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veaveon US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022

There is also no coming back from gender change surgery.

veaveon Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

Last time it was 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360

In that thread there are a few more examples, most of them somewhat recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077683

veaveon MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names

™ is part of extended ASCII :)

veaveon Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

>Declarative blocking is the weakest, it barely removes the simplest ads.

That's misinformation. It may not be as good as ublock origin (I don't know) but in my experience it removes practically everything.

veaveon Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

Most of Firefox's publicity is based on the fact that they are "on your side". That means that they are held to a much higher standard. Pretending to be on the side of the user and then screwing users up over and over seems like wanting their cake and eating it too?

It's funny because, you know, I expect chrome to screw me over while I expect firefox not to screw me over but chrome has screwed me over fewer times than firefox over the years.

veaveon Lichess will no longer cooperate with the USCF and the Saint Louis Chess Club

>Which laws were broken

From what I can see in this post, the laws against defamation.

veaveon Lichess will no longer cooperate with the USCF and the Saint Louis Chess Club

Lots of allegations, lots of testimonies, zero police reports, zero convictions.

veaveon MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names

I think the confusion comes from the fact that some platforms render it as a drawing as if it was an emoji. I never understood why...

veaveon MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names

™ is not an emoji. It's part of the "Letterlike Symbols" block.

veaveon More Than 40% of Japanese Women May Never Have Children

In HN people don't only downvote things that are incorrect but also things they wished were incorrect.

veaveon The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

But us westerners usually don't care much about that kind of censorship because it doesn't affect the searches we normally do. ("normally" as in "we usually don't search stuff about russian politics")

veaveon The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

And lobbyists are not lobbyists, they are oligarchs.

veaveon Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

Because there's no story. It's software that generates recipes from ingredients you provide. If you provide inedible ingredients you get an inedible recipe. What did you expect would happen?

The subtext here is journalists who are dead scared of a tool they know will replace them. So they have to denigrate it.

veaveon Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin

It's crypto - quite clearly you don't know what its worth is or will be. That's the entire point.

veaveon Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin

I agree with you. They are clear about what they ask of you and what they give you. I wouldn't accept, but people should be able to accept if they want.

veaveon Maui wildfires are 'apocalyptic' as people jump into the ocean to flee

>If you put more energy into the system

First law of thermodynamics calling in.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devlooped/SponsorLink/main...

That's really assholish

veaveon Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes

The problem being solved here is a single person taking an aid package several times for reselling. You can't solve everything, I guess?

veaveon Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes

Underdeveloped countries remain underdeveloped precisely because of widespread corruption. This kind of authentication is invasive but it makes sense in this context.

veaveon Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

What's cynical is saying that there is no value in knowing if users watch video in browsers and comparing it to eyeball tracking.

veaveon Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security

That's disputed (literally :P)

veaveon Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features

But you have to enable the whole thing right?

I like some of the settings of lockdown mode, and I wish you could enable them one by one. Enabling the entire lockdown mode is a bit too much

veaveon YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on

Have you considered using an ublock origin filter?

    youtube.com##[page-subtype="home"]

veaveon ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console

And that's only for people who run Steam, who are likely to have high-end cards. This is, it does not include PCs for office workloads or most laptops. Intel is at 9% right now in that Steam survey so the real number is much, much higher than AMD (and perhaps nvidia too). This makes AMD the third one in user share.

veaveon ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console

Funny because AMD probably has the lowest share of the three if we include all PCs including office ones (and we should since the website says "any PC")

veaveon Uninstall the NightOwl app

I have many devices at home and I can't be administering all the port forwards by hand, it would be a lot of work.

veaveon Blocked by Cloudflare

As a data point, enabling privacy.resistFingerprinting on Firefox defeats this website.

veaveon Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp

It's a bit weird that even though they can communicate person-to-person, where records won't be kept, they are supposed to keep records of electronic communication.

veaveon ASK HN: What’s a small thing you’ve purchased which has made your life better?

Public libraries have always been an option

veaveon Run Firefox on ChromeOS

What's the purpose of running Wine on Windows?