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The value you provide not only has to beat Google, but also Netflix, Bitwarden...

It's hard to compare the intrinsic value of all services that cost ~10$. Is the ability to search the whole Internet, something you do every single day multiple times, less valuable than watching Netflix shows a few hours every week? Our perceptive is seriously skewed because we've had free (paid with ads+data) web search engines for almost as long as we've had the web. On the other hand, Netflix seems incredibly cheap because for a long time before it, legal access to movies and series was expensive and hard/impossible due to strong copyright laws.

Prepaid doens't have to mean pay-per-use. It can mean I load up 50€ to my account and you debit 10€ per month until the account balance is less than 10€.

What if what I'm trying to translate is sensitive information in itself?

Isn't racism fundamentally a type of caste/class discrimination? Not as well defined castes like seen in India, but "black people" are discriminated as a result of slavery, "asians" as a result of mass immigration. To the point where in many countries you were not allowed or able to marry outside your "caste", had different rights than locals/whites etc. People today don't feel racism as caste discrimination, but to say that there's no precedent in the West is being pedantic IMO.

Any negativity or anger seems to be in the article for purely comedic effect.

You trading potential tracking by thirdparties with potential tracking by yourself.

You're not making any sense. Proxying all requests is the only way to shield you from being tracked by third parties. If DDG wants to track you they don't need some convoluted dance - you're already on their website.

Another way in which farmers combat soil compaction is by aeration and tilling.

The problem is that constantly aerating and tilling the soil is destroying microbiomes and fungal networks. It's one of the fundamental principles of regenerative farming. In good industrial fashion, we destroy nature (overfarming) and try solving it (chemical fertilizers) only to destroy it further (mono cultures, no biodiversity, leading to soil degradation, reduced yields), so we try to fix it again (huge machines, more mono cultures), and now these machines are destroying the soil because they are too heavy. It's time to dial back and rethink what we're doing.

If there was any other obvious way to influence google it would instantly be gamed. Both my companies tried to increase their relevance in certain keywords and by competitors reporting their websites.

Those already exist. You can simulate things like color blindness, tunnel vision, low contrast vision, and blurred vision, among other effects.

It's not even just that HIV mutates quickly. After the initial attack, it infiltrates the immune memory cells and injects itself into your DNA and lies dormant for a long time, while these immune cells reproduce happily.

That's pointless gatekeeping. Having the most expensive pencil doesn't make you draw better. For most professionals in most fields, more than 1080p is a waste of energy.

Good defaults are important. There have been constant legal fights against abuse of defaults for decades now (IE, Chrome, search engines, etc). It's time Apple gets served a lawsuit to stop abusing its position as the default software gatekeeper.

Fun fact: the reason why browsers sometimes zoom in on an input is because the input's font size is too small, less than 16px, which is considered not accessible. So it's ironic that to counter that behaviour some people make the page even less accessible by disabling use zoom.

I'm not an Apple user, but that has been pretty much the role of Apple since ever: dictating what you can and can't do in the name of "good user experience". This decision makes sense in the POV of forcing apps to use newer and safer SDKs, and better integration with accessibility features and whatnot.

I don't agree, which is why I don't use Apple, but if anything they are consistent in their values.

Apple is the only stifling innovation. They own 30% of the smartphone market is the west, so the EU wants them to be regulated as a fair platform where competition can exist. The US should take a hint.

At this point we need to be able to set our reported location manually on our phones natively. I don't want any number of apps to be able to sneakily collect such data. Android sort of allows it through 3rd party apps, but Google has all incentives in not making this trivial.

Version 68 is the last one that supports CPU over-heating when holding down the spacebar, and it's fundamental to some people's workflow in emacs.

There are different brains out there, and they think differently, and understanding that is half way to developing empathy, but also extremely important when developing accessible applications.

Maybe I don't want to see the clock whenever I look at notifications, or vice versa, because that's extremely distracting. Lack of customisability gives us less accessible software. Apple is really good at accessibility, but at the same time really bad.

And he wants his windows to wobble?

Some people are fun at parties, some are not.

Honestly some great ideas (better antenna, e-ink display for basic SMSing, quick dial, probably huge battery life), but they can't be serious about the rotary dial.

Previously, phones with physical keys required a clamshell (flip) form-factor to prevent unintended dialing. Rotary dials are naturally resistant to butt dialing.

You can solve butt dialing with a number of ways, like another hardware switch. This solution seems much more cumbersome, and I can't believe this is not done simply out of novelty.

Imagine a world where Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Apple were cooperating and building interconnecting blocks of a modern browser since the early 2000s. Instead, MS discontinued Edge, Mozilla has only 2% market share (still big in global terms), and 90% of the internet traffic is basically running on Chrome. No innovation is possible that is not in-line with the direction the upstream, or at the increasing cost of constant catching up to updates.

Not using Google is by itself value added.

The UK playing victim is the reason Brexit happened in the first place. No wonder their residents continue being brainwashed in that sense.

I’m okay with spending some amount of time

If this "some time around" is more than a few, stick to Ubuntu. I wouldn't use a system I just learned to build as my main workstation. You can still keep a separate distro a learn a the same time.

It's funny because if you go watch the iPhone launch presentation, Jobs was all about the web, and having web apps on your phone. Fast forward and PWA are just recently possible, barely supported, and Apple would really prefer you not to use them. The incentives are clear, but it's still a sad story.

Not just that, but changing machines is a chore. I'd be happy to only upgrade when my machines starts to disintegrate. Sadly, corporations don't agree with that.

I realized some time ago when I learned of Aphantasia that it is a spectrum. From 0 to 10, 10 being perfect photographic memory and zero being total Aphantasia, I feel like I'm somewhere in the middle. I can recall images, sounds, memes, faces, but in terrible quality, with very little color or focus, more similar to fast paced dreams than photographs.

How would you verify that?

However, there's literally no incentive for the owners and investors to protect that initial plot. Etsy is so big, that it won't ever fail overnight. As long as it's profitable for a few years and everyone gets a fat check out of it, they are happy. This will always happen. Never trust cult brands to stay loyal to the niche market that made them successful to begin with.

While some of those were hard misses, maybe were indeed possible scenarios if nothing had been done. Since the 60s governments world wide have enacted progressively stricter regulations for industry emissions, industrial waste treatment, car emissions, appliance efficiency, CFC use, car fuel chemistry, etc etc. We would be in a much, much worse state if nothing had been done. And yet some of those are happening now. Permanent snowy mountains are now bare; insects are dying at alarming rates; yearly record temperatures, both harsher summers and harsher winters.

It's not news that newspapers use sensational headlines to sell more.

That explains why they allowed new accounts to participate. There were probably hundreds of thousands of new bot accounts created over the weekend.