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swebs··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
The second one. If someone were forcing you to perform slave labor for them, you'd want to do a crappy job as possible just to spite them.
swebs··on The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio
>I asked someone about this and they said I needed to join my local club to learn this stuff. But, I don’t want to join a club

/diy/ always has an amateur radio general thread up if you want to ask questions.

https://boards.4channel.org/diy/thread/1855439

swebs··on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
I'd rather take that risk than have some dumbass notch blocking the screen.
swebs··on Oura Ring 2 Teardown
The instructions it came with tell you not to wear it while using dumbbells or barbells. As for cardio, I guess it's ok. Mine tends to say I took 20% more steps per day than reported by the pedometer app on my phone. I have no clue which one is more accurate though.
swebs··on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
>You would no longer be a US citizen

You would also still have US citizenship. You don't lose that unless you formally renounce it.

swebs··on Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
Pretty sure the parent comment was talking about client side.
swebs··on Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019
On Google Play and the iPhone app store. You can physically live in some other country, but it's all for nothing so long as you continue to give all control to two American megacorps.
swebs··on Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019
TikTok might be banned soon, so it's probably not the best time to invest your time into it.
swebs··on Firefox Android: Camera remains active even when the phone is locked
Not Mozilla, but there's plenty of proof for other big tech companies, including Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

swebs··on Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in
Yes. And that 1% is still plenty if you only need to know aggregate usage patterns necessary for the examples you gave.

Now if your goal was to collect personalized data in order to get targeted ad revenue...

swebs··on UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster
I also had a recent install that was unbearably slow. It turns out that the SD card was corrupted. Raspberry Pi OS comes with a SD card checking utility you can use to check. Replacing it with a new class 10 card made it fast again.
swebs··on Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
You're reading way too into this. Someone just decided to have some fun and share it with HN. It isn't really serious, but parody isn't the right description. People aren't taking pride in the measurement system, that's somewhat of a joke. "God bless America" is a common cheer taken from a popular song. The UK has something similar with "God save the queen".
swebs··on Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes
It's just a bit of fun. Not everything has to be some sort of statement.
swebs··on Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking
>Things like cookies, tracking, etc. should be a browser- or OS-wide setting. Asking me individually for every site, for every app, is the absolute worst user experience ever. Sorry but this pattern just has to DIE.

We already have that, the Do Not Track header. Advertising companies ignore it because they're not legally obliged to honor it. Reminder that these companies do not care about you or your user experience and will do anything they can to skirt the law to make an extra buck off you. And we can't rely on the competence of legislators because their answer is always more popups.

However, you do have weapons to defend yourself. My favorite is uMatrix. You can set it up to automatically block cookies from any site you don't have whitelisted. And you can make it only accept first party cookies. You can also have it block javascript, cross origin requests, frames by default. If a site doesn't work without scripts, you can easily enable them temporarily.

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

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

swebs··on Facebook Boycott Grows: Ford Joins Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Other Brands
Because after the first or second time, there's really no more discussion to be had. This is the reason why mods also remove reposts. Is there anything special about specifically Coca-Cola pulling out that makes the story different than the last ones?
swebs··on YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
Telegram is just a chat app. What would it mean for video uploaders to "go" there?
swebs··on Facebook Boycott Grows: Ford Joins Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Other Brands
Do we really need a new post every time another company throws their hat into this? It feels like the 5th time this week seeing another "[brand] joins Facebook boycott" post and all the comments are always the same.
swebs··on Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea
English Link

https://www.stuk.fi/web/en/topics/environmental-radiation/ra...

swebs··on Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea
It should be easy enough to check with a geiger counter, right?
swebs··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
I meant everything that runs on x86 Linux. Of course iMovie and Adobe stuff doesn't work, lol.
swebs··on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
It's because mainstream moderated sites don't censor far-left views, so those people have no incentives to move to unmoderated sites. For example, /r/MoreTankieChapo isn't even quarantined.
swebs··on Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing
I think the 2016 election broke the NY Times. They shifted from a mostly neutral, reputable news source to quasi-propaganda fairly quickly.
swebs··on Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
You don't have to redo the entire UI to implement dark mode. Just change the color scheme.
swebs··on Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery
The article says 25%.
swebs··on Segway ends production of its original scooter
I've personally seen more asian tourists riding them than white tourists. But why are we bringing race into this in the first place?
swebs··on Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
Yeah, I tried out a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement and pretty much everything is supported except for proprietary stuff like games.
swebs··on A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics
>At least in popular media accounts, a very common description is that a state like 0.6∣0⟩ + 0.8∣1⟩ is “simultaneously” in the ∣0⟩ state and the ∣1⟩ state.

>I must confess, I don’t understand what people mean by this.

I think they're just trying to tie it to Schrödinger's cat somehow since that's the only other topic that seems to be covered in pop science.

swebs··on Booting embedded Linux in 0.37 seconds on an ARMv7-A CPU at 528 MHz
It's performing various hardware tests before showing you the BIOS screen. And even then, it usually pauses the BIOS screen for about a second to give the user enough time to hit F12 or ESC if they want to change any settings. You could probably disable both of those if you really wanted to.
swebs··on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
Per capita doesn't matter at all in this context though. If you were looking to immigrate to a country, you would have a better chance at getting in to the country that accepts 1 million people per year rather than the one that accepts 1,000 per year. The current population of each country is not a factor.
swebs··on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
>but currently there is no easy way to immigrate to USA

The USA has the most immigrants than any other country in the world at almost 47 million residents. That's 4 times higher than the second place country. And the vast majority of them came perfectly legally. For every one person that immigrates to Canada, 6 immigrate to the USA. I don't really know what people are asking for here.

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

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