craftyguy

I realize your comment is not contributing to the discussion, but surely you must know that it's still far cheaper than running your own power plant to generate enough energy to power your home, right?

> if we hang these people out to dry we will pay the price down the line.

If we continue promoting industries that cause the global climate to worsen more rapidly, we're going to pay a MUCH bigger price down the line.

Taking jobs from folks who work in such an industry is a price worth paying, considering the alternative.

This website makes me worried about the future of representing text on the web:

> To use PolyGerrit, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings, and then refresh this page.

Nope. You cannot 'kinda have' privacy.

> Please don’t assume everyone forced to use Windows enjoy Microsoft’s practices.

very, very few people are going to implement everything you suggested. Please don't assume your one anecdote is relevant for everyone else.

> Do you eat Nestle food?

No, I do not.

> The page source is filled to the brim with trackers.

I would expect nothing less from a site owned by google.

> It thrills me to no end that there aren’t a bunch of snarky comments about “OH THIS PROVES SIGNAL IS A TOOL OF THE NSA!!”.

There are no such comments here as of this post, or are you lost?

> A. Being able to use some proprietary software not available on Linux

What software is this? Perhaps it runs under Wine?

They can intercept DNS, they can snoop on cert names, they can monitor any unencrypted traffic (you'd be surprised how much there is even when you think you're hitting every site with HTTPS..)

It's right there in the article... which you read... right?

> DNS over HTTPS meanwhile encrypts DNS queries going over the network, which means that no one between you and the DoH server can see your DNS queries or modify the DNS responses.

> If Mozilla cares about privacy and consent

It's pretty clear they don't care about consent, since there is no opt-in to this.

It's also questionable as to whether they care about privacy, by funneling ALL of their users' DNS through one for-profit company.

People should be highly skeptical of "free" VPN and proxy services. They have the power to (easily) MITM you.

> If a lot of people go, they will run into difficulty long before they get to the fence with threatening signs

This is literally what the article (which you read, right?) is about...

2700 ms is 27x further from the truth than 100 ms.

> Just remove the sleep(2700).

Such high quality discussion too!

The app won't magically be incapable of tracking students outside of the stadium, so the risk of abuse is exceedingly higher than your little clicker thing which likely didn't have the range to track you from very far away.

So you're saying this statement in the article is incorrect?

> The app it created for Alabama is the only one that tracks the locations of its students.

> Last month, Amazon joined a number of other tech companies and Fortune 500 firms in signing a letter outlining the purpose of a corporation as something not just designed to return shareholder value, but also to serve employees and the community. “Each of our stakeholders is essential,” the pledge read. “We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country.”

lol!

It's clear that there is no way to opt out of this bullshit:

> Can I opt out of all of these as well?

> Unfortunately, not very easily. With Google Photos, you can choose not to run the facial recognition tool on your own photos, but you can't control what other people who may have uploaded photos of you decide to do.

How does this post not qualify as 'spam'?

The 'humans are nature, therefore everything humans do is OK' argument is incredibly naive. Humans need to eat, for example, and there are complex global systems that our food supply depends on (e.g. pollinators), and that we do not fully understand. Turning all forests into apartment buildings is a great way to crash these global systems that we depend on to live.

> opinion: a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter

I use xeyes on wayland to determine whether a given app is using Xwayland or not.

They would be screwed if google decided to actively cut off downstream chromium projects by making breaking code changes, licensing changes, etc.

.. then please do elaborate/explain away.... FFS your comment is not at all helpful.

The ext4 folks are working on adding case-insensitive support... https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/

They are trying to say that THC can cause depression, but it can take many years. I'm just clarifying (and not downvoting, like the rest of 'hacker' 'news'.. lol) and do not necessarily agree/disagree with OP

It's not silly. Google 100% controls upstream chromium, and they can afford to make decisions about it in a vacuum.

> and don't ride on streets with cars.

In some cities in the US, which is just plain wrong. For example, in Portland OR you cannot lawfully ride a bicycle on the sidewalk unless you're avoiding some road hazard (cars do not count, unless it's on fire or something).

I was in a cycling crash earlier this year while wearing a new (2 week old) MIPS helmet. The helmet (with my head in it) hit the road pretty hard causing an indentation and deep scratches. The location of the indentation leads me to believe that the initial impact 'stuck' to the asphalt then slid as the coefficient of friction was quickly surpassed. I had absolutely no injuries to my head or neck (with that could be said about my elbow, which I apparently landed on full-force). I have since replaced that helmet with another MIPs one, but I haven't heard of the Wavecell helmets until now. I'll have to consider those the next time I'm shopping around for a new helmet, hopefully this time it'll be after the current one has 'expired' naturally.