ndidi | 6 years ago | on: There Is No Tech Backlash, Worse We Think There Is One
The NYT wishes there was one. Sorry fellas, nobody cares about your struggle and eventual death. :-(
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ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil
And going online without an ad blocker is simply irresponsible.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: It's time to talk about post-RMS Free Software
In this context that's implying that rms has done things such as looking for child pornography online, which is something we don't know and can't prove. Defending the right to do something != doing something
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (2015)
The article mentions how Windows reads an ACPI table, looks for a specific executable file, and willingly runs it. It's not the BIOS forcing anything to happen, Windows goes out of its way to look for an .exe that is bundled in the BIOS and then happily runs it.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Killings of transgender people in the US saw another high year
>What's your basis for believing this?
I don't know. It sounds reasonable to me that as time passes more people become transgenders because it's more acceptable. Similar to homosexuality.
>If n trans people are killed one year and > n trans people are killed another year, the number of trans people killed has gone up, regardless of the size of the population itself (which, for reasons stated in the article, can't be accurately measured anyway.)
Yeah but the headline makes it sound like it's a problem that's worsening but if the % is not going up then the problem has the same severity.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Killings of transgender people in the US saw another high year
I suppose there are more transgenders every year. Are killings of transgenders actually going higher when we compensate for that?
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases
I agree with you on the gun emoji thing, that was gloriously retarded. But all in all, you can always choose an open source rendering of the glyph.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found
sic? it's spelled neighbour in British English
Yeah, I know you are just baiting me.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases
How is U+1F604 corporate-controlled?
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar
The backspace button no longer works to go back, you need to press alt+backspace
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House
Wait until they find out about all the fleshy spy devices that Israel planted in the Congress.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Experimenting with same-provider DNS-over-HTTPS upgrade
Not everybody lives in the US. I trust my ISP. They are cool, and their handling of my data is regulated under the GDPR and other laws. CloudFlare? Not so much.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Experimenting with same-provider DNS-over-HTTPS upgrade
Might sound like a conspiracy, but yes, I think they are getting money. They are definitely not sending the entire browsing history of users (DoH) and even the contents (VPN[]) to CloudFlare and getting nothing in return... right?
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
Everything that discourages designers from doing fancy things is good in my book.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
If you leave a room then you are no longer inside and you can't know what people inside were talking about while you weren't inside. As it should be.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?
The chans? Something Awful? MeFi?
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Turn off DoH, Firefox
I can think of something worse: sending all your DNS queries to an unregulated third party.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Turn off DoH, Firefox
No, the other viable option is not enabling DoH by default.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Turn off DoH, Firefox
I do trust my ISP and my government more than I trust CloudFlare.
ndidi | 6 years ago | on: Hong Kong can be a gateway to liberal values for China
The UN chart for "human rights" is not some kind of holy scripture.
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