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Microsoft Office is built on such model, where the document specification is intentionally vague, contradictory, and the implementation is full of constantly changing details that …

A smartphone is a device designed on all levels to be used against you, not by you. In a better world you'd have a choice on the driver level to give or refuse access to any data y…

It's ridiculous that there's an advertising ID tied to your phone in the first place. Who buys these things?

Just don't use smartphones, don't use Google, don't use Facebook. Problem solved.

It ruins the trust completely if something presenting itself as a way to communicate safely and securely is itself ridden with so many security problems. I know I won't be using ma…

The Github issues created by the hacker just got wiped clean, I guess they want to censor any negative opinions users may have about the quality and security of their service.

captain obvious

Chinese have different sensibilities than westerners. It's completely normal and accepted for them. They have a word for self-important westerners who are obsessed with politically…

There's a section where you can download all the data Google has on you.

But Facebook also tracks people who do not have accounts, and people who pay for services. No way out.

I subscribe to a couple of newsletters that send the most popular repositories in several languages to my email every week. There's been a trend of increasing Chinese activity for …

The American society has progressed so far it managed to bring back indentured servitude, what an achievement.

Until you fall victim to clickjacking.

This exact mechanism is already used for linking scripts/stylesheets from third party websites.

Years pass, we have sci-fi level technology, and the main method of distributing programs to users on Windows is still downloading .exes from random sites and being on the lookout …

It's still no proof of existence of black holes. It's like saying that a lightning storm is proof of Thor, because the legends say he wields the very same lightning. The cause coul…

There is still zero evidence that there exists such a thing as a black hole with all its fantastic properties. We have a picture of a red-yellow accretion disk and that's it. Black…

7 CSS declarations and you too can include a Google tracker in your website. No thanks. Host your assets yourself.

Mozilla is almost fully financed by Google. Any day now, Google can retract its funding and effectively fully consolidate its iron grip on the fate of the Internet.

The more websites use Google's "captcha", the more pointless it is to resist fingerprinting. And since that "captcha" is built into Cloudflare's "spam protection", it blocks you fr…

The purpose of advertising is to manipulate you into buying things you don't need, not to inform you about a product that is useful. Turn on the TV, or the radio, or any website, a…

The day jazz will reach the masses is when the reviews about it do not even mention the word "black". It's created by emacs users, for emacs users, it should absolutely mention tha…

This resembles orthodox rabbis discussing what is considered kosher. I half expected to see my music player on the list, given it's popular, GPLv3 licensed and has no tracking, but…