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3,140karma·1,202submissions·December 12, 2023
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I think this article is jumping the gun ... Give it time ... I hadn't even heard of this show, and so obviously wasn't even looking for it ... And if it is in Swedish, I'll also have to…
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Some aspects I found surprising: India tops the chart at banning books, even ahead of China, and the US bans more books than the UK (is that a more recent thing?)!
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From Appropriate Uses For SQLite - https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html : > The amount of web traffic that SQLite can handle depends on how heavily the website uses its database…
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> Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the call from Microsoft. The group didn’t immediately respond Frida…
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Somebody posted that link too on HN and it was flagged too. :/
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PaleMoon browser has a canvas.poisondata config setting (also available in the Preferences GUI) which prevents such fingerprinting. However, note that these things are not used in isolation - browse…
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> Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the call from Microsoft. The group didn’t immediately respond Frida…
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Shame that Mozilla is giving in to Google. It just looks like a delaying tactic - they don't want JPEG-XL to become popular because once JPEG-XL reaches a particular threshold of adoption, other …
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The support is shit only because of Google, Microsoft and Mozilla who refuse to add it to their OS / browser for their own selfish reasons. The tactic seems to be to just deliberately delay imple…
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You can manually download the updates from here - https://support.apple.com/en-us/docs for the older versions of mac (or check and download it manually through Software Update). …
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Others in the family still use iDevices. Can't avoid Windows or macOS due to work. Prefer FreeBSD and use that mostly. It's an old mac and will be dumping it after another year or two. Do no…
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> In this scenario the macOS firewall does not seem to function correctly and is disregarding firewall rules ... Some examples of apps that do this are Apple’s own apps and services since macOS 14.…
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With the Russia-Ukraine war in Europe, Israel-Arab/Persian war in the middle-east, conflicts in the African continent and a potential Korean conflict and Indo-China conflict in Asia, it increasin…
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If there isn't any evidence to back it up, then it's just an assumption.
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Then religious muslims around the world, who all fast every year, must have the highest rate of medical issues related to their kidneys. Is there any such studies showing this?
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> why does India get to have 75% of all h1b visas? Seems not very diverse. I'd wager it's a deliberate US state policy. It's because we indians are good immigrants - whether it be …
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I guess it could be construed as a kind of a racism - they were fired or forced to resign because cheaper, younger and more subservient workers were available.
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Why would they when Homebrew was amateurish compared to MacPorts built by Apple engineers? (For e.g. it didn't follow accepted unix conventions or macOs conventions on installing libraries for a …
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Forced to use an old version because the newer versions are really buggy on macOS. (They acknowledge it too, and say they lack mac developers).
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Tech apart, all this is still planned obsolescence, with malicious compliance, just to avoid using removable battery or fixing a battery in place with screws, that would make it easy to repair a devi…
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It's not "bias", but being financially prudent - when you are financially constrained, you don't need a $1200 phone nor do you need to subscribe to a $50/month plan when che…
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Good article about the woes in India to preserve privacy amidst the combined onslaught of government surveillance and surveillance capitalism. My mother's pension account was frozen for many mont…
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> people in poverty wont be able to get iPhones for $100 upfront anymore And that's good - those who are financially constrained shouldn't be getting (enticed) into debt-traps by buying…
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Wish my neighbours and relatives would listen - tell them that and they are quick to pick one of those plastic containers, flip it, and point to the text at the bottom that says "Microwave Safe&…