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Vinnl

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About Vinnl

I work for Mozilla, and volunteer for two projects:

- Solid, Tim Berners-Lee's new set of standards that aims to give people control over their data. See https://solidproject.org

- Plaudit, a project aimed at making more research freely available. (This is why you will often see me showing up in threads about Open Access.) See https://plaudit.pub

Blog: https://vincenttunru.com

Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@VincentTunru

Email: djk48fyo0@mozmail.com

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    For 1: https://killthecookiebanner.eu/

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    Comment #49187658

    https://cityrider.jpsmaps.com/

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    Comment #49141986

    tl;dr Atom can do Some podcast apps (Apple Podcasts) don't support Atom, so then plain RSS is better. So it doesn't really matter that much.

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    Comment #49115619

    The Super League was decidedly not UEFA's - UEFA even announced sanctions against the organisers (though I think those were repealed by a court), because it was going to compete wi…

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    Comment #49115539

    CONCACAF statement: https://www.concacaf.com/competitions/concacaf/news/statemen...

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    Comment #49075896

    ASN Bank has a website that allows you to set a browser-linked code once, after verifying both your email address and phone number. You can then use that browser+code as the 2FA de…

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    Comment #49071604

    Like every redesign I'm sure there will be many complaints, and yes, the tabs are still buttons, but this should please quite a few HN'ers, I think: > You’ll notice (...) the retur…

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    Comment #49069168

    I'm pretty comfortable with Git, but I've still done this a number of times, and in my experience this situation is very evitable. After I've completed my gnarly process (whether s…

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    Comment #49057283

    It's a super simple solution for which you can be certain that you have all the knowledge needed to perform the restore operation.

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    Comment #49051800

    Laws are not perfectly moral, and future laws might be even less so. Same goes for governments - their power should not outweigh the governed's.

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    Comment #48978245

    > There is no leverage so I fail to see how this could succeed. Isn't there upside to the US too if more Europeans visit the US?

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    Comment #48978233

    It's not clear to me if this would allow access to all biometric data, or "just" to that of people crossing the US border? And for the latter, what data are we talking about? If it…

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    Comment #48952416

    Mastodon.social is too big, but it is on a different scale: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online (Though I do agree it's partially irrelevant, depending on what problem you're tryi…

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    Comment #48926929

    Doesn't Briar itself provide functionality to share the apk via Bluetooth? So you don't even need F-Droid (though it's still good to have regardless, of course).

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    Comment #48869885

    I think something like "figuring out a way to stack the odds in your favour in a gameshow" would fit that bill, and that seems fairly innocuous to me. Though full disclosure: I did…

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    Comment #48859596

    Sure, but I'm interested in a steelmanned explanation before judging.

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    Comment #48859592

    It was the second reading, but was it also treated as such? (Because if so, it sounds like this would have been a rejection?) If not, what is the steelmanned reason for doing so?

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    Comment #48845338

    I did get the first one straight away, so it's not too unclear, but it did induce a short moment of panic, which I'm not sure I'd categorise as fun :P

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    Comment #48845237

    This is fun! Could use a short "how it works" blurb on the landing page though :)

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    Comment #48845177

    Thanks. Do you know then why of the majority that voted against today, enough people voted in favour of the urgency procedure?

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    Comment #48844438

    To understand whether/to what extent this is brazen, I'd be interested to learn the reasoning why urgency procedures are possible, and in particular, why the apparent majority agai…

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