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Being able to see stars in the night sky

Good riddance. Hope it extends beyond the EU as well.

One disgusting trend I see with many phone apps is notification spam with no fine-grained option to disable them without potentially disabling transactional notifications. Ride-sharing and delivery apps are particularly annoying for this.

I remember the time when phone OSes did not have notification categories but it’s not a useful feature if app developers don’t implement them.

Bugs, faults, errors

I think bootlicker is a stronger but more appropriate word. I genuinely cannot believe people support being sold a fully standalone physical product and being charged just for the ability to use it, while thinking it is in their best interest.

Stremio with torrent addons is extremely common.

My cynical AI opinion is that if it truly was revolutionary, we would be seeing private companies or governments use it internally to massively boost their productivity or achieve otherwise impossible feats. Instead, all we're seeing are consumer products or half-baked integrations that are another way to further centralize data collection.

Talks about all-powerful, malevolent AI or requesting to halt AI development just sounds like baiting for regulary capture to me. If AI research or use is deemed dangerous, it becomes even harder for startups or individuals to compete with established companies.

Also, I am not concerned about an all-powerful AI in the slightest. Humanity is excellent at oppressing others, and I have no doubt we'd be equally good at oppressing a true AI as well.

Drogon is similar to "drogón" in Spanish, which means "junkie" or someone who takes a lot of drugs.

- Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let's move on.

This can be done with uBlock Origin and an "annoyances" filter list such as EasyList Cookie. It doesn't actually give websites consent to use of cookies, only hides the consent form.

In the case of Google, not at all:

    $ curl -v https://google.com
    [...]
    < HTTP/2 301
    < location: https://www.google.com/

When you get the receipt back, you can request an item be cancelled because you "didn't take it". They will pretty much accept it, no questions asked.

I've seen this issue in Firefox Nightly when trying to perform the HSBC UK credit card verification, so it makes sense not to roll it out to the wider public yet.

Those discussions/articles are mostly started by Americans, not Europeans.

"From YouTube.com" is a massive understatement. youtube-dl can download from pretty much any video site, including porn sites: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...

Streisand effect, anyone? I had not heard of Kodi before this.

I stand corrected :)

I was not aware of Netlify, thanks for letting me know. I've added it to the list of alternatives.

It is end to end but CloudFlare does not verify the identity of the origin server. The only equivalent option would be "Full SSL (Strict)", which is not free.

Alarm sound is at https://pushupalarm.com/missile.mp3 (curl/wget the URL)

Is there a genuine use case for changing the default search engine from an extension? Even if it has to be confirmed by the user, it still seems like a dialog that many users won't read and click on Yes anyway.

e.g. I use the terms "Flag" instead of "Boolean"

I'm not familiar with THT and this is a nitpick, but doesn't this contradict the first principle? Pretty much every language I've ever used has some notion of "boolean", and I don't know one that uses "flag". Don't want to bash, just curious how that decision was taken.

It's not as simple as total page weight - latency and server throughput are also important. AMP pages are likely served from a fast global cache with low latency from all over the world.

I live outside the city, we had subsidies taken away long before Macri became president. I've actually seen my electricity bill go down because I saved compared to the same period in previous years.

I'm from Buenos Aires and I can assure you that this is outright false. Buenos Aires is the largest population center of Argentina and has had heavily subsidized (e.g. electricity bills of 2 USD are not uncommon) utilities for almost a decade . In the rest of the country these subsidies rarely exist, so everyone else pays a realistic price.

Do you think it's likely it'll stay that way after Brexit?

In that case it would stop being free software, which is likely not something that Mozilla wants to do.

There's just one man in the ad: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/d...

If you're working alone or completely asynchronously sure, that makes sense. But how do you account for collaborative work that needs to be done in a group?

We'd still be using wired mice

I very much enjoy the worry-free experience with zero environmental impact and maintenance cost of wired compared to wireless mice and keyboards. You can pry them from my cold, dead hands.

Pentium D does support x64 as far as I can tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D

The Pentium D brand refers to two series of desktop dual-core 64-bit x86-64 microprocessors with the NetBurst microarchitecture, which is the dual-core variant of Pentium 4 "Prescott" manufactured by Intel.