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Can't wait until MV2 is gone in Chrome, I'm curious how much this will diminish real-world effectiveness of ad blockers and if that'll bring browsers that maintain the features ad …

Well, I'd guess for most people it doesn't matter whether the LED-chips themselves, capacitors, or some other part of the circuitry fails. If cost-cut cheap LED bulbs with componen…

yes it is, and I agree their home page is shit. I downloaded it trough F-Droid and didn't really background check it, maybe you wanna take a look at their repo: https://gitlab.com/…

I think how error prone the system is shouldn't matter, even it it was absolutely perfect, this is an dystopian privacy invasion.

You can use "Aurora Store" to download apps without a google account, I use that on lineageOS

If you're concerned about your privacy I'd advise against just trying to disable uploading but still giving your photos to apps you don't trust, primarily because of possible futur…

This kind of stuff is one reason why it should be illegal for platforms to censor at will, it should be possible to sue them for censoring stuff they shouldn't be censoring just as…

Why? Why should be fight for legal recourse first before we tackle the real problem? (At least in this context, legal recourse for unwarranted service termination can also be usefu…

good point

moving everything into the browser is a bad fix for broken software distribution.

Well what you encountered here is IMHO a problem of power, not a problem with your App, guidelines, your marketing, or whatever. The problem is that a third party has the power to …

Yeah, that's pretty much a "Karteileiche" though, nobody takes that law seriously. This has less to do with germany being overly restrictive in that domain and more with incompeten…

The Google Translation is accurate in this case, it's just as vague in German as it is in English

I agree that a lot of theses restrictions are serous restrictions to civil liberties, but they are not fascistic in nature and our attitude towards the government is quite differen…

I think the main issues are polarization and the two party political landscape for you guys across the pond. Don't forget that the grass often seems greener on the other side, we h…

To correct for under-/overrepresented groups you need to change your hiring decision based on the groups of the applicants. And preferring hiring based on these groups (sex, race, …

> and [I] use my influence to help correct that as much as possible without sacrificing operational readiness. So racism/sexism is okay as long as it doesn't hurt operational readi…

> certain radical ideologies do not acknowledge neutrality So what? Why can't we acknowledge neutrality because some other people don't?

> You're part of the problem. Not actively pushing back against something doesn't make one "part of the problem". It makes one a bystander, and no, bystanders are not part part of …

hmm..., making critical infrastructure directly dependent on other (possibly hostile) nations sounds like a good idea. What could possibly go wrong? Btw, didn't china had widesprea…

A phone is a product, the iOS app platform(or app distribution on iOS to be more precise) is a (monopolized) market, not a product.

You're conflating the phones themselves with the secondary markets they create. The problem is that Apple has a monopoly in selling/distributing Apps to iphone users. This is not t…

I don't think Taiwan is too keen on breaking TSMC's monopoly, not to mention all the other international politics around this.

Pardon me, I think you misunderstand what I claim they have a monopoly on. They (obviously) don't have a monopoly on the mobile(or mobile software) market. They have a monopoly on …

I think the opposite is true. Modern Hardware is more than fast enough for pretty much all end-user applications(except maybe high-end gaming, but that's not sorely needed), we're …