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by yetanother12345 2y ago
There's a thin line between trusting and gullible, and the difference may be hard to perceive for outsiders. Trusting and gullible alike also means easily exploitable, especially when coupled with hospitality which (believe it or not!)
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by yetanother12345 2y ago
> a country whose name literally just translates into “country of $ethnic_group.” FYI, this is the case with Denmark as well (as long as you permit Dane to be an ethnic group)
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Added: Here is the ruleset I use for Hacker News specifically * { font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.5em } a { text-decoration: underline; }
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
In your browser of choice, install the "Stylus" plugin. This is a plugin that will let you write custom CSS styles for any and all page(s). If your browser of choice does not have the exact "Stylus" plugin it will have a
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> is good for ... ... creating a massive pressure for sideloading and alternative/non-official app-stores. Don't for a minute think that those millions of people who currently enjoy that platform will suddently want to stop. Ne
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I think a better question is: Why do you insist on using Google? There are several search engines on the WWW. Google is just one, and I hear people complaining about that one a lot. I don't use it personally, and I haven't done so
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I don't know if you were around when the US internet was inside AOL? And the French inside Minitel? All the rest of us didn't really care what you all did in there. Platforms and Walled Gardens alike come and go.
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> claim better targeted content Any such claim is irrelevant. The personal opinion of the receiver of the content is not relevant, only that the content delivered somehow makes money for the sender. > That has driven people away from
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> participating online with other humans There is a more significant case of "the end of anonymity", that of doing any kind of sale or purchase. The more sophisticated the possibilities for fraud become, the harder the authorit
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
As for "glimpse" ... One or two general elections ago[0] the Danish Peoples Party (which at the time was often declared far right and compared to the likes of Geert Wilders et al) got a 25% vote. In the media it was described as a
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> These anecdotes have as much credibility as alien abductions, remote viewing, out of body experiences or other self-reported paranormal experiences... Those types of experiences are not the type of behaviour that is on topic here. Also
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> This could instead be explained by having a IQ I respectfully disagree. Reasoning and memory is not the same. If you happen to actually become aquaintaned to more than one of this type of people during your lifetime you will (maybe) no
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> they flew him over a city and he drew all buildings with there windows etc on a large sheet of paper Steephen Wiltshire, Autistic Savant and Artist [0,1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiltshire [1] ht
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I bought the cheapest one at the store, as I always do. It was even on sale. IIRC it was less than $200. This was in 2022. My former "daily driver" Linux laptop was from 2009, and it gave up in 2023 (keyboard hardware failure, no
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> "wipe my data" You may be referring to "hiding your data from your own view" ... For SoMe and other organizations that have very large databases it is a very common procedure (if not outright "best practice&quo
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> I can't imagine a successful platform not getting beleaguered by the SEO May I suggest inclusion of the following snippet in the <head> section of every page on such a site: <meta name="robots" content=&q
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
The keywords that you would want to enter into your preferred search engine are: Digital Picture Frame At this point in time that is already a regular product category. The OP could just have bought one, but chose the DIY path.
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Thanks all below, I was not aware. I'm (a little) wiser now.
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Try styling it (CSS). I've been there. One more reason not to use it.
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Please, McCarthy is old hat. Here's a Survey of WorldWide Censorship, specifically the chapter on internet[0] to get you up-to-date. There's also the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) [1] which deals more with infras
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Please note: Ireland This is the national internet regulator proposing that it would require that everyone, adult and children alike, would upload their state ID and live selfies, to porn sites to have biometric processing of their fac
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I see something that worries me in this article. It seems that any private enterprise can just launch any type of item(s) to the moon without any rules or oversight what so ever?!! How TF did we even get there? And how can we get rules and
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> nobody I know uses SMS these days Pro tip: Everyone can still receive your SMS, and respond to it. Which app they'll use for that is unknown to me as I've never[0] used a smartphone. [0] Qualification seems to be needed:
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
In other news Bitcoin and crypto stocks came under pressure early Wednesday as the market continues to wait for spot bitcoin ETF approvals by federal regulators, which are expected to come around Jan. 10. [0] https://www
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Here you go: <script> document.write('<b>Screen: </b>'+screen.width+' x '+screen.height); </script> Yes, I know, "document.write()", but then there's some
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> " ... is bringing to the table is the idea ..." Wikipedia states that "Keep it simple, stupid!", is a design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960 [0] ... but some coders, including yours truly, h
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Possibly OT, or tangential. But then this is HN, so > Various Package Managers Quite a long list at the right side, but... no Debian? I'd think that the user base of Debian would be larger than of some of the other distros listed (e
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
What? Miniature is colonial? Please let me introduce you to the concept "Persian Miniature", it even has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_miniature There is also the equally (if not mor
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> will get negative feedback I strongly disagree. The most likely feedback will be zero, zilch, none. So, you should clearly write for your own sake only. Also: I'd bet that 95% to 99.9999% of your visitors the first three to five y
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Agree 100% Also, worrying about negative comments is counterproductive. If you get even one single comment in the first year or two, negative or positive you should be glad. I have blogs that have ran for 10 and 15 years with a comment fiel

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