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uBlock Origin has been my favorite browser extension for years (it's in fact the only one I have installed). These days I only use it for YouTube however.

The best way to avoid ads is not to visit sites that have them.
I have found that f-droid click updates are very finicky and unreliable. They eventually work, but failed updates and repeat and phantom update notifications are the norm.

It's fine for me but I don't think the average consumer would ever tolerate it.
A quick google reveals a large number of people facing the same issue every year, going back to at least 2014.
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I thought the plan was to buy up bits of New Zealand and built private fortresses staffed by mercenaries with exploding neckwear.
Feels like late-stage USSR. The propaganda machine keeps churning well after the people stop listening. In my new home away from the Bay, people could not care less.
Unpopular opinion, I seen the results of the frameworks from reasonml. The eco system, no company will want to take the risk of using. Before saying "onivim" is using it, its fast.

I have the nightly of onivim2 and st4. Sublime beats the crap out of it, and onivim2 is starting to show slowness in the UI. VSCode is faster than onivm2, yet it suppose to use reasonml.

My advice, never bet your future and company on this fragmented framework.
They literally do all those things. They support protests by people who are often under threat. They counter protest against known violent extremists. I'm not saying they're perfect but your questions are disingenuous.
I think you're spot on and that's precisely why the discussion on legality will be being had. Yes google is providing meaningful app infrastructure, what level of control we as citizens give them over this 'monopoly' is yet to be decided.
According to a tweet that was also retweeted by the user @floesen_ who was mentioned in the original thread, the initial report 2 years ago was done using HackerOne but has probably not seen any helpful response from Valve [1].
There are also other reports of Valve not reacting to HackerOne reports appropriately [2].

It is currently unclear whether there is a publicly available PoC or any exploitation going on in the wild.

[1] https://twitter.com/AntiCheatPD/status/1380873722966503426

[2] https://twitter.com/killa/status/1380872852090540032
How much longer to the day of the "Incredible journey" post on Mozilla's blog?
I honestly have no idea what are you talking about. I really enjoy uBlock Origin on my phone, and that's the primary reason I use Firefox for Android. On iOS Firefox is just an UI to Apple WebView, but that's a matter for antitrust courts and not a fault of Mozilla.
The SPLC is describing anti-government groups among the anti-mask movement, not anti-maskers as a whole, but the Venn diagram of "anti-maskers", "right-wing militias", "conspiracy theorists" and "white supremacists" does overlap. Not perfectly, but also not inconsequentially.

The phenomenon you described as having happened within the Tea Party has happened everywhere among the right end of the American political spectrum over the last decade. Rhetoric which was once confined to the lunatic fringe of talk radio and forums is now mainstream. QAnon emerged from the bowels of 4chan, exploded and became popular enough to win elections, and now the Republican Party enthusiastically stands behind a Congresswoman who believes in Pizzagate and Jewish space lasers. The former president of the United States retweeting nazi memes was not even a story, it was just another Tuesday.

And yes, this has happened somewhat among the left, but not nearly to the same degree, and mostly as a reaction to what's happened on the right.

But can you really blame the left for seeing nazis everywhere when nazis keep showing up everywhere?
Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris
You can omit "GO", the parser will understand "west" fine.

Also, Inform6 is better suited for a "logical old-school"
programmer than if7, where using it for non-English languages can be a huge mess.
> I suspect the Domino's ruling will be the winning one, but I don't know where that line gets drawn.

I'm not so sure. Keep in mind that ADA doesn't require that you provide everyone with the exact same way to do everything. For example, a taxi company doesn't have to equip every cab so that it can handle every disability that might be encountered. It is OK for them to only have part of their fleet equipped for various disabilities, and dispatch those when someone needs one.

With Domino's case, you have a lot of variations the customer has to choose from, and a lot of information that is on the website that would be slow and inconvenient to deal with by phone. Nutritional information, for example. It would be quite the hassle (for both the customer and the person at Domino's) to get nutritional information for all the options a customer might be interested in. I've spent 20 minutes at times fiddling with the build-your-own options checking out nutritional trade offs--that could have taken hours on the phone!

Domino's also usually has a ton of coupons available and a bunch of different specials. Dealing with all those over the phone would also take a lot of time.

Compare to a prescription refill at a pharmacy. There generally all you need to do is communicate your prescription number to the pharmacy. A phone refill consists of calling and when they answer saying "I need to refill prescription #NNNNNNNN".

I think it is quite possible that courts will ultimately agree that for ordering a prescription refill, at least at a pharmacy that hasn't gone overboard with coupons and deals, providing phone ordering is sufficient accommodation for blind people but for ordering pizza at a place with a large menu that has a lot of customization options phone ordering is insufficient accommodation.
To answer your question, probably not. For a fuller answer, I'd read this breakdown by Jane McAlevey, who wrote the extremely well-sourced "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" about the importance of actual organizing, rather than just trying to drive an approval vote: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/bessemer-alabama-...

Basically, there were a number of really bad tactical errors made by organizers throughout the process.
> There literally was no way for me to have found the patent

If it is patented, there is a way to find it. It certainly isn't a useful way of spreading information, but it exists, and its existence makes your claim sound hyperbolic.
It's not the official place where I'm working on this particular project, but if you have any notes or feedback you'd want to track/share through my internet-monitoring project, please feel free! Email is a bit tough, as the volumes right now mean I sometimes see a message quickly, other times after days or weeks :)

https://github.com/geerlingguy/internet-monitoring/issues
I think another problem is, with the advent of Twitch.tv and Patreon, "Donations" as a business model have become somewhat normalized. But it's anything but normal outside of a few fields like OSS, where it's the only viable option to generate revenue. Businesses don't ever ask for donations.

Individuals don't think of themselves as businesses, but they really should. If you're making a game, and distribute it via the App/Play Store, you should think hard about providing something of value to the player, and how much you can charge it. Even if it's just a one time in-app-purchase. It's a much better experience for the users to let them buy something they want, and the success is directly tied to how much value the game provides. Rather then just putting it out there for free, and hope someone will support it.

That's how I see it, for Google it's probably more about revenue sharing and also tax issues, but I do believe not relying on donations leads to better products, that make more sense, as they need to be able to stand for themselves.
> A lazy programmer do not deploy in production, they instruct Jenkins to do that. Therefore a lazy programmer is not afraid of deploying on Friday afternoon.

Just because Jenkins does the final "cp && restart" does not mean that critical bug will not ruin your weekend. The tests mentioned before help, but the unexpected is, per definition, unexpected.

In fact, when the house is burning, I found CI deploys to be quite a slowdown. But this might just be me.
I don't know about the Amazon Devices version, but on Android Firefox works great in my experience. In particular the advantage is that it does support extensions.
Ya. I think that's just a very hard problem. Mostly due to scale running up against organizational psychology.

I helped a friend with some property tax software for governments. Trivially technically, almost intractable organizationally. Not for me. I deeply respect the people who can swim those waters.
It costs them to support it. How many Firefox users on Amazon fire TVs do you think there were?

I would guess it just looks like a bad return on time invested.
>But two wrongs don't make a right. Yes, they take advantage of their position in pricing and yes, they have benefited a lot from offering their infrastructure for free. But that does not make it okay to use the infrastructure they provide for your personal gain just because they are "bad".

The app store is also using him to enrich their ecosystem. They allow free apps for a reason even if it does cost them a miniscule amount of money to host them. It draws people to the platform.

The only reason they're willing to sacrifice kicking him off is because they think that they can wring a small amount of extra cash out of him which they can feed to their shareholders.
I see quite a big difference for sites that rely heavily on JS, especially on MacOS.
≥ Sounds like "literature" is ripe for disruption.

This is the most embarrassing thing I've read on HN - this week. But please let the literary world know what disrupting their world would mean, we could all need a laugh.
Yes unless they're ok with being lumped together with them. If I like cars and so do nazis, I'm not gonna accept them into my club just because we share one thing in common. They're nazis.
This is my thinking, too. On Instagram, we're seeing the best photos of the people who are on their one vacation of the year. Even if we ourselves post a vacation photo and it gets shared and liked, we won't think of it as one of "those" beautiful photos, because we just got lucky with that one. We remember our embarrassingly bad photos.

And on HN, comments are filled with insight backed up by decades of deep experience. But the Perl expert in one thread is unlikely to be the Russian historian in the other. There are few masters-of-all-trades (though they do exist, as if to inspire and mock us). Not to mention the majority of readers whose experience is rarely relevant enough to comment.
>As a rule of thumb, don't include a direct link to PayPal, Patreon or similar, but create a dedicated page on your website listing those and link that page.

That's exactly what this developer did. They linked to a page on their website that has the donation options. Google still objected.
But doesn't Google provide a simple way to both support the developer AND stay within the rules? Make it a pay app.
Maybe it was just too small a market share to warrant supporting? That was my first guess.
And even if you need hundreds of TB of storage, in many cases it might be better to just shard over normal storage and use your backups in case of failures. Current disks are big so you don't need too many for eg 200 TB.
>By the same logic, I should be able to walk into a store and just take anything I want because I'm using it to make items I sell "for donations". Obviously, that's ridiculous.

No, it'd be more like if you paid for a stall in a flea market or something and the owners of the market not only took a cut of your profits off sales but bans you from telling customers to come to your store down the street.
> the gatekeepers of "literature" are determined to keep people like Maya Angelou out of it.

What do you mean by this?

If you’re talking about race, then in my experience the exact opposite is true
Four gray whales have been found dead near San Francisco
Well, I guess the point here is to rollback to the previous version and find and fix the bug on Monday.
That's assuming that you could get the power consumption down to zero, which is impossible. While a penny was an exaggeration, a 5W power savings over a month is about 50 cents savings on someone's power bill.
They recently limited the Android (and derivatives', like FR) build's access to AMO; there are less than fifty there, now. uBO is one, but there's very few other than that. Kind of defeats a major selling-point of WebExtensions.
Also go has the advantage of producing a single static binary. Easy to build on your machine and run on another host.
PyPy v7.3.4 released with Windows 64 and HPy support
> they only guarantee that you'll be able to use the $500 dish (plus $50 shipping) for 12 months

I would guess that if they disconnect your dish from the network, they'll give you a new one for free. I know that isn't what their terms and conditions state, but it would be bad business to do anything else.

They'll hope that most users choose to upgrade first (for more speed or other features).
Firewho?
Taken to it's conclusion, the world becomes a pretty scary place when things are determined by just what is "fair". At the end of the day the author's argument boils down to "Google is very rich, I'm not, I should be able to sidestep their demands for payment on their service." Given an exactly equivalent analogy, if you put your house up on AirBnB would anyone be surprised if AirBnB cracks down on people paying outside their platform and instead guiding renters to a separate "donation page"?
Tbh, That's why for our new projects we've completely ignored relational databases. They're a pain in the ass to manage and scale poorly.

DynamoDB, on the other hand, trivially scales to thousands (and more!) of TPS and doesn't come with footguns. If it works, then it'll continue to work forever.
> think IDFA worked as designed, Apple has changed in terms of what they're marketing and how much power they have to enforce their vision.

Companies improve their products and sometimes it changes the ecosystem. This is way better than, say, the car industry who fought safety enhancements for decades. This is improving safety for their customers; the people who believe they will suffer for this are like the high-interest payday lenders of the internet.

Apple has taken a pro-privacy position for longer than the iphone has existed. Execution has not always been great but I do believe their position is genuine. However I’ll let them defend themselves on this one: they have a communications group.

I’m not trying to claim they are saints, merely that I believe that their pattern of actions Has shown a longstanding interest in their customers’ privacy. Perfect? No, but higher than any others, AFAICT.

PS: if you want another car analogy: certain other actions by Apple remind me of the car companies’ proprietary extensions to the open OBD-II. So again, not saints.
For reference, most existing satellite dishes are receive only, and 4G modems only have to close link on a tower a few miles away, and at RFs where atmospheric attenuation is much lower.
> The app store is also using him to enrich their ecosystem. They allow free apps for a reason even if it does cost them a miniscule amount of money to host them. It draws people to the platform.

And he is using the stores to deliver his app, which he is payed for by his donators and Patreon supporters, to them. And I'd argue that his benefit from having the reach of the store is far greater than the stores benefit of having another game there. So it's not like he's not profiting from that relationship as well.
How to Setup M8 Headless Music Tracker on macOS [video]
That's simply not true in Alabama and many other states, which legally prohibit closed shops.
Every state I’m aware of has workers comp, federally everyone gets COBRA, Medicare, Medicaid, SS disability, short and long term disability- these are all things.

Are they perfect? No. Pretending the systems flaws are somehow Amazon being evil vs the American medical and safety net being a morass of bureaucracy and bullshit is just wrong though.
OP here: I agree on some level. I have perfected my vim skills by actually modifying the production php source code in my youth. However as things get more and more complex, it helps to script them down so that you don't have to remember a set of commands in a given order. I see the deploy script in this case as a "documentation for lazy" :-).
This is a bullshit comparison and you know it.
So it means 'I dig a hole'?
Apparently a lazy programmer does not spellcheck.

Also, this does not seem lazy to me at all:
> A lazy programmer writes a lot of tests, so QA junks do not waste their time.
> A lazy programmer documents their code, so thar [sic] coworkers do not waste their time.
This is a super neat idea. Hopefully Nintendo's lawyers don't show up to the party and pour out everyone's drinks.
I started using the native-comp branch a few months ago and have had no issues. As for performance, I haven’t benchmarked but things are noticeably faster and smoother. I’m on macOS and my main issue was the display going blank for a few milliseconds, and I’m no longer seeing that so a huge win in that regard! General search and completion seem faster too
Check out Babashka if you enjoy lisps/Clojure.

https://github.com/babashka/babashka
Tom Kail (of Inkle) did a neat workshop on writing stuff in Ink at a recent coding festival, if anyone wanted to try it out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKlz2hcy8wU
Changing a perverse incentive requires understanding whether it is actually perverse or not and then proposing a compelling alternative that results in better results for the company.

While that's true, considering those incentives and changing them if necessary is part of my boss's job, not mine. My job is only to report the misaligned incentives I perceive to my boss. If my boss isn't able to make me understand his decisions, that's my cue to find a new boss. And I concede, those bosses are rare. I've only had two in twenty years of employment.

It takes time to recognize the qualities you need in a boss to perform well. I know myself well enough in that department to actively look for those qualities. Even to the point where I prefer a less challenging job under the right boss than the perfect job under the wrong leadership.
> this is why Google and Apple need regulation

- publish for free, and doesn’t allow you put donations links

- pay monthly cost for publishing, and be able to put link for donations

Choose one
How does this differ from Twine?
The video is quite old. And I think you should add a compositor on top of i3 to measure the same thing.

The whole point of the talk was that when a compositor is used (which should absolutely be used because with increasing resolutions tearing will just get more visible), X has pretty much a useless role in the whole situation. That is, you’ve got yourself an architectural problem. Which is no surprise, X had been here forever. But maybe it should no longer the be the abstraction we build our graphics on.
> they are so crippled by unnecessary restrictions imposed on them by Google that they aren't serious options

What are these restrictions? I've heard this mentioned before, but I'm not finding information on what the restrictions are.
Walmart is historically just as anti-union as Amazon. No idea if it's still true, but anti-union material used to be part of every employee's initial training.
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Reminds me of a quote by Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, a German general:

I divide my officers into four classes as follows:

The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.

Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy.

The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions.

But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.
138/20 down/up for me on Virgin (Google speed test, Manchester to London, using wifi). Was sold 200/20, and have got that in the past using Ethernet.
This is a sad story. From a desire to have a genuinely open-source browser (with proper open development) present almost everywhere, we now have Firefox present on fewer and fewer platforms. I think, in the end, it will be "officially supported" only on Windows and macOS.

I understand that web browser is a complex business, but TBH, I don't want VR, Pocket, and tons of half-baked junk in my browser. Google poured millions of dollars into Mozilla (which is cheaper than battling with anti-trust commission), and yet, most of their projects failed. I think they need to rethink their management and strategy before everything goes to the ground.
I know a few people from the Seattle area who do part time work there - unless you enjoy and agree with religious fundamentalists, die-hard MAGA anti maskers or people whose personality revolves around owning 35 guns, you might want to spend some time there first... Boise by comparison is much more secular and liberal than some of those areas.
> Can Google do it? Sure, they have the right. Is it fair? In my opinion, no. Being legal doesn't make it fair.

The whole concept of some action being "legal" is nebulous at best in the US. At the cutting edge of technology where there isn't any directly analogous precedent, it just means that someone with deep enough pockets or enforcement authority hasn't challenged the status quo. There is so much going on with Google, Facebook, Apple, the telecom/media mergers, and so on that clearly is worth investigating and litigating in courts but we're doing the bare minimum. Once they're a certain size, companies just do whatever they want, pay their fines, pull out their token gestures on Twitter, and keep steam rolling ahead as if nothing had happened.

At this point, the whole system of conglomeration, regulatory capture, "cost of doing business" penalties, and arbitrary enforcement looks like a total farce as do the rights it gives its "constituents".

/rant
You've essentially just rephrased "might makes right", no?

If I wield a vast amount of economic power and you do not, you are therefore obligated to bow to my whims...?

It's not like he's profiting a lot, anyway. This is more akin to a beggar having to fork over 30% of their earnings to a Walmart coz theyre standing outside it. After all, technically the beggar "profits" from doing that.
A neat way to prioritize users is to give priority to whoever has downloaded least in the past 24 hours.

Then those who abuse the data get slow service and nobody else.
> Gill also preferred to order prescriptions online because it offered greater privacy. In court, he testified that ordering in person as a blind man made him "uncomfortable because he did not know who else was nearby listening" as he told the pharmacist his order.

A pragmatic solution might be to offer people like Gill to phone in their prescriptions.
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Yup!

I'm still using the old version of Firefox on Android because I need the extensions I have.

Which really sucks
> Google poured millions of dollars into Mozilla (...), and yet, most of their projects failed.

Perhaps it's actually working as intended.