are actually saying that they still plan to scan your device for CSAM. "End to end" encryption of ba
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by webmobdev 4y ago
They haven't really - I logged in to specifically post about that. Like you pointed out, the real outrage was never about scanning for CSAM in the "cloud" but on your device. And this clever fluff of public relation exercise
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> they just ate every other 3rd party "secure" backup services lunch... Really? Isn't this the same Apple that told the FBI that they could get access to a suspect's data from their iCloud account. And the same Appl
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If I recall right, the founder was involved in the fiasco to abandon Presto in favour of Blink. I remember one of the reason he cited in defence for this is that Presto couldn't keep up with the increasing number of popular, broken web
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Opera (the European one) was a decent company, and much, much more ethical than Google or Apple (in not using weasel words, and false assurance to data mine your personal data). The founder sold Opera (a really big mistake in my opinion) an

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