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dogtierstatus··on Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others
Similar requirements exist in India too.
dogtierstatus··on Why don't Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator
is this how modern survival of the fittest work now?
dogtierstatus··on Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
that's great but cheaper android phones come with built-in Meta apps/services which cant even be uninstalled.
dogtierstatus··on Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
I'd like to point out this situation to anyone who supported privatizing Space. Your access can be cut off in a second.
dogtierstatus··on Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
This is a quality vs quantity issue. There were x number of extremely competent and ~10x moderately competent programmers.

LLMs have only made this to 100x moderately competent programmers and may be 2xed extremely competent ones?

dogtierstatus··on Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs
I test enterprise software and I can tell you there are always a list of "known" bugs in the backlog that never gets fixed unless an existing customer asks for it. This is the case in every large org I've worked in.
dogtierstatus··on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Did you get a response from your manager?
dogtierstatus··on Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
> software first agile mentality

I can release a website with a list of known bugs. Do any govt allow release of cars with known bugs?

dogtierstatus··on Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file
> construct a file in such a way that it can create an updated copy of itself and save it back to the server

Is there some way to accomplish this through GitHub? Like the single html file running on GitHub.io pages can commit the changes to its repo?

dogtierstatus··on Every V4 UUID
> That's a terrific idea

I think you meant 'terrific' in the old original meaning.

dogtierstatus··on A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance
> shelves must be packed in the local warehouse

There are offshore clothing manufacturers that arrange the clothes on racks and pack them in the containers.

Once the package reach the destination they do directly on display. This "saves" the company from having to pay someone higher wages for arranging clothing displays.

The companies will always chose lower costs wherever they can get away with.

dogtierstatus··on Blocking the "Sign in with Google" Prompt (2023)
Is there anyway to do this on Android mobile?
dogtierstatus··on Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
But isn't that the literal job of legislators?
dogtierstatus··on Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?
Photo edits sometimes won't respond on Google Photos in Firefox. It is not just Google. Microsoft Teams, Excel online etc don't work very well in Firefox and it is deliberate.
dogtierstatus··on An unbiased evaluation of Python environment and packaging tools (2023)
May i ask what is your first choice?
dogtierstatus··on YouTube has a new design on desktop and everyone is mad about it
Please share some rules for the commoners
dogtierstatus··on Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach
Your theory is definitely plausible.

Source: Worked sometime for a subcontractor of a subcontractor of AT&T from a third world country.

dogtierstatus··on How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
One time long ago, e-commerce company i worked for decided to add tiktok analytics to the front-end. The dev team added the changes but were worried it might impact performance and UX. As a solution we were told to run the performance tests to check it.

The performance tests were created to mimic user behaviour but only involved company APIs. Not third party requests. No one in the top level, cared about this bit of information. We ran this performance test and saw the the response times are almost the same so it's time to pat ourselves on the back and move on ...

dogtierstatus··on GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
what is the context of Duke Wilber?
dogtierstatus··on SiFive: The road ahead (post layoffs)
And please enlighten us with the prompt that helps to remove bs for PR articles