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throw872291on Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]

OP is replying to a video titled 'why modern movies suck'. So OP is not referring to nostalgia. It's more a reaction to 'old times wow, now sucks'.

If the video was titled 'Why I love these old films', then your reply makes sense.

throw872291on Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)

Obviously I was referring to 'everything else is just tech junk at this point'.

throw872291on uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

If FF didn't do that, it would still be a security nightmare. XULs are available in some FF forks, which are security nightmares.

throw872291on Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)

Are you that guy who gives free M1s to those who can't afford it to reduce humanity's junk?

throw872291on uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

The thinking is that when something says it's an adblocker, it has one job - blocking ads. ABP doesn't do that, hiding behind the euphemism 'acceptable ads'. It would be ok if they promote it as a 'selective blocker' instead of 'adblocker'. It would also be ok if they say adblocker and the acc. ads thingy is opt-in. If Mozilla did something to highlight something that had one job to do and did it, I'm thankful.

P.S: Ublock Origin is not just an adblocker. It can block various types of content.

throw872291on Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)

He doesn't pfft anything, that much is clear from the very first 2 paragraphs. Also this is from 2019, before M1. Next time, at least read a bit of the article.

throw872291on Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)

To be fair, shouldn't the Intel 12th gen laptop processors be compared to these upcoming AMD models?:

AMD Ryzen 5 6600U

AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

Both are Zen 3+ with RDNA 2.

For laptops, add upcoming HP Elitebook 8xx G9 series (has Intel and AMD) to your list to check out. No idea whether it's good.

throw872291on Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)

This is the year of 16:10 screen ratio laptops. Also 16 inch laptop screens. Because of Apple's latest macbooks maybe.

Excited about upcoming HP Elitebook 805 G9 series with AMD chips. Not sure about Linux support - maybe fedora and it's spins work fine.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/CES-2022-HP-announces-the-Elit...

throw872291on Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and tracking people's location

Android 12 has it too.

throw872291on Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and tracking people's location

Is there a go-to library for this thing? So many apps mess this up.

throw872291on Telegram Trilateration: Abusing “People Near Me” and tracking people's location

Telegram fixed it one or two weeks ago, problably because of the war.

throw872291on uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

Whoa whoa talk about AdBlock Plus and integrity!

AdBlock Plus seems to whitelist your ads if you pay them millions [1][2]. The euphemism ABP (and their parent company Eyeo) uses is 'acceptable ads'. Acceptable to Eyeo I guess. It's opt-out at the users end.

OP knows all about this [3][4].

I'm not a fan of some of Mozilla's policies but I'm thankful if it's true that Ublock Origin is shown preference over the shady, user-disrespecting ABP.

[1] Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5995140

[2] gorhill, UbO developer on Eyeo https://nitter.net/gorhill/search?f=tweets&q=%22eyeo%22

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818307

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946892

[5] Eyeo on HN https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28746231