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billysielu··on Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
Does Apple pay tax on that 30% to the EU for sales in the EU?
billysielu··on Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)
All the other critters manage just fine. People can too.
billysielu··on Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)
The sun should dictate when we sleep. Sunrise is nature's alarm clock. Sadly we've messed that up with electric lighting inside and outside.
billysielu··on Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'
I've unsubscribed before only to find myself subscribed to a bunch of similar things instead. Clicking a link confirms your address reaches a person and is therefore worth spamming. Plus the risk of phishing. Plus the dark patterns in the unsubscribe UI.
billysielu··on Steps For Better Online Privacy
A site about privacy with a cookie approval wall. Couldn't make it up.
billysielu··on New Microsoft Edge
Can you use ublock origin on android with edge?
billysielu··on Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
I did it before for weight loss, it worked amazingly, but the weight came back on just as easily. It would have to be a permanent lifestyle change, and I'm not convinced that's safe.
billysielu··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Windows because of Windows Updates.
billysielu··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Twitch for not moderating chat.
billysielu··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Android because 2-3 years of updates is far shorter than the lifespan of the hardware.
billysielu··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Amazon Music on Android because every time I open it it shows a full screen ad for their music subscription service.
billysielu··on Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
We value your privacy. Accept.
billysielu··on De-escalating social media conflict
If someone is abusive and you want to tell them that behavior is not acceptable you are also at the same disadvantage.
billysielu··on Choose Boring Technology
is there a video of this being presented somewhere?
billysielu··on How to pick a random number from 1-10
It's not random if you're forcing it to be uniform. May as well skip the math and do this instead:

Divide all the people into groups of 10. Have the members of a group play each other at whatever, e.g. arm wrestling, to produce a rank from best to worst. Their rank becomes their answer.

Now everyone will reply with a number as close to uniform as the total number of people is divisible by the number of choices.

billysielu··on Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than 4,500 gallons per day
pay/privacy wall, why even bother posting this link...
billysielu··on Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
IMO Brave is the best Android browser. Blocks ads by default and performs much better than Firefox.
billysielu··on Switch from Chrome to Firefox
I did switch to Firefox and then they broke all extensions so I switched back. Chrome just works better.
billysielu··on DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
I've been through this before and some posts 'came back'. The only way to be sure is to delete your account. If you really want an account just make a new one.
billysielu··on WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones
"update the app" is the sum of the advice?

how about telling us how to check if this exploit was used, how to remove the spyware, etc?

billysielu··on Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
or Brave
billysielu··on Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts
thank god you know more about my education than I do.
billysielu··on Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts
At my school (UK) we had 2 main sources - the teacher, and the textbook. Niether were primary.

Students used the internet a lot, and Encarta (lol), and were constantly getting grief from teachers for doing so.

billysielu··on Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts
They can just put a quote in a headline and people will click on it. Whether the truth was spoken is irrelevant to their bottom line.
billysielu··on Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts
I did learn the difference, over 20 years ago, and today is the first time it's come up since. No need to be rude.
billysielu··on Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts
Thanks for clarifying that. Of course, nothing in a classroom is a primary source.
billysielu··on Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts
Why wouldn't you want a student seeking a secondary (or more) source? Just blindly believe what the teacher says and don't question it? That education system is failing that student.
billysielu··on How Twitter poisoned politics
Yea looks like the site is dead.
billysielu··on Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
2030 is ages away, try 2020.
billysielu··on ‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System
It's because the goblins live there, duh :)
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