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markholmes

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    Comment #25130009

    I’ve been using Safari as my daily driver for some time and it’s quite nice to use. Don’t be afraid to give it another chance.

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    Comment #24674711

    So what’s the best way out?

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    Comment #24170282

    Where do those fines go?

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    Comment #24163291

    This also makes remote work more viable in non-traditional locations.

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    Comment #23909955

    We’re talking about a difference in thickness of millimeters though. Was my 2014 Macbook Pro really that bulky? The prevailing sentiment over the last several Apple announcements s…

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    Comment #23760991

    Tracking should be set and respected at the browser level. Consent forms on every single website we visit is absurd.

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    Comment #23708333

    Does this only occur in DuckDuckGo’s Android browser?

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    Comment #23666063

    You Need A Budget

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    Comment #23367483

    Connect to chat.freenode.net, type /list, and find the channels that interest you. :)

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    Comment #22983091

    IRC is still alive and well

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    Comment #22625464

    Redundant how? You say you don’t see how this could help, but the opposite - not doing it - is certain not to help. I don’t understand your criticism and cynicism here.

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    Comment #22573326

    How? This is just a link to a Facebook job post. Guess this is a good time to plug Gleam though (along with Dialyzer, which has already been mentioned), a statically typed function…

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    Comment #22343329

    Is there or could there be a way to disable the Home and All buttons? I find Reddit to be much less of a time suck if I’m going to specific subreddits and reading interesting conte…

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    Comment #21987263

    Happy to hear you're doing well. Coincidentally, you and I have very similar names.

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    Comment #21986892

    Or, perhaps, because you enjoy playing with “hot new tech”.

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    Comment #21188629

    I’m not the parent comment, but VoiceOver and NVDA are great text-to-speech screen readers.

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    Comment #21005047

    What demographic is this intended for?

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    Comment #20790854

    Does it? We visited the moon and created the internet in the span of one generation. We are arguably in the most innovative scientific period in our history.

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    Comment #20528230

    I believe NerdWallet counts as well.

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    Comment #20295717

    No, the same thing happens to me. I often run ProtonVPN + Firefox with uBlock Origin and a couple other privacy-related addons.

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    Comment #20271589

    Do you imagine this to be an impossibility? It would only take one.

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    Comment #19966421

    So it takes an entire year to maybe disassociate yourself from Facebook?

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    Comment #19937892

    What do you mean by alias? Do you apply to jobs as “chii” or as an assumed name, like “John Smith”, when really your name is “Bob Jones”?

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    Comment #19937856

    Do you have an issue with playing local files in Spotify itself? I do this for the ~30 or so songs I have on my computer (in Dropbox, actually) and it works just fine.