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j_korethon The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding

I would assume the expectation came about after WW2 where losing meant devastating ramifications for the losing party.

On the other hand in a situation where warfare is considered with less weight and investment feels like it’ll embolden states to return to a state of frequent warfare.

j_korethon Tell HN: Unable to login to HN from Firefox, a Lovecraftian tale

Have you tried looking at the browser privacy settings and adjusting them? Not sure if you’re on strict or standard.

j_korethon Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit

Personally I had luck with using Blackhole

j_korethon What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa? (2021)

One mechanism that wasn't described in the article and for fairness I know little about when it comes to prehistoric hominids is the role of community splits forcing certain members to go out or die trying to establish hegemony.

j_korethon I Miss RSS

I don't want to be a naysayer but how would content moderation in regards to spam and illicit things work in this scendario?

j_korethon Why Brahmins lead Western firms but rarely Indian ones

OPT can be 2-3 years as far as I'm aware. I think a little longer than a lot of internships.

j_korethon Railway lines once connected the Middle East

What an incredibly sad read.

j_korethon Square is now called Block

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Web

Already been done.

j_korethon RSS is wonderful

It's too bad too. Firefox used to support RSS till recently I believe. I wonder if Pocket had anything to do with it.

j_korethon Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge

If you right click and go to the open with menu and scroll to other, there's a checkbox with the finder window called "Always Open With". This way you don't need to remember which button to hold down.

j_korethon Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition

That's exactly why I wasn't sure what would be included in the bill.

j_korethon Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition

The bill's text seems to specify "App Stores" to those limited to "users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device".

Does anyone if this can possibly apply to video game consoles? A wasteful amount of computing is locked behind these consoles and it would be great to see open access come to these platforms as well. Another concern is whether Android and iOS can get out of this bill by arguing themselves to be similar entertainment devices.

j_korethon First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed

I think what the commenter was referring to was with type of discussion than the nature of the post.

j_korethon Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning

Aren't physical disks also liable to give Sony and Microsoft a cut?

j_korethon Vivaldi 4.0

I'm surprised it took this long for Vivaldi Mail to come out. I believe it was teased relatively early on in Vivaldi's life although I don't envy the developers that had to work with IMAP.

I am glad to see that some love given to RSS in a browser since it's been marginalized in all mainstream browsers. It's frustrating to see a refuge of decentralized media consumption be thrown away considering privacy concerns.

I am not the biggest fan of the licensing policy along with the inclusion of a third party translating service but I welcome any competition to the market.

j_korethon Vivaldi 4.0

I'm not aware of any spyware in the browser.

I believe the source is online but not licensed under a free license (Someone is free to correct me on that).

j_korethon Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business

Isn't it disingenuous to say it's stealing? From my perspective, I would be exchanging my data with the services provided and if I have a problem with the level of data collection I can always stop using the service and delete my account. I'm sure there are services today that are useful to me that are not possible without data monetization.

j_korethon WW1 trench fever identified in former homeless man in Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_...

j_korethon Mozilla VPN

Would a Nextcloud instance work?

j_korethon Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

I don't think the Pocket was owned by Mozilla when they announced their integration. Looking it up, it looks like they bought it 2 years after the initial announcement so I can see it being controversial.

j_korethon Problems with Japan's Covid-19 reports

A source on recent press expulsions in China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/media/china-expe...

j_korethon This week in KDE: polishing the System Tray and more

Yeah I think you’ve been able to do it for a while by turning off the compositor?

j_korethon Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

Is this a lot different for a kid moving into a school that's six months or more ahead in terms of the things taught?

j_korethon “Just walk out” technology by Amazon

What's stopping someone from using a temporary email or a dedicated email for each walkout shop?

j_korethon Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?

The individual in this case is an Italian citizen living in Italy.

j_korethon Captcha.nsa.gov

According to this website [0] it appears to do so which is interesting.

https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedin...

j_korethon DuckDuckGo Lite

ddg.gg/lite works here

j_korethon A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

Presumably they're still loading a version of the website which Trident/Edgekit which used to make up for the discrepancies between the other browsers.

j_korethon Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server

Mozilla has some channels on freenode

j_korethon Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

There used to be a Spotify Linux client without electron.