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throwaway525142

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    Comment #38494993

    I agree that this could be viewed as bad. However, this is way less of an issue than Google taking choice away, which is what the great-grandparent comment was about.

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    Comment #35770542

    Permalink: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/8eccc63c46... .

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    Comment #34487776

    `git remote`?

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    Comment #29933113

    > you get the natural numbers, the integers, ... but even before the natural numbers come the prime numbers. Primes are the most fundamental set of numbers in mathematics, from whi…

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    Comment #29808610

    I remembered it being 11 characters, and indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ .

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    Comment #29780237

    Reading byte-by-byte using `getchar()` is probably quite slow.

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    Comment #29743962

    There's Firefox for Android which supports uBlock Origin.

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    Comment #29716091

    > They also say openly that they cooperate with everyone to take down certain illegal material from channels and open groups. Can you provide a link for that? I could only find tha…

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    Comment #29539185

    What does "targeting any glibc version" mean? Is it the solution to the problem where you have to compile on an ancient Debian version to produce a binary that works on all Linux d…

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    Comment #29460337

    What do you mean with "Rusts std lib indeed cannot stat ."? I wasn't able to find something related to this on the web.

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    Comment #29415621

    I think Facebook isn't covered because the uploader needs to give Facebook all rights over the image which they can't.

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    Comment #29283842

    I think the friction of wheels is lower when the wheels lock up vs when they go with the speed of the road. From Wikipedia[1]: > Kinetic friction, also known as dynamic friction or…

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    Comment #29217018

    https://archive.md/5pia8

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    Comment #28772018

    I believe Telegram is inferior to WhatsApp due to missing default end-to-end encryption.

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    Comment #28564985

    https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=put_down&oldid=6... 4th definition: (euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal). I'd say it's not out of question that this could be applied …

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    Comment #28564917

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22095715 - 200 comments

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    Comment #28467558

    > So the WhatsApp AI can arbitrarily decide to unencrypt your chats and send them for review. Where do you read the "decide to unencrypt your chats" part? I could only find that th…

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    Comment #28403122

    And they're only required for cookies not essential to providing the service.

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    Comment #28391524

    > So anyone who believes that NAT is something that provides security is delusional. If I understand NATs correctly, they cannot route incoming connections (from the Internet) to a…

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    Comment #28139284

    Can you point out a link to comments that contradict each other? AFAIK, you can use cookie banners, but opting in has to be as easy as opting out. The .eu sites do that.

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    Comment #28030607

    > you could as well rip multiple copies on behalf of multiple accounts and average out the pixel colors. Can you show that this can reliable get rid of the fingerprinting? This par…

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    Comment #27800631

    https://archive.is/p4usK

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    Comment #27434999

    You're not saying anything new as far as I can tell. Your grandparent already said what you said. I only disputed the "this costs next to nothing" part, which you don't seem to com…

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    Comment #27434327

    Squashing for example allows me to have a history where each commit builds. This has been very useful for bisecting for me. I wouldn't call it "next to nothing". The "greater detai…