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najqh··on Princeton researcher apologizes for GDPR/CCPA email study
If you can screw somebody over just for asking to comply with a legal request, the problem is the law.
najqh··on Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
Okay? So do ID verification. Tinder won't see your ID. They don't know you are the same person.
najqh··on Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
You were already shadowbanned permanently, that's why you had 0 likes. There is no difference between that and having no account at all since you cannot interact with any broads. By removing your account, they did you a favour in a sense.

Get a burner SIM card with a new number and create another profile. Easy as that.

najqh··on Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser
"Firefox has been very lightweight with regard to user experience. And they actually have to, otherwise, they couldn't distinguish themselves from the competition (ie. Google). So there's no realistic risk of invasiveness."
najqh··on Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser
Precisely the last thing we need is more ads and unwanted features in Firefox.
najqh··on mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine boosters induce immunity against Omicron
They aren't? Lockdowns are stupid and have affected mom and pop stores disproportionately, making the rich richer. Seems pretty effective to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/03/amazon-re...

najqh··on The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’ from new law
I disagree with him, but he makes a solid point, and many people think like him.

HN is enough of an echo chamber as it is, don't make it worse.

najqh··on Homebuilt pickups: How underage teens skirt the law to drive in Sweden (2016)
Isn't it illegal to go that slow? At least where I live the minimum speed on the road is half the maximum speed.
najqh··on Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels against Omicron ~37-fold
>Wouldn't this mean more deaths or am I missing something? Are COVID deaths in AIDS patients attributed to AIDS not COVID?

I don't know about SA but many countries count any dead person who was infected with COVID as a COVID death, which is a convenient way of padding the numbers.

najqh··on Moderna booster increased neutralizing antibody levels against Omicron ~37-fold
Good luck. I already reached my breaking point with omicron. I am not taking a booster at all. It is quite clear that this will never end. We have to send a message to the authorities.
najqh··on New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
That is... doubling down on a bad idea. Moving the stupid cookie banners to the browser itself so we can not block them. It's so idiotic, the EU bureaucrats will probably consider it.
najqh··on My parents collect cans for a living
Precisely what we need is to make the deposit prices so high that the homeless will fight over them. Then we can record them and upload the videos to liveleak.

Oh...

najqh··on Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
I rejected them for months, but eventually I had to accept them because they wouldn't allow me to keep using the app until I did.
najqh··on UberEats took unauthorized amount (and not willing to pay it back)
I'd rather walk with my shoes full of pins than give my money to taxis.
najqh··on Unbreakable phone screens could be made with a new material
I don't want unbreakable, I want... unscratchable.
najqh··on To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension
It would be much simpler to block all requests to download the analytics javascript/web bug URL. Makes me think they want to keep collecting user data even if you install this.
najqh··on Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
Funny that this is posted under cacert.org, an organisation whose big accomplishments during its long lifetime were... getting hacked.
najqh··on My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns
>You seemed to have missed the part where the same comment called the OP's concerns "unhelpful paranoia" after the OP's doctor said that the pain they're experiencing is due to chemical burns.

Because the burning is in the hands and arms not the nose, larynx or lungs...

najqh··on Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
Nah, doesn't work for me. I know the games I like; they are all old and I know I love them. I don't follow the news on new games at all. I simply can't concentrate on the games I like for more than 15 minutes. I get distracted, I alt-tab out all the time, and eventually I close them. It's the same with movies or books. It takes a superhuman effort for me to sit still and watch a movie.

If anybody has any recommendations on how to proceed from here my fried brain and I would be eternally grateful :P

najqh··on My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns
I think it's a good answer. "is this too bad? no, you've been exposed to worse and nothing happened to you"
najqh··on Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
These days, I can't even concentrate in games or media such as movies. I wish I could, because I remember having lots of fun playing games. Oh well.
najqh··on Incorrectly deleted from Facebook? Getting back on might take connections
Go through linkedin and email everybody ;)
najqh··on Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement
There are lots of illnesses that cause pain for which we have no fix, just palliative care. Not everybody is a fat guy with sore knees.
najqh··on Job Applicant Resumes Are Effectively Impossible to De-Gender
Where I live it is very, very common to see job offers that only take disabled people because the company gets $$$ from the government (this is, from everybody of us, including those ostracised by those policies) when they hire a disabled person.
najqh··on Job Applicant Resumes Are Effectively Impossible to De-Gender
It's not the only way. They want you to think it is. Don't let them break you.
najqh··on Design evolution of the Windows control panel
This does not match my experience using Airpods Pro on Windows.

On the other hand it is seemingly impossible to use the microphone of these Airpods and listen to music at the same time. The quality is atrocious. Something that I assume is possible on a Mac. (Anybody knows of a solution? I read it's because of bluetooth profiles or whatever...)

najqh··on Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users
"Only" four for them are Israeli.
najqh··on Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage
I haven't switched, I accepted them because I don't really care. I just wanted to see for how long I could push it.
najqh··on Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage
The only difference between Android and iOS in this regard is that Android's frameworks are open source. The rest is exactly the same.
najqh··on Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage
A few weeks ago I was forced to accept or I couldn't keep using the app at all.