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Or an N version again.

this is microtargeting, death by a thousand cuts

Nah this isn't. This is a failed propaganda campaign.

Gates as a candidate would work as well as McAfee

I don't understand why is this called Firefox Send. Shouldn't it be called Mozilla Send?

If a population is too poor to support its municipal costs, the solution cannot be to let the suburb rot. There is no creative destruction option. If you let the suburb rot, all you’ll have is a more rotten suburb.

A rotten suburb is not a problem if nobody lives in it.

Reminds me of those who never forget to mention Mastodon in every thread about Twitter. They make me believe the Mastodon community is full of know-it-alls who pity us the peasants who are too stupid to leave Twitter.

I know Apple uses curly quotes for EVERYTHING so that raises an instant alarm in my head.

Then people will use cyrillic letters, etc. That approach simply does not work.

It's free (unlike SMS or MMS) and back in the day it was the only service that worked reliably on all mobile platforms and didn't use PINs or usernames--just the phone numbers in your contact list so it was plug&play: just install it and you can talk to everybody.

What I don't like about WhatsApp is that even if you hide your last connection time, everybody gets to see whether you're online.

Yes, Groove Music (by default installed, too) plays those.

An official WhatsApp app has existed since forever and is actively maintained. You probably mean Snapchat?

For more niche apps they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc.

I remember they were giving Lumia 925's to computer engineering students here years ago if they made and uploaded an app. You can imagine the quality of the apps they were uploading. Most of them were slideshows or just a wall of text.

That's not how you incentivise app developers, that's how you inflate your numbers.

How do you catch criminals like these (in this article) if you have strong anonimity?

That's one way to put it.

Another way is: there are two options. Either we have strong anonimity on the Internet, or the authorities have the power to catch criminals. Which one do you think would win in a vote?

As someone who hasn't used CentOS much, when I've had to use it I've found the package selection (packages/versions) to be lacking, requiring me to use one of the countless 3rd party repos that may or may not contain what I need

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418764

I’ve heard this argument many times now and I still fail to see how we’re feeling sympathy for these people. Every time this conversation is brought up I see 0 solutions and people that very low-key suggest these people have to die because coal must disappear, because outsourcing to China is good because we’re living in a global economy, because they vote Trump and they don’t share our liberal view of society and they might not like black people or feminists, etc.

Now for #20786 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAiVsbXVP6k

Obesity is obviously unnatural and unhealthy and I still don't see how it is obviously linked to cancer.

In what way is it obvious that obesity leads to cancer?

And those horizontal scanlines on all images really bother my eyes.

Somewhere along the line the presence feature got dropped, and now we're always 'Available' even when we're not.

Before you were only available when you had your PC on, you were connected to the Internet, and your IM program was open. Now you carry your perpetually running IM program in your perpetually on and perpetually connected mobile in your pocket.

Or we can resort to protectionism.

It's trendy to bash Uber.

Ah, God. And they just added that header to WhatsApp. They show no respect to 4" phone users.

I don't use Android. I don't understand why did Mozilla add Klar to the stores of those countries only.

Is it overly harsh to be pissed at a company that claims to herald privacy but then sends your data to a third party?

Klar is only available in those stores, but not worldwide.

The fact that a Mozilla product sends my data, even if it is only my IP address, to a third party, is a disgrace. I don't really care what the data is.

I understand they need analytics and telemetry. They have the money, they have the power to build all of those in house. They should not be sending my data to a third party, whatever that data might be. That's all. I expected better from Mozilla. Pocket integration was a letdown, this is even worse.