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hyproxia

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About hyproxia

Feel free to correct me for grammar/spelling/factual/phrasing mistakes, even trivial ones. Thank you.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #29211041

    No, I only care about _my_ freedom to use the hardware however I want, not Apple's or anyone else's freedom. However, if people keep not giving a shit, my freedom will be more and …

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    Comment #29197899

    I really hope that all of these efforts end up failing miserably. Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies. It'll be entertaining to watch them enga…

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    Comment #29139052

    Or, y'know, just put it in airplane mode or unplug the SIM card

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    Comment #29118678

    A more reasonable take would be to find ways to reduce its costs. Surely killing someone can be way cheaper than sustaining them for life.

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    Comment #29118535

    > it would be cheaper to just shoot Ah, no, that's not how this works.

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    Comment #29118263

    So you think that locking up people for the rest of their lives is less barbaric?

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    Comment #29116605

    I assumed you're serious at first. Poe's law strikes again

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    Comment #29116534

    I assume they mean Arabs and others

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    Comment #29113461

    Finally, a based move from Mozilla.

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    Comment #29112889

    > I have nine different browsers installed on this machine Why?

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    Comment #29052383

    What happened afterwards?

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    Comment #29048855

    How old are you? Is it too late for you to live up to your potential?

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    Comment #29039818

    Most people who criticise X like you have no idea what they're talking about. The parallels you're drawing are childish and indicate an extremely shallow understanding of the issue…

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    Comment #29027897

    >Keeping it tightly controlled like that also makes it harder to crack Can you elaborate?

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    Comment #29025318

    >Want/need to use DRM? You won't receive a response from Google/widevine Thanks Google!

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    Comment #28998594

    >OSI If you honestly think that the OSI were ever the "good guys", then do I have the news for you...

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    Comment #28991416

    You're talking about the "tank man" that was safely escorted out of the scene without getting harmed? What about him? https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk

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    Comment #28990445

    I know, I've read the rules. Still, I thought that this is an interesting exception since it's directly related to the content at hand.

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    Comment #28988645

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/au...

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    Comment #28988554

    >for free No, the site owner is usually gaining money from his users (through ads, tracking, etc). This is an incredibly dishonest statement.

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    Comment #28988508

    Thank you for posting it, I wish that this becomes a trend on HN (and other forums).

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    Comment #28988371

    Here's another way of looking at it: Does this page really need to execute code on its users' machines? Why is this such an acceptable thing in the first place?

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    Comment #28988278

    Yay, another page that doesn't render at all without JS. And then we sit and wonder how NSO Group is able to compromise all these machines with ease, and yes, they had/have browser…

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    Comment #28978087

    They still don't sell parts.