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All contributors to open source are not created equal. It is different when a literal 3 trillion dollar company does it, thus demonstrating they were unworthy of the trust and good…

Well it obviously mattered enough for the Founding Fathers of the US to enshrine freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights, and in the last 200-ish years it also mattered enough for …

> Please help me understand what the difference is between, say, platforming racist harassment because of a "political commitment to free speech" and platforming racist harassment …

I disagree that the "Do-Not-Track header is a perfect solution to this", because it implies that the default (i.e. the header being absent) should allow sites to track you. I (and …

I had a similar problem a while back where Google demanded a second authentication factor for an account that didn't have 2FA set. It asked for a previous password that the account…

> And while we're at it, standardizing on a browser-provided consent UI, instead of each site providing its own, with its own dark patterns. It's the same idea. We've already been …

Wouldn't Ireland be your best bet? It's close, English-speaking, culturally similar and some UK citizens are eligible for Irish citizens to boot.

Hasn't this been tried before? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

People want Facebook to stop following people, especially those signed out or without an account to begin with, around the internet in a creepy way. How hard can it be really? Is i…

Is this a joke? The four color theorem is a proven theorem and not some crackpot theory. https://i.imgur.com/m3Ruasq.png

You can change the folder names after the fact. It is annoying, though. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2826855

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-security/dev...

I don't know how precise the ad targeting exactly, but what if you narrow the base group down to your 19 fake accounts and your target user. If you could the further filter your ad…

Or you can download an emulator and a rar with all 721 SNES games for free.

> I assume that you think that Amazon would be clearing parts of the African Serengeti and protecting it's racks from lions, wildebeest and tribesmen. And I assume you think of me …

I agree with everything you said in principle, but I disagree with your conclusion. I don't have to cherry pick facts to make Kenya look bad, I just picked a bunch of pretty bad on…

> I don't have to experience something to know anything about it. I'll make my opinion from a far from statistics that have no correlation to whether a datacenter could actually th…

Of course I haven't. But I was quite sure that you would say something along those lines. I think that if I went to Kenya, I would have a great time, see friendly people and come t…

I find that hard to believe. Wikipedia says its HDI is 0.555, placing it at 146 of 188. Wikipedia also says that 6.3% of the adult population have HIV, while female genital mutilat…

I don't think that works. As per https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=624128... Widevine is bundled and setting this policy just disables the updates. Also it seem…

What do you want to know about the problem? I wrote the bug report that this thread is about. I think my reasons for arguing there should be a way to disable Widevine are very clea…

Surfing with Widevine disabled is no problem at all. Netflix and Amazon Prime Video do not work, though.

My favorite sign for native English speakers is "could of" instead of "could have"/"could've". I have never witnessed that mistake with non native English speakers.

> I had the then reviewed as "best" smartphone pre-iPhone, a Sony top of the line one with a stylus. It was crap. Have also played with the Nokia communicator and others. Also crap…

> Have you see the crap (including Nokia and Sony) that passed for smartphones before the iPhone and Android devices came along? I have to disagree with you here. The first iPhone …